Neal Ashkanasy

Neal Ashkanasy
Neal Ashkanasy

Professor of Management

UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia

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Biography

Neal Ashkanasy is a Professor of Management at The University of Queensland Business School. His PhD in Social and Organisational Psychology, is also from The University of Queensland.[1] Professor Ashkanasy previously worked in the schools of psychology, commerce, engineering, management, and business.[2]

He is one of the leading researchers in organisational behaviour in Australia and internationally. Current research interests include:

Professor Ashkanasy is recognised as one of the originators and current thought leaders in the study of emotion in organisations. He was the first Australian to be elected a Fellow of[3] (SIOP).

His citation reads:

[[4] Dr. Ashkanasy is one of a very small group of scholars who has developed theoretical models and conducted empirical research so effectively on emotions in the workplace that this topic has moved within the past decade from obscurity to mainstream research in I-O psychology. His annual book series on this topic is responsible in part for what is now being called in our field the “affective revolution".]

Professor Ashakansy entered academic life after an 18-year career in professional engineering and management.[5] He was a former national president of the Hydrology and Water Resources Institution of Engineers and oversaw the planning and building of the Wivenhoe Dam.

Editorship

Professor Ashkanasy has made considerable contribution to the field of organisational behaviour, which is reflected in his publication records including 9 books by leading publishers, 54 book chapters and over 50 articles in high impact journals, a strong citation record, and series editorship of a prestigious annual book series Research on Emotion in Organizations. Professor Ashkansy holds significant editorial roles and is on the editorial boards of numerous top international journals:

Currnetly positions:

Past positions:

Editorial Boards:

  1. Academy of Management Learning and Education. One of the “big 3” journals in management. Publication of the (US) Academy of Management.
  2. Academy of Management Review. #1 review journal in the management discipline Publication of the (US) Academy of Management.
  3. International Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotion. Published by Inderscience.
  4. Journal of Applied Psychology. Published by the American Psychological Association. Top ranked journal in IO Psychology.
  5. Journal of Management. Published by Sage (from 2005) on behalf of the Southern Management Assoc.
  6. Journal of Management and Organization. Published by the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management.
  7. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. Publication of the British Psychological Society.
  8. Management and Organization Review. Published by Blackwell on behalf of the International Association for Chinese Management Research.
  9. Organizational Psychology Review. New journal published by Sage on behalf of the European Association for Work and Organizational Psychology.
  10. Personality and Individual Differences. Leading journal in field. SSCI-listed.
  11. SIOP Organizational Frontiers Book Series. Published by Psychological Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).
  12. SIOP Professional Practice Book Series. Published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

Expert Comment

As the former hydrologist who oversaw the planning of the Wivenhoe Dam, Professor Ashkanasy's expert opinion has been quoted throughout the national media regarding the water release from the Wivenhow Dam and reactions to the aftermath, since the January 2011 Brisbane floods.

Primary Research Interests

Professor Ashkansy's research essentially focuses on the role of Emotion in the Workplace, the four key areas of interest include:

1. Emotions at work
  • This is an area that is gaining wide recognition in organisational research and is the principle focus of Professor Ashkanasy's work. A number of his recent studies have been funded through various ARC grants.
  • To date Professor Ashkanasy has organized and Chaired seven international “Conferences on Emotions and Organizational Life”. Three books have been published based on the principal proceedings of the conferences.
  • A number of Professor Ashkanasy's publications in this area have appeared in the following journals:

Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Emotion Review and Human Resources Management Review.

  • Volume 7 of the annual book series Research on Emotion in Organizations is to be published in 2011.
2. Leadership and leader-member relationships

This area of research relates to factors affecting relationships between organisational supervisors and their subordinates. Professor Ashkanasy's areas of interests cover:

3. Organisational culture

Professor Ashkanasy has two principle foci for this research:

4. Ethics in organizational behaviour

Increasing recognition has been gained in this important field of research. Recent projects include an ARC study that was published in Business Ethics Quarterly. Professor Ashkanasy's publications have appeared in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Research on Accounting Ethics,and the Journal of Business Ethics.

Research Grants

Working in collaboration with national and international academics, Professor Ashkanasy has contributed to 11 major Australian Research Council(ARC) projects since 1998, worth over $1.8 million. Current ARC projects:

  1. Employee wellbeing and productivity: The role of territoriality, conflict and emotions. (2011-2013 with O. B. Ayoko, K. A. Jehn and C W. Clegg)
  2. The contribution of project leader behaviours to processes and outcomes in large scale projects. (2009-2012 with A. Pisarski, P. Jordan, A. Chang, R. Zolin, C. Hatcher & M. Capelli)

Impact and Contributions to the Field

Prizes and Awards

Professor Ashkanasy was recently awarded the Elton Mayo Research and Teaching Award 2011, which was presented the official IOP 2011 Conference Dinner, held in Brisbane. Crissa Sumner, Queensland Chair of the College of Organisational Psychologists, received the Elton Mayo Professional Practice Award.

