Areas of Expertise

individual differences, Dark Triad of personality, counterproductive work behavior, research methods, ethics

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010

Awards, Honors & Certificates

• 2016-Collegiate Teaching Award, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa
• 2016-Academy of Management Human Resources Division Early Career Achievement Award
• 2015-Sage Publications/Academy of Management Research Methods Division Early Career Award
• 2014-Personnel Psychology Best Article Award Winner for “The Best and the Rest: Revisiting the Norm of Normality.”
• 2013-Sage Publications/Academy of Management Research Methods Division Best Paper Award for The Chrysalis Effect: How ugly data metamorphosize into beautiful articles

Selected Publications

• Williams, L. J., O'Boyle, E. H., & Yu, J. (2020). Condition 9 and 10 tests of model confirmation: A review of James, Mulaik, and Brett (1982) and contemporary alternatives. Organizational Research Methods, 23(1), 6-29.
• Greco, L., O'Boyle, E. H., Cockburn, B., and Yuan, Z. (2018). Meta-Analysis of Coefficient Alpha: A Reliability Generalization Study. Journal of Management Studies, 55(4), 583-618.
• O’Boyle, E. H., Banks, G., & Gonzalez-Mulé, E. (2017). The chrysalis effect: How ugly data metamorphosize into beautiful articles. Journal of Management, 43(2), 376-399.
• Harrison, J., Banks, G., Pollack, J.M., O'Boyle, E. H. & Short, J. (2017). Publication bias in strategic management research. Journal of Management, 43(2), 400-425.
• Aguinis, H., O’Boyle, E. H., Gonzalez-Mulé, E., & Joo, H. (2016). Cumulative Advantage: Conductors and Insulators of Heavy-Tailed Productivity Distributions and Productivity Stars. Personnel Psychology, 69(1), 3-66.
• Banks, G. C., O’Boyle, E. H., White, C. D., Batchelor, J. H., Pollack, J. H., Whelpley, C. E., Abston, K., Bennett, A. A., &, Adkins, C. L. (2016). Questions about questionable research practices in the field of management: A guest commentary. Journal of Management, 42(1), 5-20.
• Yu. J., Downes, P., Carter, K, & O'Boyle, E. H. (2016). The problem of effect size heterogeneity in meta-analytic structural equation modeling. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(10), 1457-1473.
• Banks, G. C., Pollack, J. M., Bochantin, J. E., Kirkman, B. L., Whelpley, C. E., & O’Boyle, E. H. (2016). Management’s Science–Practice Gap: A Grand Challenge for All Stakeholders. Academy of Management Journal, 59(6), 2205-2231.
• O'Boyle, E. H., Forsyth, D. R., Banks, G., Story, P. A., & White, C. (2015). A meta-analytic test of redundancy and relative importance of the Dark Triad and Five Factor Model of personality. Journal of Personality, 83(6), 644-664.
• Greco, L., O'Boyle, E. H., & Walter, S. (2015). Absence of malice: A meta-analysis of nonresponse bias in counterproductive work behavior research. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(1), 75-97.
• Williams, L. J., & O'Boyle, E. H. (2015). Ideal, nonideal, and no-marker variables: The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) marker technique works when it matters. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(5), 1579-1602.
• Joseph, D., Jin, J., Newman, D. A., & O’Boyle, E. H. (2015). Why does self-reported emotional intelligence predict job performance? Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(2), 298-342.
• O'Boyle, E. H., Rutherford, M. W., & Banks, G. (2014). Publication bias in entrepreneurship research: An examination of dominant relations to performance. Journal of Business Venturing, 29(6), 773-784.
• Aguinis, H., & O'Boyle, E. H. (2014). Star performers in twenty-first-century organizations. Personnel Psychology, 67(2), 313-350.
• Burnette, J. L., O'Boyle, E. H., Van Epps, E. M., Finkel, E. J., & Pollack, J. (2013). Mindsets matter: A meta-analytic review of implicit theories and self-regulation. Psychological Bulletin, 139(3), 655-701.
• O'Boyle, E. H., Forsyth, D. R., Banks, G., & McDaniel, M. A. (2012). A meta-analysis of the Dark Triad and work outcomes: A social exchange perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97(3), 557-579.
• O'Boyle, E. H., & Aguinis, H. (2012). The best and the rest: Revisiting the norm of normality of individual performance. Personnel Psychology, 65(1), 79-119.
• O'Boyle, E. H., Pollack, J. M., & Rutherford, M. W. (2012). Exploring the relation between family involvement and firms' financial performance: A meta-analysis of main and moderator effects. Journal of Business Venturing, 27(1), 1-18.
• Cole, M. S., Walter, F., Bedeian, A. G., & O’Boyle, E. H. (2012). Job burnout and employee engagement: A meta-analytic examination of construct proliferation. Journal of Management, 38(5), 1550-1581.
• O'Boyle, E. H., Humphrey, R., Pollack, J. M., Hawver, T. H., & Story, P. A. (2011). Emotional intelligence and job performance: A meta-analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32(5), 788-818.
• O'Boyle, E. H., & Williams, L. J. (2011). Decomposing model fit: Measurement versus theory in organizational research using latent variables. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(1), 1-12.
• O'Boyle, E. H., Forsyth, D. R., O’Boyle, A. S. (2011). Bad apples or bad barrels: An examination of group and organizational level effects in the study of individual counterproductive work behavior. Group and Organization Management, 36(1), 39-69.
• Williams, L. J., & O'Boyle, E. H. (2011). The myth of global fit indices and alternatives for assessing latent variable relations. Organizational Research Methods, 14(2), 350-369.
• O'Boyle, E. H., Rutherford, M. W., & Pollack, J. M. (2010). Examining the relation between ethical focus and financial performance in family firms: An exploratory study. Family Business Review, 23(4), 310-326.

Edited on June 30, 2022