Karen J. Jansen
Assistant Professor of Commerce
Office phone: 434-243-2309
e-mail: kjansen@virginia.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Strategic Human Resource Management, Texas A&M University
M.Ed., Human Services/Human Resource Education, Boston University
B.S., Mathematics/Computer Science, University of Hartford
Areas of Expertise:
Professor Jansen specializes in management, with teaching and research in the fields of organizational change and strategic human resource management. Her change research broadly explores the process and impact of change on an organization’s employees. Her recent research focuses on how change processes gain, sustain, and lose momentum over time. Her person-environment fit research examines how perceptions of fit change and evolve over time.
Professional Activities:
Professor Jansen’s research has appeared in Academy of Management Review; Organization Science; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; and Journal of Applied Psychology. She is an associate editor for The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. She served as an elected member of the Organizational Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management from 2006 to 2008. Before becoming an academic, Professor Jansen worked for IBM as a systems engineer.
Selected Publications:
“A Review and Agenda for Incorporating Time in Fit Research.” In A. L. Kristof-Brown & J. Billsberry (eds.), New Directions in Organizational Fit, in press (with A. J. Shipp).
“Mapping Momentum Fluctuations during Organizational Change: A Multi-Study Validation.” In W. Pasmore, R. W. Woodman, & R. Shani (eds.), Research in Organizational Change and Development, 2011 (with D. A. Hofmann).
“Reinterpreting Time in Fit Theory: Crafting and Recrafting Narratives of Fit in Medias Res,” Academy of Management Review, 2011 (with A. J. Shipp).
“Mapping and Managing Momentum in IT Projects,” MIS Quarterly Executive, 2009 (with R. Nelson).
“Employee Alignment with Strategic Change: A Study of Strategy-Supportive Behavior among Blue-Collar Employees,” Journal of Managerial Issues, 2008 (with M. A. Gagnon and J. M. Michael).
"Issues of Person-Organization Fit." In C. Ostroff and T. Judge (eds.), Perspectives on Organizational Fit, Frontiers in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. New York: Erlbaum, 2007 (with A. L. Kristof-Brown).
"Toward a Multidimensional Theory of Person-Environment Fit," Journal of Managerial Issues, 2006 (with A. Kristof-Brown).
"Marching to the Beat of a Different Drummer: Examining the Impact of Pacing Congruence," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2005 (with A. Kristof-Brown).
"From Persistence to Pursuit: A Longitudinal Examination of Momentum during the Early Stages of Strategic Change," Organization Science, 2004.
"A Policy-Capturing Study of the Simultaneous Effects of Fit with Jobs, Groups, and Organizations," Journal of Applied Psychology, 2002 (with A. Kristof-Brown and A. Colbert).