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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

Dr. Richardson is Associate Dean, Graduate Programs and a Professor of Management. She joined the Lubin School of Business in 2009 and teaches a variety of courses in management and business at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including the Doctoral Seminar in Organizational Behavior, Research Methods in Management, Managerial Negotiations, Negotiations & Bargaining, Training & Development and Recruitment & Staffing. Dr. Richardson’s research focuses on how individuals cope with change and the related stress that may result from major life and career transitions. She has published in Information & Organization, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Loss & Trauma: International Perspectives on Coping, and Academy of Management Proceedings, in addition to other journals.

Dr. Richardson’s has published two meta-analyses on stress management interventions (2025 and 2009), one of which earned the Best Paper Award for the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Dr. Richardson was asked to contribute to the special issue of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology at 20 celebrating 20 years of the journal. Her article “Managing Employee Stress and Wellness in the New Millennium” was published in 2017.

Dr. Richardson is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Occupational Psychology. She has served as a journal reviewer for the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Group & Organization Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Family Issues, and the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.

SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS & PUBLICATIONS

Dannheim, I., Ludwig-Walz, H., Kirsch, H., Bujard, M., Richardson, K., Buyken, A., Kroke, A. (2025). Effectiveness of leadership-specific stress management interventions: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health.

Karickal, R., Richardson, K. (2023). Exploring the relationship between servant leadership and volunteer attitudes within a U.S. Catholic Diocese. International Journal of Public Leadership. 19(2), 173-186.

Richardson, K. (2017). Managing Employee Stress and Wellness in the New Millennium. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 22(3), 423-428.

Richardson, K. (2016). The Surviving Sisters Club: Examining social support and posttraumatic growth among FDNY 9/11 widows. Journal of Loss and Trauma. 21(1), 1-15.

O'Connor, A., Richardson, K. (2015). An Empirical Study of the Relationship between Industry Automation and Organizational Adaptation to Emerging Social Values. Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business. 81-17.

Richardson, K. (2015). Meaning reconstruction in the face of terror: An examination of recovery and posttraumatic growth among victims of the 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks. Journal of Emergency Management. 13(3), 239-246.