Cindy Muir (Zapata)

Cindy P. Muir (Zapata) is a Professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. She received her Ph.D. in Management and her B. S. in Psychology from the University of Florida. Dr. Muir studies people’s relationships with their jobs, and the relationships they have that influence their work, focusing primarily on supervisor-employee ties. This broad interest has led her to study topics that include Leadership (organizational justice, trust, humility), individual differences (diversity, personality), and stress and strain. She is also fascinated by the disconnect that often exists between leader behaviors and employee perceptions of those same behaviors even in spite of a leader’s best efforts; because of the importance of leader-direct report relationships, Muir aims to further understand that divide by studying factors that exacerbate or minimize said disconnect. Her work has been published in top journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, among others. Currently, she serves as a Senior Editor for Organization Science and, up until 2022, was an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal.