Rebecca Portnoy

Rebecca has been consulting, researching, and teaching in the areas of management and organizational development for more than 15 years. She is a Visiting Professor at both the Haas School of Business at the University of University of California, Berkeley, as well as at the Lokey School of Business & Public Policy at Mills College. She teaches Management and Organizational Development and Organizational Behavior/Leading People in the MBA and Undergraduate programs.

In addition to teaching, she is an organizational consultant to a variety of organizations in the United States. Her consulting is grounded in organizational research and will grow your organization's ability to live its mission and empower your workforce.

Her research has been published in multiple academic journals and highlighted in the Wall Street Journal, the Miami Herald, and the Lewiston Tribune. Rebecca received her Ph.D. in Management at the University of Washington Business School and her B.A. from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.

Expertise and Research Interests * Social support in the workplace * Organizational Culture

EDUCATION * PhD, Organizational Behavior, University of Washington * BS, Cornell University

Selected Papers and Puplications * “A multilevel investigation of motivational cultural intelligence, organizational diversity climate, and cultural sales: Evidence from US real estate firms,”XP Chen, D Liu, R Portnoy – Journal of applied psychology, 2012 * “To whom do positive norm and negative norm of reciprocity apply? Effects of inequitable offer, relationship, and relational-self orientation(opens in a new tab),”YR Chen, XP Chen, R Portnoy – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2009 – Elsevier * Overcoming the self-promotion dilemma: Interpersonal attraction and extra help as a consequence of who sings one’s praises …(opens in a new tab), CT Fong, RB Cialdini, RR Portnoy – Personality and Social …, 2006 – journals.sagepub.com