Kaitlin Busse

Undergraduate institution: Roanoke College

My research interests broadly focus on occupational health psychology (e.g., work-nonwork, worker mistreatment, well-being), motivation, and employee/leader development. My master’s thesis examined predictors and outcomes of fathers’ use of work-family policies. Currently, my dissertation explores how informal learning can motivate employees and make them more resilient to workplace stressors to prevent burnout. In addition to academic research, I have applied experience working in a variety of industries and multinational organizations within the areas of people analytics, consulting, talent management, learning and development, and people operations. I also serve as an adjunct instructor at Baruch College. Before joining the program, I was a past Fulbright research grantee at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. 

Representative publications and presentations:

• Busse, K. A., Nguyen, K. M., Rodriguez, W. A, & Zhou, Z. E. (2024). Unmasking silence: Illegitimate tasks, moral disengagement, and social contexts [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, United States.

• Rodriguez, W.A., Zhou, Z.E., Busse, K.A., & Che, X.X. (2023) Family-to-work conflict and instigated incivility: The role of negative affect and family supportive supervisor behaviors, Stress & Health, 1-13.

• Busse, K. & Zhiqing, Z. E. (2023). What about dads? Examining antecedents of working fathers’ work-family policy use. [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Boston, MA, United States.

• Busse, K., Reilly, J., & Zhou, Z. (2023) Effects of challenge and hindrance stressors on instigated email incivility. [Paper for Symposium]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Boston, MA, United States.

• Cohen-Charash, Y., Busse, K., Cheban, Y., & Sutphin, D. J. (2023). Should it stay or should it go? The influence of wearing engagement rings on emotions and attitudes towards job applicants. [Paper for Symposium]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Boston, MA, United States.

• Yusko, K., Goldstein, B., Thomas, A., Busse, K., Goldstein, H., & Larson, E. (2023). Reforming the police pipeline: a case study of IO best practices in police promotional testing [Paper for Symposium]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Boston, MA, United States.

Yuliya Cheban

Undergraduate institution: California State University - Long Beach

My research and practice interests are broadly centered around employee selection and assessment. I am driven by a passion to make assessments fair by keeping both organizational goals and applicant experience in mind. With that, I am interested in both the validation of selection measures as well as reactions during these assessments. My Master’s thesis focused on applicant reactions (i.e., justice perceptions and stress) to asynchronous and synchronous video interviews and I intend to continue this line of work for my dissertation. I also work on projects that aim at assessing factors that influence decision making in organizations.

Representative publications and presentations:

• Cheban, Y., Ray, E., Scherbaum, C. A., McCarthy, J., McFarland, L.A., Hayrapetyan, L., Vaughn, D., Chou, V., Lam, D. (2021, April) Video interviewing: A best practices discussion. Panel presented at the 36th annual conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

• Cheban, Y., Kayga, L., Scherbaum, C.A., Hanges, P. (2021, April) Opportunities in I-O research utilizing eye-tracking methodology. Master tutorial accepted at the 36th annual conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

• Rodriguez, W., Cheban Y., Shah, S., & Watts, L. L. (In press). The general factor of personality and creativity: Diverging effects on intrapersonal and interpersonal idea evaluation. Personality and individual differences.

• Rodriguez, W., Cheban, Y. M., Shah, S., & Watts, L. L. (2020, April). When does personality inhibit idea evaluation? Poster presented at the 35th annual conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Austin, TX.

• Rehmann, C., Cheban, Y., Rodriguez, W., Iniguez, J., & Wax, A. (2018). We can do it! Efficacy as a driver of learning in interdisciplinary teams. Poster presented at the 98th Annual WPA Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 26-29.

• Rehmann, C., Cheban, Y., & Wax, A. The interactive impact of team emergent states and interdisciplinarity on learning. Poster presented at 2nd annual Graduate Research Conference , Long Beach, CA, November 13, 2017. 

Luke Kayga

Undergraduate institution: Penn State University

My primary research interests involve studying the effects of political ideology in the workplace, but more broadly speaking, my main areas of research in graduate school have been in the areas of diversity and leadership development. My thesis project involved investigating how the political views of a leader may impact follower psychological safety and creativity when followers have shared or conflicting political views with their leader. For my dissertation, I am looking at how trainee political views predict differences in reactions to diversity trainings and subsequent learning from these trainings. For the past year, I have been involved in providing executive coaching to Master's students at Baruch College and I will be continuing that work while I complete my dissertation. 

Representative publications and presentations:

• Kayga, L. (2023). Comfort in Familiarity? The effects of shared leader/follower political views at work [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Boston, MA, United States. 

• Cheban, Y., Kayga, L., Scherbaum, C., Hanges, P. (2020). Opportunities in I-O research utilizing eye-tracking methodology. The 36th Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, April 2021. New Orleans, Louisiana. ​​ 

• Dinh, J. V. & Kayga, L. (2021, February). Leading teams. Workshop presented as part of the Team Science Skills Workshop Series to the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance, February 2021.  

• Dinh, J. V., Reyes, D. L., Kayga, L., Lindgren, C., Feitosa, J., & Salas, E. (2021). Developing team trust: Leader insights for virtual settings. Organizational Dynamics, 50(1), 100846. 

• Kayga, L., Weglarz, L., Watts, L. (2020). Will old habits die hard? An outlook on leadership development. The 36th Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, April 2021. New Orleans, Louisiana. ​ 

• Kayga, L., Sutphin, D. J., Rodriguez, W. A., Dinh, J. V. (2022). Clarifying cultural training: A theoretical operationalization and narrative review [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, United States. 

