Faculty

David Baldridge

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Management

David Baldridge

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david.baldridge@oregonstate.edu

Faculty

David Baldridge

Overview

Background

Publications

Overview

Biography

David C. Baldridge is a Toomey Faculty Fellow and Professor of Management. He earned his Ph.D. in Management from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. His MBA in Finance and BGS with concentrations in Economics, English and Philosophy are from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His teaching areas include leadership and negotiation. His research interests include diversity, equity and inclusion--primarily accommodation, inclusion and career success for deaf and hard of hearing persons and people with other disabilities. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Business Communication and other leading management publications. He serves on the editorial boards for Human Relations, International Journal of Human Resource Management and Managerial Psychology.

Career Interests

Teaching areas: organizational behavior, leadership, negotiation

Research areas: organizational behavior; diversity, equity and inclusion

Research interests: workplace inclusion and success of persons with disabilities, disability accommodation, equal access and opportunity, deaf and hard of hearing employees

Background

Education

Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Management, 2001

MBA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Finance, 1988

BA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Economics & Philosophy, 1986.

Experience

Oregon State University, Corvallis OR, 2004-present, Professor of Management
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY, 2001-2004, Assistant Professor of Management
University of Connecticut, Storrs CT, 1997-2001, Ph.D. Student, Instructor and Research Assistant
Project Adventure, Beverly, MA, 1991-2005, Director of Finance and Administration, Senior Certified Trainer and Consultant
HP Hewlett-Packard, San Diego CA, 1988-1991, Financial Analyst
IBM, International Business Machine, 1987, Financial Marketing Intern

Professional Affiliations

Academy of Management (AOM). (1998 - Present).

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). (2014 - Present).

Honors & Awards

Awarded Toomey Faculty Fellow, Oregon State University Foundation (2020)
External Service Award, Oregon State University, College of Business (2020)
Nominated for 2019 GDO Division Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions, Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of Academy of Management (2019)
Saroj Parasuraman Award, Runner-up, Gender and Diversity in Organizations (GDO) division of Academy of Management (AOM) (2019)
Awarded I. King Jordan Distinguished Service Award, Career Award, Association of Late Deafened Adults (ALDA) (2017)
Newcomb Fellow, College of Business, Oregon State University. (2008).
Newcomb Research Award, Oregon State University College of Business. (2007).
Excellence in Research Award, Oregon State University College of Business. (2006).
Newcomb Research Award, Oregon State University College of Business. (2006).
Citations of Excellence "Top Fifty", Emerald Management Reviews. (2005).
Dorothy Harlow Best Paper Award, Academy of Management. (2005).
Runner-up - Best Paper Award - Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division, Academy of Management. (2005).
Nominated for the Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching Award, Rochester Institute of Technology, (2003-2004).
Finalist for the 2003 Academy of Management GDO Division Best Paper Award. Baldridge, D. C. & Veiga, J. F. 2003. Anticipated Consequences and Decisions to Request Accommodation: The Requester’s Perspective.
Inducted into the University of Connecticut Business School Hall of Fame. 2001. First Ph.D. student to receive this honor.
Winner of the Academy of Management Career Division Applied Paper Award. Baldridge, D. C., Eddleston, K. A., Golden, T. D. & Veiga, J. F. 2000. Saying “no” to being uprooted: The impact of family and gender on willingness to relocate.
Nominated for the Eastern Academy of Management Outstanding Conceptual Paper Award. Baldridge, D. C., Eddleston, K. A. & Veiga, J. F. 2000. Reluctance to request assistance: When family-friendly programs miss the mark.
Winner of the 1999-2000 Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award, Management Department, University of Connecticut.
Nominated for the 1998-1999 Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award, Management Department, University of Connecticut.

Publications

Academic Journal

Management

“The role of inclusive leadership in reducing disability accommodation request withholding”

Workplace disability accommodations are intended to help level the playing field and create more accessible, inclusive workplaces. Yet, research shows that people with disabilities often experience insufficient accommodations as a result of both employers’ and employees’ attitudes about accommodations. The current work seeks to shed new light on psychological processes underlying disability accommodation request withholding. To do so, we draw upon a relational framework and use social tuning theory to develop a model examining the relationship between inclusive leadership and accommodation request withholding, as mediated by employees’ perceived disability stigma and moderated by disability severity and relational-interdependent self-construal. We tested our model across two studies with Chinese employees – including a survey study with three waves of data from 290 employees with physical disabilities and an experimental-causal-chain designed vignette study with 526 participants. Our findings indicated that inclusive leadership was associated with employees’ lower perceived disability stigma, and that was related to reduced accommodation request withholding. Furthermore, this relationship was more pronounced in employees with higher disability severity and relational-interdependent self-construal. Our research provides novel insights for disability diversity management, particularly around the role of inclusive leadership in fostering enabling workplace environments.

