Professor Mel Fugate PhD
Title:
- Professor of Management
Contacts:
mel.fugate@msstate.edu
Office: (404) 409-5920
302-M McCool Hall
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Overview
Education:
- Ph D, Business Administration, Arizona State University, 2001
- BS, Engineering and Business Administration, Michigan State University, 1990
Research interests:
Employee reactions to organizational change
Employee cognitions and emotions
Leadership and organizational culture
Leading change
Leadership and emotions
Employability and careers
Publications
Book, Chapter
- The impact of leadership, management, and hrm on employee reactions to organizational change. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management. 177-208. 2012
- Fostering anticipatory justice: A new option for enhancing the employee-organization relationship?. The Employee-Organization Relationship: Applications for the 21st Century. 335-362. 2012
- Capturing the positive experience of change: Antecedents, processes, and consequences. The Psychology of Organizational Change: Viewing Change from the Employee's Perspective. 15-40. 2009
Conference Proceeding
- Which fit fits? The effect of two types of leadership-culture fit on firm performance. . Pages 481-486. 2012
- An alternative models test of Lazarus' process theory of coping. . 2005
Editorial, Journal
- Sustainable careers across the lifespan: Moving the field forward. Journal of Vocational Behavior. Volume 117. 2020
Journal Article
- Is what’s past prologue? A review and agenda for contemporary employability research. Academy of Management Annals. Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 266-298. 2021
- Spiraling work engagement and change appraisals: A three-wave longitudinal study during organizational change. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 244-258. 2020
- Predictors and processes related to employees’ change-related compliance and championing. Personnel Psychology. Volume 71, Issue 1, Pages 109-132. 2018
- Congruence work in stigmatized occupations: A managerial lens on employee fit with dirty work. Journal of Organizational Behavior. Volume 38, Issue 8, Pages 1260-1279. 2017
- Cognitive appraisal as a mechanism linking negative organizational shocks and intentions to leave. Journal of Change Management. Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 203-227. 2017
- Whistle While You Work: Toward a Model of Emotional Self-Leadership. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 374-386. 2016
- Do similarities or differences between CEO leadership and organizational culture have a more positive effect on firm performance? A test of competing predictions. Journal of Applied Psychology. Volume 101, Issue 6, Pages 846-861. 2016
- When having to leave is a "Good Thing". A case for positive involuntary turnover.. Organizational Dynamics. Volume 44, Issue 1, Pages 57-64. 2015
- Managing employee withdrawal during organizational change: The role of threat appraisal. Journal of Management. Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 890-914. 2012
- Thoughts and Feelings About Organizational Change: A Field Test of Appraisal Theory. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 421-437. 2011
- A dispositional approach to employability: Development of a measure and test of implications for employee reactions to organizational change. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. Volume 81, Issue 3, Pages 503-527. 2008
- Employee coping with organizational change: An examination of alternative theoretical perspectives and models. Personnel Psychology. Volume 61, Issue 1, Pages 1-36. 2008
- Normalizing dirty work: Managerial tactics for countering occupational taint. Academy of Management Journal. Volume 50, Issue 1, Pages 149-174. 2007
- Employability: A psycho-social construct, its dimensions, and applications. Journal of Vocational Behavior. Volume 65, Issue 1, Pages 14-38. 2004
- Coping with an organizational merger over four stages. Personnel Psychology. Volume 55, Issue 4, Pages 905-928. 2002
- Explication of the coping goal construct: Implications for coping and reemployment. Journal of Applied Psychology. Volume 86, Issue 6, Pages 1179-1190. 2001
- All in a day's work: Boundaries and micro role transitions. Academy of Management Review. Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 472-491. 2000
Note, Journal
- Introduction to special issue on HRM and employability: mutual gains or conflicting outcomes?. International Journal of Human Resource Management. Volume 31, Issue 9, Pages 1095-1105. 2020
- Special issue of international human resource management journal HRM and employability: An international perspective. International Journal of Human Resource Management. Volume 28, Issue 19, Pages 2831-2835. 2017
Presentations
Other
- "A Current Look at Health Care and Hospitality Issues." Southern Management Association, SMA, virtual. 2020
- "Managing Tenure and Politics." Academy of Management Annual Conference, AOM, virtual. 2020
- "OB Division Doctoral Consortium--Finding Your First Academic Job ." Academy of Management Annual Conference, AOM, virtual. 2020
- "Building a Research Pipeline." Mid-South Management Research Consortium (MMRC; 2020, MMRC, Auburn University. 2020
Paper
- "Emotional Self-Leadership: A Contemporary View of Emotional Agency." Southern Management Association Annual Meeting (SMA), SMA, virtual. 2020
Areas of Expertise
leadership organizational culture performance management ethics organizational behavior ethical leadership emotions organizational change leading change culture change performance executive compensation