Caroline D'Abate

Contact Information & Background

Department of Management & Business
Associate Professor of Management
cdabate@skidmore.edu
Phone: 518-580-5119
Office: Pine Cottage 103

Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Bio
Biography

Education

• Ph.D., organizational studies, State University of New York
• B.S., Skidmore College

Courses

• MB 107 Business Organization and Management
• MB 224 Foundations of Organizational Behavior
• MB 351D Media and the Meaning of Work
• MB 358 Human Resource Management
• SSP 100 First-Year Experience

Selected Publications

• Eddy, E., D’Abate, C., & Costello, M. (2019). The impact of enhanced teammate evaluations on important individual and team outcomes. Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, 9(2), 158-171.
• D’Abate, C., Eddy, E., Costello, M., & Gregory, P. (2018). A next step in student teamwork pedagogies: Teaching and supporting teamwork dynamics. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 29(2), 73-101.
• D’Abate, C.P., & Alpert, H. (2017). Storytelling in mentoring: An exploratory, qualitative study of facilitating learning in developmental interactions. Sage Open, 7(3), 1-14.
• Thurston, P.W., D’Abate, C.P., & Eddy, E.R. (2012). Mentoring as an HRD approach: Effects on employee attitudes and contributions independent of core self-evaluation. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 23(2), 139-165. *Won Research Excellence Award
• Eddy, E., D’Abate, C., & Thurston, P. W. (2010). Explaining engagement in personal activities on company time. Personnel Review, 39(5), 639-654.
• D’Abate, C. (2010). Developmental interactions for business students: Do they make a difference? Special issues edition on the “Frontiers on Management Education” of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 17(2), 143-155.
• D’Abate, C. P., Youndt, M., & Wenzel, K. E. (2009). Making the most of an internship: An empirical study of internship satisfaction. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 8(4), 527-539.
• D’Abate, C. (2009). Defining mentoring in the First-Year Experience: One institution’s approach to clarifying the meaning of mentoring first-year students. Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 21(1), 65-91.
• D’Abate, C. P., & Eddy, E. R. (2008). Mentoring as a learning tool: Enhancing the effectiveness of an undergraduate business mentoring program. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 16(4), 363-378.
• D’Abate, C. P., & Eddy, E. R. (2007). Engaging in personal business on the job: Extending the presenteeism construct. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 18(3), 361-383.
• Prasad, P., D’Abate, C., & Prasad, A. (2007). Organizational challenges at the periphery: Career issues for the socially marginalized. In H. P. Gunz & M. A. Peiperl (Eds.), Handbook of Career Studies. Sage Publications.
• Eddy, E. R., D’Abate, C. P., Tannenbaum, S. I., Givens-Skeaton, S., & Robinson, G. (2006). Key characteristics of effective and ineffective developmental interactions. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 17(1), 59-84. *Won Research Excellence Award
• D’Abate, C. (2005). Working hard or hardly working: A study of individuals engaging in personal business on the job. Human Relations, 58(8), 1009-1032.
• D’Abate, C., Eddy, E., & Tannenbaum, S. T. (2003). What’s in a name? A literature-based approach to understanding mentoring, coaching, and other constructs that describe developmental interactions. Human Resource Development Review, 2(4), 360-384.

