Message Image

Skip main navigation (Press Enter).

Executive Committee

Chair-Track Positions
Representative-at-Large Positions
Ongoing Positions

Chair-Track Positions

Past Division Chair Cristina Gibson School of Business University of Western Australia WA 6009 Australia cristina.gibson@uwa.edu.au	Cristina B. Gibson is Winthrop Professor of Management and Organization and Australia Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Western Australia School of Business. Her area of expertise is the nexus of organizational behavior, international management, and cross-cultural psychology. She is a leading scholar on collective cognition, developing and testing theories and practical techniques for the shared use of information and knowledge, and the role of culture in these processes. Cristina was recently awarded the Thomson Reuters 2015 Highly Cited Distinction for being among the top 1% of business and economic academics globally in terms of citation count between 2002-2015, and she is the 2014 recipient of the University of Western Australia Vice Chancellor’s Award for Senior Research Excellence.
Division Chair Sigal Barsade Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 barsade@wharton.upenn.edu	Sigal G. Barsade is the Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where she is the area coordinator of the Organizational Behavior group. Prior to that she was on the faculty of Yale University, and received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the influence of affect on work behavior with a focus on affect in groups and team processes; affect and individual outcomes; organizational culture; and diversity and implicit processes. She has published articles about emotional contagion in groups; the influence of emotions on organizational outcomes generally – and on creativity, decision-making and negotiations specifically; emotional intelligence; emotional organizational culture; the outcomes of specific emotions on work performance; affective diversity in top management teams and implicit emotions in organizations. She has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly; Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes and Organization Science, and served as co-associate editor for a special issue of Organization Science – The Psychology of Organizational Networks. Within the Academy of Management she has held the role of Organizational Behavior Division Representative at Large, was a member of the long-range planning committee for the Organizational Behavior Division, has participated as a faculty fellow and panelist in numerous doctoral and junior factory consortia, and has been a judge for multiple Best Paper Awards.
Incoming Division Chair Daan van Knippenberg LeBow College of Business Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104 dlv39@drexel.edu	Daan van Knippenberg is Joseph F. Rocereto Chair of Leadership at the LeBow College of Business, Drexel University. Daan served as Editor-in-Chief Academy of Management Annals (2016-2019), Associate Editor Academy of Management Journal (2013-2016), editorial board Academy of Management Annals (2013-2016) and Academy of Management Journal (2011-2013; 2016-present), and on several awards committees (OB Division Mentoring Award 2015-2016; OB Division Best Paper with International Implications Award 2015; OB Division Best Published Paper 2011-2013; HR Division Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award 2015-2016; Network of Leadership Scholars Eminent Leadership Scholar Award 2013). Outside AOM he has served as member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, as Editor Organizational Psychology Review, Associate Editor Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Organizational Behavior, and serves or has served as editorial board member of 14 other journals. Daan is Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and of the American Psychological Association. Daan’s core expertise is in leadership, diversity, team performance, creativity, and social identity; topics in which he also teaches in in-company, MBA, PhD, and Msci programs.
Program Chair Ron Piccolo College of Business University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32816 rpiccolo@ucf.edu	Dr. Ronald F. Piccolo is the Chair of the Department of Management and the Galloway Professor of Management in the College of Business at the University of Central Florida. From 2009 – 2016, he served as the Cornell Professor of Management and Academic Director of the Center for Leadership Development & Executive Education in the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College. Dr. Piccolo earned a Ph.D. in management from the University of Florida, an M.B.A. from Rollins, and a Bachelors of Science in mathematics from Stetson University. He has been a visiting scholar at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, and the Amsterdam Business School. Dr. Piccolo teaches or has taught graduate-level courses in leadership, organizational behavior (OB), research methods, and management strategy. At Rollins College, he was the recipient of the Cornell Distinguished Teaching Award (2015-2016) and the Cornell Distinguished Faculty Award (2011-2012) for outstanding teaching, research and service, and he was a keynote speaker (2012, 2013, 2014) on “Teaching Effectiveness” for the OB division of the Academy of Management.
Incoming Program Chair Rebecca Bennett College of Business University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32816 Rebecca.Bennett@ucf.edu	Dr. Rebecca (Becky) Bennett is a Professor of Management in the College of Business at the University of Central Florida. She studies the “dark side” of organizational behavior (employee deviance), insider threats to cyber security, embeddedness, pay communication, touch in the workplace, and forgiveness. Bennett has served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She has served the OB division as a new member mentor (2017, 2018), as a member of the Best Dissertation-based paper committee (2005, 2008), and as a reviewer, symposium organizer, presenter, and discussant.

