Bradley Kirkman

About

Professor Bradley Kirkman is a member of the People Management Advisory Board at NC State University's Poole College of Management. The purpose of this advisory board is to support faculty in providing relevant, effective education and meaningful research related to modern business environments. The board's interactions aim to assist faculty in developing a deep understanding of enterprise management, including strategy formulation, staffing, and resourcing. Specific details about Professor Kirkman's research focus, background, or key contributions are not provided in the page text.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Psychology
• Knowledge management
• Social psychology
• Political Science
• Engineering ethics
• Mechanical engineering
• Medicine
• Management science

Selected publications

• Passion at work: A meta‐analysis of individual work outcomes

  Journal of Organizational Behavior · 2020 · 281 citations

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  Summary Academic research on passion is much more complex than the extant literature or popular press portray. Although research on work‐related passion has progressed rapidly over the last decade, much remains unknown. We are now just beginning to recognize the different theoretical underpinnings and empirical operationalizations that work passion research has adopted, and the confusion this has generated hampers our understanding of the construct and its relationship to workplace outcomes. Acc…

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• The Emergence of Emergent Leadership: A Comprehensive Framework and Directions for Future Research

  Journal of Management · 2020 · 132 citations

  There has been increasing attention to examining informal (i.e., horizontal), rather than formal (i.e., vertical), approaches to leadership over the last several decades, enhancing our understanding of the dynamics of emergent leadership. Although such research has led to a growing comprehension of the process of, and factors involved in, leader emergence, the literature still lacks theoretical coherence. Without a clear way to connect and synthesize extant research, the time is right for a much…

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• Building Resilient Virtual Teams

  Organizational Dynamics · 2021-01-01 · 32 citations

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• The forgotten side of empowering others: How lower social structural empowerment attenuates the effects of empowering leadership on employee psychological empowerment and performance.

  Journal of Applied Psychology · 2023-06-12 · 26 citations

  articleSenior author

  Theory and research have widely argued for and documented positive impacts of empowering leadership on employee psychological empowerment, putting empowering leadership on a pedestal depicting it as a panacea for increasing psychological empowerment. However, we argue that this could be due to not considering social structural empowerment (i.e., a construct manifested in employees' beliefs about their access to resources, access to information, and sociopolitical support) as a so far "forgotten…

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• Too many teams? Examining the impact of multiple team memberships and permanent team identification on employees’ identity strain, cognitive depletion, and turnover

  Personnel Psychology · 2022-04-23 · 24 citations

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  Abstract As the prevalence of multiple team membership (MTM) arrangements continues to grow, researchers have argued that shifting between teams and work roles induces MTM identity strain and other harmful outcomes. Drawing from work role transitions research on role identity and integrating it with social identity theory, we investigate this line of reasoning by conducting two studies, one field and one online panel study, focusing on blended MTMs, in which employees are concurrently assigned t…

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Frequent coauthors

• Jess H. Chua

  University of Calgary

  21 shared

• Debra L. Shapiro

  University of Maryland, College Park

  21 shared

• Benson Rosen

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  20 shared

• Luis R. Gómez‐Mejía

  Jönköping University

  19 shared

• T. Brad Harris

  HEC Paris

  17 shared

• Yat-sen Sun

  Conference Board

  16 shared

• Xinchun Li

  16 shared

• John E. Mathieu

  University of Connecticut

  14 shared

Labs

• People Management Advisory BoardPI

Education

• Ph.D., Organizational Behavior

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  1991

• M.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  1986

• B.S., Industrial Engineering

  University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  1984

Awards & honors

• Research Leadership Award in the Poole College of Management…
• Departmental winner of the Research Leadership Award in the…
• Research Impact Award in the Management, Innovation, and Ent…
• Fellow of the Academy of Management (2022)
• Member of the Society for Organizational Behavior (2019)

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