Assistant Professor of Management
Management

Contact Information

CBA 265
P.O. Box 880491
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491
Phone: +1-402-472-9171
pharms@unlnotes.unl.edu

Joined the college in July 2007.

Expertise

• Leadership
• Cross-Cultural Issues
• Ethics
• Human Resource Management

Education

PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2008)
MA University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2004)
BA University of British Columbia (2000)
 

Research Interests

Power Orientation
Leadership Assessment and Development
Status Attainment Processes
Person-Environment Fit
Workplace Deviance
Attachment Theory
Emotional Intelligence
Leadership Efficacy
Leadership in Combat
 
 

Teaching Interests

Organizational Behavior
Leadership
Research Methods
Applied Personality Psychology
 

Published In

Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, The Leadership Quarterly, Psychology and Health, International Journal of Conflict Management, Intelligence, Oracle, Journal of Research in Personality, Human Resource Management Review,
 

Refereed Publications

Harms, P.D., Spain, S., & Hannah, S. (in press).  Leader development and the dark side of personality. The Leadership Quarterly.

Harms, P.D. (in press). Adult attachment styles in the workplace. Human Resource Management Review.

Jackson, J., Wood, D., Bogg, T., Walton, K., Harms, P.D., & Roberts, B. (2010). What do Conscientious people do? Development and validation of the Behavioral Indicators of Conscientiousness Scale (BICS).  Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 501-511.

Wood, D., Harms, P.D., & Vazire, S. (2010).  Perceiver effects as projective tests: What your general perceptions of others says about you.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 174-190.

Harms, P.D.  & Credé, M. (2010) Remaining issues in emotional intelligence research: Construct overlap, method artifacts, and lack of incremental validity.  Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 3, 154-158.

Harms, P.D. & Credé, M. (2010). Emotional intelligence and transformational and transactional leadership: A meta-analysis. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 17, 5-17.

Hannah, S., Avolio, B., Luthans, F., & Harms, P.D. (2008).  Leadership efficacy: Review and directions.  The Leadership Quarterly, 19, 669-692.

Harms, P.D., Roberts, B.W., & Wood, D. (2007).  Who shall lead?  An integrative personality approach to the study of the antecedents of status in informal social organizations.  Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 689-699.

Roberts, B.W., P.D. Harms, Caspi, A., & Moffitt, T. (2007).  Can we predict the counterproductive employee?  Evidence from a 23-year longitudinal study.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 1427-1436.

Harms, P.D., Wood, D., Roberts, B.W., Bureau, D.A., & Green, M.A. (2006).  Perceptions of leadership in fraternal organizations.  Oracle: The Research Journal of the Association of Fraternity Advisors.

Harms, P. D., Roberts, B. W, & Winter, D.  (2006).  Becoming the Harvard man:  Person-environment fit, personality development, and academic success.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 851-865.

Roberts, B. W., Harms, P.D., Smith, J., Wood, D. & Webb, M.  (2006).  Methods in personality psychology.  In Eid, M. & Diener, E.  (Eds.).  Handbook of Psychological Assessment: A Multimethod Perspective.  Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Paulhus, D.L., & Harms, P.D. (2004). Measuring cognitive ability with the over-claiming technique, Intelligence, 32, 297-314.

Paulhus, D.L., Harms, P.D., Bruce, M.N., & Lysy, D.C. (2003). The over-claiming technique: Measuring bias independent of accuracy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 681-693.

Paulhus, D.L., Wehr, P., Harms, P.D., & Strasser, D.I. (2002). Use of exemplar surveys to reveal implicit theories of intelligence.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1051-1062.
 

Awards

Emerging Markets Initiative Research Grant. 2009.
Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) Research Grant. 2006.
Social Sciences and Health Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Doctoral Fellowship. 2002-05.
Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative Fellowship. 2002-03.
 

Additional Information

Current and Previous Research Partnerships:

U.S. Army Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Office
U.S. Army Center of Excellence for the Professional Military Ethic
United States Military Academy
Microsoft
University of Illinois, Office of the Dean of Students
University of Illinois, University Housing

Research