Management of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources

Dr. Agata Mirowska

Dr. Gordon (Qi) Wang

Thesis Title: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation of Leader Virtues and Virtuous Leadership .
Supervisor: Dr. Rick Hackett

Dr. Christa Wilkin (nee Austin)

Thesis Title: The Green-Eyed Monster Strikes Back: Moderators and Mediators of Distributive Justice and Theft. Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Connelly

Dr. Akanksha Bedi

Dr. Mark Podolsky

Dr. Haniyeh Yousofpourfard

Thesis Title: Cultural Intelligence: A New Approach To Manage Teamwork In Culturally Diverse Teams.
Supervisor: Dr. Rick Hackett

Dr. Anthony Celani

Thesis Title: Antecedents and Consequences of Collectivistic Group Norms.
Supervisor: Dr. Kevin Tasa

Dr. Khaldoun Ababneh

Dr. Tatiana Kuzmenko

Thesis Title: The Effects of Transformational and Transactional Leadership on Employee Creative Performance: Role of follower's motivation, identity and self-esteem.
Supervisor: Dr. Rick Hackett

Dr. David Richards

Thesis Title: Individual Differences and Leader-Subordinate Relationships: Examining The Relations Between Individual Attachment, Emotion Regulation, Leader-Member Exchange, and Employee Behaviour.
Supervisor: Dr. Rick Hackett

Assistant Professor at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario
Current Research involves research into attachment theory in organizations, ethics, and work meaning.
Grants: SSHRC fundings for a study investigating attachment theory and self-determination.

http://business.lakeheadu.ca/dr-david-richards/

Dr. Changquan Jiao

Supervisor: Dr. Rick Hackett

Dr. Nita Chhinzer

Thesis Title: Evaluating Layoff Tehniques: A Policy-Capturing Study of Voluntary Versus Involuntary Layoffs.
Supervisor: Dr. Naresh Agarwal

Research topics include: Organizational change, Managerial decision making, Restructuring, Downsizing, and Employment Law.

Dr. Chhinzer is currently an Assisttant Professor, Dept. of Business, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario

http://www.uofguelph.ca/business/nita-chhinzer.shtml

Dr. Haiyan Zhang

Thesis Title: Antecedents and Consequences of Organizational Justice: An investigation in China.
Supervisor: Dr. Naresh Agarwal

Dr. Waheeda Lillevik

Thesis Title: Differing Communication Styles: Cultural Differences in the Exhibition of Organizational Citizenship Behaviours.
Supervisor: Dr. Harish Jain

Dr. Gordon Cooke

Thesis Title: The Nature and Incidence of Non-standard Work Arrangements.
Supervisor: Dr. Isik Zeytinoglu

Dr. Ed Ng

Thesis Title: Employment Equity and Organizational Diversity performance: The Roll of CEO's Characteristics and Commitment.
Supervisor: Dr. Harish Jain

Dr. Ng is currently an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University
http://management.dal.ca/People%20and%20Groups/Faculty/Profile.php?id=116

Dr. Greg Sears

Thesis Title: The Dispositional Antecedents of Leader-Member Exchange and Organizational Citizenship Behaviours: A Process Perspective.
Supervisor: Dr. Rick Hackett

Assistant Professor, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
http://sprott.carleton.co/directory/sears-greg

Dr. Mohammed Al-Waqfi

Thesis Title: The effects of  skill-based pay system on employee organizational commitment and role orientations.
Supervisor: Dr. Naresh Agarwal

Dr. Deborah Zinni

Thesis Title: Participation decisions by labour union members: Theory of planned behaviour and personality.
Supervisor: Dr. Harish Jain

Dr. Laurent Lapierre

Thesis Title: Understanding the links between work commitment constructs.
Supervisor: Dr. Rick Hackett

Dr. Lapierre is currently an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour and a Telfer Reserach Fellow at the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management. His research focuses on work-family conflict and on leader-follower relationships. His work has been published in serveral journals, such as the Journal of Management, the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Personnel Psychology, the Journal of International business Studies, the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Dr. Janet Romaine

Thesis Title: The influence of organizational culture and gender salience on managers' decision-making styles.
Supervisor: Dr. Isik Zeytinoglu

Since finishing the doctorate in 1999, Dr. Romaine has been teaching at Saint Anseim College, a four-year liberal arts college in New Hampshire. Currently an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics and Business. Research interests include a focus on gender in the workplace, organizational justice and behavioral ethics. Her most recent presented paper was on the Peter Principal (and why, despite some recent research suggesting that organizations would be better off if they promoted their worst rather than their best performers, HR is not yet obsolete).

http://anselm.edu/Academics/Majors-and-Departments/Economics-and-Business/Faculty/Janet-Romaine.htm

Dr. Parbudyal Singh

Thesis Title: The effect firm strategy on the level and structure of CEO compensation: Evidence from the Canadian metal mining industry.
Supervisor: Dr. Naresh Agarwal

Dr. Peter Alexander Hausdorf

Thesis Title: Understanding the impact of pre-interview information on the reliability, validity, accuracy and differential validity of employment interview decisions: Comparison across interview question type, rating scale and scoring protocols.
Supervisor: Dr. Willi Wiesner

Dr. Hausdorf is currently an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Psychology at the University of Guelph. Current research includes: employment selection, task performance, work-life regulation, and succession management.

http://www.uoguelph.ca/psychology/page.cfm?id=653

Dr. Susan Kichuk

Thesis Title: The effect of general cognitive ability, teamwork KSA's and the "Big Five" personality factors on the performance of engineering design teams: implications for the selection of teams.
Supervisor: Dr. Willi Wiesner

Dr. Simon Taggar

Thesis Title: Personality, cognitive ability and behaviour: The antecedents of effective autonomous work teams.
Supervisor: Dr. Rick Hackett