Lidiia Pletneva

Dr. Lidiia Pletneva is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at LSE, researching how personal critical events transform professional lives using qualitative methodologies. Her work focuses on grief-work interactions and meaning reconstruction.

Key Findings: Identifies job crafting as adaptive coping mechanism during grief, demonstrating how employees reshape work boundaries and relationships. Reveals career transitions following personal loss through identity-based frameworks.

Award-Winning Research: 2022 MOC Best Paper and EMONET Best Paper awards for studies on grief coping. William H. Newman Award nominee examining work identity transformations.

Academic Background: PhD from ESSEC Business School with dissertation on grief-induced career changes. Teaches organizational behavior integrating experiential learning and case methods.