Margot Plunkett’s research and teaching examine employee experiences in fraught times, such as when organizations seek to control personal habits, when members navigate the integration of new technologies into the workplace, and when employees assimilate into dominant norms shaped by exclusionary expectations.
Margot Plunkett is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Margot’s research focalizes employee experiences to understand the communicative mechanisms through which organizational practices and expectations shape employee wellbeing. Her work explores control, organizational socialization, and the workplace experiences of stigmatized populations. She also examines how emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, are transforming workplace processes of connection, identity, and expertise. Across her research, Margot is interested in the everyday communicative practices through which organizational expectations become embedded in employees’ experiences and relationships at work. Her work has appeared in Human Communication Research, Qualitative Research in Organizing and Management, and Humanistic Management Journal.
M.A. (2025), University of California, Santa Barbara, Communication
B.A. (2022), Arizona State University, Communication
B.A. (2022), Arizona State University, English (Literature)