Nicole Strah

Nicole Strah

Assistant Professor, Department of Management + Affiliate Faculty, Department of Organizational Science
Belk College of Business | College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences

Nicole (Nikki) Strah is an assistant professor in the department of management and an affiliate faculty member of UNC Charlotte’s Organizational Science Ph.D. program and Industrial/Organizational psychology Master’s program. Her research interests revolve around diversity and inclusion, perceptions of justice and fairness, and the intersection between psychology and equal employment opportunities. She has published her work in journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Vocational Behavior and Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice. She teaches both undergraduate and MBA courses at UNC Charlotte.

Research Interests

  • Identifying inclusive leader behaviors
  • Inclusivity in researching organizational justice perceptions
  • Enacting organizational justice and misconduct
  • Gender similarity in organizational behavior
  • Reducing adverse impact in HR systems
  • Supporting diversity in organizations and equal employment opportunities

Selected Publications

Strah, N., Rupp, D. E., & Cannon, J. A. (2023). Disability and adverse impact: Creating inclusive selection practices for individuals with disabilities. In Forgotten Minorities in Organizations (pp. 177–206). Information Age Publishing Inc.

Graso, M., Aquino, K., Chen, F. X., Camps, J., Strah, N., & Van Den Bos, K. (2022). When do observers deprioritize due process for the perpetrator and prioritize safety for the victim in response to Information-Poor allegations of harm? Psychological Science, 34(2), 186–200. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221128203

Nottingham, A., Strah, N., Rupp, D.E. (2023). Pay equity/Pay inequity issues. In: Poff, D.C., Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22767-8_1335

Strah, N., & Rupp, D. E. (2022). Are there cracks in our foundation? An integrative review of diversity issues in job analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(7), 1031–1051. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000989

Cropanzano, R. S., Strah, N., Rupp, D. E., & Cannon, J. A. (2022). Organisational justice: Revisiting Greenberg’s pay inequity study. In Organisational Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies (pp. 201). Sage.

Busby, A., Thornton-Lugo, M. A., Parker, L. C., & Strah, N. (2022). What can go wrong when everything is right? Using organizational justice to understand police misconduct and improve personnel systems. Personnel Assessment and Decisions, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.25035/pad.2022.02.006