Professor of Management at East Carolina University
About
Amy McMillan is a faculty fellow in the College of Business at East Carolina University. She completed her doctoral degree in business administration with a concentration in management at Louisiana Tech University. Her research focuses on diversity and corporate social responsibility. She has published in a variety of journals such as Journal of Business Research and Group and Organizational Management. She was a corporate instructor for seven years, preparing training materials and conducting training programs.
Current Work:
Most of Dr. McMillan's research has focused on diversity's impact on climate and performance. She is currently working on a project involving visible diversity, perceptions of invisibility at work, and dirty work. Amy and her coauthor consider how existing stigmas (e.g., visible diversity) inhibit occupational identification. Although dirty work is often cast in a negative light, they explore an aspect of jobs that might lessen the detrimental effects of dirty jobs on identification: invisible work. They argue that some individuals desire to become/remain invisible as a way to overcome the stigmas associated with dirty work and visible diversity.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Diversity, diversity climate, human resource management, firm performance, corporate social responsibility
