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Paul Mulvey

· Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of Human Resource Management

North Carolina State University · IT, Analytics and Operations (ITAO)

Active 1991–2025

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Citations1.2k
Papers317 last 5y
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About

Dr. Paul W. Mulvey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Labor and Human Resources from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Lehigh University. Prior to his current appointment, he has taught at The Ohio State University and the University of Connecticut. His research, teaching, and consulting focus on reward systems and practices, work teams, leadership, recruiting, and retention. Dr. Mulvey has received several teaching awards, including NC State’s Outstanding Teaching Award, and is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers. He has conducted research, consulted, and instructed executive education with over 60 organizations. His work has been featured in national media such as National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and USA Today. He has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences and published articles in management journals including the Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Journal, and others. Additionally, he is an original co-author of publications related to employee rewards and pay, funded and published by WorldatWork.

Research topics

  • Political Science
  • Psychotherapist
  • Business
  • Psychology
  • Clinical psychology
  • Philosophy
  • Public relations
  • Social psychology
  • Aesthetics

Selected publications

  • THE SOURCES AND ACCURACY OF JOB APPLICANTS' BELIEFS ABOUT ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE.

    Academy of Management Journal · 2000-12-01 · 197 citations

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    We focus on the beliefs that applicants develop about organizational culture during the anticipatory stage of socialization. Data from 240 job applicants suggested that an organization used product...

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  • Consequences of Satisfaction with Pay Systems: Two Field Studies

    Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society · 2000-01-01 · 118 citations

    articleSenior author

    Research on pay satisfaction has been criticized for inattention to determining whether its multiple dimensions have different consequences and for overreliance on cross‐sectional designs. Structural equation analyses of data from two field studies showed that satisfaction with pay systems, but not pay levels, led to greater perceived organizational support, which in turn affected employer commitment and organizational citizenship. Union commitment was a positive function of pay system satisfact…

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  • Study Finds that Knowledge of Pay Process Can Beat Out Amount of Pay in Employee Retention, Organizational Effectiveness

    Journal of Organizational Excellence · 2002-08-26 · 36 citations

    article1st authorCorresponding

    Abstract This article is based on some of the findings of a major research study just published by WorldatWork (formerly American Compensation Association) entitled The Knowledge of Pay Study: E‐mails from the Frontline . Surveying more than 6,000 managers and employees in 26 major U.S. and Canadian organizations, the study found close connections between employees' knowledge of their organization's pay structure and their ability to align their own behaviors and goals to those of the organizati…

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  • Pay Satisfaction, Cognitive Complexity, and Global Solutions: Is a Single Structure Appropriate for Everyone?

    The Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship · 2004-04-01 · 21 citations

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    Executive Summary In the current paper we partially replicate and extend prior work by Carraher and Buckley (1996a & b) and Carraher, Buckley, & Carraher (2002) who had examined the relationship between mean group levels of cognitive complexity and the number of observed dimensions for pay satisfaction as measured by the PSQ within several samples. Using 41 data sets from journal articles and academic presentations in order to examine the dimensional nature of the PSQ and an equation for estimat…

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  • The Sources And Accuracy Of Job Applicants' Beliefs About Organizational Culture

    Academy of Management Journal · 2000-12-01 · 20 citations

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Labs

  • Poole College of ManagementPI

Education

  • B.S., Psychology

    Lehigh University

Awards & honors

  • Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching Award (2…

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