research overview
- Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson studies leadership, leader development, and the effects of leaders on diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
- Contact Info
Johnson, Stefanie Kathleen
Positions
- Faculty Director, Office of the Chancellor
- Professor, Leeds School of Business
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- Leadership and diversity
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
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Solving the Leadership Shortage.
155-184.
2024
- Inclusive leadership is key to creating equity for women of color. 155-173. 2023
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Assessing and Selecting Employees.
102-136.
2022
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Communication in the Workplace.
299-328.
2022
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Decision Making in Groups.
354-380.
2022
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Employee Training and Development.
171-201.
2022
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Evaluating Employee Performance.
137-170.
2022
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Influence, Power, and Politics.
381-408.
2022
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Introduction to I/O Psychology.
3-29.
2022
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Leadership.
409-442.
2022
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Motivation.
205-235.
2022
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Organizational Structure, Culture, and Development.
443-474.
2022
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Positive Employee Attitudes.
236-266.
2022
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Pre-Employment Planning.
73-101.
2022
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Research Methods in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
30-69.
2022
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Socialization and Working in Groups.
329-353.
2022
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Worker Stress and Burnout.
267-296.
2022
- Leadership Is Male-centric: Gender Issues in the Study of Leadership 2018
- The perils of pretty: effects of personal appearance on women's careers. 129-143. 2018
- Understanding and improving employee selection interviews 2013
- Gender and leadership development: A case of female leaders 2012
- Leadership research and education: how business schools approach the concept of leadership. 129-148. 2011
- Selecting leaders: High potentials and executives 2010
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Chapter 5 The secret life of mood: causes and consequences of unconscious affect at work.
Research on Emotion in Organizations.
103-121.
2009
- Subtle (and not so subtle) discrimination in organizations 2004
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Solving the Leadership Shortage.
155-184.
2024
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conference proceeding
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Why CEOs Take Action on Diversity and How They Do It.
Academy of Management Proceedings.
18319-18319.
2019
- The Power of Leadership: Why and How CEOs Take Action on Diversity Initiatives 2019
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Change in frontline supervisors' safety leadership practices after participating in a leadership training program: Does company size matter?.
Journal of Safety Research.
199-205.
2018
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"How Executive Pay Leads to Racial and Gender Bias, Aggression and Worse Executive Performance".
Academy of Management Proceedings.
16584-16584.
2016
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THE SECRET LIFE OF MOOD: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF UNCONSCIOUS AFFECT AT WORK.
Research on Emotion in Organizations.
103-121.
2008
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Why CEOs Take Action on Diversity and How They Do It.
Academy of Management Proceedings.
18319-18319.
2019
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journal article
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Team Diversity as a Safety Asset: A Field Investigation of Language Diversity and Occupational Safety.
Human Resource Management.
695-711.
2025
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A Contest Study to Reduce Attractiveness-Based Discrimination in Social Judgment.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
508-535.
2025
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The benefits of inclusive organizational behavior: Why diversity climate improves mental health and retention among women during a crisis.
Journal of Organizational Behavior.
1344-1363.
2024
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Doing the work: The role of inclusive leadership in promoting psychological safety and openness to diversity through diversity, equity, and inclusion practices..
115-142.
2024
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Developing leader identity across the lifespan..
New directions for student leadership.
21-30.
2023
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Shared Leadership for Total Worker Health in the Construction Industry.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
E290-E297.
2023
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Proposals for the future of leadership scholarship: Suggestions in Phronesis.
Leadership.
563-589.
2022
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Editorial, Special Issue.
Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies.
173-175.
2022
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Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology
2022
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Exploring the Bounds of Pygmalion Effects: Congruence of Implicit Followership Theories Drives and Binds Leader Performance Expectations and Follower Work Engagement.
Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies.
137-153.
2021
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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Parasite Infection is Associated with Entrepreneurial Initiation, Engagement, and Performance.
Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice.
118-144.
2021
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Toxoplasmosis: Recent Advances in Understanding the Link Between Infection and Host Behavior.
Annual Review of Animal Biosciences.
249-264.
2021
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Dual-anonymization Yields Promising Results for Reducing Gender Bias: A Naturalistic Field Experiment of Applications for Hubble Space Telescope Time.
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
2020
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The Femme Fatale Effect: Attractiveness is a Liability for Businesswomen's Perceived Truthfulness, Trust, and Deservingness of Termination.
Sex Roles.
779-796.
2019
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Can looks deceive you? Attractive decoys mitigate beauty is beastly bias against women..
Archives of Scientific Psychology.
60-70.
2019
- For Women in Business, Beauty Is a Liability. Harvard Business Review. 34-35. 2019
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A training intervention to improve frontline construction leaders' safety leadership practices and overall jobsite safety climate.
