Sigal Barsade Faculty Profile

Sigal Barsade
Associate Professor of Management

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, 1994; BA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1986

Research Areas
Micro-organizational behavior; emotions in organizations; team dynamics; organizational culture; emotional intelligence; senior management teams

Recent Consulting
Research and consulting involve the influence of emotions and emotional intelligence on work behavior, organizational culture and change, team behavior, executives and their management teams, the effect of personality on managerial performance, and power and politics in organizations. Has written about emotional contagion in groups, emotional intelligence, the influence of dispositional affect on managerial decision making, the fit between individuals' personalities and other's in their work teams, organizational culture, the escalation of commitment in the banking crisis, and the study of power and emotion in organizational behavior. Sample consultancies include Fair Haven Community Health Center, Hewlett Packard, NBA - National Basketball Association , Marlin Co, Merrill Lynch, Oxford Health Plans, Jewish Home & Hospital and the United Mortgage Corporation.

Current Projects
Affective Organizational Culture: Its influence on employees, clients and families in a long term health care facility. Is it better to suppress or express anger at work? How the propensity to experience emotional contagion influences first impressions. The role of silence in negotiations. Cynical Attribution Error: A Study of the American Workforce. Emotional and Cognitive Transparency in Negotiations. The role of organizational disrespect on burnout in the health care field.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2003-present. Previous appointment: Yale University

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Conflict Management Division Award: Most influential paper within the Conflict Management Field for the 1997-2000 time period (given August 2005) (with Chatman, Polzer, & Neale); OB Division, Best Paper Award, Academy of Management Meetings, August 1999 (with O'Reilly & Williams).

Professional Leadership 2003-2007
Editorial Board, Academy of Management Review, 2002-present; Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1999-present; Chair, Academy of Management Review Best Paper Award Committee for 2004; Judge, Organization Science 2004 Dissertation Award, November 2004

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2003-2007
Board Chair, CT Connecticut Children's Museum, 1999-present; Board Member, Adath Israel Pre-school, 2006

Representative Publications
(with Teresa M. Amabile, Jennifer S. Mueller, and Barry M. Staw)
"Affect and Creativity at Work." Administrative Science Quarterly 50, 367-403 (2005).

"The Ripple Effect: Emotional Contagion and its Influence on Group Behavior." Administrative Science Quarterly 47, 644-675 (2002).

(with Janice R. Kelly)
"Mood and Emotions in Small Groups and Work Teams." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processe, 86, 99-130 (2001).

(with Andrew J. Ward, Jean D.F. Turner, and Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld)
"To Your Heart's Content: A Model of Affective Diversity in Top Management Teams." Administrative Science Quarterly 45, 802-836 (2000).

(with Jennifer A. Chatman, Jeffrey T. Polzer, and Margaret A. Neale)
"Being Different Yet Feeling Similar: The Influence of Demographic Composition and Organizational Culture on Work Processes and Outcomes." Administrative Science Quarterly 43, 749-780 (1998)

(with Jennifer A. Chatman)
“Personality, Organizational Culture and Cooperation: Evidence From a Business Simulation.“ Administrative Science Quarterly 40, 423-443 (1995).

(with Barry M. Staw)
"Affect and Managerial Performance: A Test of the Sadder-but-Wiser vs. Happier-and-Smarter Hypotheses." Administrative Science Quarterly 38, 304-331(1993).