Emeritus Professor Neal Ashkanasy
Emeritus Professor

Neal Ashkanasy

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Background

Neal M. Ashkanasy OAM, PhD is an Emeritus Professor of Management at the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland in Australia. He came to academe in after an 18-year career in water resources engineering. He received his PhD in social/organizational psychology from the same university. His research is in leadership, organizational culture, ethics, and emotions in organizations, and his work has been published in leading journals including the Academy of Management Journal and Review, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. He is Associate Editor for Emotion Review and Series Co-Editor of Research on Emotion in Organizations. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Review and Academy of Management Learning and Education. Prof. Ashkanasy is a Fellow of the Academy for the Social Sciences in the UK (AcSS) and Australia (ASSA); the Association for Psychological Science (APS); the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP); Southern Management Association (SMA), and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (QAAS). In 2017, he was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia.

Availability

Emeritus Professor Neal Ashkanasy is:
Not available for supervision
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Fields of research

Accounting, auditing and accountability Accounting, auditing and accountability not elsewhere classified Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services Consumer behaviour Corporate social responsibility Education Human resources and industrial relations Human resources management International business Leadership Marketing Organisation and management theory Organisational behaviour Project management Psychology Specialist studies in education Strategy Strategy, management and organisational behaviour Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Engineering, Monash University
  • Masters (Coursework) of Engineering, University of New South Wales
  • Diploma of Computer Science, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Member, Academy of Management, Academy of Management
  • Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences, Academy of Social Sciences
  • Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
  • Member, American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association
  • Fellow, Associatioon for Psychological Science, Associatioon for Psychological Science
  • Life Fellow, Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management
  • Member, Australian Psychological Society, Australian Psychological Society
  • Fellow, British Academy of Management, British Academy of Management
  • Fellow, Churchill Fellows Association, Churchill Fellows Association
  • Member, College of Organizational Psychologists, College of Organizational Psychologists
  • Member, International Association for Chinese Management Research, International Association for Chinese Management Research
  • Member, International Association of Applied Psychology, International Association of Applied Psychology
  • Member, International Society for Research on Emotions, International Society for Research on Emotions
  • Fellow, Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Fellow, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
  • Member, Society for Organisational Behaviour, Australia, Society for Organisational Behaviour, Australia
  • Member, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • Fellow, Southen Management Associatioon, Southen Management Associatioon

Research interests

  • Emotions at work

    This is the principal focus of my research. The area of emotions in the workplace is rapidly gaining wide recognition in organisational research. Several PhD students are working in this area at present, funded through various ARC projects. In addition, I established the e-mail discussion group ‘Emonet’ which includes among its members the leading researchers in this field, and is affiliated with the (US-based) Academy of Management. I am also organizer of international “Conferences on Emotions and Organizational Life” (San Diego, August, 1998; Toronto, August, 2000; Gold Coast, 2002; London, 2004; Atlanta, 2006; Fontainebleau, 2008, Montreal, 2010, Helsinki, 2012, Philadelphia, 2014, Rome, 2016, Chicago, 2018, Virtual, 2020). Three books, based principally on the proceedings of the conferences, have been published by Quorum Books, M.E. Sharpe, and Lawrence Erlbaum respectively, and an annual series of books, now published by The Emerald Group under the JAI Press banner, commenced in 2005. A major article, entitled, “Emotion in the workplace” was published in 2017 in the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior (co-authored by A. Dorris). Related publications are in the Academy of Management Executive, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Applied Psychology, The Leadership Quarterly, and Human Resources Management Review.

  • Leadership and leader-member relations

    Following on from my doctoral research program, I have maintained an interest in the factors affecting relationships between organisational supervisors and their subordinates. These interests cover two areas:- (a) Attribution theory. Research in this area has included a study of basic attribution processes, looking at the way people make attributions for their own and others’ performance, studies of attributions for leader behaviour, and cross-cultural field data on leader attributions for subordinate performance outcomes. Articles based on this research have appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and the Journal of Social Psychology, the Leadership Quarterly, and the Australian Psychologist. (b) Leader-member exchange theory. The more recent focus of this research is on the role of emotions and values in leader-member relationships. This work has been published in the Journal of Social Psychology and the Leadership Quarterly.

