Dr. Klodiana Lanaj
- Martin L. Schaffel Professor
- Full Professor
Location
- Warrington College of Business
- Management Department
- Stuzin Hall 229
Klodiana Lanaj is a professor and the Martin L. Schaffel Professor in the Management Department of the Warrington College of Business at University of Florida. She received a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Michigan State University in 2013. Prior to graduate school, Klodiana worked for a large European bank as a project manager of risk and as a credit analyst for small and medium enterprises.
Klodiana’s main areas of research are leadership, team processes and performance, and motivation and self-regulation. Specifically, her current research investigates leader engagement and wellbeing, leader emergence and over-emergence in self-managing teams, individual and team-level factors that contribute to team performance, and daily behaviors and interactions that deplete and replenish employee affective and cognitive resources at work. Her research in these areas has been published in outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and Psychological Bulletin.
Klodiana served as an Associate Editor at the Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes journal from 2021- 3/2024. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology.
News
Warrington doctoral student honored with research grant for work on leader mistakes – April 15, 2025 – University of Florida Warrington College of Business doctoral student Daniel Kim (Ph.D. ’25) is among the recipients of a grant for practical research focused on…
How power at work follows you at home – for better and worse – March 20, 2025 – New research reveals that feeling powerful at work creates both benefits and challenges that can impact your ability to relax at home. The study, authored…
Workplace incivility can cost you your peace of mind | Klodiana Lanaj – LSE Business Review
Assistant professor of management awarded for excellence in research – May 16, 2024 – GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Yixuan Li, assistant professor of management at the University of Florida Warrington College of Business, is a recipient of this year’s Excellence…
Management faculty named 2024 UF Research Foundation Professor – May 10, 2024 – GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Klodiana Lanaj, Martin L. Schaffel Professor in the Department of Management, is among the 34 University of Florida professors honored as the…
Courses taught
- Advanced DBA Research (MAR7978)
- Developing Leadership Skills (MAN6149)
- Individual Work in Management (MAN6905)
- Leading Change (MAN7288)
- Organizational Behavior (MAN5245)
- Organizational Behavior (MAN5246)
- Special Topics (MAN6930)
Education
- PhD, Michigan State University, 2013
- BA – Business Administration, American University in Bulgaria, 2004
PhD students advised
- Daniel Kim — 2020 — Current
- Daniel Dong-Wook Kim — 2023 — 2025
- Remy E Jennings — 2021 — 2022
Professional service
- Associate Editor, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes — 2021 to 2022
Journal article publications
- When You Can't Get Power Off Your Mind? The Countervailing Effects of Workplace Power on At-Home Rumination
- Status: Accepted
- Journal: Personnel Psychology
- Accepted Year: 2025
- Authors: Daniel Kim, Klodiana Lanaj, Remy Jennings, Trevor Foulk
- Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Business Ethics
- Published Year: 2025
- Authors: Daniel Kim, Klodiana Lanaj, Joel Koopman
- When You Can't Get Power off Your Mind: The Countervailing Effects of Workplace Power on At‐Home Rumination
- Status: Published
- Journal: Personnel Psychology
- Published Year: 2025
- Authors: Daniel Kim, Klodiana Lanaj, Remy Jennings, Trevor Foulk
- The benefits of reflecting on gratitude received at home for leaders at work: Insights from three field experiments.
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published Year: 2024
- Authors: Jia Hu, Daniel Kim, Klodiana Lanaj
- Improving the Lives of Leaders: The Beneficial Effects of Positive Leader Self-Reflection
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Management
- Published Year: 2023
- Authors: Klodiana Lanaj, Trevor Foulk, Remy Jennings
- The importance of leader recovery for leader identity and behavior.
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published Year: 2023
- Authors: Klodiana Lanaj, Allison Gabriel, Remy Jennings
- Self‐compassion at work: A self‐regulation perspective on its beneficial effects for work performance and wellbeing
- Status: Published
- Journal: Personnel Psychology
- Published Year: 2023
- Authors: Remy Jennings, Klodiana Lanaj, You Kim
- The Growth Mindset at Work: Will Employees Help Others to Develop Themselves?
- Status: Published
- Journal: Academy of Management Discoveries
- Published Year: 2023
- Authors: Benjamin Rogers, Jessica Christian, Remy Jennings, Klodiana Lanaj
- Walking on eggshells: A self-control perspective on workplace political correctness.
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published Year: 2023
- Authors: Joel Koopman, Klodiana Lanaj, Young Lee, Valeria Alterman, Cody Bradley, Adam Stoverink
- An integration-and-learning perspective on gender diversity in self-managing teams: The roles of learning goal orientation and shared leadership.
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published Year: 2022
- Authors: Yixuan Li, Jaclyn Koopmann, Klodiana Lanaj, John Hollenbeck
- When leader self-care begets other care: Leader role self-compassion and helping at work.
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published Year: 2022
- Authors: Klodiana Lanaj, Remy Jennings, Susan Ashford, Satish Krishnan
- Reflecting on one's best possible self as a leader: Implications for professional employees at work
- Status: Published
- Journal: Personnel Psychology
- Published Year: 2022
- Authors: Remy Jennings, Klodiana Lanaj, Joel Koopman, Gerry McNamara
- With great power comes more job demands: The dynamic effects of experienced power on perceived job demands and their discordant effects on employee outcomes.
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published Year: 2022
- Authors: Trevor Foulk, Klodiana Lanaj
- Is one the loneliest number? A within-person examination of the adaptive and maladaptive consequences of leader loneliness at work.
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published Year: 2021
- Authors: Allison Gabriel, Klodiana Lanaj, Remy Jennings
- The self-sacrificial nature of leader identity: Understanding the costs and benefits at work and home.
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published Year: 2021
- Authors: Klodiana Lanaj, Allison Gabriel, Nitya Chawla
- Putting leaders in a bad mood: The affective costs of helping followers with personal problems.
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published Year: 2020
- Authors: Klodiana Lanaj, Remy Jennings