Management professors present at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology conference

Martha and Spencer Love School of Business management professors Brittany Mercado, Brian Lyons and Robert Moorman presented research at the 2019 Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) annual conference held April 4-6 in Maryland.

The professors shared their co-authored work, “Seeking refuge: How LMX helps weather abusive behavior of dark triad leaders,” in which they examined whether high leader-member exchange (LMX) weakens the positive relationship between leaders’ dark triad (DT) traits – narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy – and abusive supervision.

Additionally, Mercado presented four other projects:

• “An international study of personality aspects and work counterproductivity”

Mercado presented her first-author work on personality and work counterproductivity across seven countries. Although these measures functioned very differently across cultures, the authors found ways to reduce those differences and still compare across countries and select the best employees within each country context. The project was sponsored by Korn Ferry Hay Group and supported by a Hultquist Award.

• “Cyber counterproductive work behaviors: A scale validation study”

Mercado discussed her first-author work on developing a measure to assess employees' counterproductive work behaviors using information technology.

• “Workplace cyberloafing as a respite from understimulation and conflict”

Mercado and coauthor Casey Giordano shared the most important antecedents of cyberloafing, including boredom, cognitive ability and conflict at work.

• “Using mobile sensors to model and predict typical job performance”

Mercado and co-authors drew on a large IARPA granted data collection in which they investigated employee behaviors using unobtrusive mobile sensors. 

SIOP is the premier membership organization for the science and practice of industrial and organizational psychology. While an independent organization with its own governance, SIOP also represents Division 14 of the American Psychological Association and is an organizational affiliate of the Association for Psychological Science.