Dr. Catherine Connelly

Biography

Dr. Catherine Connelly is a Professor and Business Research Chair in Organizational Behaviour, in the Human Resources and Management department of the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. She is the Director of the McMaster Centre for Research on Employment and Work (MCREW) and the Director of the McMaster Organizational Behaviour Laboratory (MOBL). She held a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Organizational Behavior from 2013 to 2024. Her research focuses on the attitudes, behaviors, and experiences of workers with non-traditional employment contracts (e.g., temporary agency workers, independent contractors, temporary foreign workers, part-time workers, gig workers), middle managers, workers with disabilities, and workers who engage in or experience knowledge hiding in their organizations. She is a former associate editor for Human Relations and currently serves on that editorial board as well as that of the Academy of Management Discoveries journal, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review, European Management Journal, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. She is the author of over fifty journal articles and book chapters, as well as Enduring Work: Experiences with Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. In addition to her research success, Catherine is a past winner and frequent teaching award nominee for her teaching in the MBA and PhD programs. She has made presentations about her research to industry and academic groups across Canada and the US, and in Australia, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Germany, Spain, Poland, and Portugal. Her research has been featured in the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post, and on CTV and CBC radio and TV.