Cindy Parker

Costello College of Business Faculty Cindy Parker

Instructional Associate Professor, Management

Contact Information

Email: cparker8@gmu.edu
Phone: (703) 993-4184
Office Location: Enterprise Hall 210
Office Hours: By appointment

Biography

Cindy Parker is an instructional associate professor of management at George Mason University. She received her PhD in industrial and organizational psychology at George Mason University. Her research explored the effects of perceptions of leadership support on the work-related attitudes and behaviors of first-term enlisted soldiers. Her doctoral dissertation was supported by the Army Research Institute.

Before coming to George Mason, Parker worked for more than nine years in private industry as an internal and external consultant, focusing on a variety of human resource initiatives. Her previous work experience includes: Consortium Research Fellow at the Army Research Institute, Statistician at the American Medical Student Association, Associate Research Scientist at American Institutes for Research, and as an Assistant Vice President at Aon Consulting, Talent Solutions Consulting Group.

Her consulting assignments focused on enhancing human potential and effectiveness at work and included such projects as development, validation, and implementation of employee selection and assessment procedures, leadership assessment and development, job analysis and competency modeling, development and validation of performance management systems, and product development.

Parker has presented at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and American Psychological Association annual conferences and has published in The New Physician.

Research Interests

  • Employee selection and retention
  • Leadership assessment and development
  • Performance management

Education

  • PhD - Industrial and Organizational Psychology, George Mason University
  • MA - Industrial and Organizational Psychology, George Mason University
  • BS - Psychology, George Mason University

Research and Awards

  • Leidos Corporate Partner Faculty Fellow, 2025
  • Costello College of Business, Outstanding Service Award for Promotion of Student Thought Leadership, 2024
  • George Mason University Online Teacher of Distinction, 2023
  • George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award, 2021
  • Career Connections Faculty Award (2015; nominated 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018) – University-level award presented by University Career Services to recognize Mason faculty who have made a positive impact on students' career goals, employment plans, or graduate school preparation. 
  • College of Business Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award (2007, 2008, 2010, 2011)
  • Management Area Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award (2012, 2014, 2018, 2019)
  • Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society faculty inductee (2015)
  • Delta Alpha Pi Honor Society, Faculty award for inclusive teaching (2014) 

Teaching Interests

  • Human resources management
  • Principles and practices of management

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