Marie S. Mitchell
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Edward M. O’Herron Scholar
Marie Mitchell studies behavioral ethics in the workplace, inclusion and exclusion dynamics at work, and destructive and conflictive work behavior and relationships.
Her work has identified and explained the consequences of varied forms of destructive work behaviors, such as abusive supervision, exclusion, workplace cheating and coworker undermining. Her research explains how organizational factors and relational dynamics within organizations promote dysfunctional, exclusionary and unethical behavior as well as how organizations and leaders can enhance functional, inclusive, and ethical behavior in organizations.
She teaches Ethical Leadership and Women in Leadership MBA courses at UNC Kenan-Flagler and provides workshops on various skill development opportunities for students, such a job negotiation, building an inclusive workplace, enhancing credibility in feedback and performance management systems.
Dr. Mitchell is engaged with UNC students, including serving as a faculty advisor for Carolina Women in Business and helping with 100 Women at UNC Kenan-Flagler.
She serves as the PhD Coordinator for the Organizational Behavior Area, mentoring and developing scholarship with doctoral students, and teaching a doctoral seminar on affect and emotion.
Aside from these efforts at UNC Kenan-Flagler, Dr. Mitchell has taught courses in ethics, leadership, negotiation, organizational behavior and human resources to undergraduate, MBA and doctoral students.
Her extensive body of research has been published in top journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Personnel Psychology.
Dr. Mitchell serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Personnel Psychology. She is a former associate editor of Personnel Psychology.
She also serves in leadership roles for the organizational behavior division at the Academy of Management.
She offers mentorship at various conferences and associations, such as the Academy of Management, The Tenure Project and Management Faculty of Color Association.
Dr. Mitchell also provides opportunities to bridge her scholarship with industry through workshops and speaking opportunities on topics related to business, such as the Parr Center for Ethics at UNC, and workplace inclusion, such Association for Lab Managers and Wake County Invests in Women.
Prior to entering higher education, Dr. Mitchell worked in human resource management and consulting.
Through executive education, she has provided consultation, coaching and workshops to executives and employees from a diverse set of companies and industries on topics related to leadership and human resource management, including coaching, conflict management, emotional intelligence, employee development, ethics, negotiation, performance management and workplace inclusion.
She earned her PhD from the University of Central Florida, her MA in human resource management from Rollins College and her BA in political science from George Mason University.
