BA (Southwestern) 

MS(Purdue) 

PhD(Purdue) 

Cynthia D. Fisher is Professor and Head of Management at Bond University. She has also
taught at Texas A&M University, the University of Baltimore, and the National
University of Singapore. 

Dr. Fisher has authored articles on employee attitudes and work behavior, performance
appraisal and feedback, employee socialization, and emotion in the workplace. 

She serves, or has served, on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review,
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Applied Psychology,
and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Professor Fisher was a member of the
Australian Research Council's College of Experts for the Social, Behavioural and
Economic Sciences, 2007-2009. She is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and
Organizational Psychology. Her research has been supported by the Office of Naval
Research (United States) and the Australian Research Council. 

Articles

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Task appraisals, emotions, and performance goal orientation (with Amirali Minibashian, Nadin Beckmann, and Robert E. Wood), Journal of Applied Psychology (2013)

We predict real-time fluctuations in employees' positive and negative emotions from concurrent appraisals of the...

 

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Within-person relationships between mood and creativity (with March L. To, Neal M. Ashkanasy, and Patricia A. Rowe), Journal of Applied Psychology (2013)

State mood has been proposed as a facilitator of creative behavior. Whereas positive mood compared...

 

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Using experience sampling methodology in organizational behavior (with March L. To), Journal of Organizational Behavior (2012)

Experience sampling methodology and daily diary (ESM/DD) research elicits repeated reports of immediate or very...

 

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Happiness at work, International journal of management reviews (2010)

Happiness in the form of pleasant moods and emotions, well-being, and positive attitudes has been...

 

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Why don't they learn?, Business papers (2008)

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Highhouse (2008) suggests that managers’ ‘‘stubborn’’ preferences for suboptimal selection practices are based...

 

Books

Human Resource Management (with Lyle F. Schoenfeldt and James B. Shaw), Cynthia D. Fisher (2006)

The Sixth edition of "Human Resource Management" offers students a comprehesive, current, and research-based introduction...

 

Book Chapters

Conceptualizing and measuring well-being at work, Wellbeing in the Workplace: From Stress to Happiness (2013)
 

Fostering creativity in healthcare: Healthcare workers as agents of creativity (with March L. To and Neal M. Ashkanasy), The Innovation Imperative in Healthcare Organizations: Critical Role of Human Resource Management in the Cost, Quality and Productivity Equation (2013)
 

Interest and boredom at work, Handbook of Work Attitudes and Affect (2013)
 

Personnel/human resource psychology, IAAP handbook of applied psychology (2011)

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This chapter begins with a brief overview of the history of industrial psychology and...

 

Creativity as mood regulation (with Neal M. Ashkanasy and Patricia A. Rowe), Emotions and Organizational Dynamism (2010)

In this chapter, we seek to resolve the long-running controversy as to whether moods foster...

 

Conference Papers

Appraisals, goal orientations, and emotions while working (with Amirali Minibashian, Robert E. Wood, and Nadin Beckmann), 71st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM). West meets East: Enlightening, balancing, and transcending (2011)

Drawing on appraisal theories of emotion, we hypothesize and test relationships between four appraisals of...

 

When does negative mood boost creativity: A trait activation perspective (with March L. To), 71st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM). West meets East: Enlightening, balancing, and transcending (2011)

Using a within-person approach, we investigated the boundary conditions under which activating negative mood may...

 

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Micro job design: Affective reactions to real-time task characteristics (with March L. To), IOP 2011: 9th Industrial and Organisational Psychology conference. Connectivity in a dynamic world - Human connection in a world of rapid change (2011)

Most job design research assesses the effects of typical job characteristics on long term person...