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PhD Organizational Behavior University of Iowa
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According to Wikipedia, Fred Luthans is a management professor specializing in organizational behavior. He is the University and George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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Self-efficacy and work-related performance: A meta-analysis. (1998) (3285)
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL: MEASUREMENT AND RELATIONSHIP WITH PERFORMANCE AND SATISFACTION (2007) (3166)
The need for and meaning of positive organizational behavior (2002) (2519)
Unlocking the mask: a look at the process by which authentic leaders impact follower attitudes and behaviors (2004) (1933)
“Can you see the real me?” A self-based model of authentic leader and follower development (2005) (1894)
Psychological Capital: Developing the Human Competitive Edge (2006) (1676)
Human, Social, and Now Positive Psychological Capital Management: INVESTING IN PEOPLE FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE (2004) (1529)
Positive organizational behavior: Developing and managing psychological strengths (2002) (1526)
Positive Organizational Behavior in the Workplace (2007) (1436)
Emerging Positive Organizational Behavior (2007) (1339)
Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Positive Psychological Capital on Employee Attitudes, Behaviors, and Performance. (2011) (1250)
Psychological capital development: toward a micro-intervention (2006) (1206)
The mediating role of psychological capital in the supportive organizational climate—employee performance relationship (2008) (1153)
Positive psychological capital: beyond human and social capital (2004) (1133)
Can Positive Employees Help Positive Organizational Change? Impact of Psychological Capital and Emotions on Relevant Attitudes and Behaviors (2008) (997)
Psychological capital: A positive resource for combating employee stress and turnover (2009) (948)
The Development and Resulting Performance Impact of Positive Psychological Capital. (2010) (875)
The Psychological Capital of Chinese Workers: Exploring the Relationship with Performance (2005) (852)
Experimental Analysis of a Web-Based Training Intervention to Develop Positive Psychological Capital (2008) (782)
Impact of positive psychological capital on employee well-being over time. (2010) (781)
Social cognitive theory and self-efficacy: Goin beyond traditional motivational and behavioral approaches (1998) (697)
Developing the Psychological Capital of Resiliency (2006) (666)
The Additive Value of Positive Psychological Capital in Predicting Work Attitudes and Behaviors (2010) (649)
Psychological ownership: theoretical extensions, measurement and relation to work outcomes (2009) (645)
Organizational Behavior : An Evidence-Based Approach (2015) (583)
Psychological Capital: An Evidence-Based Positive Approach (2017) (564)
Social Desirability Response Effects: Three Alternative Models (1983) (514)
: Authentically leading groups: The mediating role of collective psychological capital and trust (2011) (466)
PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: A LATENT GROWTH MODELING APPROACH (2011) (463)
Employee engagement and manager self‐efficacy (2002) (425)
Potential Added Value of Psychological Capital in Predicting Work Attitudes (2006) (403)
Leadership efficacy: Review and future directions (2008) (398)
The impact of positivity and transparency on trust in leaders and their perceived effectiveness (2010) (386)
Impact of authentic leadership on performance: Role of followers' positive psychological capital and relational processes (2014) (338)
The positive impact and development of hopeful leaders (2003) (337)
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Organizational Behavior Modification on Task Performance, 1975–95 (1997) (336)
Psychological Capital and Beyond (2015) (327)
A Social Learning Approach to Organizational Behavior (1980) (326)
Behavioral management and task performance in organizations: Conceptual background, meta-analysis, and test of alternative models. (2003) (324)
Entrepreneurs as authentic leaders: impact on employees' attitudes (2006) (315)
