Fulton Hall 433
Telephone: 617-552-0451
Email: judith.clair.1@bc.edu
Gender and Diversity; Crisis Management; and the Natural Environment.
Judith Clair’s research focuses on demographic/social identities (e.g., race, gender, social class) and inequalities in the workplace; on development and transitions in professional identities; and on positive organizational experiences such as hope and positive growth. Her gender- and diversity-focused research includes experiences of “cross-domain” identity change in first-time pregnant professional women; how social class background shapes how women understand their advancement into top organizational positions; how benevolent sexism during pregnancy effects workplace retention of women post-pregnancy; how professional women in STEM fields define and experience benefits from others’ inclusive leadership practices; and how individuals with invisible stigmatized identities manage those identities in the workplace.
Professor Clair is also recognized for her contributions to research on how organizations can effectively manage crises and critical events to minimize harm and to facilitate positive growth, as well as her work on teaching pedagogy and the peer-review process. Her publications appear in the top journals in Management and Applied Psychology, including the Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Personnel Psychology, and Academy of Management Learning and Education. Clair has received national and university teaching awards. She has taught courses on organizational behavior, leadership, gender, and multicultural diversity, equity and inclusion in organizations. She has taught courses at the undergraduate, MBA, PhD, and executive levels.
Hope cultures in organizations: Tackling the grand challenge of commercial sexual exploitation.” (With Katina Sawyer.) Administrative Science Quarterly, 67 (2), 1-50. October, 2021.
“A feminist perspective on conducting personally relevant research: Working mothers studying pregnancy and motherhood at work.” (With Danna Greenberg, and Jamie Ladge.) Academy of Management Perspective, 35, 400-417. April, 2019.
“How help during pregnancy can undermine self‐efficacy and increase postpartum intentions to quit.” (With Kristen Jones, Eden King, Beth Humberd and David Arena.) Personnel Psychology, 73 (3), 431-458. 2020.
“Loosening categorical thinking: Extending the terrain of theory and research on demographic identities in organizations.” (With Beth Humberd, Bess Rouse and Elise Jones.) Academy of Management Review, 44 (3), 592-617. July, 2019.
“Work-life ideologies: The contextual basis and consequences of beliefs about work and life. (With Lisa Leslie and Eden King.) Academy of Management Review, 44 (1) 72-98. 2019.
“This is how we do it. How perceived prosocial impact offsets negative personal outcomes associated with carrying out necessary evils.” (With Jamie Ladge and Rick Cotton.) Journal of Management Inquiry, 25 (3), 301-321. November, 2015.
“Perceived injustice in the system of peer-review as an inciter of scientific misconduct.” Academy of Management Learning and Education, 14 (2), 159-172. June, 2015.
“Toward a bill of rights for manuscript submitters.” Academy of Management Learning and Education, 14 (1), 111-131. October, 2015.
“In Our Own Backyard: When a Less Inclusive Community Challenges Organizational Inclusion” (With Beth Humberd and Stephanie Creary.) Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal, 34 (5), 395-42. June, 2015.
“Cross-domain identity transitions during liminal periods: Constructing multiple selves as professional and mother during pregnancy.” (With Jamie Ladge and Danna Greenberg.) Academy of Management Journal, 55 (6), 1449-1471. 2012.
Performed as an Ad Hoc Reviewer for Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Management Studies, Academy of Management Discoveries, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Human Relations, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Sex Roles, Prentice Hall, Jossey-Bass, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Journal of Management Psychology, Academy of Management Learning and Education