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  • Elected a Distinguished Member (Fellow) of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM).
  • Elected a Fellow of the US-based Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
  • Elected a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005.
  • “Excellence in Research Award”, School of Management, Uni of Queensland, 2001.
  • One of only seven Australians listed in Who’s Who in the Management Sciences (Edward Elgar Publishing, ed. C. Cooper), 2000
  • Nominated for the Who's Who, 2011
Discussion lists

In addition, he administers two well known e-mail discussion lists, affiliated with the Academy of Management: Emonet and Orgcult. The e-mail groups, with a combined subscription of over 1500 members, comprise of leading international researchers who facilitate scholarly discussions.

International Scholarly Association and Conference Chairs

Professor Ashkanasy is the official Chairperson for the 9th Industrial and Organisation Psychology Conference: IOP 2011 and one of the Co-chair for the 8th International Conference on Emotions and Worklife: Emonet VIII.

He chaired discipline tracks at three international conferences (IFSAM, ANZAM, Southern Management Assoc. and US Academy of Management). During 2001-2002 Professor Ashkanasy was Chair of the ‘Managerial and Organizational Cognitions’ Division of the US Academy of Management – the first Australian to be elected Chair of an Academy of Management Division. He has a particularly strong reputation in emotional intelligence and has been invited as a Keynote Speaker at several conferences.

Keynote Addresses and Invited Panels
  • Panellist, International Teachers’ Program, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, 2008
  • ANZAM (Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management) Keynote Address, 2005.
  • Consortium for Emotional Intelligence Research, Cambridge, MA, 2004.
  • Nexus Conference, Durban, 2002.
  • 39 invited presentations at leading US, UK, and European universities since 2004.

Tertiary Education

Professor Ashkanasy obtained his PhD in Social and Organizational Psychology from the University of Queensland in 1989, following an 18-year career as a professional engineer.

  • University of Queensland St. Lucia, Queensland: PhD in the area of Social and Organisational Psychology awarded 1989. Thesis topic: Supervisors’ responses to subordinate performance.
  • University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland: Bachelor of Arts with 1st Class Honours in Psychology and University Medal, 1982. Courses taken were in the “Social and Organisational” stream. Honours thesis topic: An experimental study of leaders’ causal attributions, and evaluation of subordinates under two paradigms of leadership control.
  • Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. : Statistical Computer Techniques in Hydrology and Water Resources, 1980.
  • University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland: Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Psychology, awarded 1980.
  • University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland: Post graduate Diploma in Computer Science awarded 1972.
  • University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW: Master of Engineering Science (Water Resources Engineering) awarded 1968. Thesis topic: Evaporation studies from records taken at two Australian locations.
  • Monash University, Clayton, Victoria: Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Engineering) awarded 1967.

Academic Fellowships

For a full list of attainments click here

Professional Membership

Academic Publications

Professor. Ashkanasy has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters, is author or co-author of over 200 conference papers and has appeared in leading international refereed journals.

Selected Publications:

Books Series

1. Härtel, C. E. J., Ashkanasy, N. M. , & Zerbe, W.J. (Eds.) (2005–2011). Research on emotion in organizations, Volumes 1-7: Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing/JAI Press.

2. Ashkanasy, N. M., Wilderom, C.P.M, & Peterson, M.F. (Eds.) (2011). The Handbook of organizational culture and climate, Second Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.

3. Ashkanasy, N. M., & Cooper, C. L. (Eds.). (2008 hardcover edition; 2010 paperback edition). Research companion to emotions in organizations . Cheltenham, UK: Edwin Elgar Publishing (New Horizons in Management Series).

4. Härtel, C. E. J., Zerbe, W.J., & Ashkanasy, N. M. (Eds.) (2005). Emotions in organizational behavior. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

5. Ashkanasy, N. M., Zerbe, W.J., & Härtel, C. E. J. (Eds.) (2002). Managing emotions in the work place. Armonk, NY: M.E.Sharpe.

