David Waldman

waldman@asu.edu
BA
352B

Professor
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
4006

Biography

David A. Waldman is a professor of management in the W. P. Carey School of Business. His research interests focus largely on leadership processes, especially at the upper levels of organizations and in a global context. He is the recipient of the Network of Leadership Scholars’ Eminent Leadership Scholar award for 2020 (https://nls.aom.org/leadership-awards/late-stage-career-award/. Many of his research efforts have been interdisciplinary in nature. For example, his recent activities in the area of organizational neuroscience have gained notoriety in both academic and practitioner circles, including publications in the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology, as well as write-ups in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and the Financial Times. He recently spearheaded a successful effort to add an interest group to the Academy of Management, "Organizational Neuroscience" (NEU). Further, he is recognized as largely originating the concept of responsible leadership, which involves understanding leadership processes in the realm of corporate social responsibility, and he has led interdisciplinary efforts to incorporate management and organizational issues in technology transfer processes.

In addition to the journals mentioned above, Professor Waldman’s accomplishments include more than 130 articles in such journals as the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Personnel Psychology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, and The Leadership Quarterly. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 31,000 times. He has also published 5 books on 360-degree feedback, leadership and open communication, organizational neuroscience, leadership in organizations, and micro-foundations of corporate social responsibility. He has been a principal investigator on grants and research contracts approximating almost $2 million from agencies such as NSF and DARPA. This work includes a current grant with the Kauffman Foundation examining entrepreneurship among scientists in academia and Federal laboratories.

Professor Waldman is a fellow of the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He makes presentations and consults worldwide on the topics of organizational neuroscience, responsible and visionary leadership, and navigating the paradoxes associated with effective leadership.

CV

waldman vita_0.doc

Education

  • Ph.D Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Colorado State University 1982
  • M.S. Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Colorado State University 1979
  • B.A. Psychology, University of Kentucky 1977

Research Interests

My research focuses on leadership processes at individual, team, and organizational levels of analysis. At these various levels, my research deals with singular leaders (e.g., CEOs), as well as more plural forms of leadership (e.g., shared leadership in teams). Currently, I focus on three streams of research in the leadership area. First, I do work connecting effective leadership behavior/characteristics with neuroscience theory and methodology. Second, I do research on the topic of responsible leadership. This interest lies at the intersection of leadership, ethics, and corporate social responsibility. Third, my work includes global and cross-cultural issues in leadership.  In addition, I have interests in the area of academic entrepreneurship, and especially how factors like leadership, organizational justice, and balancing multiple identities come into play.

My ultimate goal is to establish a center or institute on neuroscience applications to organizational and management issues, or alternatively, integrate such applications within an existing center or institute.

Publications

Representative Articles:

Waldman, D. A., Wang, D., Hannah, S. T., Owens, B. P., & Balthazard, P. A. in press. Psychological and neurological predictors of supervisor abusiveness. Personnel Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12262.

Balven, R., Fenters, V., Siegel, D., & Waldman, D. A. 2018. Academic entrepreneurship: The roles of organizational justice, championing, education, work-life balance, identity, and motivation. Academy of Management Perspectives, 32: 1–22.

Waldman, D. A., Wang, D., Hannah, S. T., & Balthazard, P. A. 2017. A neurological and ideological perspective of ethical leadership. Academy of Management Journal, 60: 1285-1306. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2014.0644

Waldman, D. A., Wang, D., & Fenters, V. W. 2016. The added value of neuroscience methods in organizational research. Organizational Research Methods. DOI: 10.1177/1094428116642013. http://orm.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1094428116642013v1.pdf?ijkey=pCxxUseJzEjTb0A&keytype=finite

Ou, A. Y., Waldman, D. A., & Peterson, S. 2015. Do humble CEOs matter? An examination of CEO humility and firm outcomes. Journal of Management, http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/0149206315604187v1.pdf?ijkey=8gIqRROg8yCZn7E&keytype=finite

Waldman, D. A., Carter, M., & Hom, P. 2015. A multilevel investigation of leadership and turnover behavior. Journal of Management, 41: 1724-1744. doi: 10.1177/0149206312460679.

Owens, B. P., Wallace, A. S., & Waldman, D. A. 2015. Leader narcissism and follower outcomes: The counterbalancing effect of leader humility. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100: 1203-1213. doi: 10.1037/a0038698.

Zhang, Y., Waldman, D. A., Han, Y., & Li, X. 2015. Paradoxical leader behaviors in people management: Antecedents and consequences. Academy of Management Journal, 58: 538-566. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2012.0995. Winner of the best paper in organizational behavior for 2015, awarded by the Organizational Behavior division of the Academy of Management.

Waldman, D. A., & Balven, R. 2014. Responsible leadership: Theoretical issues and research directions. Academy of Management Perspectives, 28: 224-234, DOI:10.5465/amp.2014.0016.

