Biography

Dr. Krenn is a Huntsville native. He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Auburn University and his PhD from Wayne State University. Dr. Krenn has spent much of his career in government and comes to UAH from NASA. In his near decade with the agency, Dr. Krenn helped to improve fairness, well-being, and motivation within the agency and ran the agency's barrier analytics program. Dr. Krenn's research interests focus primarily on predictors and outcome of employee well-being and fairness within organizations. Specifically, he is interested in the topics of workplace aggression, work discrimination, cognitive biases in organizations, and work-life balance. Outside of work, Dr. Krenn enjoys performing and assisting with community theater shows and seeing live music.

Curriculum Vitae

SAFE Lab

Education

• Wayne State University- PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• Wayne State University – MA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• Auburn University– BA in Psychology

Honors & Awards

• OURCLA Research Scholar, Awarded September 2011
• University Graduate Teaching Assistantship (2012-2016) - Department of Psychology, Wayne State University
• Graduate Professional Scholarship (2016-2019) - Wayne State University

Expertise

• Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• Employee Well-being
• Fairness in Organizations

Recent Publications

• Thrasher, G., Krenn, D.R., & Marchiondo, L.A.(2020).Are counter-productive workplace behaviors and workplace deviance parallel constructs? A meta-analytic test of a common practice. ​Occupational Health Science.

• Clark, M.A., Early, R.J., Baltes, B.B., & Krenn, D. (2019). Work-family behavioral role conflict: Scale development and validation.​ Journal of Business and Psychology, 34,39-53.

• Marchiondo, L.A., Biermeier-Hanson, B., Krenn, D.R., & Kabat-Farr, D. (2018). Target meaning-making of workplace incivility based on perceived personality similarity with perpetrators. ​Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied​, 152, 474-496.