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Dr. Catherine Connelly

Professor / Business Research Chair / Director, McMaster Centre for Research on Employment and Work (MCREW)

Department / Academic Area

Faculty, Human Resources And Management

Email

connell@mcmaster.ca

Phone

DSB: 23954
RJC: 20515

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.

Videos

Articles

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September 26, 2025 · ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT | ALA MOKHTAR | ALFRED LIU | ASHISH PUJARI | BENSON HONIG | BERK GORGULU | CANSU EKMEKCIOGLU | CATHERINE CONNELLY | CHRISTINE LESAGE | FINANCE AND BUSINESS ECONOMICS | HUMAN RESOURCES AND MANAGEMENT | INFORMATION SYSTEMS | KHALED HASSANEIN | LINGLING SHI | MANISH VERMA | MARKETING | MILENA HEAD | OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT | RUHAI WU | SEAN O'BRADY | SHANE SAUNDERSON | SUDIPTO SARKAR | TRISH RUEBOTTOM | YAIR BERSON | YOONTAE JEON | YUN ZHOU

Celebrating DeGroote grant success in 2025

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June 25, 2025 · CATHERINE CONNELLY | EMPLOYMENT | MEENA ANDIAPPAN | WORK

Breaking down academic silos

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April 10, 2025 · CATHERINE CONNELLY | EMPLOYMENT | SOCIETAL IMPACT

New McMaster research centre tackles the future of work

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February 25, 2025 · CATHERINE CONNELLY | EMPLOYMENT | TARIFFS

Tariffs and Canadian jobs: Q&A with expert Catherine Connelly

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January 22, 2025 · CATHERINE CONNELLY | IN THE NEWS

In the news: $4.1 million fines for violations of Canada’s temporary foreign worker program are a ‘drop in the bucket’

Links

McMaster Centre for Research on Employment and Work  
McMaster Organizational Behaviour Lab  

Publications

Journals

Predicting Wage Theft In Organizations

Catherine Connelly

Journal     2025

Human Resource Management Review

Can Global Talent Management Be Good For Society?

Catherine Connelly    Helen De cieri    Marion Festing    Eun su Lee    Betina Szkudlarek

Journal     2025

Organizational Dynamics

Quiet Workaholics? The Link Between Workaholism And Employee Silence And Moral Voice As Explained By The Social?cognitive Theory Of Morality

Michael Knoll    Roberta Fida    Ivan Marzocchi    Rosalind h Searle    Catherine Connelly    Matteo Ronchetti

Journal     2025

Journal Of Organizational Behavior

Ride-hail Drivers, Taxi Drivers And Multiple Jobholders: Who Takes The Most Risks And Why?

Alexandra d Lefcoe    Catherine Connelly    Ian r Gellatly

Journal     2024

Work Employment And Society

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Other

Theoretical And Practical Advances Toward Workplace Inclusion Of Persons With Disabilities

David Baldridge    Joy e Beatty    Mukta Kulkarni    John Lynch    Nicola Glumann    Magdalena Schertler    Mahshid Khademi    Silvia Bonaccio    Catherine Connelly    Matthew Mclarnon    Ian r Gellatly    David jg Dwertmann    Kristie lynne Mcalpine    Christine Nittrouer    Jared shaw Allen    Emily Neubert    Joanna Szulc    Sophie Hennekam    Eline Jammaers    Frederike Scholz    Michal t Tomczak

Conference    2024

Academy Of Management Proceedings

Broadening The Focus: Toward A Contextualized Understanding Of Employee Voice And Silence

Michael Knoll    Jennifer Ho    Roberta Fida    Anindo Bhattacharjee    Rh Searle    Elizabeth wolfe Morrison    Catherine Connelly    Lotta Dellve    Ivan Marzocchi    Matteo Ronchetti    Wim Vandekerckhove    Lewis Garippa

Conference    2024

Academy Of Management Proceedings

Taken By Surprise: Exploring The Impact Of Misaligned Expectations

Sangah Bae    Yanhong Li    Vanessa Bohns    Laurent Lapierre    Jane O'reilly    Claire Sandman malcomb    Emily Zitek    Jennifer Ho    Catherine Connelly

Conference    2023

Academy Of Management Proceedings

Advancing Research On Workplace Experiences Of Persons With A Disability

Mukta Kulkarni    David Baldridge    Brent john Lyons    Alecia marie Santuzzi    Ive d Klinksiek    Eline Jammaers    Laurent Taskin    Joy e Beatty    Catherine Connelly    Silvia Bonaccio    Ian r Gellatly    Sarah-kay Walker    Jennifer Ho    Jordan Nielsen    Seonyoung Ji    John Lynch    Julia Stevenson-street    Christine Nittrouer    Claudia Cogliser

Conference    2023

Academy Of Management Proceedings

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