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Nancy Rothbard
David Pottruck Associate Professor of Management


Professor Nancy Rothbard received her A.B. from Brown University and her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Michigan. She is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Prior to joining the faculty at Wharton, she was on faculty at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. Professor Rothbard’s research focuses on the interplay between emotions and engagement in multiple roles. Specifically, she explores how people’s emotional responses to one role or task affect their subsequent engagement in another role or task. She has examined these questions in the context of work and family roles and in the context of multiple tasks that people perform within the work role. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Science, and Personnel Psychology. In addition to her academic articles, Professor Rothbard has authored several Harvard Business School case studies. Her teaching cases touch on the topics of leadership, corporate culture, and organizational change. Professor Rothbard received the 2000 Likert Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan. She is also the recipient of the Gerald and Lillian Dykstra Award for Teaching Excellence and the Wharton Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award, 2010.

Publications
Nancy Rothbard, Steffanie L. Wilk (2011), Waking up on the right or wrong side of the bed: Start-of-workday mood, work events, employee affect, and performance, Academy of Management Journal, In Press
Anca Metiu, Nancy Rothbard (2011), Group engagement as the process through which mutual focus of attention emerges and is sustained, Organization Science, Provisionally Accepted
Nancy Rothbard, Shefali Patil (2011), Being There: Work Engagement and Positive Organizational Scholarship, The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship, Forthcoming
Nancy Rothbard, Lakshmi Ramarajan (2009), Checking Your Identities at the Door? Positive Relationships Between Nonwork and Work Identities, Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation
Katherine W. Phillips, Nancy Rothbard, Tracy L. Dumas (2009), To Disclose or Not to Disclose? Status Distance and Self-Disclosure in Diverse Environments, Academy of Management Review, 34: 710-732
Gina Dokko, Steffanie Wilk, Nancy Rothbard (2009), Unpacking prior experience: How career history affects individual performance, Organization Science, 20: 51-68

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Current Research
Nancy Rothbard, Rachel Perl, Multiple role engagement, affective experience, and well being: An affective resource-based view of enrichment and depletion
Nancy Rothbard, Steffanie L. Wilk, In the eye of the beholder: The relationship between employee and supervisor perceptions of engagement and their effect on performance
Nancy Rothbard, Justin Berg, Ollier-Malaterre, OMG - My Boss Just Friended me: Boundary management and the role of Hierarchy, Disclosure, and Gender of Boss in online social networking
Adam Grant, Nancy Rothbard, When in Doubt are People Proactive or Protective? The Opposing Role of Values under Ambiguity

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Knowledge@Wharton
The Discontented Thirties 12/05/2011
Limited Seating: Mixed Results on Efforts to Include More Women at the Corporate Board Table 10/26/2011
From Freelancers to Telecommuters: Succeeding in the New World of Solitary Work 06/29/2011
A Recession for Perks? What Companies Offer and What Employees Want 06/22/2011
Is Business-centric Social Networking a Revolution -- or a Ruse? 03/02/2011
So You Want to Live to 100? More of Us Will, and Here Is What Life Might Look Like 12/09/2009

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Honors And Awards
Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award, 2010

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Nancy  Rothbard
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Research Interests:
Work motivation and engagement; emotion and identity; work-life and career development