Professor Payal Sharma’s research lies at the intersection of management, psychology, and sociology perspectives. Her current studies explore how people experience organizational bottom-line mentalities. Her prior work focused on topics including masculinity, empowering leadership, workplace mistreatment, and stress and trauma. In addition, she writes about qualitative methods to support scholars employing these approaches. She is an award-winning educator whose teaching portfolio consists of courses on leadership development and power dynamics at work.