Janaki Gooty
Janaki Gooty
Dr. Janaki Gooty is a professor in the Department of Management in the Belk College of Business, and Organizational Science, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at UNC Charlotte. She currently serves as the Director of the MBA Program (BCOB) & Director, Dual MBA Program with EGADE Business School, Monterrey, Mexico and is the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Leadership Science (CLS).
Her research focuses on leadership at multiple levels of analyses with a specific focus on three key intersecting domains: The role of inclusive sampling and research designs in leadership science, emotion as a central concept in leadership, and multi-level, mixed methods. Via inductive and deductive inclusive sampling strategies, she investigates if leadership theories* might need to be redefined in response to the changing business environment. Specifically, she studies how concepts such as leader identity, leader behaviors or crisis leadership, for example, are socially constructed and how those meanings might change over time, demographic groups and in different contextual conditions. Her second area focuses on the role of emotions, especially moral emotions in motivating leaders and followers to ethical action; and how leaders leverage values and expressed emotions in leader-follower relationships in creating shared realities.
* Example and non-exhaustive article(s) relating to this theme.
Her research has appeared in elite leadership and research methods outlets such as Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Management and Leadership Quarterly. Dr. Gooty currently serves as Associate editor at Leadership Quarterly and has previously served as Associate editor at Journal of Occupational and Organizational psychology, Guest Co-editor of two special issues at Leadership Quarterly and on the editorial boards of several other journals.
She currently serves as Past President (2021-2022), has served as President (2020-2021), President-Elect (2019-2020), Program Chair (2018-2019), Program Chair Elect (2017-2018) and representative to the Board of Governors (2011-2014) of the Southern Management Association (SMA), which is the largest affiliate of the Academy of the Management (AoM) and the governing body for the elite Journal of Management (JOM) and newly launched JOM Scientific Reports. In addition, she served as the Representative at Large (2016-2019) for the Research Methods Division (RMD) of the Academy of Management. She is an elected Fellow of SMA and a short course instructor with Consortium for Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA).
Dr. Gooty has presented her work and conducted leadership trainings in multiple venues locally, nationally and internationally with a special focus on leadership of underrepresented groups in corporate and executive leadership settings.