Meena Andiappan

Meena Andiappan

Faculty Member

Accepting Students

HSR – Health Services Organization and Management Studies Emphasis Lead

Initiative

The Brothers are Watching: The Peer Monitoring Mechanism of Healthcare Worker Rivalry in Reducing Unethical Behavior

Accepting Students

This research study aims to examine the mechanism e.g. peer monitoring, moral identity through which rivalry may serve to stifle unethical behaviour.

Lead: Meena Andiappan

Initiative

When doing good becomes doing bad: The effects of repeated necessary evil enactment on subsequent unethical behavior

This study explores the effects of repeated necessary evil enactment on subsequent unethical behavior.

Lead: Meena Andiappan

Affiliates: Morgann Reid

Initiative

Me and AI: How interacting with Artificial Intelligence collaborators affects healthcare workers’ expectations of, and attitudes towards, the role of AI in the workplace

This research study aims to examine the critical question of how one-on-one interaction with AI affects healthcare employees’ perceptions of both their own, and AI’s, abilities at work and their willingness to work with AI in the future.

Lead: Meena Andiappan

Affiliates: Senthujan Senkaiahliyan

Meena Andiappan is an Assistant Professor of Management & Organization at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. She was previously an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Montpellier Business School, France. She received her doctorate in Organization Studies from Boston College. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Review, Health Services Management Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, and PLOS One, amongst other outlets. Dr. Andiappan’s research focuses on the intersections of ethics, emotions, AI, and health. Her current projects include theoretical studies on healthcare workers’ moral emotions; quantitative work on jealousy, envy, and ostracism; longitudinal qualitative work on misconduct evolution; the effects on necessary evil enactment on healthcare workers; and attitudes towards AI in the workplace. She is a phenomenon-driven researcher.

Dr. Andiappan has received funding for her research from numerous SSHRC grants and the University of Toronto-University of Manchester Joint Translational Centre for Digital Health. She works with scholars across Europe and North America. Her work, published in the Academy of Management Review, has been featured in AOM Insights, which translates academic findings into useful insights for managers and practitioners. Her papers and review work have won several awards at conferences such as AOM and EURAM. She regularly publishes case studies for classroom use based on her research findings. Her work has received media attention from the World Economic Forum, ScienceAlert, Zoomer, Phys.org, Daily Maverick, Flipboard, Newsify (App), ScienceX, Business Insider, Knowable, and Discover magazine. Dr. Andiappan’s recent work on prosocial behaviors and mental health has received attention from various media morning shows, such as Global News and CBC Radio’s Fresh Air, where she provided interviews reaching audiences across Canada.

Morgann Reid

PhD Graduate Student

Thesis: Health Workforce Organization and Management

Supervisors: Meena Andiappan