Research Overview 

I am interested in the intersection of diversity initiatives, gender, and employee decision-making at work. Some of my current work investigates the following questions:

• How do employee lay theories about the gender gap shape their support for diversity initiatives? (conditional accept, Academy of Management Journal)

• What are the signaling effects associated with offering egg freezing coverage to employees, relative to other work-life policies, and do these signals lead to unintended consequences? (Flynn & Leslie, 2022, Journal of Applied Psychology, coverage in the Financial Times)

• If leaders talk about the challenges associated with diversity, as well as the benefits, can they more effectively increase support for diversity than if they talk about the benefits alone? If so, why? (Leslie, Flynn, Foster-Gimbel, & Manchester, 2023, Academy of Management Journal)

• Does motivation (intrinsic vs. extrinsic) shape our ability to accurately anticipate our future feelings and satisfaction about work? What implications does this have for our ability to make good career choices for ourselves? (Flynn, Nurmohamed, Whillans, & Hur, data collection)