Janaki Gooty

Janaki Gooty

Professor, Management + Director, MBA + Co-Director, CLS
Belk College of Business
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Dr. Janaki Gooty is a professor in the department of management in the Belk College of Business, and in the interdisciplinary Organizational Science doctoral program at UNC Charlotte. She currently serves as the director of the MBA program at the Belk College of Business and as the director of the dual MBA program with the Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership (EGADE) at Tecnológico de Monterrey School in Monterrey, Mexico as well as the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Leadership Science (CLS).

Her research focuses on leadership at multiple levels of analyses with a specific focus on three key intersecting domains: The role of inclusive sampling and research designs in leadership science, emotion as a central concept in leadership, and multi-level, mixed methods. Via inductive and deductive inclusive sampling strategies, she investigates if leadership theories* might need to be redefined in response to the changing business environment. Specifically, she studies how concepts such as leader identity, leader behaviors or crisis leadership, for example, are socially constructed and how those meanings might change over time, demographic groups and in different contextual conditions. Her second area focuses on the role of emotions, especially moral emotions in motivating leaders and followers to ethical action; and how leaders leverage values and expressed emotions in leader-follower relationships in creating shared realities. 

Her research has appeared in elite leadership and research methods outlets such as Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Management and Leadership Quarterly. Dr. Gooty currently serves as the associate editor at Leadership Quarterly and has previously served as the associate editor at Journal of Occupational and Organizational psychology and a guest co-editor of two special issues at Leadership Quarterly. She currently sits the editorial boards of several other journals, and was a winner of the Charlotte Business Journal’s 2023 Women in Business awards.

* Example and non-exhaustive article(s) relating to this theme.

Education

Ph.D., 2007
Organizational Behavior (Management)
Oklahoma State University

MBA, 2006
University of Central Oklahoma

Bachelor of Science, 2000
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, India

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Recent Publications

Gooty, J., †McBride, A., †Kreamer, L., Banks, G. C., & Tonidandel, S. (2025). When Super(wo)man Fails to Appear: Beyond Idealized Prototypes in Crisis Leadership. Journal of Organizational Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2881.

Schilpzand, P., †Hamrick, A.B., Gooty, J. and Huang, L. (2025). Pride in the Workplace: An Integrative Review, Synthesis, and Future Research Agenda. Journal of Organizational Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2869.

Kreamer, L.,  McBride, A., Gooty, J., Stock, G., Banks, G. C., & Tonidandel, S (2025). Crisis Leader Behaviors: A Redirecting Review. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/15480518251343118.

†Williams, C.E., Thomas, J.S., Gooty, J., & Dunne, D (2024). Negative Emotions, Difficult Conversations, and Leader-Follower Relationships. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12566.

†McBride, A., Howe, L., Gooty, J., & Banks, G.C. (2024). Seeing with Counterfactual Lenses: Alternative Assumptions at the Intersection of Leadership and Identity. The Leadership Quarterly.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101769.

Williams, C. E., Thomas, J. S., Banks, G. C., Toth, A., Bennett, A. A., & Dunn, A. M., †McBride, A., & Gooty, J. (2024). The Role of Emotion in Job Satisfaction: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 45(1): 97-116. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2747.

Gooty, J., Banks., G.C., †McBride., A. M. & van Knippenberg, D. (2024). Is Authenticity a “true self,”  Multiple Selves, Behavior, Evaluation, or a Hot Mess? Response to Helmuth et al. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 45(1): 145-150. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2752.

Carsten, M., Clapp-Smith, R., Haslam, S, A., Bastardoz, N., Gooty, J., Connelly, S., Spain, S. (2023). Doing better leadership science via replications and registered reports. The Leadership Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101712.

Gooty, J., Ruggs, E.,  Aguinis, H., Bergeron, D., Eby, L.,  van Knippenberg, D.,  Post, C., Rupp, D., Thatcher, S. M.B., Tonidandel, S., & Yammarino, F. J. ( 2023). Stronger Together: A Call for Gender Inclusive Leadership in Business Schools. Journal of Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063231178792.

Banks., G.C., Gooty, J., †Stock, G., †McBride, A., & †Sargent, A.S.  Leader emergence for women: A test of charismatic and ethical leadership behaviors. In Principle Acceptance of Registered Report, at The Leadership Quarterly.

Note: †denotes graduate student co-author at time of publication