Dr. Sherry Moss

Associate Dean of MBA Programs; Benson Pruitt Professor in Business; Professor of Organizational Studies

OFFICE: Farrell 314

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Moss received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Florida State University. She joined the Babcock School in June 2005. Prior to her current position, she served as an associate professor in the department of management and international business and served for five years as the faculty director for the Executive MBA Program at Florida International University. Her research interests include attribution theory, feedback, abusive supervision, leader-member exchange, leader emergence and meaningful work. Her work has been published in various academic journals including Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management and Academy of Management Executive. Dr. Moss is actively involved in several professional organizations including the Academy of Management and Southern Management Association, where she served a 3-year term as Secretary and Membership Chair. She has consulted and conducted training workshops for a variety of local, national and multinational organizations. Most of her training focuses on improving performance and employee development through effective managerial decision making.

HONORS

2019 - High Impact Research Award, Wake Forest University
2018 - Benson Pruitt Professor in Business, Wake Forest University
2018 - Benson Pruitt Professor in Business
2012 - Social Science Research Grant, WFU Provost's Office
2008 - Cowan Research Award, Babcock Graduate School of Management
- Kienzle Teaching Award, Fulll Time MBA Program Alumni
- Service Award, School of Business

EXPERTISE

Organizational behavior; Meaningful work, Attribution Theory; Performance management; Performance feedback; Leadership & supervision; Abusive supervision; Gender and leader emergence; Meaningfulness of Work, multiple job holding

IN THE MEDIA

June 1, 2018 - Multiple Work Identities , Parsing Science| more information
May 2, 2018 - How having multiple jobs impacts your Identity , Quartz at Work| more information
February 26, 2018 - The Why Factor: Bullies , BBC| more information
January 8, 2018 - Bosses Behaving Badly , Charlotte Talks (NPR Affiliate WFAE)| more information
June 20, 2013 - On Point with Tom Ashbrooke , National Public Radio (NPR)| more information
November 9, 2012 - Scrappy People Find Meaning at Work , Huffington Post| more information
June 20, 2012 - On Having Most of Both:Marissa Mayer's Choice , Huffington Post| more information
February 24, 2011 - Finding Meaning in Working at WalMart , Huffington Post| more information
February 3, 2011 - Why We Work:Finding Meaning in Your Job , Huffington Post| more information
January 6, 2008 - Imparting Knowledge: WFU's Nicaragua Project shows Third World entrepreneurs how to improve their businesses , Winston-Salem Journal
January 6, 2007 - Imparting Knowledge: WFU's Nicaragua Project shows Third World entrepreneurs how to improve their businesses , Winston-Salem Journal
August 3, 2006 - Personality assessments help firms in hiring process , Business Journal-Triad

RESEARCH INTERESTS

meaningful work, multiple job holding, authenticity, feedback dynamics, abusive supervision

TEACHING INTERESTS

MBA Organizational Behavior

EDUCATION

Ph D, Florida State University (Organizational Behavior) - 1991
BS, Florida State University (Management) - 1986

PUBLICATIONS

Journal of Applied Psychology

Jekyll and Hyde Leadership: Examining the Direct and Vicarious Experiences of Abusive and Ethical Leadership Through a Justice Variability Lens

Xu, H. , Hannah, S. , Wang, Z. , Moss, S. E. , Sumanth, J. , & Song, M.

Jenny Stanford Publishing

Causes of abusive supervision: The case of bullying in academic science

Moss, S. E. (2021)

Jenny

Possible solutions to academic bullying in higher education

Moss, S. E. (2021)

Jenny Stanford Publishing

Targets' responses to abusive supervision

Moss, S. E. (2021)

EClinicalMedicine

STEM the bullying: An empirical investigation of abusive supervision in academic science

Moss, S. E. , & Mahmoudi, M. (2021)

BioImpacts

The absence of legal remedies following academic bullying

Mahmoudi, M. , Moss, S. E. , & Keashly, L. (2021)

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

The relationship between leader affect, presidential approval, and the adoption of COVID-19 personal protective behaviors

Moss, S. E. , Kessler, S. , Martinko, M. J. , & Mackey, J.

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Serving the customer, serving the family and serving the employee: Toward a comprehensive understanding of the effects of service-oriented high-performance work systems

Wang, Z. , Song, L. J. , & Moss, S. E.

BioImpacts

The absence of legal remedies following academic bullying

Mahmoudi, M. , & Moss, S. E.

