
Amanuel Tekleab
Title
Professor of Management
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Faculty Fellow
Board of Visitors Fellow
Phone
734-926-9768
Office
Mike Ilitch School of Business
2771 Woodward Avenue
Room 475
Detroit, MI 48201
Amanuel Tekleab
Academic Programs
- Management
Education
- Ph. D. University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
- BSc. Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Research and teaching interests
- Organizational Changes
- Teams and Team Processes
- Psychological Contracts
- Justice Issues
- Leadership
- Organizational Behavior
Biography
Professional experience
- Professor, Wayne State University, 2017-present
- Associate Professor, Wayne State University, 2009 - 2017
- Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, 2006 - 2009
- Assistant Professor, Clarkson University, 2003-2006
- Teaching Assistant, The University of Maryland, 2000 - 2003
- Research Assistant, The University of Maryland, 1998 - 2000
- Graduate Assistant, Clemson University, 1997 - 1998
Visiting Professorships
- Visiting Professor. Addis Ababa University, School of Commerce, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2017 to present)
- Visiting Professor. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (2018)
- Visiting Professor. Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. (2018)
- Visiting Professor. Freidrich-Shiller University Jena, Germany (2015)
- Visiting Professor. Open Universiteit, Heerlen, Netherlands (2015)
- Visiting Professor. Adama Science & Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia (2015)
- Visiting Professor. Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China (2013, 2014)
- Visiting Professor. Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Gent, Belgium (2011)
- University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales and Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, 2011
- Southwest University of Finance and Economics, 2013
Memberships (Most recent)
- Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) Executive Member
- Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) Conference (Co-Chair; Doctoral Students and Junior Faculty Consortium, 2022, Egypt)
- Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) Conference (Co-Chair; Doctoral Students and Junior Faculty Consortium, 2020, Nigeria)
- Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) Conference (Host Country (Ethiopia) Co-Chair, 2018)
- Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) Conference PDW/Caucus (Program Chair, 2013-2014)
- Journal of Organizational Behavior Best Paper Award Committee Member (2017)
- Associate Editor: Journal of Business Research (June 2022 to present)
- Associate Editor: Group & Organization Management (August 2022 to present)
- Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Managerial Psychology (May 2018-Dec 2020)
- Associate Editor: Journal of Managerial Psychology (Jan 2017-May 2018)
- Guest Editor: Africa Journal of Management (May 2018-Present)
- Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Organizational Behavior.
- Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Management Studies (2010-2017)
- Editorial Review Board Member, Group & Organization Management (Since 2010)
- Editorial Review Board Member, Africa Journal of Management (Since 2018)
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Applied Psychology
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, Academy of Management Journal
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, European Review of Applied Psychology
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Management Studies
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, Human Resource Management
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Journal of Conflict Management
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, Group and Organization Management
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, Management and Organization Review
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, OB-Division, Academy of Management
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, HR-Division, Academy of Management
- Ad Hoc Reviewer. Eastern Academy of Management - International
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, SIOP
- External research reviewer (KU Leuven University, Belgium)
- External Reviewer for Summer Research (West Virginia U.) 2005 & 2006
- Executive Member, Africa Academy of Management
- Member, Academy of Management
- Member, Management Faculty of Color Association
Publications
- Sun, J., Tekleab, A.G., Cheung, F. Y. M., Wu, W. (In press). The Contingent Roles of Market Turbulence and Organizational Innovativeness: Shaping the Relationship among Trust, Contracts, Knowledge Sharing and Firm Performance. Journal of Knowledge Management.
- Wang, J., Kim, T.Y., Tekleab, A. G., & Gilbreath, J. B. (In press). Predictors and consequences of self-verification: A time-lagged moderated-mediation study. International Journal of Human Resource Management.
- Van Dam, K., Verboon, P., & Tekleab, A. G. (2021). The Role of Middle Managers for Employees’ Responses to a Merger: An LMX and Appraisal Theory Approach. Journal of Change Management, 21, 432-450.
