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Olivia (Mandy) O'Neill is an associate professor of management in the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, contributing to the Business & Economics discipline through her expertise in organizational behavior. She earned her PhD in organizational behavior from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in psychology from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining George Mason, she held faculty positions at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. O'Neill also serves as a Senior Scientist at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being at George Mason University. Her research investigates the interrelationships among emotions, organizational culture, and gender. Specifically, she examines how emotions such as compassion, pride, joy, and anger, combined with gender aspects of masculinity and femininity, impact individual, team, and organizational processes and outcomes, including decision-making, attitudes, career success, health behavior, corporate strategy, and financial performance. Her academic interests include emotions in the workplace, organizational culture, gender in the workplace, and careers.
Key publications include "What’s Love Got to Do with It? A Longitudinal Study of the Culture of Companionate Love and Employee and Client Outcomes in a Long-Term Care Setting" co-authored with Sigal G. Barsade in Administrative Science Quarterly (2014), "Manage Your Emotional Culture" with Barsade in Harvard Business Review (2016), "Toxic Leadership and the Masculinity Contest Culture: How ‘Win or Die’ Cultures Breed Abusive Leadership" (2018), "Is Love All You Need? The Effects of Emotional Culture, Suppression, and Work–Family Conflict on Firefighter Risk-Taking and Health" with Nancy P. Rothbard in Academy of Management Journal (2017), "Reducing the Backlash Effect: Self-Monitoring and Women’s Promotions" with Charles A. O'Reilly III in Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (2011), and "Organizational Achievement Values, High Involvement Work Practices, and Business Unit Performance" in Human Resource Management (2011). O'Neill received the Best Published Paper Award from the Positive Organizational Scholarship Biannual Conference (2015) for her 2014 Administrative Science Quarterly article, a Research Award from the Academy of Management Discoveries (2014), and the Best Published Paper of 2010 from the Journal of Organizational Behavior (2011). She was nominated for teaching awards from George Mason University and OSCAR in 2014 and 2015. Her presentations feature talks at the Harvard Business Review Brasil Fórum Liderança e Cultura Organizacional (2016), Academy of Management annual meetings, Stanford CCARE Compassion and Business Conference, Cornell Relationships Roundtable (2016), and others.