Berson, Y., Da’as, R., & Waldman, D. A. 2014. How do leaders and their teams bring about organizational learning and outcomes? Personnel Psychology, DOI: 10.1111/peps.12071.

Ou, A. Y., Tsui, A. S., Kinicki, A. J., Waldman, D. A., Xiao, Z., & Song, L. J. 2014. Humble chief executive officers’ connections to top management team integration and middle managers’ responses. Administrative Science Quarterly, 59: 34-72. DOI 10.1177/0001839213520131
http://asq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/0001839213520131v1

Wang, D., Waldman, D. A., & Zhang, Z. 2014. A meta-analysis of shared leadership and team effectiveness. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99: 181-198, DOI: 10.1037/a0034531.

Morgeson, F. P., Aguinis, H., Waldman, D. A., & Siegel, D. S. 2013. Extending corporate social responsibility research to the human resource management and organizational behavior domains: A look to the future. Personnel Psychology, 66: 805-824.

Hannah, S. T., Balthazard, P. A., Waldman, D. A., Jennings, P., & Thatcher, R. 2013. The psychological and neurological bases of leader self-complexity and effects on adaptive decision-making. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98: 393-411.

Varella, P., Javidan, M., & Waldman, D. A.  2012.  A model of instrumental networks: The roles of socialized charismatic leadership and group behavior. Organization Science, 23: 582-595.

Balthazard, P., Waldman, D. A., Thatcher, R. W., & Hannah, S. T. 2012. Differentiating transformational and non-transformational leaders on the basis of neurological imaging. The Leadership Quarterly, 23: 244-258. (Best paper award for The Leadership Quarterly in 2012)

Waldman, D. A., Balthazard, P. A., & Peterson, S. 2011. Social cognitive neuroscience and leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 22: 1092–1106.

Waldman, D. A., Balthazard, P. A., & Peterson, S. 2011. The neuroscience of leadership: Can we revolutionize the way that leaders are identified and developed? Academy of Management Perspectives, 25(1): 60-74.

Books:

Waldman, D. A., & O’Reilly, C. in progress Developing leadership capabilities through video-based cases: A story-telling approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

McWilliams, A., Rupp, D. E., Siegel, D. S., Stahl, G., & Waldman, D. A. (Eds.). in progress. The Oxford handbook of corporate social responsibility: Psychological and organizational perspectives.  London: Oxford University Press.

Waldman, D. A., & Balthazard, P. A. (Eds.) 2015. Organizational neuroscience. London: Emerald Books.

Atwater, L. E, & Waldman, D. A. 2008. Leadership, feedback and the open communication gap.  New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Waldman, D. A, & Atwater, L. E. 1998. The power of 3600 feedback: How to leverage performance evaluations for top productivity. Houston, TX: Gulf Publishing Company.

Courses

Spring 2021
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 792Research
MGT 799Dissertation
Fall 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 411Leading Organizations
MGT 792Research
MGT 799Dissertation
Summer 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 792Research
Spring 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 792Research
MGT 799Dissertation
Fall 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 411Leading Organizations
MGT 792Research
MGT 799Dissertation
Summer 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 792Research
Spring 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 792Research
MGT 799Dissertation
Fall 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 411Leading Organizations
MGT 792Research
MGT 799Dissertation
Summer 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 792Research
Spring 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 792Research
MGT 799Dissertation
Fall 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 411Leading Organizations
MGT 792Research
MGT 799Dissertation
Summer 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 792Research
Spring 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 792Research
MGT 799Dissertation
Fall 2016
Course NumberCourse Title
MGT 411Leading Organizations
MGT 792Research
MGT 799Dissertation

Honors/Awards

  • Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association
  • Recent mentions in the Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303725404579461722158151180 (or Google WSJ Inner Workings); and Inc. Magazine (http://www.inc.com/magazine/201306/eric-markowitz/brain-leadership-inside.html)
  • TED-style talk delivered in May 2014 at the meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu (http://youtu.be/aZuEr_JoyYk).
  • Over 20,000 cites on Google Scholar
  • Winner of the best paper in organizational behavior for 2015, awarded by the Organizational Behavior division of the Academy of Management.

Editorships

 

Professor Waldman is on the editorial review boards of:

  • Academy of Management Journal 
  • Academy of Management Review
  • Academy of Management Perspectives 
  • Journal of Applied Psychology
  • Personnel Psychology 
  • The Leadership Quarterly 

Professional Associations

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

American Psychological Association

Work History

Arizona State University: Full Professor, 2008-present, Associate, Full Professor, 1995-2008; Concordia University: Associate Professor, 1991-1994; SUNY-Binghamton: Assistant, Associate Professor, 1982-1991

Consulting

Professor Waldman has consulted for a number of companies and governmental agencies in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, including IBM, Nortel, Goodyear-Mexico, Homestake Mining Organization, the Arizona Department of Public Safety, and the Information Technology Alliance.

Expertise Areas