International Journal of Conflict Management

The impact of perceived dissimilarity on feedback avoidance behavior: Testing a multiple mediation model

Song, M. , Gok, K. , Moss, S. E. , & Borkowski, N.

Journal of Management

Multiple Jobholding: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Campion, E. D. , Caza, B. B. , & Moss, S. E. (2020)

Journal of Business Ethics

The duty to improve oneself: How duty orientation mediates the relationship between ethical leadership and followers' feedback seeking and avoiding behavior

Moss, S. E. , Song, M. , Hannah, S. , Wang, Z. , & Sumanth, J. (2020)

Journal of Management

Multiple jobholding: A systematic literature review and future research agenda

Campion, E. D. , Caza, B. B. , & Moss, S. E.

BioImpacts

Scarcity of lab positions in high-ranked institutions creates a breeding ground for bullies

Mahmoudi, M. , & Moss, S. E. (2019)

BioImpacts

The urgent need for modification of scientific ranking indexes to facilitate scientific progress and diminish academic bullying

Mahmoudi, M. , Ameli, S. , & Moss, S. E.

HBR.org

Why likable leaders seem more effective

McAllister, C. , Moss, S. E. , & Martinko, M. (2019)

Nature

Expose institutions' bullying records

Mahmoudi, M. , & Moss, S. E. (2019)

Administrative Science Quarterly

From synchronizing to harmonizing: The process of authenticating multiple work identities

Caza, B. B. , Moss, S. E. , & Vough, H. (2018)

Journal of Management

When and How Subordinate Performance Leads to Abusive Supervision: A Social Dominance Perspective

Khan, A. , Moss, S. E. , Quratulain, S. , & Hameed, I. (2018)

Nature

Research is Set Up for Bullies to Thrive

Moss, S. E. (2018)

Journal of Applied Psychology

An Exploration of the Role of Subordinate Affect in Leader Evaluations

Martinko, M. J. , Mackey, J. , Moss, S. E. , Harvey, P. , McAllister, C. , & Brees, J. (2018)

HBR.org

Why Some Bosses Bully Their Best Employees

Moss, S. E. (2016)

Harvard Business Review

When work satisfaction comes from having four jobs

Moss, S. E. , & Caza, B. (2015)

Academy of Management Journal

Predictors of abusive supervision: Supervisor perceptions of deep-level dissimilarity, relationship conflict and subordinate performance

Tepper, B. J. , Moss, S. E. , & Duffy, M. K. (2011)

Group and Organization Management

The Mediating Role of Feedback Avoidance Behavior in the LMX - Performance Relationship

Moss, S. E. , Sanchez, J. I. , Brumbaugh, A. M. , & Borkowski, N. (2009)

Academy of Management Journal

Abusive supervision, upward maintenance communication, and subordinates' psychological distress

Moss, S. E. , Tepper, B. J. , Lockhart, D. , & Carr, J. C. (2007)

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Anticipating the inevitable: When leader and member atrribution styles clash

Moss, S. E. , Martinko, M. J. , Douglas, S. C. , & Borkowski, N. (2007)

Attribution Theory in the Organizational Sciences

An exploratory study of workplace aggression

Moss, S. E. , & Martinko, M. J. (2004)

Academy of Management Executive

Are your employees avoiding you? Managerical strategies for closing the feedback gap

Moss, S. E. , & Sanchez, J. I. (2004)

Journal of management Development

Multiple dimensions of racioethnicity: Physioethnicity, socioethnicity and psychoethnicity

Moss, S. E. (2004)

Journal of management Development

Socioethnic explanations for racioethnic differences in job satisfaction

Moss, S. E. , Friday, S. S. , & Friday, E. (2004)

Journal of Management

Are you hiding from your boss? The development of a taxonomy and instrument to measure the feedback management behaviors of good and bad performers

Moss, S. E. , Valenzi, E. R. , & Taggart, W. (2003)

Journal of Organizational Behavior

The effects of performance attributions and outcome dependence on leader feedback behavior following poor subordinate performance

Moss, S. E. , & Martinko, M. J. (1998)

Journal of Organizational Behavior

The effects of priming on the self-reporting of perceived stressors and strains

Moss, S. E. , & Lawrence, K. J. (1997)

Academy of Management Journal

The effects of sex and gender-role on leader emergence

Moss, S. E. , & Kent, R. L. (1994)