Stephanie M. L. Kunst

Professional Summary

Stephanie (Lee) Kunst is an assistant professor of management in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. She received her PhD from Michigan State University in Business Administration - Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Her research primarily focuses on leader and follower behaviors in group or team contexts. In particular, she examines how behaviors lend individuals influence and leadership status and how leaders are effective in influencing follower behaviors and attitudes. She also studies the impact of employee voice behavior, others’ reactions to voice, and how voice is used to facilitate positive outcomes for the group and the individual.

Kunst’s research has been published in top tier Management journals, including the Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Applied Psychology. Additionally, her research has been presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research.

Education

• PhD, Business Administration – Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI
• BA, Psychology, California State University – Fullerton, Fullerton, CA

Courses

• MGT 3305 – Leadership & Organizational Behavior

Research Interests

• Leadership emergence & effectiveness
• Voice behavior
• Employee attitudes

Selected Publications

• Matta, F. K., Frank, E. L., Farh, C. I., & Lee, S. M. (2024). Do intelligent leaders differentiate exchange relationships intelligently? A functional leadership approach to leader-member exchange differentiation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109(4), 490-512.
• Farh, C. I., Oh, J. K., Hollenbeck, J. R., Yu, A., Lee, S. M., & King, D. D. (2020). Token female voice enactment in traditionally male-dominated teams: Facilitating conditions and consequences for performance. Academy of Management Journal, 63(3), 832-856.
• Porck, J. P., Matta, F. K., Hollenbeck, J. R., Oh, J. K., Lanaj, K., & Lee, S. M. (2019). Social identification in multiteam systems: The role of depletion and task complexity. Academy of Management Journal, 62(4), 1137-1162.
• Lee, S. M., & Farh, C. I. (2019). Dynamic leadership emergence: Differential impact of members’ and peers’ contributions in the idea generation and idea enactment phases of innovation project teams. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(3), 411-432.
• Lanaj, K., Johnson, R. E., & Lee, S. M. (2016). Benefits of transformational behaviors for leaders: A daily investigation of leader behaviors and need fulfillment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(2), 237-251.
• Lee, S. M., Koopman, J., Hollenbeck, J. R., Wang, L. C., & Lanaj, K. (2015). The team descriptive index (TDI): A multidimensional scaling approach for team description. Academy of Management Discoveries, 1(1), 91-116.