Robert Bies

Robert J. Bies (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Professor of Management and Founder of the Executive Master’s in Leadership Program at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. In addition, Dr. Bies is a co-author of the book, Getting Even: The Truth About Workplace Revenge—And How to Stop It, which was published by Jossey-Bass (www.friendsofgettingeven.com). Professor Bies’s current research focuses on leadership, the delivery of bad news, organizational justice, and revenge and forgiveness in the workplace. He has published extensively on these topics and related issues in academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Journal of Social Issues, Organization Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, as well as in the prestigious annual series of analytical essays, Research in Organizational Behavior. Professor Bies currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management, International Journal of Conflict Management, and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. Professor Bies has received the Best Teacher award at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. At Georgetown, he has twice received the Joseph Le Moine Award for Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Excellence at the McDonough School of Business; he received the Outstanding Professor of the International Executive MBA Program (IEMBA-2) at the McDonough School of Business; and he received the Outstanding Professor of the Executive Master’s in Leadership Program (2008) at the McDonough School of Business.

Education

• Stanford University - Ph.D., Organizational Behavior Studies
• University of Washington - M.B.A.
• University of Washington - B.A.

Publications

Books (1) T.M. Tripp, R.J. Bies. Getting Even: The truth about workplace revenge - and how to stop it. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009.

Articles in Journals (8) T.M. Tripp, R.J. Bies, K. Aquino. "A Vigilante Model of Justice: Revenge, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness." Social Justice Research, 19 (2007): 10-34.

R.J. Bies, J.M. Bartunek, T.L.Fort, M.N. Zald. "Corporations as Social Change Agents: Individual, Interpersonal, Institutional, and Environmental Dynamics." Academy of Management Review, 32 (2007): 788-793.

K. Aquino, T.M. Tripp, R.J. Bies. "Getting Even or Moving On? Status Variables and Procedural Justice as Predictors of Revenge, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation in Organizations." Journal of Applied Psychology, 91 (2007)

M. Groth, B. Goldman, S. Gilliland, R. Bies. "Commitment to Legal-Claiming: The Influences of Attributions, Social Guidance, and Organizational Tenure." Journal of Applied Psychology, 87 (2002)

T.M. Tripp, R.J. Bies, K. Aquino. "Poetic justice or petty jealousy: The aesthetics of revenge." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision, 89 (2002)

K. Aquino, T.M. Tripp, R.J. Bies. "How Employees Respond to Personal Offense: The Affects of Blame Attribution, Victim Status, and Offender Status on Revenge and Reconciliation in the Workplace." Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 1 (2001)

R.J. Lewicki, D.M. McAllister, R.J. Bies. "Trust and Distrust: New Relationships and Realities." Academy of Management Journal, 23, 2 (1998)

N. Bennett, C. Martin, R. J. Bies, J. Brockner. "Coping with a Layoff: A Longitudinal Study of Victims." Journal of Management, 21, 6 (1995): 1025 - 1040.

Articles in Books (5) R.J. Bies, T.M. Tripp. "The study of revenge in the workplace. Conceptual, ideological and empirical issues.." Counterproductive workplace behavior: Investigations of actors and targets, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2004.

R.J. Bies, T.M. Tripp. "Revenge in organizations: The good, the bad and the ugly." Monographs in organizational behavior and industrial relations (Vol. 23, Part B), Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1998.

R.J. Bies, T.M. Tripp. "Two faces of the powerless: Coping with tyranny." Power and influence in organizations, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998.

R.J. Bies, T.M. Tripp. "At the breaking point: Cognitive and social dynamics of revenge in organizations." Anti-social behavior in organizations, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996.

R.J. Bies, T.M. Tripp. "Beyond distrust: "Getting Even" and the need for revenge." Trust and organizations, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996.

Edited Books or Special Edition Journals (1) The Legalistic Organization. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Ltd., 1994.