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Kathryn Coll

Assistant Professor of Management

Summary

Prior to joining the Management faculty at the University, Dr. Coll received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Utah, Eccles School of Business. She studies how negative interactions in groups and teams (such as incivility) can hurt group members’ willingness to speak up with ideas, suggestions or concerns. She also studies how groups collectively process information (i.e., how they seek, share, and utilize information) when making decisions or solving problems. She studies how factors such as hierarchy and prosocial motivation can influence this collective information processing in groups. She uses multiple methods to conduct this research including experimental paradigms, survey-based field research, experience sampling and qualitative interviews.

Research interests

  • Organizational groups and teams
  • Voice and silence
  • Group decision making
  • Incivility
  • Intentional information withholding in groups

Research methods

  • In-person teams experiments
  • Online experiments
  • Interviews/ Qualitative

Selected publications

  • Bonner, B. L., Coll, K., Talbot, T., Monnot, R. (2026) 6. I find your lack of faith disturbing: Epistemic differences in problem-solving groups. Research Handbook on Group Decision Making. Bryan L. Bonner & Michael R. Baumann (eds) Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
  • Smith, K., Coll, K. (2026) 13. Intentional information withholding in cooperative groups. Research Handbook on Group Decision Making. Bryan L. Bonner & Michael R. Baumann (eds) Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
  • Bain, K., Coll, K., Kreps, T. A., Tenney, E.R. (2025) “Research: Incivility at work silences everyone, but especially women” Harvard Business Review.
  • Bain, K., Coll, K., Kreps, T. A., Tenney, E.R. (2025) Silenced by incivility. Journal of Business Ethics, 198 (1) 1-19.
  • Coll, K., Bain, K., Bonner, B.L., Talbot, T., Shannahan, D. B., Monnot, R. (2024) When power and expertise collide, how do groups decide? Small Group Research, 1-37.
  • Bonner, B. L., Shannahan, D. B., Bain, K., Coll, K., Meikle, N. (2022). The theory and measurement of expertise-based decision making in organizational teams: Revisiting demonstrability. Organization Science. 33:4, 1452-1469.
  • Coll, K. M., Niles, S.G., Coll, K., Ruch, C.P., Stewart, R.A. (2019).  Academic Deans: Perceptions of effort-reward imbalance, over-commitment, hardiness and burnout.  International Journal of Higher Education, 8(4), 124-135.
  • Coll, K. M., Niles, S. G., Coll, K., Ruch, C. P., Stewart, R. A. (2018). Education deans: Challenges and stress. Journal of Organizational & Educational Leadership, 4(1), 2-16.

Courses taught

  • BUS 704: Leadership
  • MGT 473: Staffing and Development

Education

  • Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, 2022
  • B.A., Psychology, Whitman College, 2015

Ph.D. advising availability

Graduated Ph.D. students

  • Kileigh Smith, Ph.D. (2026), Assistant Professor of Defense Management and Acquisition Sciences, Navel Post Graduate School: kileigh.smith@nps.edu