E-mail: scotte@easternct.edu                                                              Telephone (860) 465-5366

                                                                             

 

Elizabeth D. Scott

Associate Professor

Department of Business Administration

Eastern Connecticut State University

Webb Hall

Willimantic, CT 06226

 

 

EDUCATION

 

PhD, Management, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (August 1996)

 

MBA, Industrial Relations, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia (June 1980)

 

AB, with honors, Comparative Literature, Brown University, Providence, RI (June 1977)

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Karen A. Jehn and Elizabeth D. Scott, “Perceptions Of Deception: Making Sense Of Responses To Employee Deceit,” forthcoming, Journal of Business Ethics, on line publication May 11, 2007.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott "Just(?) a True-False Test." Business & Society, Jun2006, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p130-148.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott “Human Resources Ethics,” 2005, in John W. Budd and James G. Scoville, (eds), The Ethics of Human Resources and Industrial Relations, (Urbana-Champaign: Labor and Employment Relations Association).

 

Elizabeth D. Scott and Karen A. Jehn, “Multiple Stakeholder Judgments of Employee Behaviors: A Contingent Prototype Model of Dishonesty,” Sep2003 Part 1, Vol. 46 Issue 3, 235-251, Journal of Business Ethics.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott and Karen A. Jehn, “About Face:  The Influence of Employee Dishonesty on Stakeholders’ Organizational Images,” Business & Society, Jun2003, Vol. 42 Issue 2, p234 - 267.

 

Janet K. Swim, Elizabeth D. Scott, Charles Stangor, Gretchen Sechrist, and Bernadette Campbell, “The Role of Intent and Harm in Judgments of Prejudice,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. May2003, Vol. 84 Issue 5, p944-960.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, “The Plane Truth:  A model of employee perceptions of dishonesty,” February 2003 Journal of Business Ethics 42:321-337.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, Organizational Moral Values, January 2002, Volume 12, No 1 Business Ethics Quarterly.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, Moral Values-Fit: Do Applicants Really Care? November 2000, Volume 4, No 4 Teaching Business Ethics. 

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, Moral Values: Situationally Defined Individual Differences, April 2000, Volume 10, No 2 Business Ethics Quarterly.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott and Karen A. Jehn, Ranking Rank Behaviors: A Comprehensive Situation-Based Definition of Dishonesty, September 1999, Volume 38, Number 3 Business & Society.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, K.C. O'Shaughnessy, and Peter Cappelli "Management Jobs in the Insurance Industry: Organizational Deskilling and Rising Pay Inequality," 1997 in Paul Osterman, (ed.) Broken Ladders  (New York: Oxford University Press.)

 

UNDER SECOND REVIEW

 

 

UNDER REVISION

Elizabeth D. Scott, Peter Cappelli, and Nikolai Rogovsky, "Look for the Union Label:  Mediating Effect of Unions on the Organizational Justice/ Organizational Citizenship Behavior Relationship," under revision at the request of Industrial Relations.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott and Haiyi Li, “Beyond Paperless:  Internet Surveys of Ethical Issues,” under revision at the request of Business and Society.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, “Diversity in Diversity Research,” under revision at the request of Human Resources Management Journal.

 

UNDER INITIAL REVIEW

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

Lorna Doucet and Elizabeth D. Scott “You can run, but when do you hide:  A study of hiding frustration in the workplace,” Symposium presentation, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia PA, August, 2007.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott “Too Much Information:  When Knowing the Good is Bad,” revised on the basis of comments at the CSU research conference. Presented June, 2007 at the International Association of Business and Society Annual Meeting in Florence, Italy.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott “Too Much Information:  When Knowing the Good is Bad,” presented 2006 at the CSU research conference, WCSU, Danbury, CT.

