Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory

Barry Staw

Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication I
Haas Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Group
1-510-642-6357
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment only, F592
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Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/obir/

Education

BA, University of Oregon
MBA, University of Michigan
Ph.D., organizational behavior, Northwestern University

Positions Held

At Haas since 1980
2009-present Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication I
1980-present Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1978-80 Professor, Departments of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Northwestern University
1975-78 Associate Professor, Departments of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Northwestern University
1974-75 Resident Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois
1972-75 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Visiting Appointments:
Anderson School of Management, UC Los Angeles;
Department of Management Sciences, University of Iowa;

External Service and Assignments

Member or former member of following editorial boards: Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, Motivation and Emotion, Basic and Applied Psychology, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business
Founder and co-editor: Research in Organizational Behavior, an annual series of analytical essays and critical reviews recently rated as one of the ten most heavily cited periodicals in the social sciences.
Editor: The Psychological Foundations of Organizational Behavior, Psychological Dimensions of Organizational Behavior; Co-editor of New Directions in Organizational Behavior, and author of more than 50 articles and book chapters.
Fellow: American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, and Academy of Management.

Current Research and Interests

Escalation of commitment to organizational decisions
Emotional expression in the workplace
Dispositional approaches to job attitudes
Creativity and organizational innovation
Work motivation

Selected Papers and Publications

Lend Me Your Wallets: The Effect of Charismatic Leadership on External Support for an Organization (with F. Flynn). Strategic Management Journal, in press.
The Dispositional Approach To Job Satisfaction: More Than A Mirage, But Not Yet An Oasis (with Yochi Cohen-Charash), Journal of Organizational Behavior, in press.
What Bandwagons Bring: Effects of Popular Management Techniques on Corporate Performance, Reputation, and CEO Pay (with Lisa Epstein). Administrative Science Quarterly, 2000, 45, 523-556.
"Affect and favorable work outcomes: Two longitudinal tests of the happy -productive worker thesis" (with T.A. Wright), Journal of Organizational Behavior, 1999, 20, 1-23.
"Escalation and the credit window: a longitudinal study of bank executives' recognition and write-off of problem loans" (with S. Barsade and K.Koput), Journal of Applied Psychology, 1997, 82, 130-142.
"Sunk costs in the NBA: Why draft order affects playing time and survival in professional basketball" (with H. Hoang), Administrative Science Quarterly, 1995, 40, 474-494.
"What theory is Not" (with R.I. Sutton), Administrative Science Quarterly, 1995, 40, 371-384.
"Organizational Escalation and Exit: The Case of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant" (with J. Ross), Academy of Management Journal, 36, 1993, 701-732.

Teaching

E 205 1A and 2A, Organizational Behavior, Fall 1999
254-1, Seminar in Micro Organizational Behavior, Spring, 2000

Honors and Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award, Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management, 2008
Irwin/ McGraw-Hill Award for Scholarly Contributions, Academy of Management, 1999
Elected Fellow, Academy of Management
Elected Fellow, American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (PhD Program), 1989
Scholarly Contribution Award, Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management, 1987
Scholarly Contribution Award for best paper published during 1993 in the Academy of Management Journal, 1993
American Management Association/Organizational Dynamics Award, Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management, best paper submitted to annual meeting, 1994
American Psychological Association Dissertation Award (Division of Industrial and Organizational Psychology), second place, 1972

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