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"Managing people has always depended on what both the people and the firm were like. In the next century, the people won't basically change, but the nature of firms will be dramatically different. Thus, how we lead, inspire, or manage human behavior will be quite different in the twenty-first century."

 

 

 

 
Thomas Lee
Hughes M. Blake Endowed Professor of Management
Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs
Past President, Academy of Management

PhD, University of Oregon, 1984
MA, Bowling Green State University, 1977
AB, University of California, Berkeley 1975


Phone:   
 (206) 543-4389 Mailing Address:
Fax:
 206-685-9392 Michael G. Foster School of Business
Office:
Email:
 116 Mackenzie Hall
orcas@u.washington.edu
 Management and Organization Department
Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200
     


Specialties

    Employee hiring, retention and commitment

Positions Held

    At the University of Washington since 1983
    Industrial psychologist for Southern California Edison (1977-80)

Selected Publications

  • "Turnover contagion: How coworkers’ job embeddedness and coworkers’ job search behaviors influence quitting," with W. Felps, T.R. Mitchell, D. Heckman, B.C. Holtom and W.S. Harman, Academy of Management Journal, forthcoming 2009.

  • "Control voluntary turnover by understanding its causes," with M.B. Eberly, B.C. Holtom and T.R. Mitchell, in E.A Locke (ed.), Handbook of Principles of Organizational Behavior (2nd edition), Blackwell Press: Oxford, forthcoming 2009.

  • "Explaining Employment Relationships with Social Exchange and Job Embeddedness," with P.W. Hom, A.S. Tsui, J.B. Wu, Y. Zhang, P.P. Fu and L. Li, Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 94, 2009, pp. 277-297.

  • "The management professor," Academy of Management Review, Vol. 34, 2009, pp. 196-199.

  • "Turnover & retention research: a glance at the past, a closer review of the present, and a venture into the future," with B.C. Holtom, T.R. Mitchell and M. Bussman, Academy of Management Annals, Vol. 2, 2008, pp. 231-274.

  • "Self Regulation and Multiple Deadline Goals," with T.R. Mitchell, W.S. Harman and D.Y. Lee, in R. Kanfer, G. Chen & R.D. Pritchard (eds), Work motivation: past, present, and future, Mahwah, NJ, 2008.

  • "The effects of employee services on organizational commitment and intention to quit," with S.H. Lee and C. Lum, Personnel Review, Vol.37, 2008, pp. 222-237.

  • "Job embeddedness in a culturally diverse environment," with C. Mallol and B.C. Holtom, Journal of Business and Psychology, Vol. 22, 2007, pp. 35-44.

  • "The Psychology of Voluntary Employee Turnover," with W.S. Harman, W. Felps, T.R. Mitchell and B.P. Owens, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol.16, 2007, pp. 51-54.

  • "Increasing human and social capital by applying job embeddedness theory," with B.C. Holtom and T.R. Mitchell, Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2006, pp. 316-331.

    (The above article won the award for the “Outstanding Practitioner Oriented Publication in Organizational Behavior” from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Awarded at the 67th annual meeting of Academy of Management in Philadelphia, PA, August 2007.)

Current Research

    Employee commitment, retention and turnover.

Honors and Awards

    Ron Crockett Award for Academic Excellance (2009)
    Outstanding Practitioner Oriented Publication in Organizational BehaviorAward for their article "Increasing Human and Social Capital by Applying Job Embededness Theory" with Terrence Mitchell and Brooks Holtom. Judged best paper of all papers for 2006.
    Fellow, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
    Fellow, Academy of Management
    Ascendant Scholar by the Western Academy of Management
    Outstanding Paper in the organizational behavior division of the Academy of Management

Selected Consulting Experience

  • Club Corp, Walmart

Academic Service

    Academy of Management (AOM)
    Past President (2008-2009)
    President (2007-2008)
    President-Elect (2006-2007)
    Vice-President and Program Chair (2005-2006)
    Vice-President and Program Chair Elect (2004-2005)
    Incoming Vice-President and Program Chair (2004)
    Member of the Executive Committee for the AOM Board of Governors (2004-2009)

    Editor, Academy of Management Journal (2002-2004)
    Past member of the editorial boards of:
    Academy of Management Journal
    Personnel Psychology
    Journal of Management
    Journal of Management Issues
    Human Resource Management Journal
    Journal of Vocational Behavior
    Organizational Research Methods
    Human Resources Management Review




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