Personnel Psychology Awards

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Every year, the best paper award is given to a paper published two years prior. The journal’s editor and associate editors nominate papers based on their contributions to the literature and impact. The three finalists are shared with an awards committee consisting of editorial board members and chaired by an Associate Editor.

2025

Winner:

Reducing subgroup differences in personnel selection through the application of machine learning
Authors: Nan Zhang, Mo Wang, Heng Xu, Nick Koenig, Louis Hickman, Jason Kuruzovich, Vincent Ng, Kofi Arhin, Danielle Wilson, Q. Chelsea Song, Chen Tang, Leo Alexander III, Yesuel Kim

Finalists:

Digital connectivity for work after hours: Its curvilinear relationship with employee job performance
Authors: Shuang Ren, Jia Hu, Guiyao Tang, Doren Chadee

After the break‐up: How divorcing affects individuals at work
Authors: Connie R. Wanberg, Borbala Csillag, Michelle K. Duffy

2024

Winner:

Age separation and voluntary turnover: Asymmetric effects for collective turnover rates and individual turnover intentions depending on age
Authors: Kim De Meulenaere, David G. Allen, Florian Kunze

Finalists:

Employee time theft: Conceptualization, measure development, and validation
Authors: Crystal M. Harold, Biyun Hu, Joel Koopman

Is beauty more than skin deep? Attractiveness, power, and nonverbal presence in evaluations of hirability
Authors:  Min-Hsuan Tu, Elisabeth K. Gilbert, Joyce E. Bono

2023

Winner:

Shared leadership development and team performance: A new look at the dynamics of shared leadership.

Authors: Natalia M. Lorinkova,  Kathryn M. Bartol.

Finalists: 

Personal brand equity: Scale development and validation.

Authors: Sergey Gorbatov,  Svetlana N. Khapova,  Janneke K. Oostrom,  Evgenia I. Lysova.

The end is just the beginning: Turnover events and their impact on those who remain.

Authors: Lyonel Laulié,  Frederick P. Morgeson.

2022

Winner:

Can job seekers achieve more through networking? The role of networking intensity, self-efficacy, and proximal benefits.

Authors: Connie R. Wanberg, Edwin A. J. van Hooft, Songqi Liu, Borbala Csillag.

Finalists: 

Creating an ethical organizational environment: The relationship between ethical leadership, ethical organizational climate, and unethical behavior.

Authors: Maribeth Kuenzi, David M. Mayer, Rebecca L. Greenbaum. 

Why and for whom does the pressure to help hurt others? Affective and cognitive mechanisms linking helping pressure to workplace deviance.|

Authors: Joel Koopman, Christopher C. Rosen, Allison S. Gabriel, Harshad Puranik, Russell E. Johnson, D. Lance Ferris. 

2021

2020

Winner:

Gender and leadership emergence: A meta-analysis and explanatory model.

Authors: Katie L. Badura, Emily Grijalva, Daniel A. Newman, Thomas Taiyi Yan, Gahyun Jeon

Finalists:

I (might be) just that good: Honest and deceptive impression management in employment interviews.

Authors: Joshua S. Bourdage, Nicholas Roulin, Rima Tarraf

Surveying the forest: A meta-analysis, moderator investigation, and future-oriented discussion of the antecedents of voluntary employee turnover.

Authors: Alex L. Rubenstein, Marion B. Eberly, Thomas W. Lee, Terence R. Mitchell

2019

Winner:

Dropped on the way to the top: Gender and managerial derailment

Authors: Joyce E. Bono, Phillip W. Braddy, Yihao Liu, Elisabeth K. Gilbert, John W. Fleenor, Louis N. Quast, Bruce A. Center

Finalists:

Married with children: How family role identification shapes leadership behaviors at work

Authors: Tracy L. Dumas, Taryn L. Stanko

In Search of Balance: A Conceptual and Empirical Integration of Multiple Meanings of Work–Family Balance

Authors: Julie Holliday Wayne, Marcus M. Butts, Wendy J. Casper, Tammy D. Allen

2018

Winner:

Are Workplace Friendships a Mixed Blessing? Exploring Tradeoffs of Multiplex Relationships and their Associations with Job Performance

Jessica R. Methot, Jeffery A. Lepine, Nathan P. Podsakoff, Jessica Siegel Christian

Finalists:

Internal and External Networking Differentially Predict Turnover Through Job Embeddedness and Job Offers

Caitlin M. Porter, Sang Eun Woo, Michael A. Campion

Interpersonal Process of Emotional Labor: The Role of Negative and Positive Customer Treatment

Yujie Zhan, Mo Wang, Junqi Shi

BEST REVIEWER AWARDS

Every year, two reviewers from the editorial board are selected as the recipients of the Best Reviewer Award. This award recognizes two reviewers for the developmental, constructive, and timely reviews they provided during the previous year.