CONTACT

EMAIL: bblair@weber.edu

OFFICE: WB

ABOUT

Ariel Blair joined the faculty at Weber State’s Goddard School of Business and Economics as an Assistant Professor in 2023. Ariel earned a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Claremont Graduate University, an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and a B.A. from Brown University. 

Prior to returning to graduate school, Ariel spent more than 25 years working with corporate and not-for-profit organizations. Her career included leadership roles in the printer businesses at Hewlett-Packard in the United States and in Europe. She has worked in a wide range of industries including banking, health care, paper manufacturing and technology development. 

Ariel’s research interests include organizational change with a particular focus on effectively engaging a global workforce. Her current research focuses on cross-cultural influences on employee voice, the impact of gender and race on leadership, and the colonization of leadership and followership theory.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Organizational Behavior – Claremont Graduate University

MBA, Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College

B.A., Development Studies – Brown University

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

Blair, B. A. & Bligh, M. C., (2018). Looking for leadership in all the wrong places: The impact of culture on proactive followership and follower dissent. Journal of Social Issues, 74(1), 129-143.

Blair, A. (2004). Boundary bending: Integrating strategy and organization development. OD Practitioner, 36(4), 29-34. 

Book Chapters

Blair, B. A. & Fox-Kirk, W., (2021) The Colonization of Cross-Cultural Leadership and Followership Research. In Y. Tolsitkov-Mast, J. Walker, and F, Bieri (Eds.), International Leadership Research Handbook. Routledge.

Blair, B. A., (2016). Followers alert a leader. In R. Koonce, M. Bligh, M. Carsten, and M. Hurwitz (Eds.), Followership in action: Cases and commentaries. Bingly, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.

Blair, A. (2005) Listen to your inner voice. In B. Jensen (Ed.), What Is Your Life’s Work? (pp. 33-36). New York: Harper Business. 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Blair, B. A. (2024) Teaching Appreciative Inquiry: An Experiential Approach. Presented at the International Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society Conference, James Cook University, Singapore. 

Blair, B. A., & Stillwell, A. (2024) Cultural Differences in Proactive Followership and Follower Voice. Presented at the Global Followership Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.

Figueroa Anderson, A. N., Stillwell, A., Tenney, E. R., Calzado Real, T., & Blair, A. (2022) Microaggressions Suppress Workplace Voice, but accountability Can Help in the symposium “How Contextual Clues can shape Employee Voice.” Presented by Figueroa Anderson at the 82^nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, WA; virtual. 

Blair, A., Figueroa Anderson, A. N., Stillwell, A., Tenney, E. R., & Calzado Real, T. (2022) Microaggressions Suppress Workplace Voice… Accountability Can Help. Presented at the International Leadership Association 6^th Women and Leadership Conference, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.

Calzado Real, T., Blair, A., & Tenney, E. R. (2020). Racial Dissimilarity Affects People of Color’s Participation in Groups. Presented at the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, Utah State University, Logan, UT. 

Blair, B. A. (2019) Design & Analysis Process: Did Anything Go Wrong? Presented at the 21^st Annual global conference of the International Leadership Association in Ottawa, Canada.

Blair, B. A., (2018). Cultural Differences in Followership, Dissent, and Voice. Presented at the Fred Rhodewalt Social Psychology Winter Conference. Park City, UT.

Blair, B. A., & Bligh, M (2016) Followership Travels the World. Presented at the 18^th Annual Global Conference of the International Leadership Association, Atlanta, GA.

Blair, B. A., Levine, B., Dollwet, M., & Edun, L. (2014). What makes multicultural teams effective? A study of trust, goals, language, and values. Presented at the 83^rd annual convention of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Salt Lake City, UT. Awarded the 2014 RMPA Student Research Award for outstanding empirical research.

Blair, A., (2014). Cross-cultural implications for dissent. Presented at the Fred Rhodewalt Social Psychology Winter Conference. Park City, UT.

Blair, A., (2012). Effects of Power Distance on antecedents to innovation, Presented at the Medici Summer School in Management Studies, Florence, Italy.