Recent Research Presentations

• D’Abate, C. (2022, April). Learning from the masters: How MasterClass teaches more than just skills. National meeting of the Popular Culture Association.
• Jones, E., & D’Abate, C. (2021, June). When work became entertainment: A content analysis of jobs, careers, and work in television programming. National meeting of the Popular Culture Association, Boston, MA.
• Eddy, E., & D’Abate, C. (2020, February). Teammate evaluations: Are faculty implementing research-based best practices? Lilly Conference on Teaching for Active and Engaged Learning, San Diego, CA.
• Eddy, E., & D’Abate, C. (2019, February). What are students thinking? Examining the usefulness of teammate evaluations. Lilly Conference on Teaching for Active and Engaged Learning, Anaheim, CA.
• Benneyan, H., Cerruti, J., D’Abate, C., Foley, M., & Maltzman, N. (2019, April). Misdiagnosed: When popular culture television depicts fictionalized realities of the medical profession. National meeting of the Popular Culture Association, Washington, DC.                                                         *authors listed alphabetically
• D’Abate, C., Pion, S., & Drinkard, L. (2018, May). I can't believe Alex posted that! Team dynamics in an online environment (case and instructor’s manual). Annual meeting of The Case Association, Providence, RI.
• Eddy, E.R., D’Abate, C.P., Gregory, P.L., & Costello, M. (2018, January). Using student teams in the classroom: How online versus paper-and-pencil teammate evaluations impact important team member outcomes. Academic and Business Research Institute, St. Augustine, FL.
• D’Abate, C., & McEvoy, M. (2017, October). What do you want to be when you grow up? A study of popular culture and careers. Annual conference of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association in the South, Savannah, GA.
• D’Abate, C., Kaplan, E., Shepard, R., & Centenari, M. (2016, October). When work is prostitution: How popular culture depicts the meaning of work in film and television media. Annual conference of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association, Keene, NH.
• D’Abate, C., Bakar, E., Caccavale, M., Shepard, K., & Wojtkiewicz, M. (2016, October). Coaches on the field and on the screen: How popular culture media depicts team leadership. Annual conference of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association, Keene, NH.
• Eddy, E.R., D’Abate, C.P., Costello, M., & Gregory, P.L. (2016, February). Does Teaching Teamwork Matter? Exploring the Impact of Team Pedagogy in the Classroom. Proceedings of the 2016 Lilly Conference on Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning [abstract], Newport Beach, CA, 50.
• D’Abate, C., & Eddy, E. (2015, February). Exploring student team pedagogies across the higher education curriculum. Proceedings of the 2015 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning [abstract], Newport Beach, CA, 37. 
• D’Abate, C., Nazareth, R., & Chung, C. (2014, October). From companies to classrooms: Do teambuilding and feedback methods transfer? Proceedings of the 2014 Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management, Orlando, FL.
• D’Abate, C. (2014, May). The Social Media Team. Annual meeting of the Case Association, Newport, RI.
• D’Abate, C., (2012, August). Shifting the curriculum: Developing, implementing, and assessing a business writing requirement. Academy of Management 2012 annual meeting, Boston, MA.
• Thurston, P., D’Abate, C., & Eddy, E. (2011, January). The impact of mentoring on employee attitudes, competencies, and performance. International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB) Conference Proceedings, Orlando, FL.
• Alpert, H., & D’Abate, C. (2011, January). Exploring how stories facilitate learning in work-related mentoring interactions. International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB) Conference Proceedings, Orlando, FL.
• D’Abate, C. (2009, August). Developmental interactions for business students: Do they make a difference? Academy of Management 2009 annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
• Youndt, M., D’Abate, C. P., & Wenzel, K. E. (2008, August). Making the most of an internship: An empirical study of internship satisfaction (significantly revised and rewritten from 2006 SAM conference paper) [Abstract]. Academy of Management Conference Proceedings, Anaheim, CA, 21.
• D’Abate, C. (2008, June). First things first: Assessing mentoring in the first-year experience begins with an exploration of the meaning of mentoring. The 21st International Conference on the First-Year Experience, Dublin, Ireland.
• D’Abate, C. P., & Eddy, E. R. (2007, August). Mentoring as a learning tool: Enhancing the effectiveness of an undergraduate business mentoring program [Abstract]. Academy of Management Conference Proceedings, Philadelphia, PA, 18.
• Eddy, E., D’Abate, C., & Thurston, P. W. (2007, August). On company time: An empirical examination of why people engage in personal business on the job [Abstract]. Academy of Management Conference Proceedings, Philadelphia, PA, 16-17.
• D’Abate, C. P., & Eddy, E. R. (2006, August). Engaging in personal business on the job: Extending the presenteeism construct [Abstract]. Academy of Management Conference Proceedings, Atlanta, GA, 16.
• Wenzel, K. E., D’Abate, C. P., & Youndt, M. (2006). Making the most of an internship: An empirical study of the antecedents of internship satisfaction among undergraduate business students. Society for Advancement of Management (SAM) International Conference Proceedings, Orlando, FL, 389-398.
• D’Abate, C. (2004, August). All in a day’s work: Personal business on the job and the factors behind nonwork engagement [Abstract]. Academy of Management Conference Proceedings, New Orleans, LA, 67.
• D’Abate, C., & Eddy, E. (2003, April). What’s in a name? Defining the constructs that describe mentoring and other developmental interactions. Annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Orlando, FL.
• Givens, S., Baetz, W., & D’Abate, C. (2003, April). Mentoring in industry: The top ten issues when building and supporting a mentoring program. Annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Orlando, FL.