  • Organisational culture

    There are two principal foci for this research, as follows: (a) Organisational change and mergers. Several studies have been completed in this respect, examining culture changes in accounting firms, academic institutions, and government agencies. Papers describing these studies have been published in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Australian Academic Research Libraries, and the British Journal of Management. An article (with former doctoral student, Dr. Marie Kavanagh) was also published in the Elsevier Science/JAI Press book, Advanced on Mergers and Acquisitions. (b) International organisational culture. Funded in part by the ARC, this research includes cross-cultural studies as a part of the international Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) project and development and validation of a new measure of organisational culture. Reports of this research have appeared in the Journal of World Business and Asia-Pacific Journal of Management. I was also co-author of the ‘Future Orientation’ chapter in the main GLOBE book, published by Sage. Associated activities include founding and administering the ‘Orgcult’ e-mail discussion list, sponsored by the US Academy of Management; and co-authorship (with Drs. Mark Peterson, Florida Atlantic University; and Celeste Wilderom, University of Twente) of the Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate. A second edition was published in 2011.

  • Ethics in organisational behaviour

    Like emotions, ethics in the organisational context is gaining increasing recognition as an important field of research. Projects include an ARC study with former PhD student Dr. Carolyn Windsor (Griffith University) and Dr. Linda Treviño (Pennsylvania State University), recently published in Business Ethics Quarterly. Other publications on this topic have appeared in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Research on Accounting Ethics, and the Journal of Business Ethics.

  • The physical environment of office work

    Initially funded by a grant from the ARC, this work resulted in an edited volume (Routledge, 2019) and articles published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Australian Journal of Management. Collaborators are Dr. Oluremi (Remi) B. Ayoko (UQ Busine ss School) and Prof. Karrn A. (Etty) Jehn (Melbourne Business School). S Special Issue of the Journal of Managerial Psychology will be published in 2021.

Research impacts

Professor Ashkanasy’s many books and scholarly works have contributed materially to understanding of the role of leadership and culture in work organisations. In particular, he is internationally recognized as one of the originators and current leaders of the study of emotion in organisations and, as such, was the first Australian to be elected a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (APA Division 14). His citation read, in part, “Dr. Ashkanasy is one of a very small group of scholars who has developed theoretical models and conducted empirical research so effectively on emotions in the workplace that this topic has moved within the past decade from obscurity to mainstream research in I-O psychology.” His work is widely cited in industry trade books (e.g., Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, published by HBR Press, 2004) and university textbooks (he is the only Australian management scholar to be included in a recent list of the top 2% of scholars whose work is cited in leading textbooks – see Aguinis, H., Ramani, R. S., Campbell, P. K., Bernal-Turnes, P., Drewry, J. M., & Edgerton, B. T. In press. Most frequently cited sources, articles, and authors in industrial-organizational psychology textbooks. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice).

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615 works between 1974 and 2025
All (615) Journal Article (205) Book Chapter (158) Conference Publication (214) Book (27) Other Outputs (7) Edited Outputs (4)

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2007

Conference Publication

An experimental study of followers' cognitive and affective reactions to self- versus organization-focused leaders

Dasborough, M. T., Ashkanasy, N. M. and Fisher, C. D. (2007). An experimental study of followers' cognitive and affective reactions to self- versus organization-focused leaders. XVIth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions ISRE 2007, Coolum, Queensland, 11-14 July, 2007. Coolum, Queensland: The University of Queensland.

An experimental study of followers' cognitive and affective reactions to self- versus organization-focused leaders

2007

Conference Publication

Can followers' mood states influence a leader's performance: A laboratory study of upward contagion

Tee, E. Y. J. and Ashkanasy, N. M. (2007). Can followers' mood states influence a leader's performance: A laboratory study of upward contagion. 67th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3-8 August, 2007. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Academy of Management.

Can followers' mood states influence a leader's performance: A laboratory study of upward contagion

2007

Conference Publication

New directions in leadership research

Ashkanasy, N. M. and Dasborough, M. T. (2007). New directions in leadership research. 7th Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference (IOP), Adelaide, SA, 28 June - 1 July, 2007. Adelaide, South Australia: Australian Psychological Society.

New directions in leadership research

2007

Conference Publication

Ethical issues and emotions

Ascough, K. A. and Ashkanasy, N. M. (2007). Ethical issues and emotions. 2nd Asia-Pacific Symposium on Emotions in Worklife (APSEW), Gold coast, Queensland, 23 November, 2007. Gold Coast, Queensland: Bond University.

