Abhijeet Vadera

Vadera Abhijeet K is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources at Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University, Singapore.

Education

• 2010 Ph.D., Business Administration (Organizational Behavior) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
• 2003 Post-Graduate Programme in Management Indian School of Business (ISB)
• 2001 Bachelors of Engineering (Civil) VJTI, University of Mumbai

Current Appointment(s)

• 2019 - Now Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
• 2015 - 2019 Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
• 2010 - 2015 Assistant Professor in Business Indian School of Business

Awards, Recognition and Honors

• Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 2 Academic Research Fund (AcRF), 2020-2023
• Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 Academic Research Fund (AcRF), 2019-2021
• Elected Officer, Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management, 2017-2021
• Nominee for SMU undergraduate teaching award (category: Excellent Teacher), 2019-2020
• Dean's Teaching Honour List (Postgraduate Programs), SMU, 2018

Research Interests

• Constructive deviance (whistle-blowing, voice, creativity, etc.)
• Destructive deviance (unethical behaviors, white-collar crime, organizational corruption, etc.)

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

• Vadera, A.K., & Rao, C. P. (2021). Competition and cheating: Investigating the role of moral awareness, moral identity, and moral elevation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, in press.
• Yan, T., Tangirala, S., Vadera, A. K., & & Srinivas, E. S. (2021). How employees learn to speak up from their leaders: Gender congruity effects in the development of voice self-efficacy. Journal of Applied Psychology, in press.
• Taylor, S. G., Folger, R., Vadera, A. K., Griffith, M. D., & Letwin, C. R. (2019). Does having a bad boss make you more likely to be one yourself? Harvard Business Review.
• Taylor, S. G., Griffith, M. D., Vadera, A. K., Folger, R., & Letwin, C. R. (2019). Breaking the cycle of abusive supervision: How disidentification and moral identity help the trickle-down change course. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104 (1): 164-182.
• Zhu, L., Aquino, K., & Vadera, A.K. (2016). What makes professors credible: The effect of demographic characteristics and ideological beliefs. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(6): 862-880.
• Vadera, A.K., & Aguilera, R.V. (2015).The evolution of vocabularies and its relation to investigation of white-collar crimes: An institutional work perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 128(1), 21-38.
• Baer, M., Vadera, A.K., Leenders, R., & Oldham, G. (2014). Intergroup competition as a doubleedged sword: How sex composition regulates the effects of competition on group creativity. Organization Science, 25(3), 892-908.
• Vadera, A.K, Pratt, M.G., & Mishra, P. (2013). Constructive deviance in organizations: Integrating and moving forward. Journal of Management, 39(5), 1221-1276.
• Vadera, A.K., & Pratt, M.G. (2013). Love, hate, ambivalence, or indifference? A conceptual examination of workplace crimes and organizational identification. Organization Science, 24(1), 172-188.
• Baer, M., Leenders, R., Oldham, G., & Vadera, A.K. (2010). Win or lose the battle for creativity: The power and perils of intergroup competition. Academy of Management Journal, 53(4), 827-845.