Maria Tomprou
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
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I am a Distinguished Service Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at the Tepper School of Business. My research interests include employee self-regulation in organizations, career management, and employment relationships. My research has been featured in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Group & Organization Management, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Managerial Psychology, and Computers in Human Behavior among others.
I teach the courses of Organizational Behavior (70-311), Managing Across Cultures (70-342), and Team Dynamics and Leadership (70-341 and 88-341).
I also serve on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.
News and updates
April 2024 - 🌟Our call for a Special Issue on Toxiticity in Organizations: New Directions in Conceptualization, Causes, Development, and Interventions in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (JOOP) is finally out! If you do research in the area, please follow the link for more details. 🌟
December 2023 - So great to interact with these great students of Executive MBA -Healthcare and promote their learning by teaching them "Effective Negotiations"!
May 2023 - I was a committee member of the AOM Career Division for the Best Student Paper Award - such great papers to review!
February 2023 - Excited to offer my insights based on my expertise in a case study about psychological contracts edited by Professor Maria Vakola. If you know Greek and you just started your career or you are a professional in HRM, give it a shot!
May 2022 - My paper on Managerial Decision Making and i-Deals is published on Group and Organization Management with my colleagues Maria Simosi and Denise Rousseau.
January 2022 - My paper on collective intelligence "Speaking out of turn: How video conferencing reduces vocal synchrony and collective intelligence" with Young-Ji Kim, Prerna Chikersal, Anita Woolley, and Laura Dabbish was featured in an Irish Times article about work.
November 2021 - My paper "A dynamic phase model of psychological contract processes" (2018) with Denise Rousseau and Samantha Hansen was amongst the five most cited papers in the Journal of Organizational Behavior for 2021
October 2021 - Invited talk to the Irish Institute of Digital Business at Dublin City University to present my paper on "Employment Relationships in Algorithmic Management: A psychological contract perspective" published in Computers in Human Behavior with Min Kyung Lee
May 2021 - Keynote Speaker in the Small Group Meeting of Idiosyncratic Deals at the University of Edinburgh
April 2021 - My paper on collective intelligence "Speaking out of turn: How video conferencing reduces vocal synchrony and collective intelligence" with Young-Ji Kim, Prerna Chikersal, Anita Woolley, and Laura Dabbish among the top viewed articles researchers are reading in 2021 in PlosOne
July 2020 - My paper on Training and Diffusion of Change: The Impact of Training and Proactivity on Change-Related Advice Giving with Byeong Jo Kim and Denise Rousseau received the 2019 McGregor Award Best Paper
Awards
McGregor Award Best Paper of Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
2nd Prize of the EDAMBA Thesis Competition by European Doctoral Programs - Association in Management and Business Administration (EDAMBA)
Highly Commended Award in the Human Resource Management - category of the Emerald/EFMD
Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards by Emerald Publishing
Award as a 2010 Outstanding Reviewer - Academy of Management OB Division
Doctoral Scholarship of Human Resource Management - Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY)
Scholarship for Academic Performance - Union of Marine Profession