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Paul E. Tesluk

Donald S. Carmichael Professor of Organizational Behavior
Department of Organization and Human Resources

Education

PhD, Pennsylvania State University
MS, Pennsylvania State University
BS, Cornell University

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Research Interests

• Team and organizational effectiveness 
• Leadership development
• Organizational change and innovation

Teaching Interests

• Teamwork and collaboration
• Leadership
• Organizational change and innovation

Selected Publications

Seo, M, Hill, S., Taylor, S.T., Tesluk., P.E.., & Lorinkova, N. (in press). The long-term consequences of affect and leadership to employee responses to organizational change. Personnel Psychology.

Dragoni, L. Oh, I.S., VanKatwyk, P., Tesluk, P.E. (in press). Developing executive leaders: The relative contribution of cognitive ability, personality and the accumulation of work experience in predicting strategic thinking competency. Personnel Psychology.

Gibson, C., Stanko, T.L., Gibbs, J, & Tesluk, P.E. (in press). Including the "I" in virtuality and modern job design: Extending the job characteristics model to include the moderating effect of individual experiences of electronic dependence and co-presence. Organization Science.

Dragoni. L, Tesluk, P.E., Russell, J.E.A., & Oh, I.S. (2009). Understanding managerial development: Integrating developmental assignments, learning orientation and access to developmental opportunities in predicting managerial competencies. Academy of Management Journal, 52, 731-743.

Hill, S., Bartol, K., Tesluk, P., Langa, G. (2009). Organizational culture and face-to-face interaction: Influences on the development of trust and cooperation in computer-mediated collaboration. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 108, 187-201

Awards, Grants and Honors

• Elected Fellow, Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP)
• Elected to Society for Organizational Behavior
• Elected Member of Executive Committee, Division of Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management
• Building shared leadership to strengthen virtual teams. National Science Foundation, Virtual Organization and Social Systems Program (#014885-001), Robert H. Smith School of Business ($398,980; 2011-2012), Co-Investigator (with K. Bartol).
•  Organizational change: The role of affect and leadership. National Science Foundation, Innovation and Organizational Change Program (#0433196), Robert H. Smith School of Business ($274,175 over years 2005-2006), Co-Investigator (with M. Seo and S. Taylor).
•  William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award – presented by the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology for the best publication in the field appearing during the past full year (1998). Tesluk, P. E., & Jacobs, R. J. (1998). Toward an integrated model of work experience. Personnel Psychology, 51, 321-355.
• S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Research Award – presented by the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology to the author of the best dissertation in the field (1998)

Professional Affiliations

• Member and Elected Fellow, Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP)
• Elected member, Society for Organizational Behavior
• Member and Elected Member of Executive Committee, Division of Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management

Consulting/Industry Experience

• Designed and developed several leadership development programs for multiple private and public sector organizations in the health care industry and various state government agencies
• Served as lead consultant on several large-scale organizational change initiatives in both private and public sector organizations
• Extensive experience in executive and leadership education across a wide range of industries and sectors
• Extensive experience in executive coaching and executive team development