Alexandra Panaccio

Alexandra Panaccio joined the John Molson School of Business in 2011, after completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She holds a PhD and an MBA degree from HEC Montreal, as well as a law degree (LLB) from University of Montreal. Alexandra’s research focuses on leadership, workplace commitment, retention, performance, and employee well-being. Current projects include an examination of the manifestations and impact of servant (selfless) leadership behaviors, specifically with regards to employee commitment, motivation and well-being. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, as well as in book chapters and other outlets.

Education

• PhD (HEC Montreal)

Areas of expertise

• Leadership
• Job attitudes
• Retention
• Employee well-being

Publications

Refereed journal articles

• Vandenberghe, C., Bentein, K., & Panaccio, A. (in press). Affective commitment to organizations and turnover: A role theory perspective. Journal of Management.
• Donia, M., Raja, U., Panaccio, A., & Wang, Z. (in press). Servant Leadership and Employee Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Subordinates’ Motives. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.
• Panaccio, A., Henderson, D.J., Liden, R.C., Wayne, S.J., & Cao, X. (2015). Beyond the transactional employment relationship: Toward an understanding of when and why servant leadership accounts for employee extra-role behaviors. Journal of Business and Psychology, 30, 657-675.
• Vandenberghe, C., & Panaccio, A. (2015). Delving into the motivational bases of continuance commitment: Locus of control and empowerment as predictors of perceived sacrifice and few alternatives. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 24, 1-14.
• Panaccio, A., Vandenberghe, C., & Ben Ayed, A. (2014). The role of negative affectivity in the relationships between pay satisfaction, affective and continuance commitment and voluntary turnover: A moderated mediation model. Human Relations, 67, 821-848.
• Vandenberghe, C., & Panaccio, A. (2012). Perceived sacrifice and few alternatives commitments: The motivational underpinnings of continuance commitment’s subdimensions. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 81, 59-72.
• Panaccio, A., & Vandenberghe, C. (2012). Five-factor model of personality and organizational commitment: The mediating role of positive and negative affective states. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 80, 644-658.
• Lapointe, E., Vandenberghe, C., & Panaccio, A. (2011). Organizational commitment, emotional exhaustion, and turnover: A conservation of resources perspective. Human Relations, 64, 1609-1631.
• Panaccio, A., & Vandenberghe, C. (2011). The relationships of role clarity and organization-based self-esteem to commitment to supervisors and organizations, and turnover intentions. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 41, 1455-1485.
• Vandenberghe, C., Panaccio, A., & Ben-Ayed, A. (2011). Continuance organizational commitment and turnover: Examining the moderating role of negative affectivity and risk aversion. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 84, 403-424.
• Vandenberghe, C., Panaccio, A., Bentein, K., Mignonac, K., & Roussel, P. (2011) Assessing longitudinal change in role stressors, job attitudes, turnover intention, and well-being among neophyte newcomers. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32, 652-671.
• Landry, G., Panaccio, A., & Vandenberghe, C. (2010). Dimensionality and consequences of employee commitment to supervisors: A two-study examination. Journal of Psychology, 144, 285-312.
• Panaccio, A., & Vandenberghe, C. (2009). Perceived organizational support, organizational commitment and well-being: A longitudinal study. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 75, 224-236.

Book chapters

• Panaccio, A., Donia, M., Saint-Michel, S., & Liden, R.C. (2015). Servant Leadership and well-being. In R.J. Burke, K.M. Page, & C.L. Cooper (Eds.), Flourishing in life, work and careers: Individual wellbeing and career experiences. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Liden, R.C., Panaccio, A., Meuser, J.D., Hu, J., & Wayne, S.J. (2014). Servant Leadership: Antecedents, processes, and outcomes. In D.V. Day (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Gagné, M., & Panaccio, A. (2014). Job design and self-determination theory. In Gagné, M. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Work Engagement, Motivation, and Self-Determination Theory. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Panaccio, A.J., & Waxin, M. (2010). Banque populaire du Québec : Gérer la diversité dans une banque québécoise. In Chevalier, F. (Eds.), Pratiques de GRH dans les pays francophones – 48 études de cas. Paris : Vuibert.
• Vandenberghe, C., Landry, G., & Panaccio, A.J. (2009). L’engagement organisationnel. In Rojot, J., Roussel, P., & Vandenberghe, C. (Eds.), Comportement organisationnel (Vol. 3) : Perspectives en théories des organisations, Motivation au travail, Engagement dans l’organisation. Bruxelles : De Boeck.