Hope: A New Positive Strength for Human Resource Development (2002) (309)
Differential Effects of Incentive Motivators on Work Performance (2001) (305)
Thriving at work: Impact of psychological capital and supervisor support (2014) (299)
The role of mindfulness and psychological capital on the well-being of leaders. (2014) (292)
International Management: Culture, Strategy, and Behavior (1991) (289)
The “point” of positive organizational behavior (2009) (285)
Relationship between Entrepreneurs' Psychological Capital and Their Authentic Leadership (2006) (279)
More evidence on the value of Chinese workers' psychological capital: A potentially unlimited competitive resource? (2008) (272)
Successful vs. Effective Real Managers (1988) (269)
Psychological Capital: Investing and Developing Positive Organizational Behavior (2007) (266)
What Do Successful Managers Really Do? An Observation Study of Managerial Activities (1985) (263)
Relationship between positive psychological capital and creative performance (2011) (262)
Organizational Commitment: Analysis of Antecedents (1987) (262)
Perilaku Organisasi ; Organizational Behavior (2006) (257)
Psychological Capital and Well-being. (2015) (257)
The impact of financial and nonfinancial incentives on business-unit outcomes over time. (2006) (246)
The High Impact Leader: Moments Matter in Accelerating Authentic Leadership Development (2008) (244)
Experimentally Analyzing the Impact of Leader Positivity on Follower Positivity and Performance (2011) (240)
The power of positive psychology: Psychological capital and work engagement. (2010) (222)
360-Degree feedback with systematic coaching: Empirical analysis suggests a winning combination (2003) (220)
A General Contingency Theory of Management (1977) (219)
Organizational behavior modification (1982) (212)
Organizational Commitment Across Cultures: The Impact of Antecedents on Korean Employees (1996) (201)
Reinforce for performance: The need to go beyond pay and even rewards (1999) (190)
Meeting the Leadership Challenge of Employee Well-Being Through Relationship PsyCap and Health PsyCap (2013) (184)
Authentic leadership: theory-building for veritable sustained performance (2004) (183)
Not if, but when we need resilience in the workplace (2016) (176)
Managing Russian Factory Workers: The Impact of U.S.–Based Behavioral and Participative Techniques (1993) (174)
Organizational Commitment: A Comparison of American, Japanese, and Korean Employees (1985) (172)
Entrepreneurial self-efficacy in Central Asian transition economies: quantitative and qualitative analyses (2006) (170)
An Emic Perspective and Ethnoscience Methods for Organizational Research (1984) (167)
National Culture and Leadership Profiles in Europe: Some Results From the GLOBE Study (1999) (161)
Psychological capital: Implications for HRD, retrospective analysis, and future directions (2012) (146)
Environmental and psychological challenges facing entrepreneurial development in transitional economies (2000) (144)
Behavioral self-management—The missing link in managerial effectiveness (1979) (142)
What Do Russian Managers Really Do? An Observational Study with Comparisons to U.S. Managers (1993) (132)
Business ethics across cultures: A social cognitive model (1997) (128)
Testing a dynamic model of the impact of psychological capital on work engagement and job performance (2018) (125)
The impact of efficacy on work attitudes across cultures (2006) (124)
Positive Approach To Leadership (PAL) Implications for Today's Organizations (2001) (123)
An Idiographic Approach to Organizational Behavior Research: The Use of Single Case Experimental Designs and Direct Measures (1982) (120)
A call for longitudinal research in positive organizational behavior (2008) (119)
Positive global leadership (2012) (118)
7 – Toward an Observation System for Measuring Leader Behavior in Natural Settings* (1984) (115)
New paradigm organizations: From total quality to learning to world-class (1994) (113)
A Tale of Two Paradigms: The Impact of Psychological Capital and Reinforcing Feedback on Problem Solving and Innovation (2011) (111)
Recognition and development of hope for South African organizational leaders (2004) (110)
Measuring implicit psychological constructs in organizational behavior: An example using psychological capital (2012) (107)
