KEITH N. LEAVITT, Ph.C.

 

Curriculum Vitae

Office: Box 353200 Mackenzie Hall

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98195

Phone: (206) 543-0890

Cell: (206) 245-5798

keithL2@u.washington.edu

 

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Management

    University of Washington, Seattle, WA

     Doctor of Philosophy Candidate in Business Administration

     Concentration: Organizational Behavior/ Organizational Theory

     Minors: Research Methods and Sociology (Institutional Analysis)

     General exam completed Spring 2007.

     Degree Expected:  Spring 2009.

 

Master of Science in Business Administration (M.S.B.)

     University of Washington, Seattle, WA 

    

     Major: Organizational Behavior, Summa Cum Laude, Spring 2008.

 

Master of Science (M.S.)

     Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

     Major: Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Summa Cum Laude, December 2001.

Bachelor of Arts

     Western State College of Colorado, Gunnison, CO

      Major: Psychology, cum laude, May 1999.

 

MASTER’S THESIS

 

Reducing the performance-cue bias in work behavior ratings: Can groups help?”

 

DISSERTATION

 

“Revisiting Job Satisfaction: Implicit Satisfaction and its impact on components of contextual performance.”

 

PUBLICATIONS

Martell, R.F. and Leavitt, K.N. (2002). Reducing the performance-cue bias in work behavior ratings: Can groups help? Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 1032-1041.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW 

 

Reynolds, S., Leavitt, K., and Decelles, K. (2008). Automatic Ethics: The Effects of Implicit Assumptions and Contextual Cues on Moral Behavior.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Leavitt, Keith. Invited symposium presenter:

The Presence of Something or the Absence of Nothing:

Sharpening the Questions We Ask in Management Research (symposium; Jeffrey Edwards, organizer).

Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2008. All-Academy Symposium.

 

Leavitt, Keith. Invited symposium presenter:

Pushing the Boundaries: New Questions and Answers in Behavioral Ethics Research (symposium;  Linda Trevino, organizer).

Academy of Management Annual Meeting,  2008. Sponsored by SIM, OB, MOC divisions—Showcase Symposium.

 

Leavitt, Keith (organizer). Automatic Social Cognition: A Symposium. Presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2007. Sponsored by RM, OB and MOC divisions.  

Leavitt, K.N. (1999). Moos’ Classroom environment scale: An ineffective predictor of attitudinal and performance outcomes? Paper presented at 1999 Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Fort Collins, CO.

MANUSCRIPTS BEING PREPARED FOR SUBMISSION

Leavitt, Keith;  Fong, Christina; & Greenwald, Tony (in progress; data analysis completed and manuscript under preparation for submission). Implicit job attitudes as predictors of task and contextual performance. (Dissertation project. Proposal defended Spring, 2007).

Leavitt, Keith; Mitchell, Terence; & Peterson, Jeff (in progress; manuscript to be submitted for publication late summer 2008). Theory pruning: Strategies for reducing our dense theoretical landscape.

Leavitt, Keith and Bigley, Gregory. (in progress; data collection to be completed summer 2008). A model of implicit-explicit attitude dissociation.

Bigley, Gregory and Leavitt, Keith. (in progress; theory paper under development). Habitual, automatic and implicit processes as barriers to organizational change.

Hekman, David; Mitchell, Terence,; Owens, Bradly; Aquino, Karl; Schilpzand, Pauline and Leavitt, Keith (in progress; manuscript to be submitted summer 2008).  Blaming the organization when quality is low: evidence for a new manifestation of race and gender bias.

Johnson, Michael; Owens, Bradly; and Leavitt, Keith.  (in progress; data collection to be completed fall 2008). Group composition and performance: Implicit and explicit group faultlines.

Leavitt, Keith (in progress). Implicit assumptions as drivers of individual behavior.

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

-Graduate teaching excellence award (two awarded per year from UW Business school), University of Washington Business School, winter 2007.

 

-Nominated for Instructor of the quarter, UW Business School, Spring 2007.

 

-Nominated for University-wide alumni teaching award, University of Washington, 2007.

 

- Dean’s award for academic excellence (highest GPA and comprehensive exam scores in cohort), UW Business School, winter 2006.

- President’s top scholar award, University of Washington, 2003-2004.

- President’s research award, Montana State University, 1999-2000.

- Inducted into Psi Chi (National Honors Society in Psychology), Spring 1998.

- President’s Academic Scholarship, Western State College of Colorado, 1998-1999.

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD

 

Full-time instructor of Psychology, Western State College of Colorado, Gunnison, CO. Summer quarter 2002-summer quarter 2003 (inclusive).

    -Average teaching evaluations above 4.0 (out of 5.0).

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE/ COURSES PREPARED

 

Management 300- Managing for Organizational Effectiveness. University of Washington.

   -Average Teaching evaluations above 4.5.

Winter 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Winter 2006, Summer 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008.

Management 390-Honors Leadership Seminar.                         University of Washington.

Psychology 497- Special Topic: The Psychology of Prejudice. Western State College of Colorado. Summer 2003.

Psychology 397- Special Topic: Group Cognition and Decision Making. Western State College of Colorado, Spring 2003.

Psychology 301- Behavioral Research Methods and Statistics II. Western State College of Colorado. Fall 2002, Spring 2003.

Psychology 200- Behavioral Research Methods and Statistics I. Western State College of Colorado. Summer 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003.

Psychology 150- Introduction to Psychology. Western State College of Colorado. Fall 2002 (2 sections), Spring 2003 (2 sections).

Psychology 367- Learning and Behaviorism. Montana State University. Summer 2001.

Psychology 100- Introduction to Psychology (recitation sections). Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001 (4 sections each quarter).

Psychology 345- Biopsychology Lab (volunteer lab assistant position). Western State College of Colorado. Spring 1999.

 

SERVICE

Lead Grant Writer, Trips for Kids Seattle. Lead grantwriter for non-profit organization that takes inner-city kids mountain biking, to teach lessons in self-empowerment, environmental stewardship, and self-sufficiency through the "simple act of having fun". www.tripsforkids.org. Won over $10,000 in grant money for nonprofit organization. Fall 2005-present.

Reviewer, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2008. Reviewed for three divisions.

 

REFERENCES

 

Gregory A. Bigley (Chair of dissertation committee)

Associate Professor of Management

University of Washington

Mackenzie Hall, Box 353200

Phone: (206) 685-7686

Fax: (206) 685-9392

Email: gbigley@u.washington.edu

Tomas Lee (Methods Advisor for dissertation committee)

Professor of Management and Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs

University of Washington

Mackenzie Hall, Box 353200

Phone: (206) 543-4389

Fax: (206) 685-9392

Email: orcas@u.washington.edu

 

UPDATED* 06/02/2008