Rachael Goodwin

Rachael Dailey Goodwin is an Assistant Professor of Management at Syracuse University in the Whitman School of Management. She pursued a PhD in Management at the University of Utah and a research fellowship with the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard. Rachael was also a visiting adjunct professor in the Romney Institute of Public Management at Brigham Young University prior to obtaining a PhD. She investigates obstacles working women encounter in their leadership pursuits including power to lead in majority male domains, perfectionism, and gendered construal stereotypes (e.g., linguistic differences in describing men and women at work). She also explores unethical behaviors (e.g., sexual harassment) that create obstacles for women. Rachael’s work utilizes diverse methodologies including survey-based field research, experiments, qualitative interviews, and experience sampling. Her research has been published in top management publications and she has received awards for her research and teaching.

I investigate workplace issues related to expected power, managerial social cognition (i.e., construal), morality, and gender. My research also explores attitudes towards perpetrators and victims, whistleblowing, and unethical behaviors (e.g., sexual harassment) that create obstacles for women at work.