- Tekleab, A. G., Reagan, P., Do, Boram, Levi, A., & Litchman, C. (2021). Translating Corporate Social Responsibility into Action: A Social Learning Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 171, 741-756.
- Laulie, L., Tekleab, A. G., & Lee, J. (2021). Why Grant I-Deals? Supervisors’ Prior I-Deals, Exchange Ideology, and Justice Sensitivity. Journal of Business and Psychology, 36, 17-31.
- Abebe, M. A., Tekleab, A. G., & Lado, A. A. (2020). Multilevel perspectives on leadership in the African context. Africa Journal of Management, 6, 3, 145-160.
- Meuser, J., Cooper-Thomas, H.D., & Tekleab, A. G. (2020). Editorial on increasing your chances of publication. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 35, 453-464.
- Tekleab, A. G., Laulie, L., De Vos, A., de Jong, J., & Coyle-Shapiro, J. A. (2020). Moving levels in psychological contract research: A multi-source and multi-sample study of shared psychological contract fulfilment. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 29, 279-293.
- Gill, C., Metz, I., Tekleab, A, & Williamson, I. (2020). The Combined Role of Conscientiousness, Social Networks, and Gender Diversity in Explaining Individual Performance in Self-Managed Teams. Journal of Business Research, 106, 250-260.
- Karaca, A., & Tekleab, A. G. (2018). Team Conflict. In Oxford Bibliographies in Management. Ed. Ricky Griffin. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Du, Y., Zhang, L. & Tekleab, A.G. (2018). Job Characteristics and Employee Performance: An Interactionist View. Journal of Business Research, 82, 213-219.
- Laulie, L. & Tekleab, A.G. 2016. A multilevel theory of psychological contract fulfillment in teams. Group & Organization Management, 41, 629-657.
- Tekleab, A. G., Karaca, A., Quigley, N. R., & Tsang, E. W. K. (2016) Re-examining the functional diversity–performance relationship: The roles of behavioral integration, team cohesion, and team learning. Journal of Business Research, 69, 3500-3507.
- Ho, V., & Tekleab, A. 2016. "Ask and ye shall receive": A comparative model of ex-ante and ex-post idiosyncratic deal-making and their impact on attitudinal outcomes. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 31, 642-656.
- Lee, J., Chaudhry, A., Tekleab, A. G. 2014. An Interactionist Perspective on Employee Performance as a Response to Psychological Contract Breach. Personnel Review, 43, 861-880.
- Tekleab, A. G., & Quigley, N. R. (2014). Team Deep-Level Diversity, Relationship Conflict, and Team Members’ Affective Reactions: A Cross-Level Investigation. Journal of Business Research, 67, 394-402.
- Castano, N., Watt, T., & Tekleab, A. G. (2013). A Reexamination of the Cohesion-Performance Relationship Meta-Analyses: A Comprehensive Approach. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 17, 207-231.
- Tekleab, A. G., Orvis, K. A., & Taylor, M. S. (2013). Deleterious Consequences of Change in Newcomers’ Employer-Based Psychological Contract obligations. Journal of Business and Psychology, 28, 361-374.
- Chaudhry, A., & Tekleab, A. G. (2013). A social exchange model of psychological contract fulfillment: Where do expectations, LMX and POS fit in? Organization Management Journal, 10, 158-171.
- Brusso, R. C., Orvis, K. A., Bauer, K. N. & Tekleab, A. G. (2012). Interaction among self-efficacy, goal orientation, and unrealistic goal-setting on performance. Military Psychology, 24, 1-18.
- Tekleab, A. G., & Chiaburu, D. (2011). Social Exchange in the Workplace: An Empirical Examination of Form and Focus. Journal of Business Research, 64, 460-466.
- Wittmer, J., Martin, J., & Tekleab, A. G. (2010). Supervisory Procedural Justice and Work Outcomes in a Unionized Setting: The Mediating Role of Leader-Member Exchange. American Journal of Business, 25, 55-69.