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“Must-Have Workplace Tech for Hearing Loss”

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“How workplaces can create more inclusive environments for employees with deafness and hearing loss.”

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“Disability Severity, Professional Isolation Perceptions, and Career Outcomes: When Does Leader-Member Exchange Quality Matter?”

Employees with disability-related communication impairment often experience isolation from professional connections which can negatively affect their careers. Management research suggests that having lower quality leader relationships can be an obstacle to the development of professional connections for employees with disabilities. However, in this paper we suggest that lower quality LMX relationships may not be a uniform hurdle for the professional isolation of employees with disability-related communication impairment. Drawing on psychological disengagement theory, we predict that employees with more severe, rather than less severe, communication impairment develop resilience to challenges in lower quality LMX relationships by psychologically disengaging from professional connections and, in turn, bear fewer negative consequences of professional isolation on career outcomes. In two studies of deaf and hard of hearing employees, we find that in lower quality LMX relationships employees with more severe communication impairment perceive being less isolated than employees with less severe communication impairment, and, in turn, report better career outcomes. Overall, our findings suggest that employees with more severe communication impairment may be more effective in managing challenges to their perceived professional isolation and career outcomes when in lower quality LMX relationships.

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“Conceptualizing disability accommodation device acceptance by workgroups through a sociomaterial lens”

Purpose. Persons with disabilities (PWD) are among the largest and most diverse minority groups and among the most disadvantaged in terms of employment. Entrepreneurial pursuit is often advocated as a path toward employment, inclusion, and equality, yet few studies have investigated earning variation among PWD.

Design/methodology/approach. The authors draw on social cognitive career theory (SCCT), and the disability employment and entrepreneurship literature to develop hypotheses about who among PWD are likely to earn more (less) from entrepreneurial pursuits. The authors then conduct analyses on the nationally representative sample of the Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD) by including all PWD engaged in entrepreneurial pursuit, and matching each to an organizationally employed counterpart of the same gender and race and of similar age and disability severity (n ≈ 810).

Findings. Entrepreneurial pursuit has a stronger negative association with the earnings of PWD who experience earlier disability onset ages, those who report more unmet accommodation needs, and those who are female.

Originality/value. First, this study applies SCCT to help bridge the literature on organizational employment barriers for PWD and entrepreneurs with disabilities. Second, we call into question the logic of neoliberalism about entrepreneurship by showing that barriers to organizational employment impact entrepreneurial pursuit decisions and thereby earnings. Third, we extend the understanding of entrepreneurial earnings among PWD by examining understudied disability attributes and demographic attributes. Lastly, this study is among the first to use a matched sample to empirically test the impact of entrepreneurial pursuit on the earnings of PWD.

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“Earnings of Persons with Disabilities: Who Earns More (Less) from Entrepreneurial Pursuit?”

Earnings of Persons with Disabilities:
Who Earns More (Less) from Entrepreneurial Pursuit?
Abstract. Persons with disabilities (PWD) are among the largest and most diverse minority groups and among the most disadvantaged in terms of employment. Entrepreneurial pursuit is often advocated as a path toward employment, inclusion, and equality, yet few studies have investigated earning variation among PWD.
Methodology. We draw on social cognitive career theory (SCCT) and disability employment and entrepreneurship literatures to develop hypotheses about who among PWD are likely to earn more (less) from entrepreneurial pursuits. We then conduct analyses on the nationally representative sample of Canadian Survey on Disability including all PWD engaged in entrepreneurial pursuit and match each to an organizationally employed counterpart of the same gender and race, and of similar age and disability severity (n ≈ 810).
Findings. Entrepreneurial pursuit has a stronger negative association with earnings of PWD who experience earlier disability onset ages, who report more unmet accommodation needs, and who are female.
Originality. First, this study applies SCCT to help bridge literatures on organizational employment barriers for PWD and entrepreneurs with disabilities. Second, we call into question the logic of neoliberalism about entrepreneurship by showing that barriers to organizational employment impact entrepreneurial pursuit decisions and thereby earnings. Third, we extend understanding of entrepreneurial earnings among PWD by examining understudied disability and demographic attributes. Lastly, this study is among the first to use a matched sample to empirically test the impact of entrepreneurial pursuit on the earnings of PWD.
Keywords. disabilities, social cognitive career theory (SCCT), entrepreneurial pursuit, onset age, accommodation, disability origin

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“How do people continue successful careers after hearing loss?”

