Peter Bamberger

Peter A. Bamberger is the Domberger Chair in Organization and Management at Tel Aviv University’s Coller School of Management, Research Director of Cornell University’s Smithers Institute, and Editor-In-Chief and a founding associate editor of Academy of Management Discoveries. He is a member of the Society for Organizational Behavior, a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and served as an associate editor of Academy of Management Journal.

Peter's research interests include automatic processes in human interaction; pro-social behavior, occupational health psychology, and pay communication. Author of over 100 refereed journal articles, his books include Mutual Aid and Union Renewal, Human Resource Strategy, and Retirement & the Hidden Epidemic: The Complex Link Between Aging, Work Disengagement and Substance Misuse. He is currently working on a new book on pay communication, and conducting a three-year study sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense on the transition from military service to civilian employment. He received his PhD in organizational behavior from Cornell University in 1990.

Fields of Research

Employee behavioral health (substance misuse, trauma, negative emotional states), Compensation strategy and pay communication; Cognition and meta-cognition in team contexts; Employee adjustment during periods of transition; Employee helping and help seeking.

Honors since 2010

• March, 2012 Best Paper, HR Division of the Academy of Management
• April, 2012 Elected as Fellow, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• August, 2012 Outstanding Reviewer Award for 2011-2012, Human Relations
• March, 2014 Elected as Member, Society for Organizational Behavior
• August, 2014 Runner-up for Best Paper, Academy of Management Journal
• March, 2016 Best Paper, OB Division of the Academy of Management
  
• August, 2017 Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award, HR Division, Academy of Management
  

Publications

Books Published Since 2010:

• Peter Bamberger, Michal Biron and Ilan Meshulam. Human Resource Strategy: Formulation, Implementation and Impact. 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 2014.
• Peter Bamberger & Samuel Bacharach. Retirement & the Hidden Epidemic: The Complex Link Between Aging, Work Disengagement and Substance Misuse…and What to Do About It. New York: Oxford University Press. 2014

Selected Refereed Journal Articles Since 2015:

• Songqi Liu, Mo Wang, Peter Bamberger, Junqi Shi, & Samuel Bacharach, “The Dark Side of Socialization: A Longitudinal Investigation of Newcomer Alcohol Use.” Academy of Management Journal. 58, 2, 334-355. 2015.
• Arik Riskin, Amir Erez, Trevor Foulk, Amir Kugelman, Ayala Gover, Irit Shoris, Kinneret Riskin & Peter Bamberger. The Impact of Rudeness on Medical Team Performance: A Randomized Trial. Pediatrics, 136(3), 487-495. 2015.
• Peter Bamberger and Elena Belogolovsky. “The Dark Side of Transparency: How and When Pay Administration Practices Affect Employee Helping.” Journal of Applied Psychology. 102, 658-671. 2017.
• Arieh Riskin, Amir Erez, Trevor Foulk, Amitai Ziv, Kinneret Riskin-Guez, Rina Sela, Liat Pessach-Gelblum and Peter Bamberger. "Rudeness and Medical Team Performance." Pediatrics. 139 (2) e20162305. 2017.
• Peter Bamberger, Dvora Geller & Etti Doveh. “Assisting upon entry: Helping Type and Approach as Moderators of How Role Conflict Affects Newcomer Resource Drain.” Journal of Applied Psychology, 102(12), 1719-1732. 2017.
• Peter Bamberger, Jackie Koopman, Mo Wang, Inbal Nahum Shani, Mary Larimer, Irene Markman Geisner & Samuel B. Bacharach. “Does College Alcohol Consumption Impact Employment Upon Graduation? Findings from a Prospective Study.” Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(1), 111-121. 2018.
• Jingqui Chen, Peter Bamberger, Dana Vashdi, Yifan Song. “The Effects of Team Reflexivity on Emotional Wellbeing in Manufacturing Teams.” Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(4), 443-462. 2018.
• Arieh Riskin, Peter Bamberger. Amir Erez, Kinneret Riskin-Guez, Yarden Riskin, Rina Sela, Trevor Foulk, Binyamin Cooper, Amitai Ziv, Liat Pessach-Gelblum & Ellen Bamberger. “Expressions of Gratitude and Medical Team Performance.” Pediatrics, 143(4), e2018204. 2019.
• Jia Hui Lim, Kenneth Tai, Peter Bamberger & Elizabeth Morrison. “Soliciting Resources from Others: An Integrative Review.” Academy of Management Annals, 14 (1), 122-159. 2020.
• Yihao Liu, Dana Vashdi, Peter Bamberger, Thomas Cross & Amir Erez. “Exploring the puzzle of civility: Whether and when team civil communication influences team members’ role performance.” Human Relations, In Press.
• Songqi Liu, Peter Bamberger, Mo Wang, Junqi Shi & Samuel Bacharach, “When Onboarding Becomes Risky: Extending Social Learning Theory to Explain Newcomers’ Adoption of Heavy Drinking with Clients.” Human Relations. In Press.
• Ariane Froidevaux, Jaclyn Koopmann, Mo Wang, & Peter Bamberger. “Is Student Loan Debt Good or Bad for Employment upon Graduation from College? Investigation of Countervailing Mechanisms.” Journal of Applied Psychology. In Press.
• Valeria Alterman, Peter Bamberger, Mo Wang, Elena Belogolovsky & Junqi Shi. “Ignorance is Bliss: Pay Secrecy, Employee Turnover and the Conditioning Effect of Justice.” Academy of Management Journal. In Press.

Honors since 2010

• March, 2012 Best Paper, HR Division of the Academy of Management

• April, 2012 Elected as Fellow, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

• August, 2012 Outstanding Reviewer Award for 2011-2012, Human Relations

• March, 2014 Elected as Member, Society for Organizational Behavior

• August, 2014 Runner-up for Best Paper, Academy of Management Journal

• March, 2016 Best Paper, OB Division of the Academy of Management

• August, 2017 Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award, HR Division, Academy of Management