New Associate Dean in Undergraduate Studies
Dr. Cynthia Kay Stevens, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and
Organizational Behavior at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, will start in July
 Dr. Cynthia Kay Stevens joins the Office Undergraduate Studies from UMD's Smith School of Business. Dr. Cynthia Kay Stevens is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, where she has been on the faculty since 1990. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Washington and holds a Master’s degree in social psychology from Miami University (Ohio). She has taught in the Smith School’s MBA, EMBA, and Ph.D. programs; in addition, she has taught in the EMBA programs at Seattle University, University of Iowa, and Wuhan University, China.
Dr. Stevens’s research focuses on the cognitive and social factors that influence individual, joint, and group decisions. She has studied these processes in the context of interpersonal skill development (skill acquisition, maintenance and transfer), staffing (interviews, job search and choice, recruitment), and work-group settings (influence of personalities on teams, diverse workgroups, and the impact of difficult coworkers). Dr. Stevens has written over 30 scholarly articles and book chapters, and her work has appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, and the Academy of Management Journal. She serves on the editorial boards for Journal of Management and Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes and is a member of the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Stevens teaches courses on negotiations, leadership development, managing difficult employees, decision making, and human resource management. She twice received the Smith School’s Krowe Award for outstanding teaching, the Phi Kappa Phi Mentor Award for outstanding teaching, and a Teaching and Learning Quality Award for outstanding syllabus construction.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Stevens to Undergraduate Studies.
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