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Beth A. Livingston

Ralph L. Sheets Associate Professor of Industrial Relations and Faculty Director of the Dore-Tippie Women's Leadership Program

Introduction

Dr. Beth A. Livingston is the Ralph L. Sheets Associate Professor in Industrial Relations at the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, she spent 8 years at Cornell University in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations before moving to the Midwest. She is passionate about studying gender, stereotyping, discrimination, and the management of work and family. Her research has been highlighted in the New York Times, NPR, and the Harvard Business Review, and has been published in top academic journals. She has also done executive education, speaking engagements, and consulting for companies such as Accenture, John Deere, Yves Saint Laurent Beauty and Allsteel. She is the co-author of Shared Sisterhood (with Dr. Tina Opie), one of Forbes Top 10 Business Books of 2022.

Current Positions

  • Associate Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship
  • Ralph L. Sheets Associate Professor of Industrial Relations, Management and Entrepreneurship
  • Faculty Director of the Dore-Tippie Women's Leadership Program, Management and Entrepreneurship

Education

  • PhD in Management/Organizational Behavior, University of Florida
  • MBA in Management/Marketing, University of Kentucky
  • BBA in Marketing, University of Kentucky
  • BA in Communication, University of Kentucky

Research Interests

  • gender
  • diversity and inclusion
  • work and family
  • remote work
  • well-being
  • belonging
  • work family balance

Selected Awards & Honors

  • Public Scholarship Award - Tippie College of Business, 2024
  • Undergraduate Faculty of the Year - Tippie College of Business, 2023
  • Faculty Communicating Ideas Award - University of Iowa, 2023

Professional Memberships

  • Work & Family Researchers Network, 2010
  • Academy of Management, 2004
  • Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2004

Selected Publications

  • Livingston, B., Ryu, S., & Bowes-Sperry, L. (2024). Just Role with It?: The Impact of Transition Space Harassment on Work Role Engagement. Academy of Management Review.
  • Thomason, B., Opie, T., Livingston, B., & Sitzmann, T. (2023). “WOKE” DIVERSITY STRATEGIES: SCIENCE OR SENSATIONALISM?. Academy of Management Perspectives.
  • Opie, T. & Livingston, B. (2021). Shared Sisterhood: Harnessing Collective Power to Generate More Inclusive and Equitable Organizations. Organizational Dynamics.
  • Livingston, B. & Ryu, S. (2020). Gender and Spousal Negotiation In Research Handbook on Gender and Negotiation. Olekalns, M. & Kennedy, J. (Eds.) Edward Elgar.
  • Livingston, B. & Opie, T. (2019). Even at “Inclusive” Companies, Women of Color Don’t Feel Supported. Harvard Business Review.Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Livingston, B. (2018). Gender, Gender Norms, and National Culture: Global Work-Family at Multiple Levels of Analysis In Cambridge Handbook of the Global Work-Family Interface. Schockley, K., Shen, W., & Johnson, R. (Eds.)
  • Livingston, B. A. (2014). Bargaining behind the scenes: Spousal negotiation, labor, and work–family burnout. Journal of Management. 40 (4) pp. 949–977.
  • Judge, T. A. & Livingston, B. A. (2008). Is the gap more than gender? A longitudinal analysis of gender, gender role orientation, and earnings. Journal of Applied Psychology. 93 (5) pp. 994.
  • Pennathur, P. R., Pennathur, P. R., Boksa, V., Pennathur, A., Kusiak, A., & Livingston, B. (2024). The future of office and administrative support occupations in the era of artificial intelligence: A state of the art review and future research directions. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.
  • Montanye, M. & Livingston, B. (2024). What’s in a Norm? Deviation from the Ideal Worker Norm as an Explanation for Backlash. Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology.

Selected Presentations

  • "Negotiating Over Work from Home: The Effects of Couple Congruence in Segmentation Preference," Accepted Speaker at Work Family Researchers Network, June 2024.
  • "Shared Sisterhood," Keynote/Plenary Address at Tippie Summit, March 2023.
  • "Mind the Gap: An Integrated Conceptual Review of Research on the Gender Pay Gap ," Accepted Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 2024.
  • "Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Diversity at Work," Panelist at Stanford University, October 2023.
  • "The Gender Wage Gap and Bias," Keynote/Plenary Address at CUES, September 2023.
  • "Allyship and Authentic Connection," Guest/Invited Speaker at HEC School of Management, March 2023.

Selected Grants & Contracts

  • Livingston, B. (Principal Investigator). Supervising the Future of Remote Workers: Promoting Supervisor and Worker Well-being. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/NIOSH. Funded. January 2021 - November 2021.

Editorial & Review Activities

  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2021.
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Organizational Behavior, January 2021.
  • Editorial Board Member, Personnel Psychology, January 2015.