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Katherine Klein
Professor
Edward H. Bowman Professor of Management


Professor Katherine Klein is the Edward H. Bowman Professor of Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to coming to Wharton, Katherine was on the faculty of the University of Maryland and a visiting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

An award-winning organizational psychologist, Katherine has conducted extensive field research regarding a range of topics including team leadership, climate, conflict, social networks and effectiveness; organizational change and technology implementation; employee diversity; and employee responses to stock ownership and stock options. She has taught executive education, studied, and consulted with a variety of for-profit and non-profit organizations including Charles Schwab, Rohm and Haas, North American Scientific, Medtronic, The Baltimore Shock Trauma Center, Penn Vet, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Korean Management Association.

Her research has been published in numerous top journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Academy of Management Review. A former associate editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology, she is currently an associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. Katherine is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science.

Katherine’s current research interests include race in organizations; leadership succession and social network change; and Rwanda’s reconciliation and reconstruction following the 1994 genocide.

Publications
Katherine Klein, A.P. Knight, J.C. Ziegert, B.C. Lim, J.L. Saltz (2011), When team members’ values differ: The moderating role of team leadership, Organizatiional Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 114: 25-36
M. Schulte, N.A. Cohen, Katherine Klein (2011), The Coevolution of Network Ties and Perceptions of Team Psychological Safety, Organization Science, (In press)
D. A. Harrison, Katherine Klein (2007), What's the difference? Diversity constructs as separation, variety or disparity in organizations, Academy of Management Review, 32: 1199-1228
B. C. Lim, Katherine Klein (2006), Team mental models and team performance: A field study of the effects of team mental model similarity and accuracy, Journal of Organizational Behavior, 27: 403-418
Katherine Klein, J. C. Ziegert, A. P. Knight, Y. Xiao (2006), Dynamic delegation: Shared, hierarchical and deindividualized leadership in extreme action teams, Administrative Science Quarterly, 50: 590-621
Katherine Klein, A. P. Knight (2005), Innovation implementation: Overcoming the challenge, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14: 243-246

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Knowledge@Wharton
Wanted: A President Who Can Lead During a Time of 'Daunting' Challenges 10/01/2008
CEO Succession: Has Grooming Talent on the Inside Gone by the Wayside? 11/28/2007
Workplace Loyalties Change, but the Value of Mentoring Doesn't 05/16/2007

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Honors And Awards
Fellow, Academy of Management, 2011
Owens Scholarly Achievement Award for the Best Publication in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2008
Saroj Parasuraman Award for the Outstanding Publication in Gender and Diversity, 2008
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2008
Owens Scholarly Achievement Award for the Best Publication in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2001

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Klein Katherine

Katherine  Klein
 2018 SHDH
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA19104
Phone: (215) 898-6352
kleink@wharton.upenn.edu

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Research Interests:
Multilevel organizational theory and research; leadership, diversity, teams, and social networks; employee stock ownership; innovation and technology implementation