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Brenda E. Ghitulescu
Assistant Professor of Management, Marketing & Interdisciplinary Business
PhD from the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business
Brenda Ghitulescu is an Assistant Professor of Management at The College of New Jersey’s School of Business. She previously was on the faculty of Rochester Institute of Technology’s Saunders School of Business, where she taught courses in Organizational Behavior and Managing Organizational Change. Brenda received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business.
Brenda’s research is focused on the areas of job design and proactive behaviors, human and social capital, organizational and professional contexts of work, and creativity in organizations. Her dissertation research examined how individuals proactively use job discretion to craft their work in ways that better suit their unique abilities, skills, and needs, and was conducted with auto assembly workers at Volvo’s Uddevalla factory in Sweden and with professionals (special education teachers) in the New York City public school district. For her dissertation research, Brenda was selected a finalist for the Sloan Industry Studies Best Dissertation Award 2007.
Prior to her doctoral studies, Brenda worked as a consultant with Hay Group in Eastern Europe, consulting in the areas of job analysis and evaluation, compensation surveys, competency profiles and performance management. She also consulted in the areas of organization diagnosis and change and leadership development as a senior associate with Mercer Delta Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) in New York City.
Expertise and Research Interests:
- Organizational Behavior
- Job Design
- Teams in Organizations
- Multi-level Processes in Organizations
- Organizational Change
- Creativity in Organizations
Refereed Conference Presentations:
“Unraveling the proactive processes underlying creativity: A study of creative workers,” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2009 (with S. Khazanchi)
“Innovative behaviors and collaborative work practices: Complementary effects on individual outcomes,” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2008
“Interactive effects of innovative and collaborative behaviors at work”, International Work Psychology Conference, 2008
“An exploration of how individuals craft their jobs: Work context influences and outcomes,” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2007 (with C. Leana)
“Crafting a job to make a difference: Antecedents and outcomes of teachers’ job crafting,” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2006 (with C. Leana)
“Exploring the idiosyncratic nature of work: Antecedents and consequences of employee job crafting at Volvo Uddevalla,” Labor and Employment Relations Association Annual Meeting, 2006 (with F. Pil & C. Leana)
“Employees’ investment in organizational social capital: The role of high-involvement work practices,” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2005
“Multi-level predictors of teacher turnover: Human capital, social capital, and contextual factors,” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2005 (with C. Leana & F. Pil)
“The influence of production systems: Exploring individual, team, and organizational processes and outcomes,” Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2003 (with F. Pil & C. Leana)
“Craft and mass production: Implications for worker attitudes and outcomes, and organizational performance,” Industrial Relations Research Association Annual Meeting, 2003 (with F. Pil & C. Leana)
Book Chapters:
“Human resource management practices in the knowledge economy: Developing human and social capital,” in “The Human Resources Revolution: Why Putting People First Matters,” 2006 (with C. Leana)
“Social capital”, in “Organizational Behavior. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management”, vol. XI, 2005 (with C. Leana)