Diversity Training: Analysis of the Impact of Self-Efficacy (2007) (107)
Contagion effect of global leaders' positive psychological capital on followers: does distance and quality of relationship matter? (2013) (100)
Organizational Behavior Modification And Beyond: An Operant And Social Learning Approach (1984) (91)
Toward Better Understanding of the Learning Goal Orientation–Creativity Relationship: The Role of Positive Psychological Capital (2015) (90)
Leadership Reexamined: A Behavioral Approach (1979) (86)
RESEARCH NOTES ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT: A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN, JAPANESE, AND KOREAN EMPLOYEES (1985) (84)
GOING BEYOND TOTAL QUALITY: THE CHARACTERISTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND MEASURES OF LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS (1995) (80)
The impact of positive and corrective feedback on customer service performance (1994) (79)
The High Impact Leader (2005) (78)
Meeting the Challenges of Effective International HRM: Analysis of the Antecedents of Global Mindset (2014) (77)
The potential for the "dark side" of leadership in post-communist countries (1998) (77)
An experimental analysis of the impact of contingent reinforcement on salespersons' performance behavior. (1981) (76)
The contingency theory of management: A path out of the jungle (1973) (70)
Impact of employees' character strengths of wisdom on stress and creative performance (2012) (68)
A Descriptive Model of Managerial Effectiveness (1988) (67)
How Managers Really Communicate (1986) (66)
Optimism , and Resilience Positive Organizational Behavior in the Workplace : The Impact of Hope (2007) (65)
An empirical assessment of internal customer service (2001) (65)
Redefining roles and boundaries, linking competencies and resources (1999) (62)
Going beyond Research on Goal Setting: A Proposed Role for Organizational Psychological Capital of Family Firms (2013) (61)
What knowledge managers really do: an empirical and comparative analysis (2003) (60)
The Relationship between Age and Job Satisfaction: Curvilinear Results from an Empirical Study – A Research Note (1989) (60)
The Role of Locus of Control in Leader Influence Behavior. (1984) (60)
Positive leadership: Meaning and application across cultures (2013) (60)
Potential Added Value of Psychological Capital in Predicting Work Attitudes (2006) (59)
An Integrated Model of Psychological Capital in the Workplace (2009) (59)
Introduction to management : a contingency approach (1976) (56)
Psychological Capital Questionnaire (2012) (56)
Refining the Displacement of Culture and the Use of Scenes and Themes in Organizational Studies (1985) (55)
Psychological Capital Theory: Toward a Positive Holistic Model (2013) (53)
A contingency matrix approach to IHRM (1997) (52)
The Female Leadership Dilemma (1975) (49)
Cultural Variation of Leadership Prototypes Across 22 European Countries: Are Attributes of Charismatic/transformational Leadership Universally Endorsed? (1999) (49)
A social learning approach to behavioral management: Radical behaviorists “mellowing out” (1984) (46)
Positive Psychology In Sales: Integrating Psychological Capital (2016) (45)
U.S. Multinationals' Compensation Strategies for Local Management: Cross-Cultural Implications (1993) (44)
The Role of Psychological Capital in Global Mindset Development (2007) (44)
After the bubble burst: How small high-tech firms can keep in front of the wave (2001) (39)
Authentic leadership: A new approach for a new time (2006) (39)
Total quality management: Implications for Central and Eastern Europe (1992) (38)
Doing business in Central and Eastern Europe: Political, economic, and cultural diversity (1995) (37)
Social issues in business (1972) (32)
Positive Psychological Capital in the Workplace (2011) (32)
The Impact of Contingent Reinforcement on Retail Salespersons' Performance Behaviors: (1985) (28)
Managers in action: A new look at their behavior and operating modes (1980) (27)
Does Job Enrichment Really Pay off? (1972) (27)
The Use of Dyadic Alliances in Informal Organization: An Ethnographic Study (1991) (26)
Brief Summary of Psychological Capital and Introduction to the Special Issue (2014) (26)
