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Carolyn T. Dang

Assistant Professor

Department Management and Organization Office Address 449 Business Building Email Address [email protected]

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Carolyn Dang is an Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior at the Smeal College of Business. She is the Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics.

Education

Ph D, Organizational Behavior (Research Methods), The University of Washington, 2014

BA, Social Psychology, University of Chicago, 2006

Courses Taught

BA 580 – DBA Culminating Res Project (6)This course provides Doctorate of Business Administration students with the opportunity to identify a practice problem or clinical question and investigate the literature related to this selected area of interest. Students will develop and implement a comprehensive project to address the problem. Students will also disseminate the results in both a scholarly presentation and manuscript for publication.

MGMT 451W – Bus Eth and Soc (3)Advanced examination of social, ethical, legal, economic, equity, environmental, public policy, and political influences on managerial DECISIONS AND STRATEGIES. MGMT 451W Business, Ethics, and Society (3) Focuses on the knowledge, skills, and perspectives that a manager must have in order to deal with the social, legal, ethical, and political demands in society. Ecological, ethical, and public policy dimensions of various managerial decisions are examined.

MGMT 601 – Ph.D Dis Full-TimeNO DESCRIPTION.

MGMT 600 – Thesis Research (Variable)

MGMT 590 – Colloquium (3)

MGMT 596 – Individual Studies (Variable)

MGMT 355 – Lead and Chg in Org (3)This course focuses on concerns with understanding yourself as a leader in organizations-especially organizations undergoing change.

MGMT 326 – Org Beh and Design (3)Concepts, theories, and methods of managing people and designing organizations. MGMT 326 Organizational Behavior and Design (3) This introductory course covers the concepts, theories, and methods of managing people and designing organizations. Issues and challenges of managing at different organizational levels (individual, group, project, and total organization) are discussed and illustrated with real-world examples. Students learn about the latest means of designing high-performing organizations, including how to change an organization. This course will serve as a foundation for taking advanced management courses. The primary method of evaluation is an examination after each of the four major parts of the course, but class participation and short papers may also be used for evaluation.

Selected Publications

Dang C., Mitchell M. S., "The positive spillover of managers’ ally work: Perceptions of manager liberalism and its effect on employee volunteering." Journal of Business and Psychology, vol. 40, 2025, pp. 359–384 Dang C., Joshi A., "On the plurality and politics of ally work: Liberalism and self, relational, and organizational ally work." Academy of Management Journal, vol. 66, no. 5, 2023, pp. 1554-1585 Dang C., "Taylor-ing ethics: Implications of Charles Taylor’s work of retrieval on Moral Foundations Theory." Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, 2023, pp. 655-681 Yoon M., Joshi A., Dang C., "Male privilege awareness and relational well-being at work: An allyship pathway." Psychology of Men & Masculinities, vol. 24, no. 2, 2023, pp. 149–161 Dang C., Volpone S., Umphress E. E., "The ethics of diversity ideology: Consequences of leader diversity ideology on ethical leadership perception and organizational citizenship behavior." Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 108, no. 2, 2023, pp. 307-329 Barnes C., Dang C., Leavitt K., Guarana C., Uhlmann E., "Archival data in micro-organizational research: A toolkit for moving to a broader set of topics." Journal of Management, 2018 Dang C., Umphress E. E., Mitchell M. S., "Leader social accounts of subordinates’ unethical behavior: Examining observer reactions to leader social accounts with moral disengagement language." Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 102, no. 10, 2017, pp. 1448–1461 Reynolds S. J., Dang C., "Are the "customers” of business ethics courses satisfied? An examination of one source of business ethics education legitimacy." Business & Society, 2017 Fehr R., Yam K., Dang C., "Moralized leadership: The construction and consequences of ethical leader perceptions." Academy of Management Review, 2015 Reynolds S. J., Dang C., Yam K., Leavitt K., "The role of moral knowledge in everyday immorality: What does it matter if I know what is right?." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2014 Chen X., Dang C., Keng-Highberger F., "Broadening the motivation to cooperate: Revisiting the role of sanctions in social dilemmas." 2014 Reynolds S. J., Dang C., "Should every manager become a Kantian? The empirical evidence and normative implications of the Kantian personality in organizations." 2012

Editorship

Academy of Management Journal, Editorial Board, July 2022 - Present

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