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Michael Johnson
The Boeing Company Endowed Professor in Business Management
Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs

Education

  • PhD Michigan State University (2006)
  • BA Hope College (1985)

Expertise

decision making, emotions, leadership, teamwork

Selected Publications

"Emotional Signaling: How Helpers’ Emotional Expressions Affect Attributions of Motives, Relationship Quality, and Reciprocation"
Lee, S.H, & Johnson, M.D. (2025). Academy of Management Journal, 68(6), pp. 1266-1299.

"Not Even Remotely Close: How Co-­ Location Imbalance Affects Subgroup Formation in Hybrid Teams"
Handke, L., Costa, P.L., Hincapie, M.X., & Johnson, M.D. (2025). Journal of Organizational Behavior, 47, pp. 192–207.

“Towards a Configural Theory of Job Demands and Resources”
Ong, W. J., and Johnson, M. D., (2023). Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 66(1), pp. 195–221.

“Verdicts, Elections, and Counterterrorism: When Groups Take Unofficial Votes”
Johnson, M. D., Awtrey, E., and Ong, W. J., (2023). Academy of Management Discoveries, Vol. 9(4), pp. 429–439.

“Stock Market Responses to Unethical Behavior in Organizations: An Organizational Context Model”
Baker, B., Pitesa, M., Derfler-Rozin, R., and Johnson, M. D., (2019). Organization Science, Vol. 30, pp. 319–336.

“It’s Not Me, It’s Not You, It’s Us! An Empirical Examination of Relational Attributions”
Eberly, M. B., Holley, E. C., Johnson, M. D., and Mitchell, T. R., (2017). Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 102(5), pp. 711–731.

“Outcomes of Absence Control Initiatives: A Quasi-Experimental Investigation into the Effects of Policy and Perceptions”
Johnson, M. D., Holley, E. C., Morgeson, F. P., Labonar, D., and Stetzer, A., (2014). Journal of Management, Vol. 40, pp. 1075–1097.

“Expressed Humility in Organizations: Implications for Performance, Teams, and Leadership”
Owens, B. P., Johnson, M. D., and Mitchell, T. R., (2013). Organization Science, Vol. 24(5), pp. 1517–1538.

Honors and Awards

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Foster School of Business (2019)
Executive MBA Faculty of the Program (2019)
Boeing Company Professorship, Foster School of Business (2015-present)
Faculty of the Quarter, Technology Management MBA (2014-2019)
Organizational Behavior Division Most Innovative Student Paper Award, 75th Annual Academy of Management Conference (2016)
PhD Program Mentoring Award, Foster School of Business (2016) Professor of the Quarter, daytime MBA (2014)
GM Nameplate Faculty Fellowship (2012-2014)
Western Academy of Management 2012 Ascendant Scholar Award (2012)
Core Professor of the Year, Evening MBA (2011)
Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence (one of the top 50 management articles published in 2009 out of 15,000 considered)
Wells Fargo Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Foster School of Business (2009)
Finalist, Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research (top 5 out of 2,000 manuscripts considered, 2009)
Organizational Behavior Division Best Paper Award, 64th Annual Academy of Management Conference (2005)

Michael Johnson

Academic Department

Management & Organization

Academic Service

Communications/Technology Officer, OB Division of the Academy of Management
Communications Director, Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup)
International Research Advisory Board, Gordon Institute of Business Science
Editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Collaborators

Asiya Bari Mingze Xu

Current Research

Groups and Teams, Emotions and Stress, Social identities

Consulting

Amazon Microsoft Skookum Contract Services GM Nameplate Pierce County Court System Northstar Energy Department of Natural Resources Providence St. Mary's Foundation, Metropolitan Market Michigan Public Health Institute, Kellogg Youth Initiative Partnerships, International Steward