Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Venkataramani’s primary research focuses on how employees form social networks in their organizations and how these networks exert social influence on employee attitudes and behaviors. As a specific area of interest, her recent research aims at understanding how such social influences can introduce biases in employees’ cognitive processes in making evaluations about the organization. She is also interested in studying how significant adverse events in organizations affect employees’ emotional and psychological welfare and eventually their adaptability to organizational realities.