She teaches and researchers in the area of organizational communication. Her current research includes the issues of workplace bullying and non-sexual harassment and positive emotions in the workplace. In 2008 she was awarded the National Communication Association�s Applied Communication Division�s Outstanding Scholarly Article Award for her article �Take this job and � : Quitting and other forms of resistance to workplace bullying� published in Communication Monographs. In 2005 Dr. Lutgen-Sandvik was an expert witness for a workplace bullying case in Ohio. She recently co-edited Destructive Organizational Communication: Processes, Consequences, & Constructive Ways of Organizing with Beverly Davenport Sypher for Routledge.