Insiya Hussain

George Mason University Costello College of Business Faculty Insiya Hussain Headshot

Assistant Professor, Management 

Contact Information

Email: ihussa@gmu.edu
Phone: (703) 993-2361
Office Location: Van Metre Hall, 435
Office Hours: By appointment

Personal Websites

InsiyaHussain.com

Biography

Insiya Hussain is an Assistant Professor of Management at George Mason University’s Costello College of Business. Her research focuses on the challenges and opportunities employees face when speaking up to share ideas and opinions, advocate social issues, and negotiate for personal rewards. Professor Hussain’s research has been published in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of Applied Psychology. Her insights have also been featured in media and practitioner outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and Bloomberg.

 Professor Hussain is an Editorial Board Member of Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She has also received honors for her teaching, including being ranked as one of Poets & Quants’ 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors in 2025.

 Before joining George Mason, Professor Hussain served as a faculty member at the University Texas at Austin. Prior to her academic career, Professor Hussain worked at J.P. Morgan’s investment bank and as a Project Manager at technology companies. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Maryland.

 Research Interests

  • Employee voice
  • Social issues at work
  • Self-advocacy and negotiation

Education

  • PhD - Management & Organizations, University of Maryland
  • BA - Economics, Columbia University

Research and Awards

Awards

  • Poets & Quants 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors (2025)
  • UT Austin McCombs Faculty Honor Roll (2024)
  • UT Austin Texas Orange Jackets Tenet Award in Leadership (2024)
  • UT Austin Research Excellent Grants (2020, 2022, 2023, 2025)
  • Best Reviewer Award, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2024)
  • Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Discoveries (2023)
  • Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Journal (2022)
  • U of Maryland Top 10% Distinguished Teaching Award (2017)

Research

  1. Hussain, I., Pitesa, M., Thau, S., & Schaerer, M. (2024). Pay suppression in social impact contexts: How framing work around the greater good inhibits job candidatecompensation 
    demands. Organization Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.1675
  2. Hussain, I., Tangirala, S., & Sherf, E. (2023). Signaling legitimacy: Why mixed-gender coalitions outperform single-gender coalitions in advocating for gender equity. Academy of Management Journal, 66(4), 1233-1262. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2021.0174
  3. Park, H. †, Tangirala, S., Hussain, I., & Ekkirala, S. (2022). How and when managers reward employees’ voice: The role of proactivity attributions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(12), 2269-84. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001008
  4. Parke, M., Tangirala, S., & Hussain, I. (2021). Creating organizational citizens: How and when supervisor- versus peer-led role interventions change organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(11), 1714-33.https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000848
  5. Hussain, I., Shu, R., Tangirala, S., & Ekkirala, S. (2019). The voice bystander effect: How information redundancy inhibits employee voice. Academy of Management Journal, 62(3), 828-49. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2017.0245

 Teaching Interests

  • Organizational Behavior
  • People Analytics
  • Negotiation

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