The world of global business 1965–2015: Perspectives on the 50th anniversary issue of the Journal of World Business: Introduction to the special issue (2016) (26)
Reflections on the Metamorphosis at Robben Island (2014) (25)
The structure-climate relationship in Korean organizations (1995) (25)
Positive Projections and Health: An Initial Validation of the Implicit Psychological Capital Health Measure (2017) (25)
A management science approach to contingency models of organizational structure. (1982) (24)
Ideas that will shape the future of management practice (1996) (24)
The role of mindfulness and psychological capital on the well-being of organizational leaders: (528472014-021) (2015) (24)
What do we really know about EAPs (1989) (24)
Not Me, But Reflects Me: Validating a Simple Implicit Measure of Psychological Capital (2018) (23)
Potential expats in Singaporean organizations (2006) (23)
The Effects of MBO on Performance and Satisfaction in a Public Sector Organization (1981) (21)
Learning motivation and transfer of human capital development: Implications from psychological capital (2009) (21)
U.S. Multinationals' Expatriate Compensation Strategies (1993) (19)
Impact of behavioral performance management in a Korean application (2008) (19)
Social Issues in Business: Strategic and Public Policy Perspectives (1987) (19)
Role Conflict and Ambiguity Scales: An Evaluation of Psychometric Properties and the Role of Social Desirability Response Bias (1983) (18)
Inquiry Unplugged: Building on Hackman’s Potential Perils of POB (2009) (18)
Applying behavioral management in Eastern Europe (1998) (17)
Motivation vs. learning approaches to organizational behavior (1973) (17)
Organizational behavior : a modern behavioral approach to management (1974) (17)
The Effect of Transformational Leadership on Follower Performance and Satisfaction:The Mediating Role of Psychological Capital and the Moderating Role of Procedural Justice (2013) (16)
Positive psychological capital to help combat the mental health fallout from the pandemic and VUCA environment (2020) (16)
Defining and Researching Leadership as a Behavioral Construct: An Idiographic Approach (1984) (15)
The impact of choice of rewards and feedback on task performance (1992) (15)
The Impact of Computer Generated Information on The Choice Activity of Decision-Makers (1976) (15)
The Reality or Illusion of a General Contingency Theory of Management: A Response to the Longenecker and Pringle Critique (1978) (15)
Reclaiming “Anthropology: the forgotten behavioral science in management history” – commentaries (2013) (14)
Update on Skill-Based Pay (1989) (14)
The practice of supervision and management (1979) (14)
The Impact of a Job Redesign Intervention on Salespersons' Observed Performance Behaviors (1987) (14)
Examining Psychosocial Well-being and Performance in Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Environments (2015) (14)
An organizational behavior modification analysis of absenteeism (1976) (13)
The value of the psychological capital of immigrant entrepreneurs (2007) (13)
Emerging Concepts in Management (1969) (13)
The Role of Punishment in Organizational Behavior Modification (OB MOD) (1973) (13)
Albania and the Bora Company: Lessons learned before the recent chaos (1997) (13)
Faculty Promotions: An Analysis Of Central Administrative Control (1967) (11)
Managing Psychological Capital in Organizations: Cognitive, Affective, Conative, and Social Mechanisms of Happiness (2013) (11)
AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION PROGRAM IN INDUSTRY. (1975) (11)
Job enrichment: Long on theory, short on practice (1974) (11)
Positivity in the Middle East: Developing Hope in Egyptian organizational Leaders (2005) (11)
Special Issue:: New Leadership for a New Time (2004) (10)
Positive resources for psychiatry in the fourth industrial revolution: building patient and family focused psychological capital (PsyCap) (2020) (10)
Contemporary readings in organizational behavior (1973) (10)
Do Leaders’ Psychological Capital and Engagement Influence Follower Teams or Vice Versa? (2014) (10)
The Impact Of The Computer On The Choice Activity Of Decision Makers: A Replication With Actual Users Of Computerized Mis (1979) (10)
