Adam M. Grant


Associate Professor of Management


Ph.D., University of Michigan
B.A., Harvard University

PUBLICATIONS

Key Refereed Articles

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Grant, A. M. 2012. Leading with meaning: Beneficiary contact, prosocial impact, and the performance effects of transformational leadership. Academy of Management Journal, 55: 458-476.  Download

 
Grant, A. M. 2012. Giving time, time after time: Work design and sustained employee participation in corporate volunteering. Forthcoming in the Academy of Management Review, 37 Download

 
Grant, A. M., & Patil, S. V. 2012. Challenging the norm of self-interest: Minority influence and transitions to helping norms in work units. Forthcoming in Academy of Management Review, 37 Download

 
Grant, A. M., & Dutton, J. E. 2012. Beneficiary or benefactor: The effects of reflecting about receiving versus giving on prosocial behavior. Forthcoming in Psychological Science Download

 
Sonenshein, S., Dutton, J. E., Grant, A. M., Sutcliffe, K., & Spreitzer, G. 2012. Growing at work: Employees’ interpretations of progressive self-change in organizations. Forthcoming in Organization Science.

 
Molinsky, A., Grant, A. M., & Margolis, J. 2012. The bedside manner of homo economicus: How and why priming an economic schema reduces compassion. Forthcoming in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.  Download

 
Sonnentag, S., & Grant, A. M. 2012. Doing good at work feels good at home, but not right away: When and why perceived prosocial impact predicts positive affect. Forthcoming in Personnel Psychology.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., & Hofmann, D. A. 2011. It's not all about me: Motivating hospital hand hygiene by focusing on patients. Psychological Science, 22: 1494-1499.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., Gino, F., & Hofmann, D. A. 2011. Reversing the extraverted leadership advantage: The role of employee proactivity. Academy of Management Journal, 54: 528-550.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., & Berry, J. W. 2011. The necessity of others is the mother of invention: Intrinsic and prosocial motivations, perspective-taking, and creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 54: 73-96.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., & Hofmann, D. A. 2011. Outsourcing inspiration: The performance effects of ideological messages from leaders and beneficiaries. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 116: 173-187.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., Nurmohamed, S., Ashford, S. J., & Dekas, K. D. 2011. The performance implications of ambivalent initiative: The interplay of autonomous and controlled motivations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 116: 241-251.  Download

 

Grant, A. M., & Schwartz, B. 2011. Too much of a good thing: The challenge and opportunity of the inverted-U. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6: 61-76.  Download 

 

Grant, A. M., & Gino, F. 2010. A little thanks goes a long way: Explaining why gratitude expressions motivate prosocial behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98: 946-955.  Download


Grant, A. M., & Sonnentag, S. 2010. Doing good buffers against feeling bad: Prosocial impact compensates for negative task and self-evaluations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 111: 13-22 Download

 
Berg, J. M., Grant, A. M., & Johnson, V. 2010. When callings are calling: Crafting work and leisure in pursuit of unanswered occupational callings. Organization Science, 21: 973-994 Download

Grant, A. M., & Wrzesniewski, A. 2010. I won’t let you down… or will I? Core self-evaluations, other-orientation, anticipated guilt and gratitude, and job performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95: 108-121 Download


 
Grant, A. M., & Wade-Benzoni, K. 2009. The hot and cool of death awareness at work: Mortality cues, aging, and self-protective and prosocial motivations. Academy of Management Review, 34: 600-622 Download  

Grant, A. M., & Parker, S. K. 2009. Redesigning work design theories: The rise of relational and proactive perspectives. Academy of Management Annals, 3: 317-375.
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Grant, A. M., & Mayer, D. M. 2009. Good soldiers and good actors: Prosocial and impression management motives as interactive predictors of affiliative citizenship behaviors. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94: 900-912.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., & Sumanth, J. J. 2009. Mission possible? The performance of prosocially motivated employees depends on manager trustworthiness. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94: 927-944.  Download

 

Hofmann, D. A., Lei, Z., & Grant, A. M. 2009. Seeking help in the shadow of a doubt: The sensemaking processes underlying how nurses decide who to ask for advice. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94: 1261-1274.  Download

 

Grant, A. M., & Wall, T. D. 2009. The neglected science and art of quasi-experimentation: Why-to, when-to, and how-to advice for organizational researchers. Organizational Research Methods, 12: 653-686.
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Grant, A. M., Parker, S. K., & Collins, C. G. 2009. Getting credit for proactive behavior: Supervisor reactions depend on what you value and how you feel. Personnel Psychology, 62: 31-55.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., Dutton, J. E., & Rosso, B. 2008. Giving commitment: Employee support programs and the prosocial sensemaking process. Academy of Management Journal, 51: 898-918.  Download

 
Grant, A. M. 2008a. Does intrinsic motivation fuel the prosocial fire? Motivational synergy in predicting persistence, performance, and productivity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93: 48-58.  Download

 
Grant, A. M. 2008b. The significance of task significance: Job performance effects, relational mechanisms, and boundary conditions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93: 108-124.  Download

 

Grant, A. M., & Ashford, S. J. 2008. The dynamics of proactivity at work. Research in Organizational Behavior, 28: 3-34.  Download

 

