My research explores the everyday moments that shape how people contribute, collaborate, and thrive at work.

Through research on employee voice, team dynamics, and mental health, I seek to generate practical insights that help individuals, teams, and organizations work together more effectively.

Research

Kyle Brykman accepting a 2nd Runner Up Best Paper award at an academic conference
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Core Research Areas

  • Organizations benefit when employees share ideas, concerns, and suggestions, yet many choose to remain silent.

    My research explores the conditions that encourage voice, what makes ideas more persuasive, and how leaders can create environments where valuable contributions are more likely to be heard and acted upon.

  • Teams inevitably experience conflict, but disagreement does not have to undermine collaboration. When managed well, conflict can improve learning, decision making, and team performance.

    My research explores how conflict develops, how people respond to disagreement, and what helps teams navigate conflict in productive rather than destructive ways.

  • Every team encounters setbacks, uncertainty, and change. The ability to adapt and recover is essential for sustained performance.

    My research explores how teams develop resilience, respond to adversity, and create the conditions that enable learning and adaptation over time, with a particular emphasis on entrepreneurial teams.

  • Mental health influences how people experience work, lead others, and contribute to their teams, yet many questions remain unanswered.

    My research explores how employee and leader mental health shape workplace behaviour, including speaking up, seeking support, and deciding when and how leaders disclose their own mental health.

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Brykman, K. M., Cloutier, A., Samosh, D., & Carleton, E. (2024). Too depressed and anxious to speak up: The relationships between weekly fluctuations in mental health and silence at work. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

Brykman, K. M., & Raver, J. L. (2023). Persuading managers to enact ideas in organizations: The role of voice message quality, peer endorsement, and peer opposition. Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Brykman, K. M., & O’Neill, T. A. (2023). How conflict expressions affect recipients’ conflict management behaviors. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Brykman, K. M., & Maerz, A. D. (2023). How leaders inspire team voice: The role of voice climate and implicit voice theories. Journal of Business and Psychology.

Hartmann, S., Backmann, J., Newman, A., Brykman, K. M., & Pidduck, R. J. (2022). Psychological resilience of entrepreneurs: A review and implications for entrepreneurs and small and new ventures. Journal of Small Business Management.

Brykman, K. M., & King, D. D. (2021). A resource model of team resilience capacity and learning. Group & Organization Management, 46(4) 737-772.

Brykman, K. M., & Raver, J. L. (2021). To speak up effectively or often? The effects of voice quality and voice frequency on peers’ and managers’ evaluations. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(4), 504-526.

Brykman, K. M., & O’Neill, T. A. (2020). Beyond aggregation: How voice disparity relates to team conflict, satisfaction, and performance. Small Group Research, 52(3), 288-315.

Grants & Awards

Brykman. K. M. (2023). Vice President of Research & Innovation (VPRI) Early Career Research Chair in Business. University of Windsor. $40,000.

Brykman, K. M. (2023). Odette New Researcher Achievement Award (ONRA). Odette School of Business. $1,500.

Brykman. K. M. (2023). Professor of the Year – Management & Labour Studies. Odette School of Business.

Brykman, K. M., & Hartmann, S. (2021-2023). Entrepreneurial Team Resilience. Insight Development Grant. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), $51,788.

Brykman, K. M. (2021-2023). The Antecedents to Voice Quality. Research Innovation Fund (RIF), Odette School of Business, $6,000.

Brykman, K. M. (2020-2022). Employee Mental Health and Voice. Research Innovation Fund (RIF), Odette School of Business, $6,000.

Brykman, K. M., & Shlosser, F. (2020-2021). Organizational Resilience and Employee Engagement in Response to COVID-19. Rapid Response to COVID-19: WE-SPARK Health Institute and the University of Windsor’s Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, $5,000.

Collaborator, Windsor City Network (2016-2021). Preston, V. PI, Belkhodja, C., Gabriel, C., Lochhead, C., Douglas, D., Dyson, D., Zikic, J., Hennebry, J., Shields, J., Veronis, L., Hynie, M., Mandell, N., Bhuyan, R., Ghosh, S. and collaborators. Migration and Resilience in Urban Canada - Immigration et résilience en milieu urbain (BMRC-IMRU): Discovering Strengths and Building Capacity, Partnership Grant. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, SSHRC #896-2016-1004, $2,499,525.