Sara Jansen Perry
Ben Williams Professor in Management; Professor of Management

Professional Summary
Sara Jansen Perry is a professor of management in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. She helps oversee the Human Resource Management major and teaches classes related to conflict resolution, negotiation, talent acquisition, and employee relations. In her research, she studies employee stress and well-being, including the role of remote/hybrid work and leadership, and has published articles in numerous top journals, including Journal of Management and Journal of Applied Psychology. She is also a co-author of a book published by Oxford University Press entitled Organized Innovation, as well as several book chapters. Her research productivity has been recognized through several faculty awards at the university and college level. She has been consulted by the New York Times, Washington Post, Fast Company, and other media outlets for her expertise on remote work and employee stress. She also consults with both private and public organizations with regard to best practices in remote and hybrid work and managing the employee experience overall.
Perry is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, where she serves on the Education & Training committee, as well as a regular conference reviewer. She is also active with the Academy of Management, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Southern Management Association, and the Heart of Texas SHRM. After spending several years working as a sales engineer in the high tech industry, she received her PhD and MA in Industrial Organizational Psychology from the University of Houston, complementing her BS from the University of Missouri in Computer Science.
Education
- 2009 - PhD, Industrial Organizational Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX
- 2006 – MA, Industrial Organizational Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX
- 2000 – BS, Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Courses
- MGT 4320 – Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
- MGT 4337 – Staffing and Employee Relations
- MGT 5340 – Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Research Interests
- Employee Stress
- Employee Well-Being
- Remote Work and Hybrid Work
- Leadership
- Negotiation
Selected Publications
- Wan, M., Carlson, D. S., Perry, S. J., Thompson, M. J., Zhang, J., & Kacmar, K. M. (in press). Adapting boundary preferences to match reality of hybrid work: A latent change score analysis. Journal of Vocational Behavior.
- Wan, M., Carlson, D. S., Kacmar, K. M., Perry, S. J., & Thompson, M. J. (in press). Love on the rocks: Unraveling effects of remote employees' work-family conflict on couples' divorce intentions. Applied Psychology: An International Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12527
- David, E. M., Johnson, L. U., & Perry, S. J. (in press). Lean on me: A daily diary study of the effects of receiving help in coworking spaces. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 141, 103841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2023.103841
- Carlson, D. S., Perry, S. J., Kacmar, K. M., Wan, M., & Thompson, M. J. (2024). When work and family collide: ‘Resource Caravans’ of personal and contextual resources in remote work. New Technology, Work, and Employment, 39, 19-38. http://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12274
- Milam, A. C., Rubino, C., Perry, S. J., Alcazar, R., & Johnson, L. U. (2023). Mindset of obligation: Conceptualization and empirical validation of a new measure of initiation and perseverance. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 72, 937-970. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12413
- Perry, S. J., Carlson, D. S., Kacmar, K. M., Wan, M., & Thompson, M. J. (in press). Interruptions in remote work: A resource-based model of work and family stress. Journal of Business and Psychology. (Accepted 8/28/2022)
- Perry, S. J., Lorinkova, N. M., & Madanoglu, M. (2022). Disparate safety enforcement: Curvilinear effects, mechanisms, and boundary conditions of supervisor-rated leader-member exchange. Journal of Management, 48, 2318-2348. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063211044415.
- Lorinkova, N., & Perry, S. J. (2019). The importance of group-focused transformational leadership and felt obligation for individual helping and group performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 40, 231-247. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2322
- Quade, M. J., Perry, S. J., & Hunter, E. M. (2019). Boundary conditions of ethical leadership: Exploring supervisor-induced and job hindrance stress as potential inhibitors. Journal of Business Ethics, 158, 1165-1184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3771-4
- Perry, S. J., Rubino, C., & Hunter, E. M. (2018). Stress in remote work: Two studies testing the Demand-Control-Person model. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 27, 577-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2018.1487402

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