Kevin Kniffin

Biography

Kevin Kniffin leads active streams of research that focus on Teamwork, Leadership (and Management), and Interdisciplinarians. Kniffin has contributed original research to publications including American Psychologist, Academy of Management Discoveries, and The Leadership Quarterly. Kniffin's research to study interdisciplinarians has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and his work has been featured by popular outlets including Harvard Business Review and The New York Times. Kniffin won the Established Researcher Award in 2019 from the Institute for Research on Innovation & Science (IRIS) and is an Editorial Board Member for Academy of Management Discoveries (2021-2023).

In the classroom, Kniffin enjoys "meeting students where they are" by engaging students' experiences in the pursuit of studying evidence-based principles of individual and organizational behavior. Winner of the Innovative Teacher Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) in 2020, Kniffin employs an interdisciplinary approach to both Organizational Behavior (AEM 3245/6245) and Leadership and Management in Sports (AEM 3320/6325). Kniffin has presented "Ten Bottom-Line Lessons from the Big Leagues" as the University's Faculty Homecoming Speaker (2016) and speaks regularly for alumni, governmental, and business organizations.

Selected Publications

• Kniffin, Kevin; Narayanan, Jayanth; Anseel, Frederik; Antonakis, John; Ashford, Susan; Bakker, Arnold; Bamberger, Peter; Bapuji, Hari; Bhave, Devasheesh; Choi, Virginia; Creary, Stephanie; Demerouti, Evangelina; Flynn, Francis; Gelfand, Michele; Greer, Lindred; Johns, Gary; Kesebir, Selin; Klein, Peter; Lee, Sun Young; Ozcelik, Hakan; Petriglieri, Jennifer; Rothbard, Nancy; Rudolph, Cort; Shaw, Jason; Sirola, Nina; Wanberg, Connie; Whillans, Ashley; Wilmot, Michael; van Vugt, Mark. "COVID-19 and the Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action"American Psychologist. 76.1 (2021): 63-77
• Kniffin, Kevin; Hanks, Andrew; Qian, Xuechao; Wang, Bo; Weinberg, Bruce. "Dissertators with Distantly Related Foci Face Divergent Near-Term Outcomes"National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper Series. National Bureau of Economic Research. 27825 (2020)
• Kniffin, Kevin; Detert, James; Leroy, Hannes. "On Leading and Managing: Synonyms or Separate (and Unequal)?"Academy of Management Discoveries. 6 (2020): 544-571
• Kniffin, Kevin; Hanks, Andrew. "The Trade-offs of Teamwork Among STEM Doctoral Graduates"American Psychologist. 73.4 (2018): 420-432
• Kniffin, Kevin; Reeves-Ellington, Richard; Wilson, David. "When Everyone Wins? Exploring Employee and Customer Preferences for No-Haggle Pricing"Frontiers in Psychology. (2018)
• Kniffin, Kevin; Palacio, Dylan. "Trash-Talking and Trolling"Human Nature. 29.3 (2018): 353-369
• Kniffin, Kevin; Scalise Sugiyama, M. "Toward a Natural History of Team Sports"Human Nature. 29.3 (2018): 211-218
• Kniffin, Kevin; Hanks, Andrew. "Antecedents and Near-term Consequences for Interdisciplinary Dissertators"Scientometrics. 111.3 (2017): 1225-1250
• Kniffin, Kevin; Thomas, Howley; Cole, Bardreau. "Putting Muscle into Sports Analytics: Strength, Conditioning, and Ice Hockey Performance"Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 31.12 (2017): 3253–3259
• Kniffin, Kevin; Hanks, A. "Early Career PhD Salaries: The industry premium and interdisciplinary debate"Applied Economics Letters. 21.18 (2014): 1277-1282

Recent Courses

• AEM 5305 - Global Citizenship Seminar
• AEM 3320/AEM 6325 - Leadership and Management in Sports
• AEM 3245/AEM 6245 - Organizational Behavior

Academic Degrees

• PhD Binghamton University (SUNY), 2002
• MA Binghamton University (SUNY), 1998
• BA Lehigh University, 1995

In the News

• February 16, 2021 Leaders valued over managers, regardless of fit
• September 25, 2020 COVID-19’s impact on work, workers, and the workplace of the future
• August 13, 2020 6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees