Dr Connson Locke

Lecturer in Management

Biography

Dr Connson Locke joined the Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group in 2008 as Lecturer in Management. She is also a member of the Innovation Co-Creation Lab|, the Radical Innovation,Team Processes and Leadership project| and is Deputy Head of the Behavioural Research Lab. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (Haas School of Business), her M.Sc. in Business Administration, also from the Haas School of Business, and her B.A.(Hons) in Sociology from Harvard University.

Before commencing postgraduate study, Dr Locke worked for over ten years as an educator, manager, and consultant in the United States and Asia. She has designed and taught executive education programmes on leadership, team management, negotiation, and communication skills as well as provided individual coaching to executives at all levels.

Research interests

• Leadership
• Followership
• Communication
• Power
• Voice and silence
• Upward influence
• Gender stereotypes
• Participative decision making

Dr Locke's research focuses on the relationship between managers and their employees, a relationship essential to organisational performance and employee productivity and satisfaction. The power imbalance inherent in this hierarchical relationship makes it particularly complex and challenging as it affects the interpersonal perceptions, judgment, and behaviour of both parties. Drawing from social and cognitive psychology, her work contributes to our understanding of leadership, followership, communication, and power.

 

Teaching

• ID301 Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice
• ID420 Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice
• ID430 Organisational Behaviour
• MG434 Organisational Behaviour
• MG209 Bargaining and Negotiation: Interests, Information, Strategy and Power (Summer School)
• Negotiation and Decision-Making (Executive Summer School)

Recent publications

 

• In the words of Larry Summers: gender stereotypes and implicit beliefs in negotiations
  Kray, L. J. and Locke, C. C. and Haselhuhn, M. P. (2010) In the words of Larry Summers: gender stereotypes and implicit beliefs in negotiations. In: Stanton, A. A. and Day, M. and Welpe, I. M., (eds.) Neuroeconomics and the firm. Edward Elgar, pp. 101-115. ISBN 9781848444409
• The downside of looking like a leader: leaders' powerful demeanor stifles follower voice in participative decision making
  Locke, C. C. and Anderson, Cameron (2010) The downside of looking like a leader: leaders' powerful demeanor stifles follower voice in participative decision making. 11102. Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. (Unpublished)
• The downside of looking like a leader: leaders' powerful demeanor stifles follower voice in participative decision making
  Locke, Connson C. and Anderson, Cameron (2010) The downside of looking like a leader: leaders' powerful demeanor stifles follower voice in participative decision making. Academy of Management annual meeting proceedings . pp. 1-10. ISSN 2151-6561
• To flirt or not to flirt?: sexual power at the bargaining table
  Kray, L. J. and Locke, C. C. (2008) To flirt or not to flirt?: sexual power at the bargaining table. Negotiation journal, 24 (4). pp. 483-493. ISSN 0748-4526
• What have we learned from our mistakes?
  Mellers, B. A. and Locke, C. C. (2007) What have we learned from our mistakes? In: Edwards, W. and Miles, R. F. and von Winterfeldt, Detlof, (eds.) Advances in decision analysis: from foundations to applications. Cambridge University Press, New York, US, pp. 351-374. ISBN 9780521863681

Complete list of publications

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