Improving the Delivery of Quality Service: Behavioural Management Techniques (1991) (10)
Taking positive psychology to the workplace: Positive organizational psychology, positive organizational behavior, and positive organizational scholarship (2017) (10)
Anthropology: the forgotten behavioral science in management history (2013) (9)
A Paradigm Shift in Eastern Europe: Some Helpful Management Development Techniques (1993) (9)
Leveraging Psychological Capital In Virtuous Organizations: Why And How? (2008) (9)
Theory D and O.B. Mod. (1988) (9)
Meeting the New Paradigm Challenges through Total Quality Management (1993) (9)
Anthropology: The Forgotten Behavioral Science in Management History. (1987) (8)
Hope, optimism, and other business assets: Why “psychological capital” is so valuable to your company (2007) (8)
Evaluating personnel programs through the reversal technique. (1979) (8)
12. Provide Recognition for Performance Improvement (2017) (7)
A new breakthrough for performance appraisal (1976) (7)
Can high performance work practices help in the former Soviet Union (2000) (7)
THERE ARE LESSONS TO BE LEARNED AS ALBANIA UNDERGOES A PARADIGM SHIFT (1994) (7)
Using OB Mod to increase hospital productivity. (1982) (7)
Introduction to Psychological Capital (2006) (7)
The Exploding Service Sector: Meeting the Challenge through Behavioral Management (1988) (7)
The role of hrm in sustaining competitive advantage into the 21st century (1997) (6)
Should Motivation Be Allowed into the Behavioral Paradigm or Should There Be a Paradigm Shift? (2001) (6)
New age technology and new aged workers: the impact of age on computer technology skill acquisition and the influence of computer self-efficacy, age-related beliefs, and change attitudes (1998) (5)
Evidence on the Validity of Management Education (1969) (5)
The Journal of World Business is launched (1997) (5)
A Proposed Idiographic Approach to the Study of Entrepreneurs (1995) (5)
Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap) (2018) (5)
Organizational Behavior Fred Luthans (1989) (4)
The Faculty Promotion Process. An Empirical Analysis of the Administration of Large State Universities. (1967) (4)
Beyond modeling: Managing social learning processes in human resource training and development (1981) (4)
Social issues in business : poverty, civil rights, ecology, and consumerism (1971) (3)
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ACTIVITIES OF EFFECTIVE RUSSIAN MANUFACTURING MANAGERS. (1992) (3)
Retraction statement: "Authentically leading groups: The mediating role of collective psychological capital and trust." (2014) (3)
The Use of Reversal Design in Organizational Behavior Research. (1977) (3)
1 How to Apply MBO (1976) (3)
An individual management development approach (1978) (3)
Emerging concepts in management: Process, behavioral, quantitative, and systems (1975) (3)
An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Transactional Analysis in Improving Organizational Effectiveness (1981) (3)
Idiographic versus Nomothetic Approaches to Research in Organizations. (1981) (3)
O.B. Mod.: Meeting the productivity challenge with human resources management. (1983) (3)
The A call for longitudinal research in positive Incubator (2008) (2)
Taking Positive Psychology to the Workplace: Positive Work and Organizations (2017) (2)
MBO in Hospitals: A Step Toward Accountability. (1976) (2)
Reflections on the Metamorphosis at Robben Island: The Role of Institutional Work and Positive Psychological Capital (2019) (2)
Employees’ Wearable Measure of Face-to-Face Communication Relates to Their Positive Psychological Capital, Well-Being (2019) (2)
Organisational Exit: Understanding And Managing Voluntary Departures (1988) (1)
Managerial Analysis of Doctoral Candidates and Professors: Research Attitudes and Interpersonal Relations (1969) (1)
A New Perspective of Control in Organizations: Behavioral Self-Control. (1982) (1)
A Reliability Assessment of Participant Observational Measures of Leader Behavior in Natural Settings. (1981) (1)
- 2007 Emerging Positive Organizational Behavior (2017) (1)
Voice of a “Seasoned” OB Professor (2017) (1)
Mindfulness, psychological capital, and well-being: A four study sample of organizational leaders (2012) (1)
