Michelle Inness

Michelle Inness is an Associate Professor in the Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management and Associate Dean, Undergraduate Office at the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta. Her research examines work and well-being, occupational health and safety, workplace aggression, employee resilience, meaningful work, workplace safety, and political psychology at work.

Her influential publication on supervisor-targeted aggression employs innovative within-person methodologies to understand aggression dynamics. Current research investigates alcohol's role in workplace aggression, inclusion norms for women in STEM, and transformational leadership's impact on employee voice and safety.

Teaching focuses on management, performance management, leadership, and ethics. Administrative responsibilities include oversight of undergraduate programs as Associate Dean.

Publication trends demonstrate sustained examination of workplace psychological experiences, including aggression, justice, leadership influences, and identity dynamics, with methodological innovation in research designs capturing within-person variation.