Dr Jessica Methot

About me:

Jessica R. Methot, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of HRM in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University and a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Management at University of Exeter Business School, UK, where she is a founding member of the Exeter Centre for Social Networks. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behaviour from the University of Florida Warrington College of Business.

Dr. Methot conducts research at the intersection of interpersonal workplace relationships and social network dynamics, including how formal HR practices transform informal social networks, the functional and dysfunctional consequences of workplace relationships, and their temporal and multidimensional features. Her research in these areas has been published in leading academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior and has been featured in over 300 popular media outlets including Harvard Business Review, NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Nasdaq, CNN Money, USA Today, Fast Company, and NY Times Magazine. 

Dr. Methot is an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Review and former Associate Editor at Personnel Psychology, and has served on the Editorial Review Boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Human Resource Management. She is the Graduate Program Director for the Rutgers IRHR PhD Program and serves as a board member for the Center for Women and Work (CWW). She served for six years on the executive committee of the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management, and she is co-founder of the website WorkTies.org, a cultivated repository for academic research and news on work relationships. She frequently presents to and consults for audiences at a variety of corporations and professional organizations on topics ranging from managing personal and organizational networks to the digital HRM transformation.

Nationality: American

Interests:

• The impact of HR practices on intra-organizational social networks
• Workplace friendship network and their effects on employee performance
• The multidimensionality of work relationships
• The emotions implicated in work relationships
• Informal employee communication

Dr. Methot conducts research at the intersection of interpersonal workplace relationships and social network dynamics, including how formal HR practices transform informal social networks, the functional and dysfunctional consequences of workplace relationships, and their temporal and multidimensional features.

Qualifications:

• Ph.D.