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Professor Emeritus Miriam Erez

 
 
General Information
Prof. Erez's first degree, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was in Psychology and Sociology (1965). Her M.Sc.(1969) and D.Sc. (1972) at the Technion, were in Behavioral Sciences and Management with an emphasis on Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She spent a post-doctorate year at the Dept. of Psychology, U. of Maryland (1975/6), and sabbatical years at the U. of Illinois (1980/1), U. of Maryland (1985/6, 1989), U. of California at Berkeley (1990), U. of Washington, Seattle (1994/5), New York University (Fall, 1999), and University of California at Berkeley, (Fall, 2000),Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2005), Beijin University, China (2006). Prof. Erez has been named 2005 Israel Prize winner for management science. She received the prize for her research in management and organizational behavior and for her contribution towards integrating psychology and management. In 2002 she was awarded the Distinguished Scienfic Contributions to the International Advancement of Applied Psychology.  

Prof. Erez received two fellowships of Japan Foundation, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences to study Japanese Management (1987, 1988). She was invited as a visiting scholar to the Chinese U. of Hong Kong (1994, 2004). Prof. Erez served as the Dean of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, 1996-1998. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Fellow of the Academy of Management and Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology. Erez serves on the Board of the Academy of Management. She is the Past President of Division1 of Organizational Psychology, The International Association of Applied Psychology (1998-2002). Erez is the former Editor of: Applied Psychology: An International Review (1997-2003). She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Psychology, and she served on the editorial boards of Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes (1988-1999), and of the Academy of Management Journal (1997-1999).

 

 
 
Research Summary
Prof. Erez's research is in three major areas: Work Motivation, Cross-Cultural Organizational Psychology and Innovation and Creativity.

She has developed a programmatic research on the motivational effects of goals, and she was the first one to identify the two boundary conditions of the Goal-Setting theory - feedback, and goal commitment. Furthermore, her research demonstrated that participation in goal-setting enhances commitment and its consequent performance. Her joint study with Latham and Locke on participation in goal-setting won the 1988 Academy of Management Award of the best paper in Organizational Behavior. More recently, her research focuses on the motivational effects on performance quality, and on team performance, and she also studies the effects of the goal orientation and of the regulatory focus on performance.

Her second line of research focuses on cross-cultural management. Her research showed that an effective motivational approach in one culture becomes ineffective when transferred to a different culture. Recently, Erez is studying the global culture and the development of a global identity in two multinational companies. She also conducts a multi-cultural team project, in which MBA students from five different countries work on a joint project of developing guidelines to an expatriate. She In this project she studies changes in the global and local identity overtime, the team processes and their relationships to team performance outcomes. Her theory is summarized in two books: Erez, M. and Earley, P.C. (1993). Culture, Self-identity and Work, NY: Oxford University Press; Earley, P.C. and Erez, M. (1997). The Transplanted Executive, NY: Oxford University Press. Prof. Erez is a co-editor of two additional books: Cross-Cultural Issues of Industrial/Organizational Psychology (1997), and Cross-Cultural Analysis of Organizations (1996). Prof. Erez is the Israeli co-investigator of the Globe Study of Leadership.

Her third line of research focuses on innovation. Erez studies the effects of personal creativity, and of the organizational culture of innovation on product and process innovation. In particular, she is interested in the balance between a culture of innovation, attention to detail and outcome orientation on innovative performance.

 
 
Current Research Projects
  • Innovation, Quality and Efficiency: Effects of organizational culture, leadership and teamwork

  • Innovation in product design teams: effects of team composition and team processes

  • Multicultural teams: Factors facilitating team processes and team performance

  • Global corporate values, and employees’ global identity in global versus local organizations.

  • Towards a dynamic multi-level model of culture

  • The role of cultural values, and self-motives in understanding the effectiveness of managerial and motivational techniques across cultures

  • Leadership across cultures

  • Motivational effects of promotion versus prevention focus on tasks that requires generation of ideas versus attention to detail

  • Effects of decentralization on the quality of health care services

  • The impact of team reflexivity on medical quality related outcomes in a tertiary health care center


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    Selected Publications

    Books

  • Erez, M. and Earley, C.P. (1993):
    Culture, Self-identity, and Work. N.Y.: Oxford University Press.

  • Bamberger, P.A., Erez, M. and Bacharach, S.B. (Eds.) (1996):
    Cross-Cultural Analysis of Organizations. A volume in the series: Research in The Sociology of Organization (Series Editor, Samuel B. Bacharach), JAI Press Inc.

  • Earley, C.P. and Erez, M.(1997):
    The Transplanted Executive: Why you need to understand how workers in other countries see the world differently. New York: Oxford University Press.

  • Earley, C.P. and Erez, M. (Eds.) (1997):
    New Perspectives on International Industrial/Organizational Psychology. A Volume in the series: Frontiers of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Series Editor, Sheldon Zedeck), Jossey-Bass Publishers.

  • Erez, M., Thierry, H., Kleinbeck, U. (Eds.) (2001):
    Work Motivation in the Context of a Globalizing Economy. NY:Lawrence Erlbaum

  • Gelfand M., and Erez M.
    Cross-Cultural Organizational Behavior. (a contract with Sage).

    • Original Papers in Refereed Professional Journals

    • Shokef, E., Erez, M. & DeHaan, U. (working paper).
      "Beyond national values: a new typology of a global organizational culture"

    • Livne- Tarandach R.,  Erez, M., Erev, I. (Journal of Applied Psychology R&R).
      "Turning Enemies into Allies: The Effect of Performance Contingent Reward and Goal Type on Creativity."

