Dr. Kim Rocheville is an Assistant Professor of Management at Creighton University's Heider College of Business. She graduated from Boston College where she earned her Ph.D. in Organization Studies. She earned her M.B.A. from Boston University and her B.S. in Management from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Before pursuing her graduate studies, Dr. Rocheville worked in Operations Management for over 5 years for corporations large and small, ranging from an energy company that designed and built air pollution control equipment for power plants, to a startup research and consulting firm based in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. Dr. Rocheville's research explores well-being at work, and in particular, the formal and informal relationships, processes, and environments that influence worker emotional and physical health. She has published in leading management and behavioral science journals. Rocheville has presented her research at international conferences including the Academy of Management Conference, the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, the Positive Organizational Scholarship conference, and the Positive Relationships at Work Conference. Dr. Rocheville is an active member of the Academy of Management, the Southern Management Association, and the Positive Organizational Scholarship Community.
Research Focus
Well-being, sense of community, emotions, the body at work
Feeling Safe in Perilous Work: Community Holding Spaces for Safe Emotional Processing. 2023
Chronic Pain at Work as a Crisis of Meaning: The Role of Work-Body Ideologies in Sustaining Positive Meaning of Work. In, Meaning of Work in Crisis Contexts, Symposium [Organizers: E. Eun and W. Jiang]. Academy of Management Meeting, Boston, MA, Forthcoming. (Selected as Showcase Symposium) 2023
To Care or to Cream: Leveraging Competing Imperatives in Reentry Work. In, Work, Occupations, and Inequality, Symposium [Organizer: Andrea Wessendorf]. Academy of Management Meeting, Boston, MA, Forthcoming. 2023
Rocheville, K. (panelist). In, New Frontiers in Community Research: Community Experiences Within and Beyond Organizational Boundaries, Symposium [Organizers: Reut Livne-Tarandach]. Academy of Management Meeting, Boston, MA, Forthcoming. 2023
Ideal workers and ideal bodies: How workers in pain navigate stigma in an able-bodied workplace. In, Diverse stories of diversity: Expanding perspectives on underexplored dimensions of diversity. Symposium [Organizers: K. Rocheville & G.R. Sala], Academy of Management Meeting, Seattle, WA, August. 2022
The vicious solitude of grief in the work and non-work lives of police officers. In, Grief at the Work-Life Interface. Symposium [Organizers: L. Pletneva & Elizabeth Stillwell], Academy of Management Meeting, Seattle, WA, August. 2022
Embodied job crafting in response to somatic discomfort. Positive Organizational Scholars Conference, June. 2022
Making micro-adjustments: How individuals in chronic pain integrate their body into their work. UC Davis Conference on Qualitative Research, April. 2022