Journal of Safety Research.
253-262.
2019
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Leadership skills for strengthening jobsite safety climate.
Journal of Safety Research.
263-271.
2019
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Women at work: Changes in sexual harassment between September 2016 and September 2018.
PLoS ONE.
2019
- Has Sexual Harassment at Work Decreased since #MeToo?. Harvard Business Review. 2019
- The psychologists' tree of life. Psychologist. 28-52. 2018
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Risky business: linking Toxoplasma gondii infection and entrepreneurship behaviours across individuals and countries.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences.
2018
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Mastery Goal Orientation and Performance Affect the Development of Leader Efficacy During Leader Development.
Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies.
30-46.
2018
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CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP: A STUDY ON DELIVERY STYLES, MOOD, AND PERFORMANCE.
Journal of Leadership Studies.
21-38.
2017
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Believing Is Becoming: The Role of Leader Developmental Efficacy in Leader Self-Development.
Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies.
137-156.
2017
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DOES DIVERSITY-VALUING BEHAVIOR RESULT IN DIMINISHED PERFORMANCE RATINGS FOR NON-WHITE AND FEMALE LEADERS?.
Academy of Management Journal.
771-797.
2017
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Don't hate me because I'm beautiful: Acknowledging appearance mitigates the "beauty is beastly" effect.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
184-192.
2014
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The paradox of seduction by irrelevant details: How irrelevant information helps and hinders self-regulated learning.
Learning and Individual Differences.
1-11.
2014
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The differential effects of transformational leadership facets on employee safety.
Safety Science.
68-78.
2014
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Interactive effects of leader justice and support for safety on safety performance.
Journal of Organizational Effectiveness.
296-315.
2014
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Organizational rewards: considering employee need in allocation.
Personnel Review.
74-95.
2014
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Reciprocal interactions between group perceptions of leader charisma and group mood through mood contagion.
Leadership Quarterly.
463-476.
2013
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RETESTING PERSONALITY IN EMPLOYEE SELECTION: IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONTEXT, SAMPLE, AND SETTING.
Psychological Reports.
486-501.
2013
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Go For the Goal(s): Relationship Between Goal Setting and Transfer of Training Following Leadership Development.
Academy of Management Learning & Education.
555-569.
2012
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Leaders' conceptions of followers: Implications for naturally occurring Pygmalion effects.
Leadership Quarterly.
822-834.
2012
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The Best Laid Plans: Examining the Conditions Under Which a Planning Intervention Improves Learning and Reduces Attrition.
Journal of Applied Psychology.
967-981.
2012
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When is ignorance bliss? The effects of inaccurate self-assessments of knowledge on learning and attrition.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
192-207.
2012
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The benefits of a long-lens approach to leader development: Understanding the seeds of leadership.
Leadership Quarterly.
459-470.
2011
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Leader self-development as organizational strategy.
Leadership Quarterly.
33-42.
2011
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The impact of blatant stereotype activation and group sex-composition on female leaders.
Leadership Quarterly.
716-732.
2010
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Physical Attractiveness Biases in Ratings of Employment Suitability: Tracking Down the "Beauty is Beastly" Effect.
Journal of Social Psychology, The.
301-318.
2010
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Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Performance Evaluations: Distributive Justice or Injustice?.
Journal of Business and Psychology.
409-418.
2009
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Realities of Working in Virtual Teams: Affective and Attitudinal Outcomes of Using Computer-Mediated Communication.
Small Group Research.
623-649.
2009
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Do you feel what I feel? Mood contagion and leadership outcomes.
Leadership Quarterly.
814-827.
2009
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The strong, sensitive type: Effects of gender stereotypes and leadership prototypes on the evaluation of male and female leaders.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
39-60.
2008
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Effects of charismatic content and delivery on follower task performance - The moderating role of task charisma conduciveness.
Group & Organization Management.
77-106.
2008
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I second that emotion: Effects of emotional contagion and affect at work on leader and follower outcomes.
Leadership Quarterly.
1-19.
2008
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Charismatic leadership in crisis situations - A laboratory investigation of stress and crisis.
Small Group Research.
495-514.
2004
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Self-sacrificial behavior in crisis situations:: The competing roles of behavioral and situational factors.
Leadership Quarterly.
263-275.
2004
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Group leadership: Efficacy and effectiveness.
Group Dynamics.
259-274.
2003
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Team Diversity as a Safety Asset: A Field Investigation of Language Diversity and Occupational Safety.
Human Resource Management.
695-711.
2025
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Rice University 2004
- M.A., Rice University 2002
- B.A., Claremont Mckenna College 2000
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Czech Republic Country
- Greece Country
- United Kingdom Country