Aleksander P.J. Ellis

About

Aleksander P.J. Ellis is a professor at the Eller College of Management, where he holds the Stephen P. Robbins Chair in Organizational Behavior and serves as the Research Director of the Center for Leadership Ethics. He joined the Eller College in 2003 and earned his PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University in 2003. His research focuses on the behavior of groups and teams within organizations, with particular emphasis on counterproductive behavior, including unethical and deviant conduct in the workplace. Additionally, his work addresses human resource management issues such as employee turnover and performance appraisal. Ellis's academic contributions include teaching courses related to leadership, organizational behavior, psychology of groups at work, and managing ethics in organizations. His scholarly work has been published in numerous reputable journals, and he serves on editorial boards for the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Political Science
• Management
• Developmental psychology
• Gender studies
• Public relations

Selected publications

• Gender and the evaluation of humor at work.

  Journal of Applied Psychology · 2019-02-07 · 104 citations

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  Although research has added to our understanding of the positive and negative effects of the use of humor at work, scholars have paid little attention to characteristics of the humor source. We argue that this is an important oversight, particularly in terms of gender. Guided by parallel-constraint-satisfaction theory (PCST), we propose that gender plays an important role in understanding when using humor at work can have costs for the humor source. Humor has the potential to be interpreted as e…

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• Overcoming the effects of sleep deprivation on unethical behavior: An extension of integrated self-control theory

  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 2018-02-19 · 34 citations

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• Examining the effects of menstruation on women's helping behaviour in the workplace

  Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology · 2019-01-24 · 28 citations

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  The purpose of this study was to examine how menstruation affects women's well‐being and discretionary helping on a day‐to‐day basis – an important step in understanding how factors tied to women's health affect them daily at work. Using an experience sampling study with 96 women over 20 workdays (Level‐1 n = 1640), results indicated that the pain experienced by women on the days they were menstruating related to increased daily depletion and negative mood. Depletion subsequently decreased helpi…

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• If You Can’t Join ‘Em, Report ‘Em: A Model of Ostracism and Whistleblowing in Teams

  Journal of Business Ethics · 2020 · 21 citations

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• How Perpetrator Gender Influences Reactions to Premeditated Versus Impulsive Unethical Behavior: A Role Congruity Approach

  Journal of Business Ethics · 2019-01-24 · 17 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Daniel R. Ilgen

  14 shared

• John R. Hollenbeck

  14 shared

• Christopher O. L. H. Porter

  Virginia Tech

  14 shared

• Daphna Motro

  12 shared

• Ke Michael

  China Europe International Business School

  12 shared

• Stephen E. Humphrey

  Pennsylvania State University

  11 shared

• Matthew J. Pearsall

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  11 shared

• Bradley J. West

  8 shared

Awards & honors

• Stephen P. Robbins Chair in Organizational Behavior (2015)

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