Trevor Young-Hyman

Trevor Young-Hyman serves as Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Sociology at the Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, holding a joint appointment bridging organizational theory and sociological perspectives on workplace structures. His research critically examines how formal and informal organizational architectures influence both corporate performance metrics and employee welfare outcomes.

His educational foundation includes:

• PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• BS in Business Administration and French from Washington University in St. Louis

He further refined his expertise through a post-doctoral fellowship at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Young-Hyman's scholarly focus centers on decentralized organizations, multi-stakeholder governance systems, worker ownership models, and high-purpose organizational frameworks, employing methodologically diverse approaches including archival analysis, controlled experiments, ethnographic fieldwork, and large-scale surveys.

His publication pattern reveals a consistent trajectory toward understanding democratized workplace structures, with recent work in Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science exploring worker cooperatives in knowledge-intensive sectors, power dynamics in interorganizational networks, and innovation processes in early-stage ventures. This body of work collectively establishes organizational democracy as a critical variable affecting both economic productivity and social equity.

His distinguished recognition includes:

• Bernstein Award for Faculty Teaching Excellence (2023)
• Horvat-Vanek Prize for Economics of Participation research (2016)
• Fidelity Fellowship in Equity Compensation (2015)
• William J. Fulbright Fellowship
• Bill Nobles and Louis O. Kelso Fellowships

Young-Hyman actively translates research into practice through applied projects like the Pittsburgh Citywide Taskforce on Employee Ownership, where he led data collection and program evaluation for multi-stakeholder collaborations between government agencies and non-profits. His teaching portfolio includes advanced courses in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, reflecting his commitment to developing future leaders who understand the human dimensions of organizational design.

As an affiliate of the university's Berg Center within the Organizations and Entrepreneurship academic area, he contributes to interdisciplinary initiatives focused on sustainable business models and democratic workplace innovations, particularly through his ongoing work with the Employee Ownership Taskforce.