Research Expertise and Interest
innovation, leading change, leveraging organizational culture, leadership assessment, team diversity, narcissistic leaders
Research Description
Jennifer Chatman studies organizational culture and how culture influences individual and firm behavior and performance. Her research has, for example, examined the largest publicly-traded high technology firms. Her research assess the extent to which their culture emphasizes innovation and relate that to bottom line firm performance over time. She also studies group composition and group norms focusing specifically on group demography. In one recent study, she shows how group dynamics influences whether climbers in Himalayan expeditions summit their target mountain or die trying. Finally, she studies narcissistic leaders and the damage they cause to the organizations they lead.
In the News
Kamala Harris’ Hidden Foe: Pervasive Bias Against Powerful Middle-Aged Women
Berkeley Leaders, Scholars React to Supreme Court’s Decision on Affirmative Action
Study: Stereotypes of Middle-Aged Women as Less ‘Nice’ Can Hold Them Back at Work
Attack on LGBTQ+ Rights: The Politics and Psychology of a Backlash
Despite drift toward authoritarianism, Trump voters stay loyal. Why?
America on edge: Berkeley scholars’ early election thoughts
Featured in the Media
"Women leaders can't play up their femininity, so maybe they should play down their competence and decisiveness? Unsurprisingly, that doesn't work either," according to Jennifer Chatman, interim dean at the Haas School of Business. Chatman was recently featured on UC Berkeley News.