Kris Byron
Professor and Meredith M. Leapley WomenLead Professor Department of Management- Education
- Ph.D., management, Georgia State University
- M.S., urban studies (nonprofit management), Georgia State University
- B.A., sociology, Emory University
- Specializations
- organizational behavior
- perception (and misperception) in the workplace
- employee creativity
- diversity at work
- meta-analysis
- Biography
Kris Byron, professor and Meredith M. Leapley WomenLead Professor at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business, has published in leading management and psychology journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Psychological Bulletin, and Journal of Management. Her research interests include perception, creativity, and diversity at work. She was an associate editor of the Academy of Management Review, and is currently a senior editor of the Journal of Management. Her research has been featured in BusinessWeek, New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad.
Kris earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Emory University. She has a master’s degree in non-profit management from Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and a Ph.D. in management (organizational behavior) from Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business.
- Publications
- Byron, K., & Landis, B. (2020). Relational misperceptions in the workplace: New frontiers and challenges. Organization Science, 31(1), 223-242.
- Heaphy, E. D., Byron, K., Ballinger, G. A., Gittell, J. H., Leana, C., & Sluss, D. M. (2018). The changing nature of work relationships. Academy of Management Review, 43(4), 558-569.
- Zingoni, M., & Byron, K. (2017). How beliefs about the self influence perceptions of negative feedback and subsequent effort and learning. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 139, 50-62.
- Post, C., & Byron, K. (2015). Women on boards and firm financial performance: A meta-analysis. Academy of Management Journal, 58(5), 1546-1571.
- Byron, K., & Laurence, G. (2015). Diplomas, photos, & tchotchkes as symbolic self-representations: Understanding employees’ individual use of symbols. Academy of Management Journal, 58, 298-323.
- Byron, K., & Khazanchi, S. Rewards and creative performance: A meta-analytic test of theoretically-derived hypotheses. Psychological Bulletin, 138, 2012: 809-830.