- Tekleab, A. G., Quigley, N. R., & Tesluk, P. E. (2009) A Longitudinal Study of Team Conflict, Conflict Management, Cohesion, and Team Effectiveness. Group & Organization Management, 34, 170-205.
- Juki, B., Kravitz, D., Jukic, N., Tekleab, A., Meamber, L., and Dashnaw, A. (2009). Multi-level Information Presentation Strategy and Customer Reaction: An Empirical Investigation in an On-Line Setting. Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 19, 173-195.
- Lado, A., Dant, R., & Tekelab, A. G. (2008). Trust-Opportunism Paradox, Relationalism, and Performance in Interfirm relationships: Evidence from the Retail Inudstry. Strategic Management Journal, 29, 401-423.
- Tekleab, A. G., Sims, H. P., Jr., Yun, S., Tesluk, P., & Cox, J. (2008). Are We On the Same Page? Effects of Self-Awareness of Empowering and Transformational Leadership. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 14, 185-201.
- Quigley, N., Tekleab, A. G., & Tesluk, P. (2007). Comparing Consensus and Aggregation Based Methods of Measuring Team-Level Variables: The Role of Relationship Conflict and Conflict Management Processes. Organizational Research Methods, 10, 589-608.
- Lepak, D., Taylor, M. S., Tekleab, A. G., Marrone, J., & Cohen, D. J. (2007). An Examination of the Use of High-Investment Human Resource Systems for Core and Support Employees. Human Resource Management, 46, 223-246.
- Tekleab, A. G., Takeuchi, R., & Taylor, M. S. (2005). Extending the Chain of Relationships among Organizational. Justice, Social Exchange, and Employee Reactions: The Role of Contract Violations. 38T38TAcademy of Management Journal, 48, 146-157.
- Tekleab, A. G., Bartol, K., & Liu, W. (2005). Is It Pay Levels or Pay Raises that Matter to Fairness and Turnover? 38T38TJournal of Organizational Behavior, 26, 899-921.
- Chiaburu, D., & Tekleab, A. G. (2005). Individual and Contextual Influences on Multiple Dimensions of Training Effectiveness. Journal of European Industrial Training, 29, 604-623. (Received Outstanding Paper Award from EMERALD).
- Tekleab, A. G., & Taylor, M. S. (2003). Aren’t There Two Parties in an Employment Relationship? Antecedents and Consequences of Organization-Employee Agreement on Contract Obligations & Violations. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 24, 585-608.
Presentations
Recent Conference Presentations
- Yestrepsky, J., Julian, S., Tekleab, A.G., & Grzebyk, T. (2022). The Interaction of Uncertainty, Threat and Opportunity During Strategic Issue Diagnosis. 82nd Annual Academy of Management Meeting. Seattle, WA.
- Meuser, J., Tekleab, A. G., Cooper-Thomas, H. (Desk) Reject Recovery: A Manuscript Development. Professional Development Workshop. 80th Academy of Management Meeting. Online Conference (Due to COVID-19).
Karaca, A., Tekleab, A. G., Quigley, N., & Gardner, S. (2013). Do we (have to) agree? A multilevel examination of conflict asymmetry in teams. Paper to be presented at the 73rd Academy of Management Meeting. Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Fl.
- Ho, V., & Tekleab, A.G. (2013) "Ask and ye shall receive": A comparative model of ex-ante and ex-post idiosyncratic deal-making and their impact on attitudinal outcomes. Paper to be presented at the 73rd Annual Academy of Management Meeting, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Fl.
- Tekleab, A. G., & De Vos, Ans. (April, 2013). Moderating and mediating variables on the team coaching-attitudes relationship. Manuscript presented at the 28th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Meeting. Houston, TX. (Date Accepted: November 27, 2012)
- Karaca, A., & Tekleab, A. G. (2012). Toward an understanding of conflict asymmetry in teams: A multilevel perspective. Paper presented at the Southern Management Association. Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.
