Peter A. Heslin Ph.D.

Recipient of the 2006 C. Jackson Grayson Endowed Faculty Innovation Award, for excellence and creativity in teaching

Recipient of the 2007 Best Reviewer Award from the Careers Division of the Academy of Management

Representative at Large of the Academy of Management Careers Division (2008-2011)

Teaching Webpage

Education
Ph.D. (OB & HRM), University of Toronto
M.S. (Applied Psych), University of New South Wales
B.A. (Hons), University of New South Wales

Areas of Expertise
Career Management
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Leading Organizational Change
Managing Across Cultures
Motivation
Organizational Behavior

Editorial Boards
Applied Psychology: An International Review
Journal of Business and Psychology
Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Behavior
Journal of Organizational Behavior

Courses Taught
Leading Organizational Change
Managing Across Cultures
Organizational Behavior

Consulting Engagements
Bristol Myers Squibb
Citi
IBM
KPMG
Oracle
Proctor & Gamble
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
Vanuatu Department of Health
Zurich Financial Services

Current Research

My two primary streams are research are as follows. First, I examine the implications of managers’ implicit assumptions about the malleability of personal attributes (e.g., ability & personality) for their performance appraisals, feedback-seeking, and the employee coaching they exhibit, as well as for their employees’ subsequent commitment and willingness to go-the-extra-mile for the organization. My second line of research explores the nature and implications of different conceptions of career success, with a view to improving the rigor of empirical research in this area, as well as striving to ultimately help people engaged in many different types of careers to experience more career success.

Downloadable Publications

Heslin, P. A., & VandeWalle, D. (in press). Performance appraisal procedural justice: The role of manager's implicit person theory. Journal of Management.

Heslin, P. A., VandeWalle, D., & Carson, J. B. (2009). Practical applications of goal setting theory to performance management. In J. W. Smither (Ed.), Performance management: Putting research into practice (pp.89-114). New York: NY: Jossey-Bass.

Heslin, P. A. (2009). Better than brainstorming? Potential contextual boundary conditions to brainwriting for idea generation in organizations. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 82, 129-145.

Heslin, P. A., & VandeWalle, D. (2008). Managers' implicit assumptions about personnel. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 219-223.

Heslin, P. A., & Ochoa, J. D. (2008). Understanding and developing strategic corporate social responsibility. Organizational Dynamics, 37, 125-144.

Heslin, P. A., VandeWalle, D., & Latham, G. P. (2006). Keen to help? Managers' implicit person theories and their subsequent employee coaching. Personnel Psychology, 59, 871-902.

Heslin, P. A., & Klehe, U. C. (2006). Self-efficacy. In S. G. Rogelberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Industrial / Organizational Psychology (Vol. 2, pp.705-708). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Heslin, P. A., Latham, G. P., & VandeWalle, D. (2005). The effect of implicit person theory on performance appraisals. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, 842-856.

Heslin, P. A. (2005). Conceptualizing and evaluating career success. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26, 113-136.

Gunz, H. P., & Heslin, P. A. (2005). Reconceptualizing career success. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26, 105-111

Heslin, P. A. (2005). Experiencing career success. Organizational Dynamics, 34, 376-390.

Heslin, P. A., & Latham, G. P. (2004). The effect of upward feedback on managerial behavior. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 53, 23-37.