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Ryan Fehr
Professor of Management
Michael G. Foster Endowed Fellow

Education

  • PhD University of Maryland, College Park (2010)
  • MA University of Maryland, College Park (2007)
  • BA The College of New Jersey (2005)

Expertise

building positive relationships, ethics, leadership

Positions Held

At the University of Washington since 2011
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010-2011

Selected Publications

  1. “Leaders and the Punishment of Misconduct: Examining the Roles of Leader Moral Identity and Cognitive Load”
    Chiang, J., Liu, H., Fehr, R., Wang, Z., and Huang, Q., (2023). Journal of Applied Psychology.
  2. “Feeling Anxious and Abusing Low Performers: A Multilevel Model of High Performance Work Systems and Abusive Supervision”
    Meng, X., Wei, H., Fehr, R., and Zhao, S., (2022). Journal of Organizational Behavior.
  3. “Rewarding Morality: How Corporate Social Responsibility Shapes Top Management Team Compensation Votes”
    Fehr, R., Gupta, A., and Guarana, C., (2022). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
  4. “When You Try Your Best to Help but Don’t Succeed: How Self-Compassionate Reflection Influences Reactions to Interpersonal Helping Failures”
    Heng, Y. T., and Fehr, R., (2022). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
  5. “When Your Boss Is a Robot: Workers Are More Spiteful to Robot Supervisors That Seem More Human”
    Yam, K. C., Goh, E.-Y., Fehr, R., Lee, R., Soh, H., and Gray, K., (2022). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
  6. “How Do Employees React to Leaders’ Unethical Behavior? The Role of Moral Disengagement”
    Fehr, R., Fulmer, C. A., and Keng-Highberger, F. T., (2020). Personnel Psychology.
  7. “The Role of Moral Decoupling in the Causes and Consequences of Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior”
    Fehr, R., Welsh, D., Yam, K. C., Baer, M., Wei, W., and Vaulont, M., (2019). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 153, pp. 27–40.
  8. “Polluted Work: A Self-Control Perspective on Air Pollution Appraisals, Organizational Citizenship, and Counterproductive Work Behavior”
    Fehr, R., Yam, K. C., He, W., Chiang, J. T., and Wei, W., (2017). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 143, pp. 98–110.
  9. “How Do Leaders React When Treated Unfairly? Leader Narcissism and Self-Interested Behavior in Response to Unfair Treatment”
    Liu, H., Chiang, J. T., Fehr, R., Xu, M., and Wang, S., (in press). Journal of Applied Psychology.
  10. “The Grateful Workplace: A Multilevel Model of Gratitude in Organizations”
    Fehr, R., Fulmer, A., Awtrey, E., and Miller, J., (in press). Academy of Management Review.
  11. “Moralized Leadership: The Construction and Consequences of Ethical Leader Perceptions”
    Fehr, R., Yam, K. C., and Dang, C., (2015). Academy of Management Review.
  12. “Morning Employees Are Better Employees: Employees’ Start Times Influence Supervisor Performance Ratings”
    Yam, K. C., Fehr, R., and Barnes, C., (2014). Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 99, pp. 1288–1299.
  13. “The Forgiving Organization: A Multilevel Model of Forgiveness at Work”
    Fehr, R., and Gelfand, M. J., (2012). Academy of Management Review, Vol. 37(4), pp. 664–688.
  14. “When Apologies Work: How Matching Apology Components to Victims’ Self-Construals Facilitates Forgiveness”
    Fehr, R., and Gelfand, M. J., (2010). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 113(1), pp. 37–50.
  15. “The Road to Forgiveness: A Meta-Analytic Synthesis of Its Situational and Dispositional Correlates”
    Fehr, R., Gelfand, M. J., and Nag, M., (2010). Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 136, pp. 894–914.

Honors and Awards

Ascendant scholar award, Western Academy of Management, 2016
University of Washington PhD Program Mentoring Award, 2015
University of Washington Evening MBA Core Professor of the Year, 2014-2015
National University of Singapore Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship, 2014
Best Paper With Student First Author (Kai Chi Yam), AOM Human Resources Division, 2014
Arnold P. Gold Foundation grant for humanistic healthcare research, Co-Investigator, 2013
Best Paper for Excellence in Ethics, Notre Dame Excellence in Ethics Research Conference, 2013
UW School of Medicine grant for conflict research, Co-Investigator, 2012
Best Paper for New Directions in Conflict, AOM Conflict Management Division, 2011
Best Dissertation for 2009 or 2010, International Association for Conflict Management
Best Paper for New Directions in Conflict, AOM Conflict Management Division, 2009
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Department of Homeland Security START Dissertation Fellowship
International Association for Conflict Management DRRC Scholar Award
National Science Foundation REU Grant

Courses Taught

MGMT404: Organization Development
MGMT504: Ethical Leadership
MGMT545: Leading and Managing High-Performance Organizations

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Ryan Fehr

Academic Department

Management & Organization

Collaborators

Robert Chico

Current Research

Gratitude
Compassion
Positive Organizational Scholarship