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9685
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Overview

Michael S. Cole is affiliated with Texas Christian University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences with a strong focus on business, management, and accounting. Cole's scholarly output reflects an interest in organizational behavior, human resource management, and social psychology, among other related disciplines.

Their recent research publications cover a range of topics within organizational and psychological contexts, including studies on stressors at work, leadership dynamics, identity effects on performance, entrepreneurial team efficacy, and peer developmental relationships. Notable recent papers include:

  • When challenges hinder: An investigation of when and how challenge stressors impact employee outcomes (2020), Journal of Applied Psychology
  • Hurry up! The role of supervisors' time urgency and self-perceived status for autocratic leadership and subordinates' well-being (2020), Personnel Psychology
  • The (in)congruence effect of leaders' narcissism identity and reputation on performance: A socioanalytic multistakeholder perspective (2021), Journal of Applied Psychology
  • Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance (2022), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • Unpacking the Microdynamics of Multiplex Peer Developmental Relationships: A Mutuality Perspective (2021), Journal of Management

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Shannon G. Taylor
  • Jeremy B. Bernerth
  • Min Z. Carter
  • Marcus M. Butts
  • Troy Wesley Pounds

Michael S. Cole has contributed to academic journals with repeated publications in these venues:

  • Journal of Applied Psychology
  • Journal of Management
  • Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • Personnel Psychology
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Their work predominantly addresses the following topics:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Workplace Violence and Bullying
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout

The main fields of study for Cole include social sciences broadly, with a narrower concentration on business, management, and accounting. Subfields encompass sociology and political science, organizational behavior and human resource management, social psychology, general health professions, and clinical psychology.

Best Publications

  • Organizational identity strength, identification, and commitment and their relationships to turnover intention: Does organizational hierarchy matter?

    Michael S. Cole;Heike Bruch

  • Job Burnout and Employee Engagement: A Meta-Analytic Examination of Construct Proliferation

    Michael S. Cole;Frank Walter;Arthur G. Bedeian;Ernest H. O'Boyle

  • Emotion as mediators of the relations between perceived supervisor support and psychological hardiness on employee cynicism

    Michael S. Cole;Heike Bruch;Bernd Vogel

  • Affective mechanisms linking dysfunctional behavior to performance in work teams: a moderated mediation study.

    Michael S. Cole;Frank Walter;Heike Bruch

  • The Workplace Social Exchange Network A Multilevel, Conceptual Examination

    Michael S. Cole;William S. Schaninger;Stanley G. Harris

  • Within-group agreement: On the use (and misuse) of rWG and rWG(J) in leadership research and some best practice guidelines.

    Torsten Biemann;Michael S. Cole;Sven Voelpel

  • Organizational Justice and Individuals' Withdrawal: Unlocking the Influence of Emotional Exhaustion

    Michael S. Cole;Jeremy B. Bernerth;Frank Walter;Daniel T. Holt

  • Shared Authentic Leadership and New Venture Performance

    Keith M. Hmieleski;Michael S. Cole;Robert A. Baron

  • Student Learning Motivation and Psychological Hardiness: Interactive Effects on Students' Reactions to a Management Class

    Michael S. Cole;Hubert S. Feild;Stanley G. Harris

  • Emotional Intelligence: Sine Qua Non of Leadership or Folderol?

    Frank Walter;Michael S. Cole;Ronald H. Humphrey

  • Recruiters’ Perceptions and Use of Applicant Résumé Information: Screening the Recent Graduate

    Michael S. Cole;Robert S. Rubin;Hubert S. Feild;William F. Giles

  • Leader-team congruence in power distance values and team effectiveness: the mediating role of procedural justice climate.

    Michael S. Cole;Min Z. Carter;Zhen Zhang

  • Time in individual-level organizational studies: What is it, how is it used, and why isn’t it exploited more often?

    Abbie J. Shipp;Michael S. Cole

  • A Measure of Variations in Internal Social Capital among Family Firms

    Jon C. Carr;Michael S. Cole;J. Kirk Ring;Daniela P. Blettner

  • Energy at work: A measurement validation and linkage to unit effectiveness.

    Michael S. Cole;Heike Bruch;Bernd Vogel

  • Control Variables in Leadership Research: A Qualitative and Quantitative Review:

    Jeremy B. Bernerth;Michael S. Cole;Erik C. Taylor;H. Jack Walker

  • Exploring the implications of vision, appropriateness, and execution of organizational change

    Michael S. Cole;Stanley G. Harris;Jeremy B. Bernerth

  • The measurement equivalence of web-based and paper-and-pencil measures of transformational leadership: A multinational test

    Michael S. Cole;Arthur G. Bedeian;Hubert S. Feild

  • Recruiters’ Inferences of Applicant Personality Based on Resume Screening: Do Paper People have a Personality?

    Michael S. Cole;Hubert S. Feild;William F. Giles;Stanley G. Harris

  • Is This How I Will Be Treated? Reducing Uncertainty through Recruitment Interactions

    H. Jack Walker;Talya N. Bauer;Michael S. Cole;Jeremy B. Bernerth

Frequent Co-Authors

Hubert S. Feild
Hubert S. Feild Auburn University
Arthur G. Bedeian
Arthur G. Bedeian Louisiana State University
Boas Shamir
Boas Shamir Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ronald H. Humphrey
Ronald H. Humphrey Lancaster University
Talya N. Bauer
Talya N. Bauer Portland State University
John Antonakis
John Antonakis University of Lausanne
Philip M. Podsakoff
Philip M. Podsakoff University of Florida
David V. Day
David V. Day Claremont McKenna College
William L. Gardner
William L. Gardner Texas Tech University
Alice H. Eagly
Alice H. Eagly Northwestern University

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