The Challenges of Military Veterans in Their Transition to the Workplace

Research by Professors Steve Shepherd, Alair MacLean, Aaron Kay, and David Sherman

The Challenges of Military Veterans in Their Transition to the Workplace: A Call for Integrating Basic and Applied Psychological Science” by Professors Steve Shepherd, Alair MacLean, Aaron Kay, and David Sherman outlines key factors that influence veterans’ workplace transition outcomes from a social psychological and organizational behavior perspective, provides illustrative examples from their own research, and argues for a research agenda that focuses on other areas of the field, such as barriers to belonging, stereotype threat, and coping with discrimination.

View the research here.

The Veteran Transitions Research Lab at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business is dedicated to producing research that explores the fundamental social and psychological processes influencing veterans’ ability to thrive after service.

Learn more about VTRL here.