Maureen Scully

Areas of Expertise

• Organizational change efforts, grassroots employee initiatives, beliefs about Inequality and meritocracy, dimensions of diversity at work, labor and management joint efforts

Courses Taught

• Organizational Processes, Business and Society, Human Resource Management, Diversity, Organization Theory

Education

• Faculty University of Massachusetts Boston (2004 — 2010)
• Ph.D. Stanford University Graduate School of Business (1985 — 1991)
• A.B. Harvard University (1978 — 1982)

Companies

• Interim Dean College of Management, University of Massachusett Boston (2013)
• Affiliate Faculty, Center for Gender in Organizations Simmons School of Management (2002)
• Associate Dean for Graduate Programs University of Massachusetts Boston (2011 — 2013)
• Associate Professor of Management University of Massachusetts Boston (2009 — 2013)
• Senior Research Consultant Aspen Institute Business and Society Program (1999 — 2012)
• Professor, Center for Gender in Organizations Simmons School of Management (1999 — 2002)
• Assistant Professor of Management MIT Sloan School of Management (1991 — 1999)

Honors

• 2020, Joanne Martin Trailblazer, Academy of Management Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division
• 2009-2011, Leadership Fellow, College of Management, UMass Boston
• 2006, 2010 Betty Diener Teaching Award, Graduate Program, College of Management, UMass Boston
• 2003-2008 Disseminating new research on corporate governance and accountability: Influence business practice through business education. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant, with the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program.
• 2000-2007 Social and economic explorations of information technology. National Science Foundation grant (with Principal Investigator Wanda Orlikowski)
• 2000 “Breaking the Frame” best article award, Journal of Management Inquiry

Professional Publications & Contributions

• Lisa DeAngelis, Sherry Penney, and Maureen Scully. 2014. Leadership lessons from teamwork: Better decisions through inclusion of multiple viewpoints. Leader to Leader, No. 73: 19-25.
• Betzaluz Gutierrez, Jennifer Howard Grenville, and Maureen Scully. 2010. The faithful rise up: Split identification and an unlikely change effort. Academy of Management Journal, 53(4): 673-699. [One of seven finalists for the “Best Paper in Organizational Behavior in 2010” award, Academy of Management.]
• Mary Rowe and Maureen Scully. 2009. Bystander training within organizations. Journal of the International Ombudsman Association, 2(1): 85-94.
• Maureen Scully. 2009. A rainbow coalition or separate wavelengths? Negotiations among employee network groups. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 2(1): 74-91.
• David Levy and Maureen Scully. 2007. The institutional entrepreneur as Modern Prince: The strategic face of power in contested fields. Organization Studies, 28(7):971-991.
• Brenda Lautsch and Maureen Scully. 2007. Restructuring time: Implications of work-hours reductions for the working class. Human Relations, 60(5):719-743.
• Debra Meyerson and Maureen Scully. 1995. Tempered radicalism and the politics of ambivalence and change. Organization Science, 6(5): 585-600.