Representative-at-Large Positions

Uta Bindl London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street London, WC2A 2AE, UK UBindl.aom@gmail.com	Dr Uta Bindl earned her PhD in Work Psychology in 2011 from the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield (UK), her MA in Organisational Management from the University of Flensburg, and her BA in International Business and Management from the University of Applied Sciences Osnabruck (both Germany). Prior to joining the LSE in 2013, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Western Australia. Dr Bindl has published her work in eminent peer-reviewed outlets, such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Management, and Human Relations. She is currently serving as an editorial board member of the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior, as well as an ad-hoc reviewer for several other peer-reviewed journals.
N. Sharon Hill GW School of Business George Washington University nshill@gwu.edu	N. Sharon Hill is an Associate Professor of management at the George Washington School of Business in Washington D.C. Her research focuses on organizational change and virtual work arrangements where the use of technology replaces traditional face-to-face interaction (e.g., virtual teams, telecommuting). Sharon's research has been published in Academy of Management Annals, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology and other outlets. Sharon currently serves on the editorial board at Personnel Psychology. She very much enjoys publishing with and mentoring doctoral students and junior faculty and looks forward to helping to serving their needs as Representative-at-Large.
Andrew Knight Olin Business School Washington University in St. Louis knightap@wustl.edu	Andrew Knight is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is also a Faculty Scholar in the Institute for Public Health and a Faculty Fellow in the Institute for School Partnership. He studies the interpersonal dynamics of groups in organizations, with a focus on affect, relationships, and entrepreneurship. In the classroom, Knight is an award-winning teacher, currently offering courses on informal leadership for MBA and executive audiences and on organizational research methods for doctoral students.Knight serves as a member of the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Group & Organization Management, and Small Group Research. He has also served the Academy of Management’s OB Division as a member of the Making Connections Committee (2014-2016), the Best Paper with Practical Implications Committee (2012, 2013), the Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication Committee (2014), and the Best Dissertation-Based Paper Award Committee (2017). Prior to joining the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, Knight led research and product development at Pascal Metrics Inc. – a risk analytics provider in the healthcare industry – from its founding through 2010. He received his B.A. (summa cum laude) in Psychology and Spanish from the University of Dayton, OH; his M.A. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park; and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Managerial Science and Applied Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He lives in University City, MO with his wife, Lauren, and their three boys.
Keith Leavitt College of Business, Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331, USA	Dr. Keith Leavitt's research interests include behavioral ethics, identity and situated judgment, social judgments, and research methods. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP), the Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Business Ethics. His work has been featured in over 200 news outlets including the New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Vice News, Wall Street Journal Radio, The Huffington Post, Time Magazine, and prominently on the front of his mother's refrigerator. In his spare time, he enjoys mountain biking, fly fishing, skiing, the occasional existential crisis, and trying to sneak inappropriately-placed messages in to his faculty profile.
Laura Little Terry College of Business, University of Georgia lmlittle@uga.edu	Laura M. Little is an Associate Professor of Management and the Director of the Institute for Leadership Advancement at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. She received her Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University, her M.B.A. from University of Texas at Austin and her B.A. from Vanderbilt University. Little researches image management particularly in the work-life arena and emotion regulation of self and other. Her work has been published in several academic journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science and Personnel Psychology. Little’s co-authored paper on image management strategies used by pregnant employees received the 2016 Academy of Management Journal’s Best Paper Award. Little also served as a board member for the Southern Management Association from 2012-2015. A member of the Organizational Behavior Division since 2003, Little has served as conference reviewer, session chair, and discussant. She hopes to utilize a representative-at-large position as an opportunity to help the OB division enhance the sense of community among its members and to help increase the influence OB research has in practice.
Denise Loyd Business Administration, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL, 61820, USA loyddl@illinois.edu
Shimul Melwani Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shimul_melwani@kenan-flagler.unc.edu	Shimul Melwani is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests lie at the intersection of emotions and interpersonal dynamics. She also coordinates the organizational behavior PhD program at Kenan-Flagler. Shimul serves as a member of the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Discoveries and has also served the Academy of Management’s OB Division as a member of the OB Best Paper Award Committee for 2018 and 2019 as well as a panelist in the OB Doctoral Consortium (2017-2018). She also served as a Rep-at-Large for the Conflict Management division (2016-2018).
Celia Moore Bocconi University celia.moore@unibocconi.it	Celia Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Her research focuses on how organizations facilitate morally problematic behavior, and how individuals can exercise their agency to steer organizations for the better. Celia is currently an Academic Fellow of the Ethics and Compliance Initiative, a collaborator at EthicalSystems.Org, and sits on the UK’s Banking Standards Board Assessment Steering Committee. Her service to the Academy of Management includes sitting on the academy-wide Ethics Adjudication Committee (2018-2021), as well as serving on the committee to select the William H. Newman Award, which recognizes the best annual meeting paper based on a dissertation (2018), and the committee to select the Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior (2019).
Ashleigh Rosette The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University Durham, NC 27708, USA arosette@duke.edu	Ashleigh Shelby Rosette is a tenured Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. In her primary area of research, she explores social and contextual factors that influence diversity-related perceptions. In her secondary area of research, she examines various strategies that individuals employ to improve the negotiation process and negotiated outcome. Her research has been published in top academic journals, such as Academy of Management Journal; Organization Science; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes;Journal of Applied Psychology; Psychological Science; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; and Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology. Professor Rosette’s teaching experience spans across a spectrum of topics that center around two primary areas: (1) Negotiations and (2) Leadership. She has received the Excellence in Teaching Award of the Year in the Executive MBA programs at Fuqua ten times. In her service to the field of organizational behavior, she has been active in the Academy of Management, participating on several occasions as a reviewer, a presenter, a discussant, a caucus leader, and a symposium organizer. Most recently in the Organizational Behavior Division, she has served as a speaker for the New Doctoral Student Consortium, a keynote speaker for the Doctoral Consortium, and a panelist in the Prolific Junior Faculty Workshop. She received her Bachelor in Business Administration degree and Master in Professional Accounting degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Ongoing Positions

