Shereen Fatimah

Education

• The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA 2017 Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration
• University of Western Australia (Undergraduate Student Exchange) 2007
• National University of Singapore 2010 Bachelor of Social Sciences (Psychology), 2 nd Class (Upper) Honours

Current Appointment(s)

• 2017 - Now Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources at Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Research Interests

My program of research focuses on processes surrounding proactive work behaviors. Specifically, drawing upon system justification and approach/avoidance motivational frameworks, I take a multi-level approach to understanding the top-down role of the meso and macro environments in encouraging or stifling the proactivity process, as well as how proactivity reciprocally influences the meso and macro environments through bottom-up processes. Throughout this work, I adopt an interdisciplinary approach and integrate the proactivity literature with (and contribute to) research on social movements and activism.

Selected Awards

• Singapore Management University - Ministry of Education Singapore Research Grant, $30,550 (2019)
• Singapore Management University - Ministry of Education Singapore Research Grant, $34,700 (2018)
• Singapore Management University - Dean’s Teaching Honor List (2017, 2019)
• Singapore Management University - Faculty Start-Up Grant, $10,000 (2017)
• Pennsylvania State University - Grace G. Albrecht Scholarship for Women in Management (2016-2017)
• Pennsylvania State University - Ossian R. MacKenzie Teaching Award Nominee (2016)
• Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, Small Research Grant (2013, 2015-2017)
• Pennsylvania State University - Frank and Mary Jean Smeal Endowment Fund (2013-2014)
• Pennsylvania State University - Management and Organization Excellence Fund (2012-2017)

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

• Ferris, D. L., Fatimah, S., Liang, L. H., Lian, H., & Brown, D. J. 2019. Being sensitive to positives has its negatives: An approach/avoidance perspective on reactivity to ostracism. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 152: 138-149. DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2019.05.001
• Ferris, D. L., Yan, M., Lim, V. K. G., Chen, Y., & Fatimah, S. 2016. An approach-avoidance framework of workplace aggression. Academy of Management Journal, 59: 1777-1800. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2014.0221
• Spitzmuller, M., Sin, H. P., Howe, M., & Fatimah, S. 2015. Investigating the uniqueness and usefulness of proactive personality in organizational research – A meta-analytic review. Human Performance, 28: 351-379. DOI: 10.1080/08959285.2015.1021041