6. Ashkanasy, N. M., Härtel, C. E. J., & Zerbe, W.J. (Eds.) (2000). Emotions in the work place: Theory, research, and practice. Westport, CT: Quorum Books

Journal Article:

1. Ashkanasy, N. M. (1985). Rotter's internal-external scale: Confirmatory factor analysis and correlation with social desirability for alternative scale formats.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48, 1328-1341. [Tier-1 journal and the #1 journal in social psychology, 2007 Thomson/ISI Impact Factor = 4.51. Citations: 26 in SSCI; 20 in Google Scholar]. First application of confirmatory factor analysis published in JPSP, the leading journal in social psychology.

2. Jordan, P. J., Ashkanasy, N. M., & Härtel, C. E. J. (2002). Emotional intelligence as a moderator of emotional and behavioral reactions to job insecurity.Academy of Management Review, 27, 361-372. [Tier-1 journal and regarded as the #1 journal in management; 2007 Thomson/ISI Impact Factor = 4.37. Citations: 16 in SSCI; 29 in Scopus; 71 in Google Scholar]. Describes a new conceptual model of the effect of emotional intelligence in organisations.

3. Ashkanasy, N. M., Härtel, C. E. J, & Daus, C. S. (2002). Diversity and emotion: The new frontiers in organizational behavior research. Journal of Management, 28, 307-338. [Tier-1 journal; 2007 Thomson/ISI Impact Factor = 2.00. Citations: 32 in SSCI; 45 in Scopus; 96 in Google Scholar]. Published in the JoM Annual Review Issue. First article to connect diversity and emotion.

4.Kasper-Fuehrer, E. C., & Ashkanasy, N. M. (2001). Communicating trustworthiness and building trust in inter-organizational virtual organizations. Journal of Management, 27, 235-354. [Tier-1 journal; 2007 Thomson/ISI Impact Factor = 2.00. Citations: 26 in SSCI; 36 in Scopus; 86 in Google Scholar]. Sets out a new and innovative model of how trust can be build in virtual organisations.

5. Ashkanasy, N. M. & Gallois, C. (1994). Leader attributions and evaluations: Effects of locus of control, supervisory control, and task control. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 59, 27 - 50. [Tier-1 journal, 2007 Thomson/ISI Impact Factor = 1.85. Citations: 17 in SSCI; 29 in Google Scholar]. Empirical study, demonstrating application of attribution theory.

6. Greenberg, J., Ashton-James, C. E., & Ashkanasy, N. M. (2007). Social comparison processes in organizations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 102, 22-41. [Tier-1 journal, 2007 Thomson/ISI Impact Factor = 1.85. Citations: 3 in SSCI; 3 in Scopus; 6 in Google Scholar]. Theory/review article detaling new application os social comparison theory in organisations.

7. Newcombe, M. J., & Ashkanasy, N. M. (2002). The role of affect and affective congruence in perceptions of leaders: An experimental study. Leadership Quarterly, 13, 601-614. [Tier-1 journal; 2007 Thomson/ISI Impact Factor = 1.76. Citations: 17 in SSCI; 23 in Scopus; 31 in Google Scholar]. Empritical demonstration that perceptions of leaders depends on their non-verbal expression of emotion.

8. Dasborough, M. T., & Ashkanasy, N. M. (2002). Emotion and attribution of intentionality in leader-member relationships. Leadership Quarterly, 13, 615-634. [Tier-1 journal; 2007 Thomson/ISI Impact Factor = 1.76. Citations: 30 in SSCI; 45 in Scopus; 58 in Google Scholar]. Describes how emotions and attributions shape followers perceptions of leaders.

9. Ashkanasy, N. M., & Daus, S. D. (2002). Emotion in the workplace: The new challenge for managers. Academy of Management Executive, 16 (1), 23-45. [Nominee for AME Best paper award; AME, now renamed Academy of Management Perspectives, is the Academy of Management’s outreach journal; Tier-2 journal. 2007 Thomson/ISI Impact Factor = 1.61. Citations: 33 in SSCI; 45 in Scopus; 86 in Google Scholar]. Makes the case for managers to pay more attention to emotions in the workplace.

10. Windsor, C., & Ashkanasy, N.M. (1995). The effect of client management bargaining power, moral reasoning development and belief in a just world on auditor independence. Accounting, Organizations, and Society, 20, 701-720. [Tier-1 journal; 2007 Thomson/ISI Impact Factor = 1.03. Citations: 16 in SSCI; 38 in Google Scholar]. Empirical study showing how practicing authors’ professional autonomy can be influenced by their personality and beliefs.

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Reference List

  1. ^ http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=290245
  2. ^ http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/ashkanasynm.html
  3. ^ Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
  4. ^ http://www.siop.org/tip/backissues/July06/32fellows.aspx
  5. ^ http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/ashkanasynm.html

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