Erasmus University Rotterdam

Faculty Member, RSM Erasmus University

About

Below is a fairly recent copy of my CV:

WILL FELPS

Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University
Office T08-19
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
E-mail: willfelps@gmail.com

EDUCATION
University of Washington Business School                       Seattle, WA
PhD in Management & Organizational Behavior, 2007
Minors: Research Methods and Psychology

University of Texas McCombs School of Business                             Austin, TX
B.A. Marketing, 2001


EMPLOYMENT
2010 - present  Associate Professor
2007 – 2010 Assistant Professor of Organization & Personnel Management
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

University of Washington Business School

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research has investigated: the asymmetric negative effects of “bad apple” teammates, the contagion of quitting (i.e. turnover), the nature and performance implications of stakeholder cultures, the effects of defining oneself as a moral person, the empirical basis for normative managerial prescriptions, how institutional factors reinforce the degree to which intelligence leads to improved job performance, and most recently, whether generalists can ever outperform specialists.  These diverse projects are linked together by a desire to create more effective and humane organizations.

PUBLISHED WORKS

Byington, E., & Felps, W. (2010). Why do IQ Scores Predict Job Performance? An Alternative, Sociological Explanation. Research in Organizational Behavior, 30: 175-202.

Felps, W., Mitchell, T.R., Hekman, D.R., Lee, T.M., Harman, W., & Holtom, B. (2009). “Turnover contagion: How coworkers’ job embeddedness and coworkers’ job search behaviors influence quitting.” Academy of Management Journal, 52 (3): 545–561.

Aquino, K., Reed, A. II, Freeman, D., Lim, V., & Felps, W. (2009). Testing a Social-Cognitive Model of Moral Behavior: How Moral Identity and Situations Interact to Predict Moral Outcomes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97 (1): 123-141.

Jones, T. M., Felps, W., & Bigley, G. (2007). Ethical theory and stakeholder-related decisions: The role of stakeholder culture. Academy of Management Review, 32 (1): 137-155.

Harman, W., Lee, T., Mitchell, T. R., Felps, W., & Owens, B. R. (2007). Voluntary turnover and employee embeddedness. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16 (1): 51-54.

Felps, W., Mitchell, T. R., & Byington, E. (2006). How, when, and why bad apples spoil the barrel: Negative group members and dysfunctional groups. Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 27: 181–230.


REQUESTED REVISIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

Kitts, J. A., Jones, T. M., Felps, W., & Berman, S. L.  When will firms cooperate? The neglected role of institutional contract enforcing mechanisms. Revising for: Organization Science.

Felps, W., & Jones, T. M. Taking stakeholder happiness seriously: A neo-ulilitarian objective function for the firm. Under Review: Strategic Management Journal.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

Felps, W., Mitchell, T. R., Hekman, D. R., & de Witt, F.  Mitigating interpersonal deviance with power. Target: Administrative Science Quarterly. 

Jones, T. M., & Felps, W. Failures in the market for morally embedded firm-stakeholder relationships: A bounded theory of advantage. Target: Academy of Management Review.

van Quaquebeke, N., & Felps, W. Which communication technique is the most under-appreciated in leadership scholarship? (Hint: The answer is in the title). Target: Academy of Management Review.

MEDIA MENTIONS

Will’s work on “bad apple teammates” has been covered by numerous media outlets, including (but not limited to) the BBC, NBC radio, NPR, Yahoo’s most e-mailed story of the day, and most recently on the radio program: This American Life. You can find that interview on the following website. http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=370


RESEARCH SUPPORT AND OTHER DISTINCTIONS

2010 EUR Fellowship € 200,000
2007 National Science Foundation Research Grant
2006 Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics Research Grant
2006 Foster Endowed Fellowship
2005 George W. Tyler Research Award

COURSES TAUGHT

Organizational Behavior (undergraduate)

Strategic & International Human Resource Management (masters)

Advanced Topics in Organizational Theory (PhD seminar)

Philosophy of Science (PhD seminar)

Publishing Strategy (PhD seminar)

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