Team Performance and Team Members’ PsyCap: Role of Leaders in Changing Post-Performance Positivity (2014) (1)
A Theoretically Based Contingency Model of Feedback: Implications for Managing Service Employees (1990) (1)
Positive Psychology in the Workplace : The Important Role of Psychological Capital (PsyCap) (2017) (1)
Leadership reexamined: a behaviorial approach. (1979) (1)
The Impact of Social Desirability on Organizational Behavior Research Results: An Empirical Investigation of Alternative Models, (1982) (1)
The Role of Social Desirability in Organizational Behavior Research. (1982) (1)
Merging Personnel and OD: A Not-So-Odd Couple. (1977) (1)
Social issues in business: A text with current readings and cases (1976) (1)
A Canonical Correlational Analysis of the Relationship between Observed Leader Behavior and Organizational Rewards. (1982) (1)
Possible Social and Higher-Order Strengths (2006) (1)
Positive Psychological Capital Strategies in Practice (2012) (0)
ALS and VDL Approaches to Leadership Research: An Empirical Comparison. (1982) (0)
Observing Managers at Work: A Statistical Analysis of the Behavior of Successful Managers. (1983) (0)
The Idiographic Study of Leadership Behavior in Natural Settings: An Empirical Analysis Using a Single Case Experimental Design. (1982) (0)
Competing in the '00s Environment: Strategic and Human Resource Initiatives (1999) (0)
Cases, readings, and review guide for Principles of management (1969) (0)
The 3 Rs in Management Research: Do Rigor and Relevance Result in References? (2015) (0)
Selected Cognitive and Affective Strengths (2006) (0)
Integrating qualitative and quantitative research in organizations: (528852009-001) (1981) (0)
Learning goal orientation and employee creativity: A moderated mediation model of PsyCap and LMX (2012) (0)
A Common Man Travels “Back to the Future (2018) (0)
A Preliminary Analysis of the Reliability and Validity of the Leader Observation System. (1982) (0)
General Contingency Theory of Organizations: An Alternative to Open Systems Theory. (1982) (0)
Organizational Socialization: A Social Learning Interpretation (1982) (0)
Ecological challenge facing utilities (1972) (0)
An Analysis of Subordinate Influence on Leader Behavior: The Use of Multiple Measures and the Examination of Potential Moderators. (1983) (0)
A Celebration of the life and Accomplishments of Richard Hodgetts (2002) (0)
What Do Successful Managers Really Do? An Observation Study of Managerial Activities * (2019) (0)
Some New Theoretical and Methodological Dimensions for Organizational Behavior (1983) (0)
Organizational Commitment and Effectiveness: An Empirical Assessment of the Relationship and Potential Moderators (1983) (0)
Measuring Organizational Commitment: A Replication of Psychometric Properties and an Analysis of the Role of Social Desirability. (1981) (0)
Launching the New Version of JLOS (2002) (0)
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Organizations. (1981) (0)
Emic Analysis of Organizational Behavior: A Research Perspective and Methodological Techniques from Anthropology. (1982) (0)
How Do Recruiters View Military Experience (1971) (0)
The competitive advantage : linking human resources practices with strategy (1997) (0)
Behaviorism Applied to Managing People in Work Organizations. (1981) (0)
A look back and ahead (1998) (0)
An Analysis of Role Conflict and Ambiguity Scales: A Replication Study of the Psychometric Properties and an Assessment of the Role of Social Desirability Bias. (1982) (0)
Measurement and Development of PsyCap (2006) (0)
The Richard M. Hodgetts Award: Arthur G. Bedeian (2006) (0)
MBO: who's using it? who isn't? (1976) (0)
The Managerial Communicator: Relationships between Managerial Communication Characteristics and Content. (1986) (0)
An Analysis of Leader Locus of Control and Influence Behaviors. (1983) (0)
FeATures oF proFessIonAL weLL-beIng oF represenTATIves oF dIFFerenT proFessIonAL groups (2020) (0)
Summary of the Leader Observation System (LOS) Project. (1983) (0)
A conversation with Charles Dull (1993) (0)
CHAPTER-VI PERCEPTION OF POLICY HOLDERS TOWARDS A POLICY (2014) (0)
Expansion and environmental protection: The financial dilemma facing electric utilities (1975) (0)

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