Jessica Methot

Associate Professor at Rutgers Business School

Schools

  • Rutgers Business School
  • Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

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Biography

Rutgers Business School

Jessica R. Methot, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University and a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Management at University of Exeter Business School, UK. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Florida Warrington College of Business.

Dr. Methot conducts research at the intersection of interpersonal workplace relationships and social network dynamics, including how formal HR practices transform informal social networks, the functional and dysfunctional consequences of workplace relationships, and their temporal and multidimensional features. Her research in these areas has been published in leading academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Human Resource Management Review and has been featured in popular media outlets such as Harvard Business Review, NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNN Money, USA Today, Fast Company, and NY Times Magazine. Dr. Methot is an active member of the Academy of Management, where she serves on the executive committee of the Organizational Behavior Division; she serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology; and is a faculty board member for the Center for Women and Work (CWW). She frequently presents to and consults for audiences at a variety of corporations and professional organizations on topics ranging from managing personal and organizational networks to the digital HRM transformation.

Executive MBA Experience

Leveraging Organizational Networks

While managing human capital is a critical competency for leaders, it is no longer effective to simply manage individual employees. Leaders operating in dynamic and boundaryless environments must manage webs of connected assets in order to find, utilize, and coordinate employees’ knowledge, skills, and expertise. This “networked” approach has implications for the way individuals share knowledge, generate ideas, and collaborate. In this session, we will focus on an array of topics related to how leaders can best leverage organizational network analysis (ONA) tools to achieve strategic outcomes. Topics will include (1) identifying critical relationships that should exist to ease workflow and support strategic objectives, (2) pinpointing central players and key opinion leaders to alleviate collaborative overload and effectively distribute resources, (3) coordinating employee expertise and bridging silos, and (4) building agile and resilient organizational networks.

Expertise

  • Intra-organizational social networks
  • Positive workplace relationships
  • Team processes
  • Work and non-work interface

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Florida - Warrington College of Business (2005 — 2010)

Companies

  • Professor, Executive MBA Rutgers Business School (2019)
  • Distinguished Research Professor of Management University of Exeter (2018)
  • Associate Professor Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) (2017)
  • Instructor, Center for HR and Leadership Development Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (2014)
  • Assistant Professor Rutgers University (2010 — 2017)
  • Instructor, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management University of Florida (2007 — 2010)

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