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Assistant Professor, Department of Management

Dr. Liam P. Maher started at Boise State University in 2018 and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Management, specializing in Organizational Behavior. He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior and human resources management from Florida State University, and an M.B.A. focusing on business administration from Seattle University. Dr. Maher’s research focuses on organizational politics, including the effects of such on employee performance and behavior, and the political influences on organizations. He is currently a member of the Academy of Management, The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Southern Management Association, and the Western Academy of Management.

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Dr. Liam P. Maher started at Boise State University in 2018 and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Management, specializing in Organizational Behavior. He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior and human resources management from Florida State University, and an M.B.A. focusing on business administration from Seattle University. Dr. Maher’s research focuses on organizational politics, including the effects of such on employee performance and behavior, and the political influences on organizations. He is currently a member of the Academy of Management, The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Southern Management Association, and the Western Academy of Management.

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Leaders and Followers Behaving Badly: A Meta-Analytic Examination of Curvilinear Relationships Between Destructive Leadership and Followers’ Workplace Behaviors (Jeremy D. Mackey, Charn P. McAllister, Liam P. Maher, et al.) Personnel Psychology (2019)

We draw from social psychological and resource-based theories to meta-analytically examine the existence, form, and magnitude of curvilinear relationships between destructive leadership and followers’ workplace behaviors (i.e., job performance, organizational citizenship behaviors, and workplace deviance). ...

Reorganizing Organizational Politics Research: A Review of the Literature and Identification of Future Research Directions (Gerald R. Ferris, B. Parker Ellen and Liam P. Maher) Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior (2019)

Organizational politics has been an oft-studied phenomenon for nearly four decades. Prior reviews have described research in this stream as aligning with one of three categories: perceptions of organizational politics, political behavior, or political skill. ...

Research Methods in Organizational Politics: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities (Gerald R. Ferris, W. A. Hochwarter, S. L. Jordan, et al.) Research Methods in Human Resource Management (2019)

Pregnancy in the Workplace: The Role of Stigmas, Discrimination, and Identity Management (P. L. Perrewé, S. R. Daniels, K. J. Hackney, et al.) Women, Business, and Leadership: Gender and Organizations (2018)

Articles (10)

How Contextual and Individual Characteristics Influence Psychological Needs Satisfaction: The Critical Roles of Political Skill and Political Will (Aqsa Ejaz, Liam P. Maher, Delphine Lacaze, et al.) Applied Psychology (2023)

This two-study research package investigates the interactive effects of perceptions of organizational politics, political skill, and political will on psychological need satisfaction, which has been shown to predict a number of different important organizational outcomes. ...

Perceptions of Organizational Politics: A Restricted Nonlinearity Perspective of Its Effects on Job Satisfaction and Performance (B. Parker Ellen, Liam P. Maher, Wayne A. Hochwarter, et al.) Applied Psychology (2022)

This study examined a restricted nonlinearity perspective of the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics (POPs) and work outcomes (i.e., job satisfaction and job performance), dependent upon the level of employee loyalty. Consistent with prior ...

Forty Years of Political Skill and Will in Organizations: A Review, Meta-Theoretical Framework and Directions for Future Research (Liam P. Maher, Aqsa Ejaz, Chi Lan Nguyen, et al.) Career Development International (2022)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the scholarship on political skill and political will so that the authors might inspire future work that assesses these constructs individually and in tandem. Design/methodology/approach ...

Perceptions of Organizational Politics Research: Past, Present, and Future (Wayne A. Hochwarter, Christopher C. Rosen, Samantha L. Jordan, et al.) Journal of Management (2020)

Research examining the influence of perceptions of organizational politics (POPs) is currently at a nexus—capable of recognizing its previous contributions but also with an eye toward the future. Scholars credit much of the maturation over ...

Recruiter Political Skill and Organization Reputation Effects on Job Applicant Attraction in the Recruitment Process: A Multi-Study Investigation (Diane Lawong, Gerald R. Ferris, Wayne Hochwarter, et al.) Career Development International (2019)

Purpose – Researchers have identified various recruiter and organization characteristics that individually influence staffing effectiveness. In extending contemporary research, the purpose of this paper is to address a straightforward question unexamined in previous research, namely, ...

Political Skill and Will as Predictors of Impression Management Frequency and Style: A Three-Study Investigation (Liam P. Maher, Vickie Coleman Gallagher, Ana Maria Rossi, et al.) Journal of Vocational Behavior (2018)

To date, few empirical studies have confirmed the long-accepted notion that politically skilled individuals discriminately and strategically employ or avoid particular political behaviors in the workplace. The purpose of this multi-study investigation is to evaluate ...

Performance, Stress, and Attitudinal Outcomes of Perceptions of Others’ Entitlement Behavior: Supervisor–Subordinate Work Relationship Quality as Moderator in Two Samples (Kaylee J. Hackney, Liam P. Maher, Shanna R. Daniels, et al.) Group & Organizational Management (2018)

Supervisor–subordinate work relationships are based on a series of potentially fluctuating resource allocation episodes. Building on this reality, we hypothesized in the present research that supervisor–subordinate work relationship quality will neutralize the negative attitudinal and ...

