Professor Lisa Hisae Nishii joined the
School
of
Industrial
and Labor Relations as an Assistant Professor in July of 2003. She received
her Ph.D. and M.A. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the
University
of
Maryland
and her B.A. in Economics from
Wellesley
College
. As a doctoral student she won the Milton Dean Havron Social Sciences Award
for Outstanding Achievements as a Doctoral Student.
Professor Nishii's research focuses on three main areas: cross-cultural HR and
organizational behavior, diversity in the workplace, and strategic human resource
management (SHRM). Her research on culture focuses on the cross-cultural applicability
of HR and
OB
theories, in particular, in the areas of services management, conflict and negotiation,
and leadership. Much of her research focuses on cultural differences involving
Japan, where she was born and has spent much of her life. In the area of workplace
diversity, her research focuses on the individual-level and organizational-level
implications of a multicultural workforce. In her SHRM research, she takes a
psychological approach to understanding how human resource practices are linked
to organizational effectiveness through their influence on employee attitudes
and behaviors.
Professor Nishii has presented her research at numerous conferences for the Society
of Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
Academy
of
Management
, International Association for Conflict Management, and International Association
of Cross-cultural Psychology. Her research has been published in the Journal
of Applied Psychology and Organizational Dynamics, and she has co-authored several
chapters, most recently on the organizational-level antecedents of discrimination
in the workplace, in Psychological and organizational bases of discrimination at work, and on the influence of individualism-collectivism on leadership practices in
62 countries, in Culture, leadership, and organizations: The GLOBE study of 62 cultures.
Several of Professor Nishii's research papers have been nominated for awards,
and a 2001 paper on cultural differences in cognitive representations of conflict
in the U.S. and Japan won the Best Empirical Paper Award from the International
Association of Conflict Management.
Professor Nishii has also worked as an organizational consultant for several
organizations on a variety of topics, including diversity management, service
climate, selection systems, performance management, and leadership development.
