Students on the Market

Alondrea Hubbard is a PhD student in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She joined the PhD program in 2021. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Samford University, her Master's degree in Psychology from Auburn University in Montgomery, and her Master's degree in Industrial Relations and Human Resources from Rutgers University. Her research interests focus on interpersonal workplace relationships, the features and outcomes of emotions in the workplace, and the impact of Human Resource Practices on employee social identities. Her research has been presented at the Academy of Management Conference, the Southern Management Association, and the East Coast Doctoral Conference and has been published in Group and Organization Management. She has served on committees for the New Doctoral Student Consortium and currently serves as a Doctoral Student Representative for the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management (AOM) and on committees for the PhD Project. 

Hannah Park is a Ph.D. Candidate in Human Resources Management at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University. Her research focuses on psychometric mechanisms associated with social identities that influence employees’ perceptions and behaviors at work. Her research has been accepted at the Research in Social Issues in Management and has been presented at the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She received the Doctoral Student Teaching Excellence Award and was recognized as the best reviewer of the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management. She currently serves as a Doctoral Student Representative for her PhD program in Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University. 

Jiyoon Park is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. Her research explores labor organizing, inequality, and identity in the tech and creative industries. Her dissertation examines how workers and their allies in the U.S. and South Korea mobilize collective action and navigate precarious, post-bureaucratic work environments. Drawing on critical labor studies, the sociology of work, and management scholarship, her work analyzes how intersecting forces shape worker precarity and how workers organize to build collective voice. Through this, she aims to deepen the understanding of contemporary employment relations in an era marked by flexibilization, high-skill pressures, and declining institutional protections.

Lauren Gilbert is a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University’s School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR). Her research focuses on the careers and long-term job outcomes of people with disabilities (PWDs). She seeks to understand what sorts of management practices, environments, and other circumstances can maximize both the employment opportunities for PWDs and their long-term objective and subjective career success.

To do this, she uses a mixed-methods methodology that involves both quantitative and qualitative methods. On the quantitative side, Lauren has used panel data methods, such as fixed and random effects, and latent profile analysis. Her quantitative research uses thematic and content analysis to understand data drawn from interviews and documents. One subset of her research focuses on vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies and both aspects of policy that influence their effectiveness and particular techniques that VR staff use to help PWDs find employment.

Before she joined Rutgers University, she received her Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and worked at Business for Impact on a contract with the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), where she did research on demand-side disability employment efforts and managed the McDonough School of Business’s Disability Inclusion Forum, an opportunity for disability service providers, businesses and university students and faculty to learn from each other. She has also worked with a nonprofit called RespectAbility (now Disability Belongs) on efforts to engage with businesses and government on increasing disability employment.