Grant, A. M. 2007. Relational job design and the motivation to make a prosocial difference. Academy of Management Review, 32: 393-417.  Download

 

Grant, A. M., Campbell, E. M., Chen, G., Cottone, K., Lapedis, D., & Lee, K. 2007. Impact and the art of motivation maintenance: The effects of contact with beneficiaries on persistence behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 103: 53-67 Download

 

 

Spreitzer, G., Sutcliffe, K., Dutton, J. E., Sonenshein, S., & Grant, A. M. 2005. A socially embedded model of thriving at work. Organization Science, 16: 537-549 Download

 
 
Additional Refereed Articles

 
Grant, A. M., & Hofmann, D. A. 2011. Role expansion as a persuasion process: The interpersonal influence dynamics of role redefinition. Organizational Psychology Review, 1: 9-31.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., Fried, Y., Parker, S. K., & Frese, M. 2010. Putting job design in context: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31: 145-157.  Download

 

Wright, B., & Grant, A. M. 2010. Unanswered questions about public service motivation: Designing research to address key issues of emergence and effects. Public Administration Review, 70: 691-700.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., Molinsky, A., Margolis, J., Kamin, M., & Schiano, W. 2009. The performer’s reactions to procedural injustice: When prosocial identity reduces prosocial behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39: 319-349.  Download

 
Grant, A. M. 2009. Putting self-interest out of business? Contributions and unanswered questions from use-inspired research on prosocial motivation. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2: 94-98.  Download

 
Grant, A. M. 2008c. Employees without a cause: The motivational effects of prosocial impact in public service. International Public Management Journal, 11: 48-66.  Download

 
Grant, A. M. 2008d. Designing jobs to do good: Dimensions and psychological consequences of prosocial job characteristics. Journal of Positive Psychology, 3: 19-39.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., Christianson, M. K., & Price, R. H. 2007. Happiness, health, or relationships? Managerial practices and employee well-being tradeoffs. Academy of Management Perspectives, 21: 51-63.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., & Campbell, E. M. 2007. Doing good, doing harm, being well and burning out: The interactions of perceived prosocial and antisocial impact in service work. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 80: 665-691.  Download

 
Fried, Y., Grant, A. M., Levi, A. S., Hadani, M., & Slowik, L. H. 2007. Job design in temporal context: A career dynamics perspective. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 28: 911-927.  Download

 
Anderson, P. J. J., Blatt, R., Christianson, M. K., Grant, A. M., Marquis, C., Neuman, E. J., Sonenshein, S., & Sutcliffe, K. 2006. Understanding mechanisms in organizational research: Reflections from a collective journey. Journal of Management Inquiry, 15: 102-113.  Download
 

Book Chapters and Invited Articles

 
Grant, A. M. 2011. How customers can rally your troops: End users can energize your workforce far better than your managers can. Harvard Business Review, June: 97-103.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., Gino, F., & Hofmann, D. A. 2011. Stop stealing the spotlight: The perils of extraverted leadership. European Business Review, May-June: 29-31.  Download

 
Grant, A. M. 2011. Motivating creativity at work: The necessity of others is the mother of invention. Psychological Science Agenda, 25(7) Download

 
Grant, A. M., & Pollock, T. G. 2011. From the Editors: Publishing in AMJ―Part 3: Setting the hook. Academy of Management Journal, 54: 873-879.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., & Shin, J. 2011. Work motivation: Directing, energizing, and maintaining effort (and research). Forthcoming in R. M. Ryan (Ed.), Oxford handbook of motivation. Oxford University Press.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., & Berg, J. M. 2011. Prosocial motivation at work: When, why, and how making a difference makes a difference. In K. Cameron and G. Spreitzer (Eds.), Oxford handbook of positive organizational scholarship: 28-44. New York: Oxford University Press.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., Fried, Y., & Juillerat, T. 2010. Work matters: Job design in classic and contemporary perspectives. In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology, 1: 417-453. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., Gino, F., & Hofmann, D. A. 2010. The hidden advantages of quiet bosses. Harvard Business Review, December: 28.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., Dutton, J. E., & Rosso, B. 2008. That’s important! Making a difference with organizational research. In D. Barry & H. Hansen (Eds.), Sage handbook of new & emerging approaches to management & organization: 451-452. London: Sage.  Download

 
Margolis, J., Grant, A. M., & Molinsky, A. 2007. Expanding ethical standards of HRM: Necessary evils and the multiple dimensions of impact. In A. H. Pinnington, R. Macklin, & T. Campbell (Eds.), Human resource management: Ethics and employment: 237-251. New York: Oxford University Press.  Download

 
Grant, A. M., Little, B. R., & Phillips, S. D. 2006. Personal projects and organizational lives: When personal projects are not merely personal. In B. R. Little, K. Salmela-Aro, & S. D. Phillips (Eds.), Personal project pursuit: Goals, action, and human flourishing: 221-246. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.  Download

 
Little, B. R., & Grant, A. M. 2006. The sustainable pursuit of core projects, including this one: Retrospect and prospects. In B. R. Little, K. Salmela-Aro, & S. D. Phillips (Eds.), Personal project pursuit: Goals, action, and human flourishing: 403-444. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.  Download  


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