    • Miron-Spector, E., Erez, M., & Naveh, E. (AMJ revise and resubmit).
      Team composition and innovation: The importance of conformists and attentive-to-detail members.

    • Vashdi, D., Erez, M., Bamberger, P. (ASQ2nd revision).
      "Can Surgical Teams Ever Learn? Towards a Theory of Transitive Team Learning in Action Teams".

    • Erez, M. (2010).Culture and Job design. Putting job design in context: Cross-disciplinary, cross-level, and cross-cultural perspectives, a special issue, Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31, 389-400.

    • Bergman, N., Erez, M. Rosenblatt, Z., and DeHaan U. (In press).
      Gender and the effects of an entrepreneurship training program on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial knowledge gain. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.

    • Bledow, R., Frese, M., Anderson, N., Erez, M. and Farr, J. (2009).
      Extending and Refining the Dialectic Perspective on Innovation: There Is Nothing as Practical as a Good Theory; Nothing as Theoretical as a Good Practice. Industrial and Organizational Psychology:  Perspectives on Science and Practice, Vol. 2  Issue 2, pp. 363-373.

    • Bledow, R., Frese, M., Anderson, N., Erez, M. and Farr, J. (2009).
        A Dialectic Perspective on Innovation: Conflicting Demands, Multiple Pathways, and Ambidexterity. Industrial and Organizational Psychology :  Perspectives on Science and Practice, Vol. 2 Issue 2, pp. 305-337.

    • Lisak, A. and Erez, M. (2009)
      Leaders and followers in multi-cultural teams: their effects on global team communication, team identity and team effectiveness. International Workshop of Intercultural Communication Best Paper Finalist, Proceedings, Stanford, February 20-21, 2009

    • Miron-Spektor, E., Erez, M., & Naveh, E. (2007).
      Balancing Innovation, Attention-to Detail, and Outcome Orientation to enhance Innovative Performance. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, August, 2007 Philadelphia, USA.

    • Gelfand, M.J., Erez, M., and Zeynep, A.,(2007).
        Cross Cultural Organizational Behavior   Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2007. 58:20.1–20.35
    • Erez, M., Earley, C.P., and Hulin, C.,
      "The impact of participation upon goal acceptance and performance: A two-step model", Academy of Management Journal, 28, 1985, 50-66.

    • Erez, M. and Zidon, I.,
      "The effect of goal acceptance on the relationship between goal difficulty and task performance", Journal of Applied Psychology, 69, 1984, 69-78.

    • Erez, M. and Shneorson, Z.,
      "Personality Types and Motivational Characteristics of Academics versus Professionals in Industry in the Same Occupational Discipline", Journal of Vocational Behavior , 17, 1980, 95-105.

    • Erez, M.,
      "Feedback: A necessary condition for the goal setting - performance relationships", Journal of Applied Psychology, 62, 1977, 624-627

      • Published in Book Chapters

    • Erez, M. (In press). 
      Cross cultural and global issues in organizational psychology. In S. Zedeck. (Editor). Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Washington D.C.: The American Psychological Association.

    • Erez, M. & Drori, G. (2009).
      World Culture and its impact on global organizational values and on the self: A Macro - Micro perspective. In: Rabi S. Bhagat and Richard M. Steers (eds.), Handbook of Culture,Organizations, and Work, pp. 148-173. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    • Shokef, E. and Erez, M. (2008).
      Cultural Intelligence and Global Identity in Multicultural Teams, pp. 177-191. In: Soon, Ang and Linn Vandyne (Eds). Handbook of Cultural Intelligence. Theory, Measurement and Applications, Armonk:M.E. Sharpe, Inc.

    • Erez, M. (2008).
      Social-Cultural Influences on Work Motivation (pp.501-538). In R. Kanfer, G. Chen, & R. D. Pritchard (Eds.), Work Motivation: Past, Present, and Future Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum.

    • Erez, M. & Shokef, E. (2008). 
      The Culture of Global Organizations (pp. 285-300). In P. Smith, M. Peterson & D. Thomas. The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research. Thousdand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

    • Erez, M., Chhokar, J.S., Nair, E., Wood, W., & Griffin, M. (2006).
      History of I/O Psychology in other parts of the world. In S.G. Rogelberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Industrial/Organizational Psychology. USA: Sage Publications, pages 317-322.

    • Erez, M. (2006).
      Le Management Interculturele. In C. L?vy-Leboyer, C. Louche, J.P.Rolland (Eds.) RH : Les Apports De La Psychologies Du Travail. Vol2 pp. 33-52.  Paris: Management Des Organizations. Editions d'Organisation.

    • Shokef, E. and Erez, M. (2006).
      Global Work Culture and Global Identity as a Platform for a Shared Understanding in Multicultural Teams. In B. Mannix, Neale, M., and Chen, Ya-Ru (Eds.). National culture and groups. Research on Managing Groups and Teams. Volume 9, pp.325-352. Elsevier JAI Press: San-Diego, CA.

    • Erez, M. (2006).
      Integrating HRM practices into a multi-level model of culture: CulturesÂ’  Values, Depth and Strength. In: F. Dansereau and F.J. Yamarino (Eds.) Research in multi level issues. Volume 5, pp.97-108. Elsevier JAI Press: San-Diego, CA.
    • Gati, E. and Erez, M. (Under Revision).
      Shared Meaning Systems in Multicultural Teams. In B. Mannix, Neale, M., and Chen, Ya-Ru (Eds.). Research on Managing Groups and Teams.







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