Janaki Gooty

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.

Her research focuses on inclusion, values/ethics, and the role of emotions in leadership at multiple levels of analyses. Specifically, she studies three phenomena that are deeply intertwined:

• Creation of gender- and race-neutral definitions of leadership phenomena (e.g., identity, leader behavior, sense-making)
• The role of emotions such as pride, anger, sadness or compassion in motivating followers to action
• The creation of shared realities (i.e., vision) via leader-espoused values and expressed emotions in leader-follower relationships

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.

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

Selected Publications

Gooty, J., Ruggs, E. N., Aguinis, H., Bergeron, D. M., Eby, L. T., van Knippenberg, D., Post, C., Rupp, D. E., Thatcher, S. M. B., Tonidandel, S., & Yammarino, F. J. (2023). Stronger Together: A call for gender-inclusive leadership in business schools. Journal of Management, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063231178792

Gooty, J., Banks., G.C., ^†McBride, A. M. & van Knippenberg, D. (2023). Is authenticity a “true self,” multiple selves, behavior, evaluation, or a hot mess? Response to Helmuth, et al. Journal of Organizational Behavior.

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. Leadership Quarterly, 34[4]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101712

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 at Leadership Quarterly).

^†Flinchum, J., ^†Kreamer, L., Rogelberg, S. & Gooty, J. (2022). One-on-one meetings between managers and direct reports: A new opportunity for meeting science. Organizational Psychology Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/20413866221097570.

Gooty, J., Banks., G.C., Loignon, A., Tonidandel, S., & ^†Williams, C.W. (2021). Meta-analyses as a multi-level model. Organizational Research Methods, 24(2), 389-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428119857471

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