COO Brad Kirkman Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University, NC 27695, USA brad_kirkman@ncsu.edu	Bradley L. Kirkman is the General (Ret.) H. Hugh Shelton Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Department Head of the Department of Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on leadership, international management, virtual teams, and work team leadership and empowerment. He was formerly the Foreman R. and Ruby Bennett Endowed Chair in Business Administration in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He has held visiting professor positions in the Department of Management and Organizations at the University of Western Australia in 2006 and the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in 2012. His articles have appeared in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, and Leadership Quarterly. In 2014, he was elected as a Fellow of both the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association. He was an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal from 2005 to 2008 and is a current Editorial Board member for AMJ, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Psychology Review. He also received Outstanding Reviewer Awards from AMJ in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, and 2011. He has conducted research, presented papers, and taught in several countries including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Dubai (UAE), England, Finland, France, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, the People’s Republic of China, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United States.
Communication officer Natalia (Nataly) Lorinkova McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University,Washington DC, 20057, USA Nataly.Lorinkova@ georgetown.edu	Dr. Natalia (Nataly) M. Lorinkova is an assistant professor at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington DC. She completed her PhD in Management at the R. H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Her research focuses on leadership and social diversity issues (with emphases on dynamic and multi-level leadership processes and accent, body image, and time-theft issues in organizations). Nataly also examines interpersonal dynamics in non-traditional work arrangements such as virtual teams, teleworking, and working from home. From a methodological perspective, Nataly is interested in growth modeling, multi-level modeling and, most recently, polynomial surface plotting techniques. Her research has appeared in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology and Journal of Management. Dr. Lorinkova is a member of the Academy of Management (OB, GDO, and RM divisions) and her work has received best paper awards and included in the best conference papers proceedings (HR and OB divisions).
Event Planner Laura Erskine University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 lerskine@ucla.edu	Laura Erskine is Acting Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the MPH Programs in Health Policy and Management at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and her MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Her teaching interests are in the area of healthcare, organizational behavior and leadership. Laura's research interests include the meaning of relational distance in leader-follower relationships, leadership in virtual settings, and emergent leadership in the context of collective action. Laura is an active member of the Academy of Management. She is the Logistics Coordinator for the Network of Leadership Scholars and is a past-President of the New Doctoral Student Consortium. Following her MBA studies, she worked as a management consultant for A.T. Kearney, in a variety of marketing and strategy roles at Disney Online and FirstLook.com, and as a co-founder of Eureka Review, a Los Angeles-based SAT tutoring company.
Program Developer Officer Alex Gerbasi University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK a.gerbasi@exeter.ac.uk	Alexandra Gerbasi is Professor of Leadership and Head of the Department of Management at the University of Exeter Business School. Alexandra’s research focus on social networks and leadership within organisations. Her work has appeared in world leading journals such as Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior and Leadership Quarterly. Alexandra graduated with distinction from Duke University and earned a PhD in social psychology at Stanford University.Alexandra has worked at Stanford University, Grenoble Ecole de Management, the University of Surrey, and the University of Exeter. She has researched and worked with leaders across the world in a variety of sectors, including consulting, defence, energy, finance, government, healthcare, and manufacturing.