Ethical issues and emotions

2007

Conference Publication

The role of organisational events and emotions in strategic decision-making

Ashkanasy, N. M., Härtel, C. E. J. and Greenberg, J. (2007). The role of organisational events and emotions in strategic decision-making. 7th Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference (IOP), Adelaide, SA, 28 June - 1 July, 2007. Adelaide, South Australia: Australian Psychological Society.

The role of organisational events and emotions in strategic decision-making

2007

Book Chapter

Virtual organizations

Ashkanasy, Neal M. and Kasper-Fuehrer, Eva C. (2007). Virtual organizations. International encyclopedia of organization studies. (pp. 1620-1622) edited by Stewart R. Clegg and James R. Bailey. Thousand Oaks, California, U.S.A.: Sage Publications.

Virtual organizations

2007

Conference Publication

A multi-level model of follower negative affect and its effect on organizational support for leaders

Dasborough, M. T., Ashkanasy, N. M., Tee, E. Y. J. and Tse, H. H. M. (2007). A multi-level model of follower negative affect and its effect on organizational support for leaders. Festschrift to Honours James G. (Jerry) Hunt, Lubbock, Texas, 11-12 October, 2007. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University.

A multi-level model of follower negative affect and its effect on organizational support for leaders

2007

Conference Publication

Recognition of emotional expression in cross cultural service encounters

Russell-Bennett, R., Tombs, A. and Ashkanasy, N. M. (2007). Recognition of emotional expression in cross cultural service encounters. XVIth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions ISRE 2007, Coolum, Queensland, 11-14 July, 2007. Coolum, Queensland: The University of Queensland.

Recognition of emotional expression in cross cultural service encounters

2007

Conference Publication

The yellow brick road to doing well by doing good: Finding our brain, heart and courage

Russell, S. and Ashkanasy, N. M. (2007). The yellow brick road to doing well by doing good: Finding our brain, heart and courage. 67th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3-8 August, 2007. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Academy of Management.

The yellow brick road to doing well by doing good: Finding our brain, heart and courage

2007

Conference Publication

A cross-level mediation model of affective climate, leader-member exchange, team member exchange, and performance

Tse, H. H. M., Dasborough, M. T. and Ashkanasy, N. M. (2007). A cross-level mediation model of affective climate, leader-member exchange, team member exchange, and performance. Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), New York, USA, 27-29 April, 2007. New York, New York: Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

A cross-level mediation model of affective climate, leader-member exchange, team member exchange, and performance

2007

Conference Publication

Emotional intelligence in organizations

Ashkanasy, N. M. (2007). Emotional intelligence in organizations. XVIth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions ISRE 2007, Coolum, Queensland, 11-14 July, 2007. Coolum, Queensland: The University of Queensland.

Emotional intelligence in organizations

2007

Conference Publication

A model of superiors and subordinates' aggressive communication in the workplace

Melgoza, A. R., Ashkanasy, N. M., Ciarrochi, J. and Wolfram-Cox, J. (2007). A model of superiors and subordinates' aggressive communication in the workplace. 21st Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), Sydney, New South Wales, 4-7 December, 2007. Sydney, New South Wales: ANZAM.

A model of superiors and subordinates' aggressive communication in the workplace

2007

Journal Article

The effects of user characteristics on query performance in the presence of information request ambiguity

Ashkanasy, Neal, Bowen, Paul L., Rohde, Fiona H. and Wu, Chiu Yueh Alice (2007). The effects of user characteristics on query performance in the presence of information request ambiguity. Journal of Information Systems, 21 (1), 53-82. doi: 10.2308/jis.2007.21.1.53

The effects of user characteristics on query performance in the presence of information request ambiguity

2007

Conference Publication

The influence of emotional intelligence on job insecurity, workplace emotional reactions and decision-making behaviors

Jordan, P. J., Ashkanasy, N. M. and Lawrence, S. A. (2007). The influence of emotional intelligence on job insecurity, workplace emotional reactions and decision-making behaviors. XVIth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions ISRE 2007, Coolum, QLD Australia, 11-14 July 2007. Coolum, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.

