Postdoctoral Researcher at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia
About
Jasmien Khattab received her PhD in organizational behavior from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Prior to starting her PhD, she received a master of science degree in social psychology from the University of Amsterdam, and worked as a policy officer for the Dutch national government. She is currently a postdoctoral research scholar at the Darden School of Business, and a research fellow at Corporate Executive Board (CEB), now Gartner.
Current Work:
Two empirical projects Jasmien is currently working on are:
1. Job crafting & perceptions of future fit. In this project, the focus is on how women may use their job crafting abilities (in the literature usually linked to many positive career outcomes) as a coping mechanism to avoid taking on leadership roles. This research contributes to the literature on job crafting by showing that job crafting can also be used to create more distance (instead of more overlap) between the individual and the job.
2. Bias in the referral process. This research shows that referrers, i.e., individuals who connect two others in their network, rely on social categorization to connect two individuals with each other. This bias adds to the perpetuation of homophilous networks within organizations.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Leadership, diversity, social categorization, social networks