 

Gail Gelburd, Rita Malenczyk, Elizabeth Scott, and Susan Herzog, "Strategies for Engaging Faculty in Thematically-Integrated Liberal Arts Curriculum Reform" Association for General and Liberal Studies 2006 Annual Conference October 19-21, 2006, Indianapolis, IN.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott “The Ethics of Human Resource Management,” presented January, 2005, at the Industrial Relations Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, “Just(?) a True/False Test:  Applying Signal Detection Theory to Judgments of Organizational Dishonesty, presented August 2002 at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Denver, Colorado.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, “The View from the Passenger’s Seat,” presented August 2001, at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Washington, DC.

 

Lorna M. Doucet, Elizabeth D. Scott, and Karen A. Jehn “Emotional Dishonesty,” presented August 2001, by Lorna Doucet at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Washington, DC.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, “Beyond Paperless: Internet Surveys of Ethical Issues,” presented March 2000 at the annual conference of the International Association for Business and Society, Sedona, Arizona. 

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, “Diversity in Diversity Research,” presented December 2000 by Robert C. Holland at the Conference of the Academy of Business Administration, Cancun, Mexico.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, “Plane Truth:  A Qualitative Study of Employee Dishonesty in the Airline Industry,” presented at the Wharton Micro-OB conference, November 2000.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, “Organizational Moral Values,” presented August 2000, at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Toronto, Canada.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott, Moral Values-Fit: Do Applicants Really Care? August, 1999, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Business Ethics, Chicago, Illinois.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott and Karen A. Jehn, Is Dishonesty Habit-Forming?  June, 1999, presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Business and Society, Paris, France. 

 

Karen A. Jehn and Elizabeth D. Scott, Lies in the Sky:  A Test of a Model of Dishonesty and Organizational Image, June 1998, presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Business and Society, Kona, Hawaii.

 

Elizabeth D. Scott and Karen A. Jehn, Dishonesty in Organizations: A Definition and Model for Research, March 1997, presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Business and Society, Destin, Florida.

 

Karen A. Jehn and Elizabeth D. Scott, Lies in the Sky: Deceit and Organizational Image in the Airline Industry, 1996, presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Conflict Management.

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

 

K. A. Jehn and Elizabeth D. Scott, “Lies in the Sky:  A Multi-method Assessment of Employee Dishonesty and Effects on Organizational Reputation in the Airline Industry.”

 

The Measurement of Moral Values, work in progress, based on dissertation.

 

“Emotional Dishonesty,” work in progress with Karen A. Jehn and Lorna M. Doucet.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Eastern Connecticut

Business and Society, two undergraduate sections, 2007-2008

Human Resources Management, three undergraduate sections, 2002-2006

Human Resources Seminar, five graduate seminar, 2002-2007

Training and Development, five graduate seminars, 2002-2008

Organizational Behavior, five graduate courses, 2003-2006

Critical Thinking, six graduate courses, 2003-2008

Leadership, four graduate course, 2007

Research Methods, five graduate courses, 2003-2007

 

Penn State

Human Resources Ethics, five undergraduate sections, 1999-2002

Human Resources Seminar, six graduate seminars, 1996-2002

Research Methods, six graduate seminars, 1996-2002

Statistics, three graduate seminars, 1997-1999

 

Wharton

Business Ethics, two undergraduate sections, 1992-1993

Management Teaching Assistant, six undergraduate sections, 1992-1994

 

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Personnel Director, Georgia Department of Labor

Employee/Applicant Relations Coordinator, Georgia Department of Labor

EEO Program Coordinator, Georgia Department of Human Resources                                               

Coordinator of Compliance Operations, Georgia Office of Fair Employment Practices

Compliance Officer, Georgia Office of Fair Employment Practices

(See detail of experience below.)

 

 

DETAIL OF WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Eastern Connecticut State University

Professor

Department of Business Administration                                                          August 2008 to Present

 

Conduct research and teaching activities in the ethics of human resources management. Direct Graduate Master of Science in Organizational Management program.

 

Associate Professor

Department of Business Administration                                                      July 2002 to August 2008

 

Conduct research and teaching activities in the ethics of human resources management. Direct Graduate Master of Science in Organizational Management program.

