Seattle University Magazine - Fall 2012

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examine workplace phenomena from different vantage points.

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n Gregory Prussia and Holly Slay Ferraro

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Assistant Professor of Management

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HOLLY SLAY FERRARO, PHD

Professor of Management

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tional change, leadership and coping with job loss. To Ferraro, academic excellence means teaching and scholarship that provides innovative critical thinking methods to human resources professionals and business owners. As a scholar, it’s her mission to offer a new lens to think more inclusively in the workplace and empower students with new approaches to understanding the workforce. Ferraro’s research often wrestles with issues of professional identity as well as the influence of social identity—race and gender, for example—and their sway over career outcomes. She recently wrote an article for the respected journal, Human Relations, that examines how stigmatized cultural identities impact professional identities.

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Two Seattle University scholars are stars in the field of business management but they approach research from different vantage points. Gregory Prussia is an ace numbers cruncher who quantitatively pursues questions of leadership, organizational safety and more. Holly Slay Ferraro, an ever-curious qualitative researcher, prefers to collect stories—especially those related to race, gender, aging and organizations. Ferraro’s style is conceptual and interpretive; Prussia’s analytical. For Prussia, academic excellence involves the pursuit of knowledge or growth, almost always in collaboration with others who rely on his statistical techniques and expertise as a quantitative analyst. Prussia contributes his valuable analysis to any number of publications on topics such as organiza-


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