Professor of Management
Contact Information
Email: krockman@gmu.edu
Phone: (703) 993-4988
Mail Stop: 1ED
Office Location: 9900 Main Street, Suite 252 and Enterprise Hall, Suite 214
Office Hours: By appointment
Personal Websites
Biography
Dr. Rockmann is a Professor of Management at the 麻豆视频 Costello College of Business, where his research involves studying working relationships in organizations, including how relationships are generated, maintained, and dissolve. He is particularly interested in how organizations cultivate relationships given the increasing use of remote work. He teaches and consults in the areas of relational leadership, cultivating high quality relationships, training middle and top-level managers, and negotiation and conflict management. His research has been covered by Harvard Business Review, Time, The New York Times, NPR, Forbes, and the Financial Times. He is the lead author of Negotiation: Moving from Conflict to Agreement (Sage, 2021).
Research Interests
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Relational Systems and Leadership
- Remote and Hybrid Work
- Personal Trauma and Interpersonal Effects
- Identity / Identification
Education
- BS - Business, University of Illinois (1999)
- PhD - Organizational Behavior, University of Illinois (2004)
Research and Awards
Awards
- Costello College of Business Teaching Excellence Award (2025)
- Southern Management Association Best Overall Paper Award. 鈥淟onging for the past: The dual effects of daily nostalgia on employee performance鈥 (with J. Methot & E. Rosado-Solomon)
- Seed Grant Proposal Preparation Award - $10,000 (2022)
- 麻豆视频 School of Business Dean鈥檚 Scholar (2017 鈥 2020; 2020 鈥 2023)
Research
- Bartel, C. & Rockmann, K.W. (2023). The Disease of Indifference: How Relational Systems Provide the Attentional Infrastructure for Organizational Resilience. Strategic Organization, forthcoming.
- George, M., Wittman, S., & Rockmann, K.W. (2021). Transitioning the study of role transitions: Four challenges for management researchers. Academy of Management Annals. 16 (1): 102-133.
- Cooper, D.*, Rockmann, K.W.*, Moteabbed, S., & Thatcher, S.M.B. (2020). Integrator or gremlin? Identity partnerships and team newcomer socialization. Academy of Management Review, 46(1): 128-146. *denotes each author contributed equally.
- Rockmann, K.W. & Northcraft, G.B. (2018). The dilemma portfolio: A strategy to advance the study of social dilemmas in organizations. Academy of Management Annals. 12(2): 494-509
- Rockmann, K.W., & Ballinger, G.B. (2017). Intrinsic Motivation and Organizational Identification Among On- Demand Workers. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102: 1305-1316.
- Burris, E., Rockmann, K.W., & Kimmons, Y. (2017) The Value of Voice (to Managers): Employee Identification and the Content of Voice. Academy of Management Journal, 60: 2099-2125.
- Rockmann, K.W., & Pratt, M.G. (2015). Contagious offsite work and the lonely office: The unintended consequences of distributed work. Academy of Management Discoveries, 1: 150-164.
Teaching Interests
- Organizational behavior
- Negotiations
Courses Taught
- HNRS 260 - Thriving in Organizations: Organizations form the backbone of society and as such employ almost every worker. In this practicum course, students will be visiting several organizations to become thoughtful observers of culture and processes, all with the goal of cultivating success and helping students thrive in their future organizational lives.
Media Clippings
- March 20, 2025 - Rutgers Today
- January 29, 2025 - U.S. News & World Report
- October 25, 2024 - Fast Company
- August 15, 2024 - Fast Company
- June 21, 2024 - Bloomberg
- January 8, 2024 - PolitiFact.com
- November 9, 2023 - Harvard Business Review
- October 4, 2023 - AACSB Insights
- May 26, 2023 - U.S. News & World Report
- June 17, 2022 - BBC
- March 7, 2022 - AACSB
- December 1, 2021 - Financial Times
- April 28, 2021 - Forbes
- April 8, 2021 - Authority Magazine
- February 11, 2021 - The Economic Times
- December 21, 2020 - The New York Times
- August 13, 2020 - TechTarget
- February 2, 2020 - Business Insider
- January 12, 2016 - Here and Now
- January 11, 2016 - The Cheat Sheet
- October 29, 2015 - FCW
How telework breeds loneliness for the office-dwellers left behind - October 5, 2015 - Quartz
- December 21, 2012 - Daily Mail