Program Developer Officer Jessica Methot School of Management and LaborRelations, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854 jmethot@smlr.rutgers.edu	Jessica Methot is an associate professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She conducts research at the intersection of interpersonal workplace relationships and social network dynamics, such as how team processes promote trust and team effectiveness and the functional and dysfunctional consequences of workplace friendships. Her work in these areas has been published in outlets including Academy of Management Review, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Business and Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, Occupational Stress and Well-Being, and The SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series; her research has been featured in popular media outlets such as NPR, USA Today, Fast Company, Marie Claire Magazine, HR Morning, and Human Resource Executive Online; and she is active in professional organizations including the Academy of Management, the International Network for Social Network Analysis, the Positive Relationships at Work Microcommunity, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Program Developer Officer Eean R. Crawford Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa Iowa, IA 52242 eean-crawford@uiowa.edu	Eean R. Crawford is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations and Director of Graduate Studies of Management and Organizations in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. He received his doctorate in management in 2011 from the University of Florida, and his MAcc and B.S. in Accounting from Brigham Young University in 2006. As a Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow, he conducts research on employee engagement, team effectiveness, leadership, and personality. His research has been published Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Applied Psychology. He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Applied Psychology, and a member of SIOP and the Academy of Management (OB, HR, and RM divisions). His research has been recognized with SIOP’s 2012 William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award and the AOM HR Division 2014 Scholarly Achievement Award. from the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management. This award was given to the authors of the most significant article in Human Resource Management published in 2013. He has consulted with numerous organizations about their team effectiveness including HNI, ACT, Panda Restaurant Group, the Veterans Health Administration, the United States Marine Corps, Modine Manufacturing, Acciona Wind Power, and ITA Group.
Program Developer Officer Lance Frazier LanceFrazier@creighton.edu
CTO Darren B Karunanithi School of Business, University of N.British Columbia, BC, Canada dharan@ieee.org	Darren B Karunanithi is an Assistant Professor in School of Business at the University of N.British Columbia, Canada. He has completed his PhD in Leadership (2019) at the Research School of Management, Australian National University, Australia. He has also received a PhD in Data Compression(Field: Computer Science and Engineering) and an MBA from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He was on the faculty of Korea University, South Korea and Feng Chia University, Taiwan. In the engineering field, he has published more than 41 research papers in well-regarded journals such as IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration, and ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. In 2012, based on his contribution to Information and Communication Technologies, the government of Taiwan presented him with an unconditional Permanent Residency status (Plum Blossom card), which grants special and prestigious status in Taiwan. Also, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recognized his professional contributions by awarding him the IEEE Senior Member grade, which is the highest honor and international recognition for engineering professionals. In the management field, his work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Business Ethics and Leadership Quarterly. His current research interests include leader humility, paradoxical leadership, knowledge hiding, innovation ambidexterity, entrepreneurship, Internet Of Things (IoT), and Video Coding.
Digital Specialist Carys Chan carys.chan@rmit.edu.au
Making Connections Committee Beth Campbell campbele@umn.edu
Global Committee Chair Alexander Newman Faculty of Business and Law Deakin University Melbourne Burwood Campus Melbourne, Australia a.newman@deakin.edu.au	Alex Newman is a Professor of Management and Associate Dean (International) for the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University, Australia. He conducts research in the disciplines of leadership, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship and human resource management. He is Chair of the International Network at the Australian Business Dean's Council and Chair of the Global Committee of the Organizational Behavior Division at the Academy of Management.
Treasurer Bret Bradley Dept. of Management and International Business University of Oklahoma, USA bret-bradley@ou.edu	Bret Bradley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and International Business at the University of Oklahoma. His research intersects the areas of small group dynamics, team performance, leadership, and ethics. He studies workplace issues such as conflict management, problem employees, entrepreneurial team dynamics, expertise maximization, workplace deviance, multi-team systems, and emotion regulation. He is on the editorial board of Small Group Research, and has published articles at Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management.

Copyright Academy of Management. All rights reserved.

Powered by Higher Logic