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First Name
Natasha

Last Name
Reed

Email
[email protected]

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Title
Assistant Professor

Office
SCB 3063

Phone
(616) 331-7320

Department
Management

Expertise

• Organizational Behavior
• Social Class & Work
• Identity Threat

Biography

Dr. Natasha D. Reed earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research examines how social identities and organizational contexts shape employee experiences, with a focus on social class and identity threat. Her work has appeared in Current Psychology and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, and she is leading a grant-funded study on identity-threat events and prosocial behavior. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Dr. Reed worked for a major not for profit U.S. health insurer in human resources and talent acquisition for over 12 years. Dr. Reed primarily uses experimental and multi-wave survey designs with statistical modeling to generate insights about employee well-being and organizational outcomes.

Education

• PhD, Organizational Behavior, Georgia Institute of Technology (2025)
• MS, Georgia Institute of Technology (2023)
• MBA, Organizational Behavior, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (2011)
• BS, Human Resources and Business Management, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (2005)

Teaching Areas

• Workforce Diversity
• Organizational Behavior

Publications

• Rice, D. B., Reed, N. D. (2021). Supervisor Emotional Exhaustion and Goal-Focused Leader Behavior: The Roles of Bottom-Line Mentality and Conscientiousness. Current Psychology
• Johnson, T. D., Forrester, J., Reed, N. D. (2025). Practicing Wholeness: How Black Women in Academia Defy Devaluation and Claim Their Worth. Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. An International Journal

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