- Roberson, Q., Tekleab, A.G., Williamson, I., Gill, C. (2012) Directing fairness in self-managing teams: How team leadership moderates justice climates. Paper presented as part of a symposium on Novel Applications of Organizational Justice: Promising New Directions at the 72nd Annual Academy of Management Meeting, Boston, Ma.
- Tekleab, A. G. (co-chair), & Quigley, N. R. (co-chair). (2011). New Perspectives on Team Inputs, Processes, and Outcomes. Symposium presentation at the 71st Annual Academy of Management Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
- Karaca, A., Tekleab, A. G., Quigley, N. R., & Tsang, E. W. K. (2011). From Functional Diversity to Performance: The Role of Team Processes. Paper presented as part of a symposium on New Perspectives on Team Inputs, Processes, and Outcomes at the 71st Annual Academy of Management Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
- Bauer, K. N., Orvis, K. A., Brusso, R. C., & Tekleab, A.G. (2011) Feedback, Goal Revision, and the Mediating Effects of Self-Regulatory Processes. Poster paper presented at APS Annual Convention. Washington, DC.
- Chaudhry, A., & Tekleab, A. G. (2011) A social exchange model of psychological contract fulfillment: Where do expectations, LMX and POS fit in? Paper presented at the Eastern Academy of Management-International Conference, Bangalore, India.
- Lee, J. H., Chaudhry, A., & Tekleab, A. G. (2011) Exchange ideology and POS in the PC Breach-Performance Relationship. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Awards
- President’s Award for Teaching Effectiveness. Wayne State University. (2022).
- Summer Faculty Development Research Award. School of Business Administration, Wayne State University. (2015).
- Best Conference Paper. Academy of Management-Social Issues Division. (2015).
- Citation of Excellence Winner for an article, "A longitudinal study of team conflict, conflict management, cohesion, and team effectiveness" (Group & Organization Management, 2009). (2013).
- Management Education Division of the Academy of Management Best Paper Award. (2013).
- Distinguished Teaching Award, School of Business Administration, Wayne State University. (2012)
- Board of Visitors Fellow, School of Business Administration, Wayne State University. (2011-2014)
- Summer Faculty Development Research Award. Department of M&IS. School of Business Administration, Wayne State University. (2011).
- Distinguished Research Award. School of Business Administration, Wayne State University. (2009-2010)
- Summer Faculty Development Research Award. School of Business Administration, Wayne State University. (2010).
- The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) 2010 Inspire Integrity Award Nominee (2009-2010).
- Best Business Professor of the Year (2008-2009). Student Senate, School of Business Administration, Wayne State University.
- Summer Faculty Development Research Award. School of Business Administration, Wayne State University. (2009).
- Academy of Scholars Award to a Junior Faculty (and $1000 research fund). Wayne State University. (2007-2008)
- Delta Sigma Pi-Gamma Theta Chapter, inducted in January, 2008.
- The Clarkson University SHRM Student Chapter Award (2006).
- EMERALD, Outstanding Paper Award on a paper that appeared in European Journal of Industrial Training in 2005.
- Dissertation Grant ($2000.00). University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business, Netcentric Research Fund. (Spring 2002).
- Dissertation Grant ($500.00). University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business, Ph. D. Office. (Spring 2002).
- Graduate Research Board Grant ($1,250). University of Maryland. (Summer 2001).
- Best Student Paper plaque and $500. Human Resource Division, Academy of Management (2000).
- Graduate Research Board Grant ($2,500). University of Maryland (Summer 1999).
Courses taught by Amanuel Tekleab
Fall Term 2023 (current)
Winter Term 2023
- BA7040 - Managing Organizational Behavior
- MGT7780 - Concepts and Processes of Dispute Resolution I: Negotiating Theory and Practice
Fall Term 2022
- BA7040 - Managing Organizational Behavior
- BA8220 - Seminar in Organizational Behavior
- MGT7780 - Concepts and Processes of Dispute Resolution I: Negotiating Theory and Practice