The themes that underlie my research programs correspond to my general interest in corporate/organizational responsibility, diversity (both domestic and international), and ethics. My “life agenda” is to have an impact on the academic community, but also on society at large (e.g., Cascio & Aguinis, 2008, Journal of Applied Psychology). I conduct work in three parallel research programs. Each of these programmatic research activities reflects my interest in the traditional areas of organizational behavior, human resource management, and research methods and analysis.
As an example of my work in the general area of organizational behavior, I am interested in leadership and in how power perceptions are formed and transferred across organizational levels (e.g., from the individual to the team and from a team to an individual member). For example, this line of research led to a publication in Academy of Management Review (2001) and a follow-up article in the Journal of Applied Psychology (2005). The 2005 article describes two “black boxes” in power research: (a) the link between power antecedents and power perceptions, and (b) the link between power perceptions and power outcomes. I am also interested in the interplay between power, workplace romance, and sexual harassment, which are phenomena that also permeate the individual, dyadic, team and even organizational level of analysis (e.g., effects of organizational policies on individual and team level outcomes). For example, this line of research led to an article in Academy in Management Journal (2000) and an article in 2004 in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. I have several projects underway on the topics of leadership, power and influence, and interpersonal relationships in organizations, which are related to my general themes of corporate/organizational responsibility and ethics.
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My interest in research methods emphasizes methods for estimating interaction effects in Management and related fields both at the primary-level and meta-analytic level. My overall goal in this area is to improve research methods available to researchers in Management and related fields. Specifically, I am interested in methodological tools that allow researchers to test hypotheses about interaction effects including ethnicity, gender, and other categorical variables (again, this stream of research is related to my general interest in corporate/organizational responsibility, diversity, and ethics). As examples of recent work, in 2005 I published an article on this topic in the Journal of Applied Psychology and in 2004 a solo-authored scholarly book titled Regression Analysis for Categorical Moderators (Guilford Press). I also have several projects underway addressing methodological issues (e.g., interaction effects; trends in the use of design, measurement, and analysis in the organizational sciences; etc.).