 


 

The Pennsylvania State University

Assistant Professor

Department of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations                                    July 1996 to June 2002

 

Conduct research and teaching activities in the ethics of human resources management and research methods.  Serve on graduate committee, search committee, and master’s thesis committees.  Advise graduate and undergraduate students writing research papers and honors thesis.  Serve on college business minor committee and new faculty events committee.

 

On leave fall semester 2000 as a research fellow at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. 

 


 

University of Pennsylvania

 

PhD Candidate

Wharton School                                                           September 1991 to August 1996

 

Conduct and assist in conducting research and teaching activities.  Develop survey questionnaires on such topics as human resources practices and moral values.  Conduct interviews with human resources professionals.  Analyze data. Present research findings orally and in writing.  Develop course curricula for Human Resources and Legal Studies courses.  Teach and assist in teaching undergraduate Management and Legal Studies (ethics) courses.  Assist in grading graduate courses in Human Resources Management and in Legal Studies.

 

 

State of Georgia

 

Personnel Director

Department of Labor                                                               July 1987 to September 1991

 

Direct recruitment, selection, classification, compensation, evaluation, benefits, grievance and discipline activities of the 15 member personnel office of a state agency with over 1700 employees.  Analyze trends in activity and propose new policies or programs to anticipate changes.  Develop and conduct specialized training.  Provide technical assistance to senior staff members in implementing personnel policies.    Represent the Department on state advisory councils.

 

 

Employee/Applicant Relations Coordinator

Department of Labor                                                                             September 1984 to July 1987

 

Supervise all recruitment activity and review all selection packages to ensure equity and adherence to procedures.  Coordinate processing of employee complaints.  Assist managers in proposing and carrying out disciplinary actions.  Represent the department in administrative hearings.  Conduct training on various department policies, including recruitment and selection, performance appraisal, work hours, scheduling and attendance, and standards of conduct.  Write new human resources policies and procedures.  Advise Employment Service and Unemployment Insurance divisions on Equal Employment Opportunity matters.

 

 

EEO Program Coordinator

Department of Human Resources                                                           August 1982 to August 1984

 

Plan and implement department's Equal Opportunity Development Program.  Develop and conduct training in such areas as Investigation, Laws and Theories of Discrimination, and Sexual Harassment.  Coordinate responses to charges of discrimination filed with state and federal enforcement agencies.  Assist staff of the Attorney General's office in representing the department at administrative hearings.  Advise managers in adverse action and grievance processing.  Analyze data to identify potential liabilities.  Design appropriate corrective action.


 

Coordinator of Compliance Operations

Office of Fair Employment Practices                                                             April 1980 to July 1982

 

Supervise Compliance staff.  Develop, write and implement comprehensive policies and procedures for investigating complaints of discrimination.  Develop and conduct training in such areas as supervision and training.  Devise pay scale and performance evaluation system.  Interpret various state and federal laws, rules and regulations for employees and for employers.  Summarize court decisions for distribution to all state agencies.

 

Compliance Officer

Office of Fair Employment Practices                                                           July 1978 to March 1980

 

Investigate complaints of discrimination by interviewing witnesses, reviewing documents and conducting fact-finding conferences.  Prepare cases for hearings.  Negotiate agreements between employers and aggrieved employees.  Analyze personnel policies and procedures.  Develop and maintain system for measuring trends.

 

EEO Investigator

State Merit System                                                                                    February 1978 to July 1978

 

Investigate charges of discrimination under contract with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

 

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

 

Records Clerk

Personnel Division                                                                         September 1977 to February 1978

 

Maintain personnel records.  Review applications.  Prepare records for transmittal to state records center.

 

 

Brown University Libraries

 

Student Assistant

Administration                                                                                               June 1976 to June 1977

 

Interview and place student applicants for employment. Prepare student payroll and budget.  Assist in interviewing, payroll and budget for full time staff.  Assist in development of packages for collective bargaining.

 

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Ad Hoc Reviewer for: 

Academy of Management Review

Social Issues Division