Samantha "Sam" Stalion is a PhD student in Business Administration at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an adjunct instructor at Indiana University. She conducts research on covert workplace mistreatment, destructive leadership, and the hidden harm these experiences create for employees and organizational functioning.
Sam’s research focuses on hidden harm in organizations. Specifically, Sam examines the interpersonal precursors and environmental enablers that give rise to covert dysfunctional dynamics within workplaces. She is interested in how employees interpret and respond to these interactions as workplace mistreatment, with a special focus on gaslighting in organizations. By bringing these often-unseen processes to light, her work seeks to advance theory while helping organizations create healthier, more supportive, and more effective workplaces.
Guided by an epistemological and ontological pluralist approach, Sam draws from qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine how destructive workplace dynamics emerge and evolve over time, as well as how employees make sense of, cope with, resist, and recover from these experiences.
Alongside her research, Sam teaches courses on leadership, organizational culture, and team dynamics with an emphasis on practical, ethical, and psychologically sustainable leadership practices.