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Jeff Bednar

Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources,
Management

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Biography

Jeff Bednar (PhD, University of Michigan) is an Associate Professor in the Management Department at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on how leaders construct and maintain their identities, and how they respond to various identity challenges, such as legacy dynamics and the impostor phenomenon. His research has been published in various books and journals including the Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Vocational Behavior. Jeff also teaches courses related to organizational behavior and human resource management, and works with organizations and executives wrestling with issues related to identity, culture, and leadership transitions.

Education

  • PhD, Management and Organizations, University of Michigan, 2013
  • B.S., Accounting, Brigham Young University, 2007
  • MAcc, Accounting, Brigham Young University, 2007

Group Affiliations

  • Academy of Management — 2006

Selected Publications

  • "Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Tolerance Spillover Effect on Ethical Decision Making", Journal of Business Ethics, Volume Forthcoming, 2025
  • "Organizational Ghosts: How “Ghostly Encounters” Enable Former Leaders to Influence Current Organizational Members", Academy of Management Journal, Volume In Press, Page 30, Academy of Management, Briarcliff Manor, NY, 2023
  • "4 ways to combat imposter syndrome on your team.", Harvard Business Review, 2023
  • "Putting identification in motion: A dynamic view of organizational identification", Organizational Science, Edition 1, Volume 31, Pages 200-222, 2020
  • "“I Must Have Slipped Through the Cracks Somehow”: An Examination of Coping with Perceived Impostorism and the Role of Social Support", Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 115, Page 17, Elsevier, 2019
  • "The impact of leader moral humility on follower moral self-efficacy and behavior", Journal of Applied Psychology, 2019
  • "Status and the true believer: The impact of psychological contracts on social status attributions of friendship and influence", Edition 1, Volume 25, Pages 73-92, Organization Science, 2014
  • "What Clients Don't Get about My Profession: A Model of Perceived Role-Based Image Discrepancies", Academy of Management Journal, 2013
  • "Using a positive lens to complicate the positive in identity research", Academy of Management Review, 2011
  • "Pathways for Positive Identity Construction at Work: Four Types of Positive Identity and the Building of Social Resources", Academy of Management Review, 2010
  • "Existing personal leadership prototypes vs. organizational leadership prototypes: How individuals manage tensions between leading with authenticity and conformity during their socialization as leaders in organizations", Journal of Organizational Behavior, Volume Forthcoming
  • "Seeking organizational immortality: How legacy security affects organizational decisions.", Academy of Management Perspectives, Volume Forthcoming