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“Chapter 12: Breaking Barriers by Patterning Employment Success”

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), one of nine colleges at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT, United States), is the first and largest technological college in the world for students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) with cutting edge programs aimed at increasing the employability of DHH persons, and at enhancing readiness of employers to utilize this talent. In 1968, with a pilot group of 70 deaf students at RIT, NTID’s ‘grand experiment’ was the first attempt within the United States to bring large numbers of deaf students into a hearing college environment, to help them earn college degrees, gain successful employment, and become productive community members (Lang and Connor, 2001). As of 2017, NTID boasts an alumni body of more than 8,000 and an active enrollment of 1,413 students across NTID’s and RIT’s Associate, Bachelors, and Graduate programs (integrated with RIT). NTID students have a higher persistence and graduation rate as compared with the national rates for all students, hearing and otherwise, at two-year and four-year colleges (NTID Annual Report, 2015). NTID boasts an employment rate of 94 per cent among its graduates and Associate degree graduates earn 95 per cent more than DHH graduates from other post-secondary institutions, while Bachelor's degree graduates earn 178 per cent more when compared similarly (NTID by the Numbers, 2017). Overall, NTID has become an international model for educating and preparing DHH students for technology-related careers.

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“Fostering sustainable careers across the lifespan: The role of disability, idiosyncratic deals and perceived work ability”

While scholars and practitioners are increasingly aware of the positive effect of idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) on employee attitudes, little is known about how i-deals might affect work and career outcomes for employees with disabilities, a marginalized and understudied group. The present study builds on Conservation of Resources (COR) theory to explain how i-deals might influence perceived work ability for employees with disabilities, and in turn, their turnover intentions. Furthermore, this study is the first to compare the experiences of employees with physical, psychological and no disabilities regarding these relationships. Our hypotheses are tested using field data from 19,770 employees working for a German federal agency. In brief, the negative direct effect of i-deals on turnover intentions is found to be stronger for employees with physical disabilities than for those without disabilities. Further, the results indicate a significant negative indirect effect of i-deals on turnover intentions through perceived work ability for all employee groups. As expected, we find that this indirect effect increases in magnitude when going from the condition having a physical disability or no disability to the condition having a psychological disability. Implications for research, theory and practice are discussed.

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“Disability, Gender and Race: Does Educational Attainment Reduce Earning Disparity for All or Just Some?”

While interest in research on persons with disabilities has grown steadily, these individuals continue to encounter workplace discrimination and remain marginalized and understudied. We draw on human capital and discrimination theories to propose and test hypotheses on the effects of educational attainment on earnings (in)equality for persons with disabilities and the moderating influence of gender and race using 885,950 records, including 40,438 persons with disabilities from the American Community Survey 2015. Consistent with human capital theory, we find that persons with disabilities benefit from greater educational attainment, yet consistent with disability discrimination theories, we find evidence that they are less likely to convert educational gains for master’s and higher degrees into earning gains, and consistent with theories on multiple sources of discrimination, we find that women with disabilities may be doubly disadvantaged. These results, however, are mixed and complex. Considering the importance of harnessing diverse talent in organizations, we outline implications for research and practice toward reducing workplace discrimination.

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“On the treatment of people with disabilities in organizations: A review and research agenda”

Human resource practitioners have a crucial role in promoting equitable treatment of persons with disabilities, and practitioner’s decisions should be guided by solid evidence-based research. We offer a systematic review of the empirical research on the treatment of persons with disabilities in organizations, using Stone and Colella’s (1996) seminal theoretical model of the factors influencing the treatment of persons with disabilities in work organizations, to ask: What does the available research reveal about workplace treatment of persons with disabilities, and what remains understudied? Our review of 88 empirical studies from management, rehabilitation, psychology, and sociology research highlights seven gaps and limitations in extant research: (1) implicit definitions of workplace treatment, (2) neglect of national context variation, (3) missing differentiation between disability populations, (4) over-reliance on available data sets, (5) predominance of single-source, cross-sectional data (6) neglect of individual differences and identities in the presence of disability, and (7) lack of specificity on underlying stigma processes. To support the development of more inclusive workplaces, we recommend increased research collaborations between human resource researchers and practitioners on the study of specific disabilities and contexts, and efforts to define and expand notions of treatment to capture more nuanced outcomes.

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“Workplace Experiences of Persons with Disabilities”

Human Relations virtual special issue introduction: Workplace
experiences of persons with disabilities
Human Relations virtual special issues bring together and highlight related research on a
particular topic. Each collection is compiled and introduced by one of the journal’s editors;
here we have Catherine E Connelly alongside David Baldridge, Human Relations
Editorial Board member and author on this topic.
Readers can access our virtual special issue on Workplace experiences of persons
with disabilities here: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/hum/collections/virtual-special-issues/persons-with-disabilities

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