Ivona Hideg, Wilfrid Laurier University
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R0220 Ross School of Business
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Ivona Hideg is an Associate Professor of OB/HRM in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. She holds a Ph.D. in OB/HRM Management from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and MSc in I/O Psychology from the University of Waterloo.
Ivona’s main program of research includes workplace diversity, equality, and inclusion. In her work she focuses on gender, but also examines issues surrounding culture, ethnicity, language, and socioeconomic background diversity. Her research has been published in top-tier refereed journals such as Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP), and Psychological Science. She received Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation and her work is also funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada (SSHRC), a major federal government funding agency in Canada. She has also been awarded two visiting faculty fellowships, at Católica Lisbon (Portugal) and RMIT University in Australia. She is currently serving on the editorial boards of three leading journals in the field: Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management, and Organizational Psychology Review.
Her research has been featured in media outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Huffington Post, and the Record, among others. Her recent paper on the effect of maternity leaves on women’s career outcomes was recently featured as IdeaWatch by Harvard Business Review. She is also a frequent guest speaker on radio programs, and she recently wrote an influential research-based opinion article in the Globe and Mail (major Canadian newspaper) about maternity leave policies and their impacts on women’s careers and gender equality and has also contributed to Harvard Business Review. In addition, she has influenced policy making as a consultant for the federal government of Canada on parental leave policies and the recruitment of women into the Canadian Armed Forces. Additionally, she served on the Board of Directors of Focus for Ethnic Women, a non-profit organization that helps immigrant women to navigate and integrate into the Canadian workplace. She teaches Human Resource Management and a doctoral seminar on diversity and equality. She also leads the EDGE (Emotion, Diversity, and Gender Equity) lab where she works with a group of talented graduate and undergraduate students. For more details on the lab research projects please see the EDGE lab website: https://sites.google.com/site/ivonahideg/. Ivona is also a proud mom of two young children.