• Ray, E. J. & Kayga, L. (2022). Does Telework Work? Clarifying the effects of telework on work-family conflict [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, United States. 

• Weglarz, L. Kayga, L. Watts, L. (2020). Taking Stock of Theory in Leadership Development: A Consilience Analysis Approach. The 36th Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, April 2021. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Wiston Rodriguez

Undergraduate Institution: San Diego State University

Wiston Rodriguez’s research focuses on topics within occupational health psychology such as workplace mistreatment, illegitimate tasks, and the work-nonwork interface. He is also interested in DE&I research, specifically looking at the unique experiences of LGBTQ+ employees and how those experience impact work and nonwork outcomes. His research has received funding from The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Personality and Individual Differences, Organizational Psychology Review, and Stress and Health. He also has applied experience working with global and Fortune 500 organizations in the areas of talent management, learning and development, assessment, and applied consulting. He currently teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses.  

Representative publications and presentations:

• Nadal, K. L. Y., Rodriguez, W. A., Tejada, E., Almanzar, D., Sissoko, G., & Hussain, S. (in press). Did it get better? The Realities of queer and trans youth of color in K-12 schools. Journal of School Violence. 

• Rodriguez, W. A., & Zhou, Z. E. (2023). How supervisor incivility begets employee silence: The role of trust in supervisor and perceived organizational support. Occupational Health Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00159-7

• Rodriguez, W. A., Zhou, Z. E., Busse, K. A., & Che, X. X. (2023). Family-to-work conflict and instigated incivility. Stress and Health. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3282

• Wax, A., Rodriguez, W. A., & Ascencio, R. (2022). Spilling Tea at the Water Cooler: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on Workplace Gossip. Organizational Psychology Review.  

• Rodriguez, W. A., Busse, K., & Zhou, Z. E. (2022, July). How Supervisor Incivility Begets Employee Silence: A Moderated Mediation Model. Oral presentation presented at the Biannual Conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health, Bordeaux, France.

• Busse, K., Rodriguez, W. A., & Zhou, Z. E. (2022, July). Eating Stress Away? The Spillover and Crossover Effects of Job Insecurity on Employee and Spousal Stress and Unhealthy Eating. Oral presentation presented at the Biannual Conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health, Bordeaux, France.

• Rodriguez, W. A., Busse, K., Weglarz, E., Che, X., & Zhou, Z. E. (2022, April). How Family-Work Conflict Triggers Silent at Work Through Motivation and Exhaustion. Poster presented at the 37th annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seattle, WA.

• Rodriguez, W. A., Weglarz, E., Busse, K., Che, X., & Zhou, Z. E. (2022, April). The Roles of Negative Rumination and Self-control in the Link Between WFC and CWB. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seattle, WA.

• Sutphin, J., Rodriguez, W., Shah, S., Dinh, J. V. (2022, April). Patient trust in healthcare: An integrative review using organizational science. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seattle, WA.Rodriguez, W. A., Cheban, Y., Shah, S., & Watts, L. L. (2020). The general factor of personality and creativity: Diverging effects on intrapersonal and interpersonal idea evaluation. Personality and Individual Differences, 167, 110229.

• Zhiqinq, Z. E., Che, X. X., & Rodriguez, W. A., (2020). Nurses’ experiences of workplace mistreatment. Handbook of Research on Stress and Well-Being in the Public Sector.

• Rodriguez, W. A., Cheban, Y., Shah, S., & Watts, L. L. (2020, April). When does personality inhibit idea evaluation? Poster presented at the 35th annual conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Austin, TX. 

• Rodriguez, W.A., Zhou, Z. E., & Lu, C-Q. (2020, April). Incivility and employee silence: A serial mediation model. Poster presented at the 35th annual conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Austin, TX.

• Shah, S., Rodriguez, W. A., Ray, E., Che, X. X., & Zhou, Z. E. (2020, April). Workplace incivility and work-family conflict: Effects of negative rumination and mindfulness. Poster to be presented at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Austin, TX.

• Wald, D., Zhou Z., & Rodriguez W. A., (2019, April). Illegitimate Tasks and CWB-O: Psychological Contract Violation as a mediator. Poster presented at 34th annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologist Conference, Washington D.C.

• Rehmann, C., Cheban, Y., Rodriguez, W. A., Iniguez, J., & Wax, A. (2018). We can do it! Efficacy as a driver of learning in interdisciplinary teams. Presented at the 98th Annual WPA Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 26-29, 2018.

Shivani Shah

Undergraduate institution: College of New Jersey

My research interests mainly focus on how diversity affects leadership and leadership perceptions of minority groups. I have mainly focused on how perceptions of Asian Americans affect their leadership outcomes. I am interested in studying the disparities between how Asian Americans tend to be successful academically, but fail to obtain high positions in companies compared to Caucasian Americans. I additionally want to focus on other minority groups in the workplace, such as women, and other racial groups and their leadership outcomes as well.

Representative publications and presentations:

• Kirnan, Shah & Lauletti (2018) A dog-assisted reading programme’s unanticipated impact in a special education classroom, Educational Review, DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2018.1495181

• Shah, S., Dahling, J. J., Hansel, K. (2018, April). Comparing the Effects of Religiosity and Spirituality on the Experience and Consequences of a Career Calling. Poster presented at the 33rd annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL. 

• Kirnan, J., Lauletti, C., & Shah, S.,(2017). A Dog-Assisted Literacy Program’s Unanticipated Impact in a Special Education Classroom. Presented at the 125thAmerican Psychological Association Annual Convention in Washington, D.C. August 3-6, 2017.