Faculty Profile

Dr. Vijaya Venkataramani
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Purdue University

4544 Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-405-9631
E-mail: vvenkata@rhsmith.umd.edu

 Vijaya Venkataramani

Vijaya Venkataramani is an Assistant Professor of Management & Organization at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Venkataramani’s primary research focuses on how employees form social networks in their organizations and how these networks exert social influence on employee attitudes and behaviors. As a specific area of interest, her recent research aims at understanding how such social influences can introduce biases in employees’ cognitive processes in making evaluations about the organization. She is also interested in studying how significant adverse events in organizations affect employees’ emotional and psychological welfare and eventually their adaptability to organizational realities.

Venkataramani received her PhD in organizational behavior and human resources from Purdue University. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked in India as a human resources manager.

Primary Research Areas

  • Social Influence
  • Social Networks
  • Organizational Fairness
  • Learning from errors/Adverse events in organizations
  • Organizational citizenship behaviors and counterproductive work behaviors
  • Leadership

Selected Publications

Venkataramani, V., Green, S.G., & Schleicher, D.J. (Forthcoming). Well-Connected Leaders. The impact of the leader’s social network ties on LMX and Member Attitudes. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Venkataramani, V., & Tangirala, S. (Forthcoming). When and why do central employees speak up? An examination of mediating and moderating Variables. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Venkataramani, V. & Dalal, R.S. (2007). Who Helps and Harms Whom? Relational antecedents of interpersonal helping and harming in organizations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 952-966.

Schleicher, D.J., & Venkataramani, V. (2007). Rating errors and perceptual biases. In S. Rogelberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 2, pp. 660-663. Sage Publications.

Schleicher, D.J., Venkataramani, V., Morgeson, F., & Campion, M.A. (2006). So you didn’t get the job: Now what do you think? Examining opportunity-to-perform fairness perceptions. Personnel Psychology, 59, 559-590.