EDUCATION                                                                                                

Ph.D.           University of North Carolina at Charlotte

                     Organizational Science (AACSB accredited), June 2018

M.A.            University of North Carolina at Charlotte

                     Sociology, May 2015

B.A.             George Mason University           

  Psychology with Honors (Minor in Spanish), May 2012

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS                                                             

Speights, S. L., Leslie, L.M., King, E.B., Flynn, E. & Clair, J.A. (2023). Work-life ideologies: Measurement development and theoretical refinement. Academy of Management Proceedings. 

Speights, S. L. & Dunn, A. M. (2022). Understanding the process: Using in-class data to reflect on a decision-making exercise. The Management Teaching Review.

McGonagle, A. K., Schmidt, S. R., & Speights, S. L. (2020). Work-health management interference: Construct development and scale validation. Occupational Health Science 4(4), 445-470.

Speights, S. L., Bochantin, J., & Cowan, R. (2019). Feeling, Expressing, and Managing Emotions in Work-Family Conflict. Journal of Business and Psychology, 35(3), 363-380.

Speights, S., Grubbs, S.J., & Rubin, B.A. (2017). Bad jobs, bad parents? How job characteristics relate to time with children and self-evaluations of parents. International Journal of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, 8(1), 20-41.

Ruggs, E. N., Speights, S., & Walker, S. S. (2013). Are you in or out? Employment discrimination in online and offline networks. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives in Science and Practice, 6, 466-471.

 BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLISHED WORK                              

Arnold, D. & Speights, S. (2019). Corporate responsibility and the base of the pyramid proposition. The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social

Responsibility: Psychological and Organizational Perspectives.

Speights, S. L., Stewart, O. J., Ruggs, E. N., Rogelberg, S., Reynolds, D., & Long, S. (2019). The organizational science summer institute: Community

outreach to diversify the graduate education pipeline. In J. Allen & R. Reiter-Palmon (Eds.). Cambridge handbook of organizational community engagement and outreach.

Rubin, B. A., Speights, S., Ge, J., Frevert, T., & Brody, C. J. (2017). Work-life balance and the relationship between women in state legislatures and workers’

schedule control. S. N. Davis, S. Winslow, & D. J. Maume (Eds.). Gender in the 21st Century: The Stalled Revolution and the Road to Equality. University

of California Press.

Speights, S. (2017). Boundaryless careers/Protean mindset. Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2nd ed.). Rogelberg, S.G (Ed.). Sage.

Speights, S. (2017). Work-nonwork. Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2nd ed.). Rogelberg, S.G (Ed.). Sage.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS                                                               

Speights, S.L., Leslie, L.M., King, E.B., Flynn, E. & Clair, J.A. (2023, August). Work-life ideologies: Measurement development and theoretical refinement. Paper presented at The Academy of Management annual conference, Boston, MA. Winner of Human Resources Management Division Best Conference Paper Award.

Speights, S. L., Loignon, A. & Halliday, C. (2023, August). Partner pay and the work-family interface. Paper presented at The Academy of Management annual conference, Boston, MA.

Dunn, A., Speights, S. L., Woznyj, H. (2023, June). Why are we doing this?”: Helping students make the connection between classroom learning and their futures. Paper accepted to the Management and Organizational Teaching Conference, Jacksonville, FL.

Speights, S. L. & Loignon, A. (2022, June). When She Earns More: An Examination of Relative Income, Gender, and Work-Family Conflict. Paper presented at the Work and Family Researchers Network bi-annual conference, New York, NY.

Speights, S. L. (2022, June). Holding Students Accountable for an Anti-Racist Learning Environment via Classroom as Organization (CAO) Design. Paper presented at the Management and Organizational Teaching Conference, Pomona, CA.

Speights, S. L. (2020, December). Using Metaphors to Understand Inequality at the Work-Family Interface. Paper presented at the Work and Family Researchers Network bi-annual conference, Virtual.

Speights, S. L. (2020, June). Using In-Class Student Data to Teach Group Decision Making. Paper presented at the Management and Organizational Teaching Conference, Virtual.

Dunn, A., Speights, S. L., Woznyj, H. (2020, June). Help! Asynchronous Online Discussion Posts: How to Make Them Effective Without Zapping Faculty’s Time and Energy. Paper presented at the Management and Organizational Teaching Conference, Virtual.

Speights, S. L. & Keene, S. (2020, April). Unpredictable and Unfair: Boundary Theory and the Relationship Between Unpredictable Working Time and Supervisor Fairness. Paper presented at the Southern Management Association annual conference, Virtual. (underline indicates student co-author)

Loignon, A. & Speights, S. L. (2020, April). Trading Off or Keeping it Equal: The Effects of SES and Gender on Work-to-Family Conflict in Couples. Paper presented at the Southern Management Association annual conference, Virtual. Winner of Organizational Behavior Track Best Paper Award. 

McGonagle, A. K., Schmidt, S. R., & Speights, S. L. (2020, April). Work-health management interference: Construct and scale development. Presented at the annual Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology conference, Austin, TX.

Speights, S. L. (2019, June). Stand or Sit: Facilitating class discussions in larger, lower-level courses. Paper presented at the Management and Organizational Teaching Conference, Mahwah, NJ.