Sarah Ward

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

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467 Wohlers Hall

1206 S Sixth St

Champaign, IL 61820

Ph.D., Social/Personality Psychology, minor in Psychological Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2018

Assistant Professor, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020 to present

Ward, S. (2023). Choosing Money Over Meaningful Work: Examining Relative Job Preferences for High Compensation Versus Meaningful Work. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Ward, S., Womick, J., Titova, M., & King, L. (2023). Meaning in Life and Coping With Everyday Stressors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49 (3).
Ward, S., & Kim, J. (2022). How does money make life meaningful? Socioeconomic status, financial self-efficacy, and meaning in life. Journal of Positive Psychology. link >
Ward, S., & King, L. (2021). Moral stereotypes, moral self-image, and religiosity Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.

Ward, S., & King, L. (2020). Examining the roles of intuition and gender in magical beliefs. Journal of Research in Personality, Elsevier, 86. link >
Womick, J., Ward, S., Heintzelman, S., Woody, B., & King, L. (2019). The existential function of right-wing authoritarianism. Journal of Personality.
Ward, S., & King, L. (2018). Moral self-regulation, moral identity, and religiosity Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115 (3), 495-525.
Ward, S., & King, L. (2018). Religion and moral self-image: The contributions of prosocial behavior, socially desirable responding, and personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 131. link >
Ward, S., & King, L. (2018). Individual differences in reliance on intuition predict harsher moral judgments Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, American Psychological Association, 114 (5), 825-849. link >
Ward, S., & King, L. (2018). Gender Differences in Emotion Explain Women’s Lower Immoral Intentions and Harsher Moral Condemnation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA, 44 (5), 653--669.
Ward, S., & King, L. (2017). Work and the good life: How work contributes to meaning in life. Research in Organizational Behavior, Elsevier, 37 59--82.
Ward, S., & King, L. (2016). Poor but happy? Income, happiness, and experienced and expected meaning in life. Social Psychological and Personality Science, SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA, 7 (5), 463--470.

List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, University of Illinois, 2020-2023
SAGE Emerging Scholar Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2022

Mgmt and Organizational Beh (BADM 310) General analysis of management and organizational behavior from a systems point of view, including classical organizational theory and management, organizational behavior, and management science; environmental forces; planning, organizing, and control processes; motivation, incentives, leadership, communication, and interpersonal relations; and discussion of production and decision-making and mathematical models.
Leading Negotiations (BADM 314) Aims to advance students' ability to negotiate formal and informal business agreements and resolve conflicts effectively. Because leaders depend on others to accomplish goals, leaders need to be skilled negotiators to generate solution that are acceptable, valuable, and able to be implemented. Students will engage in a series of negotiations that provide practice and impart a framework for planning for, conducting, and analyzing negotiations.

467 Wohlers Hall

1206 S Sixth St

Champaign, IL 61820