The influence of emotional intelligence on job insecurity, workplace emotional reactions and decision-making behaviors

2006

Journal Article

Special section: Art and design in management education

Ashkanasy, Neal M. (2006). Special section: Art and design in management education. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 5 (4), 484-485. doi: 10.5465/AMLE.2006.23473208

Special section: Art and design in management education

2006

Journal Article

Bad apples in bad barrels revisited: Cognitive moral development, just world beliefs, rewards, and ethical decision-making

Ashkanasy, N. M., Windsor, C. A. and Trevino, L. K. (2006). Bad apples in bad barrels revisited: Cognitive moral development, just world beliefs, rewards, and ethical decision-making. Business Ethics Quarterly, 16 (4), 449-473. doi: 10.5840/beq200616447

Bad apples in bad barrels revisited: Cognitive moral development, just world beliefs, rewards, and ethical decision-making

2006

Journal Article

Introduction: Arguments for a more grounded approach in management education

Ashkanasy, N. M. (2006). Introduction: Arguments for a more grounded approach in management education. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 5 (2), 207-208. doi: 10.5465/AMLE.2006.21253785

Introduction: Arguments for a more grounded approach in management education

2006

Journal Article

Introduction: On the need for a more mature approach to management education

Ashkanasy, N. M. (2006). Introduction: On the need for a more mature approach to management education. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 5 (1), 82-83. doi: 10.5465/AMLE.2006.20388387

Introduction: On the need for a more mature approach to management education

2006

Journal Article

Emotion in organizations: Defining a multilevel model

Ashkanasy, N. M. (2006). Emotion in organizations: Defining a multilevel model. Australian Journal of Psychology, 58 (Supplement), 16-17.

Emotion in organizations: Defining a multilevel model

2006

Conference Publication

Linking job insecurity to negative decision making: The mediating role of job tension

Jordan, P. J., Ashkanasy, N. M. and Lawrence, S. A. (2006). Linking job insecurity to negative decision making: The mediating role of job tension. 20th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Yeppoon, Australia, 6-9 December 2006. Rockhampton, Australia: Central Queensland University.

Linking job insecurity to negative decision making: The mediating role of job tension

Past funding

  • 2022
    Organisational Culture, Agility & Initiative in Future Military Command and Control (C2)
    Commonwealth Defence Science and Technology Group
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2017
    Emotional Intelligence: A Pre-emptive Approach to Stress Management
    Commonwealth Department of Defence
    Open grant
  • 2015
    UQ Business School Research Laboratory
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2017
    When and How Does High Pressure Supervision become Abusive?
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2015
    Managing anger responses to perceptions of unfair managerial treatment (ARC Discovery Project administered by Griffith University)
    Griffith University
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Employee wellbeing and productivity: The role of territoriality, conflict and emotions
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2010
    What the Voice Reveals: An investigation of vocal expressions of emotion in five cultures (Swedish Research Council grant administered by Uppsala University)
    Uppsala University
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2012
    The contribution of project leader behaviours to processes and outcomes in large scale projects (ARC Linkage Project administered by Queensland University of Technology)
    Queensland University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2009
    The role of organisational events and emotions in strategic decision-making
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2004 - 2006
    Emotional reactions to job insecurity, emotional intelligence, and their effects on employee behaviour
    Griffith University
    Open grant
  • 2003
    Leadership substitutes - Leader Development Programs
    Canadian Forces Leadership Institute
    Open grant
  • 2003 - 2005
    Testing a Multi-level Theory of Emotion in Organisations
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2002 - 2004
    Antecedents of innovation vs. conservatism in rural industries and communities.
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2001 - 2003
    Affective Events in the Workplace: Extensions, Empirical Tests and and Intervention (ARC Large Grant project ID A00104726 - 1st Named CI, Dr Fisher at Bond University)
    Bond University
    Open grant
  • 2001
    Emotions in diverse work teams: An affective events perpective
    NHMRC - Strategic Funds
    Open grant
  • 1999
    Personal and organisational factors affecting managers' ethical decision making
    ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
    Open grant
  • 1998 - 2000
    An investigation of the causes and consequences of emotional experience at work
    ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
    Open grant
  • 1996 - 1997
    The Global Leadership and Organisational Behaviour (GLOBE) Research Program
    Quality Funds Round 3
    Open grant
  • 1996 - 1997
    Validation of a strategic organisational culture survey
    ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
    Open grant

Availability

Emeritus Professor Neal Ashkanasy is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    A Social Identity Perspective of Leadership: An Exploration of The Processes Underlying Employee Well-Being

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    A Social Identity Perspective of Leadership: An Exploration of The Processes Underlying Employee Well-Being

    Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Emotions and cognition in post-merger integration

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Alexandra Kriz, Dr Andre Pekerti

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Responsible Leadership as Shared Practice

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Thomas Maak

Completed supervision

Enquiries

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  • Business
  • Business ethics
  • Business organisation
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Ethics and business
  • Leadership in business
  • Management
  • Organisational psychology

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