Nancy Lam  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Education:

• Ph.D. Organizational Behavior, New York University, Stern School of Business, 2009
• Master Philosophy in Management , New York University , 2006
• B.A. University of California, Berkeley

Teaching Experience:

• Assistant Professor - Saint Mary's College of California (2010 - Present)
• Assistant Professor - Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont Graduate School (2009 - 2010)

Awards:

• Pitching, Testing and Fishing: Managerial Voice Propagation Across Hierarchies. - Best Paper (Management track), the 3rd Annual American Business Research Conference (2011)
• The lens and language of power: Sensemaking and communication in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - Outstanding Empirical Paper Award, Eastern Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2008)
  (with F. Milliken, J. Magee, and D. Menezes)

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• Stopping the flow of novel employee communication: Managerial voice propagation and time pressure. Lam, Nancy (paper)
  Academy of Management, San Antonio, TX
  (2011)
• Pitching, Testing and Fishing: Managerial Voice Propagation Across Hierarchies. Lam, Nancy (paper)
  3rd Annual American Business Research Conference, New York, NY
  (2011)
• Passing the baton: Examining the facilitating and inhibiting factors of managerial voice as propagation of employee improvement-oriented voice. Lam, Nancy (paper)
  Academy of Management, Chicago, IL
  (2009)
• Asking about speaking up: Exploring the complex and dynamic process of employee voice and silence (Showcase symposium). Lam, Nancy (panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
  Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA
  (2008)
• Propagating the Initiative: Supervisor as Voice Conduit and the Upward Pitching of Ideas.. Lam, Nancy (paper)
  European Group for Organizational Studies conference
  (2007)
• Lam, Nancy (paper)
  Academy of Management Conference

Presentation

• Typology of employee improvement-oriented voice: Exploring what employees suggest to understand how managers pass on employee voice. Lam, Nancy (other-peer-reviewed paper )
  Global Conference on Business and Finance
  (January 2012)

Publications:

• Lam, Nancy, Milliken, F, Magee, J and Menezes, D. June 2012. The lens and language of roles: Role-based differences in attention, construal, and communication in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Organization Science
• Milliken, Frances and Lam, Nancy. 2009. Making the decision to speak up or not: Implications for Organizational Learning, Voice and Silence in Organizations, eds. and Greenberg, J and Edwards, M and Brinsfeld, C, Sage