Caroline D'Abate

Professor of Management and Business 

Email: cdabate@skidmore.edu
Phone: 518-580-5119
Office: Palamountain 241

Biography:

Caroline D’Abate started teaching at Skidmore in 1999 and joined the department full-time in Fall 2003 after earning a Ph.D. in Organizational Studies from the State University of New York. She spent several years in consulting and applied research and brings the same theory-to-practice approach to her classrooms. At Skidmore, her teaching and scholarship focus on employee behavior and development, the social psychology of teams, and job/career attitudes. Rooting these topics in applied psychology, the sociology of work, and pop culture lenses, she offers courses in Organizational Behavior (MB 224), Human Resource Management (MB 358), and Media and the Meaning of Work (MB351), as well as in Business and Organization Management (MB 107) and Skidmore’s First-Year Experience program (SSP 100).

Professor D’Abate remains active in research relating to these topics. Her research has been published in the Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Personnel Review, the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Resource Development Review, Human Relations, Mentoring & Tutoring, Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, and the Handbook of Career Studies.

She regularly attends and presents research at numerous conferences including the Lilly Series on higher education pedagogy, Academy of Management, Popular Culture Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Eastern Academy of Management, the Southern Management Association, Case Association, and the Society for the Advancement of Management. Her work has been recognized by Leader-to-Leader (an award-winning journal co-published by The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute and Jossey-Bass/Wiley), the Academy of Human Resource Development (twice winning the annual Richard A. Swanson Research Excellence Award), and by several best paper/poster awards at professional conferences.

She serves as an editorial board member for Sage Open, as article editor, and as a reviewer for a variety of journals and conferences, but she is most passionate about helping to provide a quality undergraduate business education in Skidmore’s liberal arts environment. Serving on Skidmore’s Athletic Council, the Institutional Review Board, coordinating the Management and Business Department’s MB107 program, leading the Department’s curricular restructuring effort, and serving as Department Chair have been some of Professor D’Abate’s most memorable forms of service on campus. Enriching the student experience and delivering a top-rate major and minor for Skidmore students, while engaging in meaningful scholarship, is what Professor D’Abate is currently focused on.

When not working on these things, Caroline loves being a mom to two strong, bright young women, laughing with her husband Matt, going on adventures with friends and family, cuddling with her two old dogs, and being creative. She claims to make a mean apple pie, loves to cook for friends who will eat it, restores antiques to give them new life, grows plants, and sews whenever a project calls for it. Oh, and when not reading scholarly articles and books, Caroline’s not ashamed to say she loves a good beach read and most anything you can stream these days.

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.

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. 
• 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.