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Professor
Karen Lyness
Professor Karen Lyness teaches courses on diversity in organizations, career development, organizational psychology, and other topics in industrial-organizational psychology. She is currently the acting head of the doctoral program in industrial-organizational psychology at Baruch College.
Dr. Lyness received the 2003 Sage lifetime achievement award for distinguished scholarship from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations division of the Academy of Management. She is a member of the Journal of Applied Psychology Editorial Board and a previous member of the Academy of Management Journal Editorial Board. Prior to joining the Baruch faculty, Dr. Lyness held a number of positions in management research and human resource management at Citigroup (Citibank), AT&T, and Avon Products. She earned a Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology at Ohio State University.
Currently Dr. Lyness conducts research on women in management, work-family interface, “glass ceiling” barriers related to women’s advancement into executive positions, cross-cultural issues, organizational culture, managerial careers and development, and other issues related to workforce diversity. Her research has been published in academic journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Sex Roles, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Three of her articles have been nominated for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.
Dr. Lyness’s diversity studies have contributed to our knowledge about a wide range of issues, such as gender differences in career paths of executives and managers, barriers for women and strategies that successful women have used to overcome these barriers, lack of gender differences in voluntary turnover among managers, career penalties for managers who took leaves of absence, dimensions of organizational culture that are related to employees’ abilities to balance their work and family responsibilities, and relationships of national cultural values to work-family issues. Findings from her research articles have been highlighted in publications such as Business Week, Across the Board: The Conference Board Magazine, American Psychological Association Monitor on Psychology, U.S. Banker, Working Woman, Boston Globe, Toronto Globe and Mail, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Australian Financial Review.
Dr. Lyness’s publications include:
Lyness, K. S., & Judiesch, M. K. (in press). Can a manager have a life and a career? International and multisource perspectives on work-life balance and career advancement potential. Journal of Applied Psychology.
Lyness, K. S., & Kropf, M. B. (2007). Cultural values and potential nonresponse bias: A multilevel examination of cross-national differences in mail survey response rates. Organizational Research Methods, 10, 210-224.
Lyness, K. S., & Heilman, M. E. (2006). When fit is fundamental: Performance evaluations and promotions of upper-level female and male managers. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 777-785.
Lyness, K. S., & Schrader, C. A. (2006). Moving ahead or just moving? An examination of gender differences in senior corporate management appointments. Group & Organization Management, 31, 651-676.
Lyness, K. S., & Terrazas, J. M. B. (2006). Women in management: An update on their progress and persistent challenges. In G. P. Hodgkinson & J. K. Ford (Eds.), International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Vol. 21, pp. 267-294). Chichester, U.K.: Wiley.
Lyness, K. S., & Kropf, M. B. (2005). The relationships of national gender equality and organizational support with work-family balance: A study of European managers. Human Relations, 58, 33-60.
Lyness, K. S., & Judiesch, M. K. (2001). Are female managers quitters? The relationships of gender, promotions, and family leaves of absence to voluntary turnover. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 1167-1178.
Lyness, K. S., & Thompson, D. E. (2000). Climbing the corporate ladder: Do female and male executives follow the same route? Journal of Applied Psychology, 85, 86-101.
Judiesch, M. K., & Lyness, K. S. (1999). Left behind? The impact of leaves of absence on managers' career success. Academy of Management Journal, 42, 641-651.
Thompson, C. A., Beauvais, L. L., & Lyness, K. S. (1999). When work-family benefits are not enough: The influence of work-family culture on benefit utilization, organizational attachment, and work-family conflict. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 54, 392-415.
Lyness, K. S., & Thompson, D. E. (1997). Above the glass ceiling? A comparison of matched samples of female and male executives. Journal of Applied Psychology, 82, 359-375.
She can be reached at Karen_Lyness@baruch.cuny.edu
Last updated on January 30, 2008
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