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Overview

Adam M. Grant is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a focus on subfields including sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, organizational behavior and human resource management, and applied psychology.

The topics covered in their work include job satisfaction and organizational behavior, social and intergroup psychology, perfectionism, procrastination, anxiety studies, creativity in education and neuroscience, mind wandering and attention, behavioral health and interventions, as well as team dynamics and performance.

Recent papers involving or authored by Adam M. Grant include:

  • "When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity," 2020, Academy of Management Journal
  • "Social Motivation at Work: The Organizational Psychology of Effort for, Against, and with Others," 2021, Annual Review of Psychology
  • "Taking Your Team Behind the Curtain: The Effects of Leader Feedback-Sharing and Feedback-Seeking on Team Psychological Safety," 2021, Organization Science
  • "Getting unstuck: The effects of growth mindsets about the self and job on happiness at work," 2022, Journal of Applied Psychology
  • "Help (Un)wanted: Why the most powerful allies are the most likely to stumble - and when they fulfill their potential," 2022, Research in Organizational Behavior

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Adam M. Grant include Marissa Shandell, Susan J. Ashford, Jihae Shin, Marissa S. Shandell, and Constantinos G. V. Coutifaris.

The scientist's work is frequently published in venues such as the Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management Journal, Annual Review of Psychology, Organization Science, and Journal of Applied Psychology. The number of publications in these venues ranges from one to three in the case of the Academy of Management Proceedings.

Best Publications

  • The dynamics of proactivity at work

    Adam M. Grant;Susan J. Ashford

  • Does intrinsic motivation fuel the prosocial fire? Motivational synergy in predicting persistence, performance, and productivity.

    Adam M. Grant

  • Relational Job Design and the Motivation to Make a Prosocial Difference

    Adam M. Grant

  • The Necessity of Others is The Mother of Invention: Intrinsic and Prosocial Motivations, Perspective Taking, and Creativity

    Adam M. Grant;James W. Berry

  • A Socially Embedded Model of Thriving at Work

    Gretchen Spreitzer;Kathleen Sutcliffe;Jane Dutton;Scott Sonenshein

  • The significance of task significance: Job performance effects, relational mechanisms, and boundary conditions.

    Adam M. Grant

  • A little thanks goes a long way: Explaining why gratitude expressions motivate prosocial behavior.

    Adam M. Grant;Francesca Gino

  • Happiness, Health, or Relationships? Managerial Practices and Employee Well-Being Tradeoffs

    Adam M. Grant;Marlys K. Christianson;Richard H. Price

  • When Callings Are Calling: Crafting Work and Leisure in Pursuit of Unanswered Occupational Callings

    Justin M. Berg;Adam M. Grant;Victoria Johnson

  • Leading with Meaning: Beneficiary Contact, Prosocial Impact, and the Performance Effects of Transformational Leadership

    Adam M. Grant

  • Good soldiers and good actors: Prosocial and impression management motives as interactive predictors of affiliative citizenship behaviors.

    Adam M. Grant;David M. Mayer

  • Password memorability and security: empirical results

    J. Yan;A. Blackwell;R. Anderson;A. Grant

  • Too Much of a Good Thing The Challenge and Opportunity of the Inverted U

    Adam M. Grant;Barry Schwartz

  • GETTING CREDIT FOR PROACTIVE BEHAVIOR:SUPERVISOR REACTIONS DEPEND ON WHAT YOU VALUE AND HOW YOU FEEL

    Adam M. Grant;Sharon Parker;Catherine Collins

  • GIVING COMMITMENT: EMPLOYEE SUPPORT PROGRAMS AND THE PROSOCIAL SENSEMAKING PROCESS

    Adam M. Grant;Jane E. Dutton;Brent D. Rosso

  • Reversing the Extraverted Leadership Advantage: The Role of Employee Proactivity

    Adam M. Grant;Francesca Gino;David A. Hofmann

  • Impact and the art of motivation maintenance : The effects of contact with beneficiaries on persistence behavior

    Adam M. Grant;Elizabeth M. Campbell;Grace Chen;Keenan Cottone

  • Meaningful Work: Connecting Business Ethics and Organization Studies

    Christopher Michaelson;Michael G. Pratt;Adam M. Grant;Craig P. Dunn

  • Mission possible? The performance of prosocially motivated employees depends on manager trustworthiness.

    Adam M. Grant;John J. Sumanth

  • Giving Time, Time After Time: Work Design and Sustained Employee Participation in Corporate Volunteering

    Adam M. Grant

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Hofmann
David A. Hofmann University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Francesca Gino
Francesca Gino Harvard University
Yitzhak Fried
Yitzhak Fried Texas Tech University
Susan J. Ashford
Susan J. Ashford University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael Frese
Michael Frese Asia School of Business
Sabine Sonnentag
Sabine Sonnentag University of Mannheim
Michael I. Norton
Michael I. Norton Harvard University
Lara B. Aknin
Lara B. Aknin Simon Fraser University
Wendy Wood
Wendy Wood University of Southern California
Richard H. Price
Richard H. Price University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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