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Dr. Ronit Waismel-Manor, Senior Lecturer

Ronit Waismel-Manor
Contact Info

The Open University of Israel Department Of Management and Economics 1 University Road P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 4353701, Israel
Email:ronitwm@openu.ac.il

Areas of Interest
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Gender in Organizations
  • Work-Life Management

Dr. Ronit Waismel-Manor is a senior lecturer of organizational behavior in the Department of Economics and Management at the Open University of Israel. She holds a Ph.D in Organizational Behavior from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She has been a research fellow at the Cornell Employment and Family Careers Institute and a visiting scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Waismel-Manor specializes in organizational research and gender relations and examines the challenges that employees experience as they manage their job and family responsibilities   
Dr. Waismel-Manor serves as an elected board member of the Israeli Sociological Society, and as an elected chair of the section on organizations and work in the Israeli Sociological Society. In addition, she serves voluntarily as a member of the Committee on Industry in the Council for the Advancement of Women, the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.

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2005
Organizational Behavior (Ph.D.), Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University
1998
Sociology and Anthropology (MA), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1996
Sociology and Anthropology and Political Science (BA), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2019 - Present
Senior Lecturer, Department of Management and Economics, The Open University of Israel
2007 - 2019
Lecturer, School of Behavioral Sciences, Netanya Academic College
2013 - 2014
Visiting Scholar, The Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
2009
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Haifa University
Summer 2007
Visiting Fellow, School of ILR, Cornell University
2006 - 2007
Adjunct Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology, Academic College of Emek Yezreel
2006 - 2007
Adjunct Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology, Western Galilee College
2006
Adjunct Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University
2005 - 2006
Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellow, Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University
1999 - 2003
Research Fellow, Cornell Employment and Family Careers Institute.
2019 - Present
Director of the Behavioral Lab, Department of Management and Economics, The Open University of Israel

2018 - 2019  Israeli Navy, redesigning work field study, with Kark, R. (20,000 NIS).

2016 - 2018  Gender Affairs Advisor for the IDF chief-of-staff, redesigning work field study, with Kark, R. (80,000 NIS).

2005 Returning Scientist Award – Ministry of Immigration and Absorption.

2003 Best Paper in the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

2003 Benjamin Miller Scholarship Award for Thesis Research (US$ 5,000).

2003 Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center Outstanding Working Paper Award.

2002 Thesis Research Award, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.

1999 - 2003  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, Cornell Employment and Family Careers   Institute.

Academy of Management

European Group for Organizational Studies

Work and Family Researchers Network

Israeli Sociological Society

2019 Elected Board Member, Israeli Sociological Society

2018 Member of the Committee on Industry in the Council for the Advancement of Women, the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.

2011 Elected chair, Section on Organizations and Work, Israeli Sociological Society.

2014 - 2016 Member of the Work and Family Researchers Network Repository Committee. Member of the Work and Family Researchers Network Repository Committee.

2012 - 2014   Member of the Work and Family Researchers Network International Committee.

2011 - 2013 Discussion group member on equal employment opportunity in Israel, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

2011 Organizing committee, the annual Israeli Sociological Society conference.

2010 Organizing committee, the annual Israeli Sociological Society conference.

2009 - 2012 Elected Board member, Israeli Sociological Society.

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Title of Doctoral Dissertation: The Best of Both Worlds? Work, Family Life and Self-Employment
Supervisor: Prof. Pamela Tolbert

​Waismel-Manor, R., Wasserman, V. & Balderman-Shamir, O. (2021).No room of her own: Married couples' negotiation of workspaces at home during COVID-19. Sex Roles 85(11-12): 636-649. 

Chernyak-Hai, L., & Waismel-Manor, R. (2019). Gendered help at the workplace: Implications for organizational power relations. Psychological Reports, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0033294118773483.

Waismel-Manor, R., & Levanon, A. (2017). Time to reconsider work: Dual-earner couples’ work related adaptive strategies and preferences for reduced work hours, International Studies of Management & Organization, 47(4): 336-359.

Waismel-Manor, R., Levanon, A., & Tolbert, P. (2016). The impact of husbands' and wives' relative earnings on subjective career and family success, Sex Roles, 75(7): 349-362.

Kark, R., Waismel-Manor, R. & Shamir, B. (2012). Does valuing androgyny and femininity lead to a female advantage? The relationship between gender-role, transformational leadership and identification, Leadership Quarterly, 23(3): 620-640.

Qiadan, E., Tziner, A., & Waismel-Manor, R. (2012). Differences in the perceived effectiveness of influence tactics among Jews and Arabs: The mediating role of cultural values, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 42 (4): 874-889.

Kark, R., & Waismel-Manor, R. (2010). Organizational citizenship behavior: The good soldier syndrome in Israel, Megamot, 47(1):    3-31 (Hebrew).

Waismel-Manor, R., Tziner, A., Berger, E., & Dikstein, E. (2010). Two of a kind? Leader-member exchange and organizational citizenship behaviors: The moderating role of leader-member similarity, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40(1): 167-181.

Tziner, A., Waismel-Manor, R., Vardi, N., & Brodman, A. (2008). The personality dispositional approach to job satisfaction and organizational commitment, Psychological Reports, 103: 435-442.

Kark, R., & Waismel-Manor, R. (2005). Organizational citizenship behavior: What’s gender got to do with it? Organization, 12(6):   889-917.

Waismel-Manor, R., Moen, P. & Sweet, S. (2003). Winning couples: Predicting conjoint perceptions of work, family and balancing success. Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings (CD) ISSN 1543-8643.

Waismel-Manor R., & Kark, R. (2016). Women in management in Israel. In A. Richardsen and R. J Burke (Eds.) Women in Management Worldwide: Signs of Progress (3rd Edition). Aldershot: Gower Publishing. Pages: 309-322. [A new version]

Kark, R., & Waismel-Manor R. (2011). Women in management in Israel. In M. J Davidson and R. J Burke (Eds.) Women in Management Worldwide: Progress and Prospects (2nd Edition). Aldershot: Gower Publishing. Pages: 279-298.

Waismel-Manor, R. & Nadiv, R. (2010). Work and family among self-employed women in Israel. In V. Muhlbauer, & L. Kulik (Eds.) Working Families: Parents in the Labor Market in Israel. Peles Publisher, Rishon Letzion. Pages 223-245 (Hebrew).

Moen, P., Waismel-Manor, R., & Sweet, S. (2003). Success. In P. Moen (Ed.) It's About Time: Couples and Careers. Cornell University Press, 133-152.

Lounsbury, M., Geraci, H., & Waismel-Manor, R. (2002). Policy discourse, logics and practice standards: Centralizing the solid waste management field.  In A. Hoffman and M. Ventresca (Eds.) Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 327-342.  

Kark, K., & Waismel-Manor, R. (2002). Unveiling the gendered nature of organizational citizenship behavior. Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, Cornell University.

Waismel-Manor, R., Moen, P., & Sweet, S. (2002). Managing and thriving: What factors predict dual-earner middle-class couples feeling highly successful in their jobs, families and balancing both? Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, Cornell University.

Waismel-Manor, R. (2008). The effects of organizations on employees' work-family conflict. Journal of Management and Business Behavior, Netanya Academic College (Hebrew). 

Waismel-Manor, R. & Levanon, A. A couple of hours? A comparative analysis of working time preferences among dual-earner couples. Work and Occupations.

Omar, F., Levanon, A., & Waismel-Manor, R. The causal effect of type of employment on work-family conflict. Social Indicators Research.