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Kayla Stajkovic

Lecturer at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, University of California, Davis

Lecturer at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, University of California, Davis My research focuses on gender and leadership, confidence, and goals – areas of inquiry in Organizational Behavior. I have used a multitude of designs and analyses (e.g., laboratory and field experiments, ANOVA, ANCOVA, Structural Equation Modeling, and Meta-Analysis). My research has been reported in 16 publications (9 journal articles, 2 books, 2 online chapters, 3 AoM proceeding). My 2020 article in Journal of Applied Psychology that examined a female leadership advantage by linking women governors with less COVID-19 deaths early in the pandemic received a Responsible Research in Management Finalist Award from the Academy of Management Fellows. In 2024, I was invited to be a Contributing Editor on the board of Journal of Applied Psychology. I have co-authored with leading researchers in the world, including the late Albert Bandura of Stanford and Edwin Locke and Gary Latham, the co-founders of goal-setting theory.