Professor Tyler Okimoto
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Tyler Okimoto

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Background

TYLER OKIMOTO is a Professor and Associate Dean (Academic) for the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law at the University of Queensland. He received his Ph.D. in Organisational Psychology from New York University in 2005, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Psychology at Flinders University in Australia, and in the School of Management at Yale University.

Tyler's research aims to better facilitate collaboration and consensus between diverse points of view, and to understand the role of leadership in overcoming those challenges. He often examines consensus/collaboration as a conduit for social justice in organisations and society, both how a lack of consensus contributes to injustice and inequality, and how people can effectively collaborate to move past conflict and repair harmonious relationships.

He is also an award-winning educator, teaching both traditional and online/blended courses on leadership, human resources, conflict/negotiation, and decision-making in the Undergraduate, MBA, and Executive levels. He was also the Program Director and Academic Lead Designer of UQ’s MicroMasters Program in Business Leadership, a series of five postgraduate-level MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses); in its first year, this program reached over 60,000 learners from 193 different countries, and was a 2019 finalist for the global edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions to Online Education.

Availability

Professor Tyler Okimoto is:
Not available for supervision
Media expert

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Psychology, The University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Masters (Coursework), New York University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, New York University

Research interests

  • Understanding ethical “grey areas”

    – antecedents and consequences of diverging reactions to deviance and diverse views about moral behavior.

  • Building moral consensus

    – bridging disagreement and divergent perspectives on injustice/conflict; promoting trust and value consensus within and between groups; improving the long-term effectiveness of prosocial responses to scandals, deviance, incivility, injustice, victimization, etc.

  • Justice repair

    – understanding and reconciling diverse ideas about what is required to do “justice” in the aftermath of a transgression (e.g., compensation, punishment, forgiveness, apologies, revenge, restorative conferencing).

  • Social disadvantage and inequality

    – understanding stigma and inequity in social, organizational, educational, and political domains, esp. how cognitive biases undermine the advancement of women in leadership.

Research impacts

Tyler's published work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the UK Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Good Morning America, Netflix Explained, SBS Insights, PBS News, ABC Radio, US National Public Radio, and the Hidden Brain podcast. His work has also been featured in a number of policy reports, inculding the American Association of University Women 2010 report, ‘Why so few? Women in STEM’; Harvard University's 'Gender Action Portal', aimed at closing gender gaps in business, politics, health, and education; and the National Academies Press 2014 policy report promoting equal opportunity in the U.S. military.

Search Professor Tyler Okimoto’s works on UQ eSpace

82 works between 2006 and 2025
All (82) Journal Article (71) Book Chapter (5) Conference Publication (6)

81 - 82 of 82 works

2007

Journal Article

Is compensation enough? Relational concerns in responding to unintended inequity

Okimoto, Tyler G. and Tyler, Tom R. (2007). Is compensation enough? Relational concerns in responding to unintended inequity. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 10 (3), 383-398. doi: 10.1177/1368430207078701

Is compensation enough? Relational concerns in responding to unintended inequity

2006

Conference Publication

Inclusionary concerns and effort-based performance in groups: Expectations and peripheral membership

Okimoto, T. and Wrzesniewski, A. (2006). Inclusionary concerns and effort-based performance in groups: Expectations and peripheral membership. ABINGDON: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD.

Inclusionary concerns and effort-based performance in groups: Expectations and peripheral membership

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2027
    Mapping the psychology of accent-based discrimination
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2026
    Well-being and Productivity in Metricised Employee Performance Systems
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2019 - 2022
    Dynamics of forgiveness and self-forgiveness (ARC Discovery Project administered by Flinders University)
    Flinders University
    Open grant
  • 2016
    UQ Business School Research Laboratory
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2016
    Identifying and resolving challenges to the effectiveness of collective apologies (ARC Discovery Project administered by Flinders University)
    Flinders University
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2013
    Ingroup Bias in the Enactment of Fairness in Organisations
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant
  • 2012
    Why so few women in upper management?: Impression management, social facilitation, and the enactment of stereotypical behaviour
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Tyler Okimoto is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Wellbeing and productivity in algorithmic employee performance systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Stacey Parker, Professor Martin Edwards

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Stereotype threat: The impact of organisational policies on engagement, affect and perceived opportunity for females

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Courtney von Hippel

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Stereotype threat: The impact of organisational policies on engagement, affect and perceived opportunity for females

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Courtney von Hippel

  • Doctor Philosophy

    EXPLORING THE EFFECT OF MUTUALITY ON THE PROCESS AND OUTCOME OF TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE IN SERVICE ORGANISATIONS

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor David Solnet

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Gender diversity in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics): Is there a business case for family-friendly academic career paths?

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Terrance Fitzsimmons

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Enabling Trust in Wearable Devices

    Associate Advisor

Completed supervision

Enquiries

Contact Professor Tyler Okimoto directly for media enquiries about:

  • Apologies
  • Conflict management
  • Forgiveness
  • Gender bias
  • Gender bias in organisations
  • Injustice
  • Responses to injustice
  • Revenge

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