Ragins Joins Society for Organizational Behavior
MILWAUKEE — Belle Rose Ragins, professor of organizations and strategic management in the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, has been invited to join the Society for Organizational Behavior.
Founded in 1976, the society typically restricts its membership to 50-70 of the top scholars from throughout the world. Membership is by invitation only.
Ragins teaches, consults, and conducts research on diversity, mentoring and gender issues in organizations. Her current research examines the development of mentoring relationships and explores how gender and diversity affect mentoring. She also has researched the glass ceiling, sexual and racial harassment, diversity and sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace.
Ragins has written more than 100 papers for presentations at national and international conferences and for publication in leading academic journals. She is co-author of Mentoring and Diversity: An International Perspective and co-editor of two books: The Handbook of Mentoring at Work and Exploring Positive Relationships at Work. Her research has been featured in U.S. News & World Report, Business Week, Barron’s Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, Working Woman Magazine and over 30 newspapers throughout the country.
Ragins is a fellow of the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Society, the Society for the Psychology of Women and the American Psychological Association. She has received nine national awards for her research, including two lifetime achievement awards. In recognition of her service to the profession, Ragins received the Academy of Management Mentoring Best Practice Award for her work on diversity initiatives. She also has received numerous research and teaching awards from the Lubar School of Business and was honored with the universitywide UWM Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence.
Ragins was awarded the first Visiting Research Fellowship at Catalyst, a national research and advisory organization working to advance women in business and their professions. She was a research adviser for 9-to-5, the National Association of Working Women. She helped establish UWM’s Institute for Diversity Education and Leadership (IDEAL) and was the research director of the institute.
