Peter A. Heslin Ph.D.

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

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

Leading Organizational Change

Managing Across Cultures

Motivation

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. (in press). Contextual boundary conditions to brainwriting for idea generation in organizations. Forthcoming in Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

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.

Heslin, P. A. (2003). Self- and other-referent criteria of career success. Journal of Career Assessment, 11, 262-286.