Development and Validation of a Comprehensive Work-Related Needs Measure (Vickie C. Gallagher, Liam P. Maher, Kevin P. Gallagher, et al.) Psychological Reports (2017)

In a work context, employees tend to gravitate toward situations that are most conducive to meeting their needs. The purpose of this research is threefold. First, we define and specify the psychological needs under investigation, ...

Political Skill, Trust, and Efficacy in Teams (Elena Lvina, Liam P. Maher and John N. Harris) Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies (2017)

Political skill, frequently understood as a social skill at work, is argued to be a valuable resource not only at the individual level but also for the teams. Using hierarchical linear modeling and data from ...

The Sociopolitical Implications of Firm Reputation: Firm Financial Reputation × Social Reputation Interaction on Firm Financial Performance (Arthur D. Martinez, Zachary A. Russell, Liam P. Maher, et al.) Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies (2017)

The purpose of this investigation is to examine how different dimensions of firm reputation interact to predict firm financial performance. Specifically, we draw on the tenets of stakeholder theory to argue that firm managers can ...

Organizational Politics Research Methods (Liam P. Maher) Research Methods in Human Resource Management (2019)

Politics in Organizations (Gerald R. Ferris, John N. Harris, Zachary A. Russell, et al.) The SAGE Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology: Organizational Psychology (2018)

The Roles of Political Skill and Political Will in Job Performance Prediction: A Moderated Nonlinear Perspective (John N. Harris, Liam P. Maher and Gerald R. Ferris) Handbook of Organizational Politics: Looking Back and to the Future (2016)

Organizational politics are ubiquitous in organizations. Because organizational politics and political behavior represent inescapable realities in organizational settings, it is important to identify the individuals who are motivated to engage in such behavior, and the ...

Power, Politics, and Influence in Organizations (John N. Harris, Zachary A. Russell, Liam P. Maher, et al.) International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2015)

The study of the related concepts of power, politics, and influence in organizations has been a topic of interest for well over a century, with research expanding considerably in the last several decades. Power, politics, ...

The Impact of Recruiter Political Skill and Organization Reputation on Applicant Attraction (Diane Lawong, Gerald R. Ferris, Wayne Hochwarter, et al.) Academy of Management Proceedings (2018)

Researchers have identified various recruiter and organization characteristics that individually impact recruitment effectiveness. The present study examined applicants’ attraction to organizations based on political skill of the recruiter and the reputation of the organization. Results ...

The Impact of Recruiter Political Skill and Organization Reputation on Applicant Attraction (Diane Lawong, Gerald R. Ferris, Wayne Hochwarter, et al.) 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2018)

Researchers have identified various recruiter and organization characteristics that individually impact recruitment effectiveness. The present study examined applicants’ attraction to organizations based on political skill of the recruiter and the reputation of the organization. Results ...

Perception is Reality: Employee Task Performance During Organizational Change (James Vardaman, Liam Patrick Maher and Chris Sterling) 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2018)

Organizational change disrupts routines and standard ways of executing tasks, precipitating an interpretive process in which change recipients make sense of how to function in this uncertain environment. This paper proposes that this interpretive process ...

Unit Agreement and Reliability Generalization in Management and Organizational Research (Gang Wang, Liam Patrick Maher, Brandon Mead, et al.) 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2018)

With wider recognition that most data in the organizational sciences are nested, multilevel research has flourished in management and organizational research. Two persistent and related issues that lack convergence are how to empirically justify aggregating ...

My Past and My Friends: The Role of Change History and Social Influence in Employee Interpretation and Acceptance of Organizational Change (Liam Maher, James Vardaman and Christopher Sterling) Southern Management Association 2017 Conference Meeting (2017)

Gaining employee buy-in is acknowledged as a major hurdle to transforming workplace practices and procedures. This study draws upon a social information processing perspective to present and test a framework for understanding individual acceptance of ...

Covering Stigmatized Identities in Organizations and the Roles of Ego Depletion and Inauthenticity: Costs, Consequences, and Future Directions (Liam P. Maher) Southern Management Association 2017 Conference Meeting (2017)

Research related to stigmatized identities in organizations has received increased attention, yet many questions remain regarding the role of covering or downplaying these stigmatized identities. We move the conversation beyond whether to reveal or conceal ...

Political Skill and Will as Predictors of Impression Management Frequency and Style: A Configurational Investigation (Liam Maher, Vickie Coleman Gallagher, Ana Maria Rossi, et al.) Southern Management Association 2016 Conference Meeting (2016)

To date, few studies empirically have confirmed the long-accepted notion that politically skilled individuals discriminately and strategically employ or avoid particular political behaviors in the workplace. The purpose of this multi-study investigation is to evaluate ...