Dr. Sharon Glazer

Dr. Sharon Glazer is an internationally known professor and researcher of cross-cultural organizational psychology. Prior to joining Rutgers University, she held academic positions at San José State University, University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (a DoD research thinktank), and The University of Baltimore. After earning her PhD in 1999 from Central Michigan University, Dr. Glazer was a postdoc at the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH), while working full-time as a lecturer at Northern Kentucky University.

In her 25+ years of teaching, research, and consulting, Dr. Glazer’s foci have been cross-cultural organizational psychology, and occupational stress & health. organizational development, organizational theory, and consulting skills. Her research has been supported by several grants, e.g., National Science Foundation, Fulbright Fellow, Erasmus Mundus, and NASA. Dr. Glazer recently completed a USG-sponsored research project on trust, impulsivity, and risk-taking across 6 countries (4 languages), as well as a State of Maryland project on workplace climate for professionalism. She has over 60 published works, 120+ conference presentations, and 50+ invited presentations that summarize original studies and synthesize current trends. Dr. Glazer is currently a co-editor of both a Springer monograph and book series and co-authoring the 4^thedition of Cross-Cultural Psychology (to be published by Cambridge University Press).

Currently, Dr. Glazer’s research focuses on meaningfulness in life in relation to occupational stress. Her research has been carried out in over a dozen  varied populations and 5 countries. She is embarking on a systematic cross-cultural study with colleagues from 5 different countries. She is also completing a cross-cultural research project on leadership, another on complaining, and a third on Type A behavior patter in relation to occupational stress.

Dr. Glazer has taught and conducted research as a visiting professor in a dozen universities across Western and Central Europe, Israel, New Zealand, and Canada. In service to her profession, she is Secretary General for the Alliance for Organizational Psychology and a badged member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s (SIOP’s) United Nations committee. She also served as Treasurer of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Editor of the International Journal of Stress Management, co-chair of SIOP’s International Affairs Committee, and member of several local, national, and international committees. External to academia, Dr. Glazer consults to nonprofit, for-profit, and government organizations.

Finally, Dr. Glazer was elected Fellow of SIOP, International Academy for Intercultural Research, and International Association of Applied Psychology, and she is a member of several additional domestic and international professional associations. In 2021, she was recognized with The University of Baltimore’s President’s Faculty Award and her college’s Distinguished Scholarship Award. In December 2021, Sharon was awarded the ISMA Federation International Award from the International Stress Management Association.