Will Felps

Will Felps teaches and conducts research on a wide range of management-related topics. His research areas include: human resource management, leadership & motivation, team effectiveness, career management, measuring expertise, business ethics, and meta-science.

Will currently teaches Leadership to MBA students and teaches Foundations of Business Research to junior scholars.

Research Activities

Will's prior research has investigated a diverse range of topics, such as the negative effects of bad apple teammates, the contagion of quitting in organisations, how stakeholder cultures impact performance, the consequences of one’s moral identity, how institutional factors reinforce the IQ-job performance relationship, and why overqualified employees can't get hired. Will has also collaborated on a number of articles which use science mapping to review various fields, including human resources, careers, teams, adaptive performance, organisational behaviour, and management. Will's research has been published in academic outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Human Resource Management Review, and Journal of Applied Psychology.

Education

• PhD in Management & Organizational Behavior, 2007; Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
• B.A. Marketing, 2002; McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

Awards

• 2021 UNSW Exemplary Teaching Practice Award (finalist)
• 2021 Supervisor of the Year (nominee)
• 2021 Business School’s Excellence Award for ‘Values in Action’ for Virtual Class development (team)
• 2020 Excellence in Reviewing Award (from Human Resource Management Review)
• 2018 UNSW Business School Research Achievement Award (1 per school)
• 2013 Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Conference
• 2013 Hired by UNSW under auspices of Vice-Chancellor’s Strategic Priorities Fund for recruiting talent

Journal Articles

• Wechtler HM; Lee CISG; Heyden MLM; Felps W; Lee TW, 2021, 'The Nonlinear Relationship Between Atypical Applicant Experience and Hiring: The Red Flags Perspective', Journal of Applied Psychology
• Wechtler H; Felps W; Lee CIS; Lee TW, 2020, 'Selecting for Retention: The Interactive Role of Coupledom and Mobility Frequency', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2020, pp. 18719 - 18719,
• Harrison JS; Felps W; Jones TM, 2019, 'Instrumental stakeholder theory makes ethically based relationship building palatable to managers focused on the bottom line', Academy of Management Review, vol. 44, pp. 698 - 700,
• Wechtler H; Felps W; Lee CIS, 2019, 'The Relationship Between Applicant Experience and Hiring: Human Capital vs Red Flag Predictions', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2019, pp. 16275 - 16275,
• Byington EK; Felps W; Baruch Y, 2018, 'Mapping the Journal of Vocational Behavior: A 23-year review', Journal of Vocational Behavior, vol. 110, pp. 229 - 244,
• Jones TM; Harrison JS; Felps W, 2018, 'How applying Instrumental Stakeholder Theory can provide sustainable competitive advantage', Academy of Management Review, vol. 43,
• Van Quaquebeke N; Felps W, 2018, 'Respectful Inquiry: A motivational account of leading through asking open questions and listening', Academy of Management Review, vol. 43, pp. 5 - 27
• Felps W; Byington EK, 2017, 'Solutions to the credibility crisis in Management science', Academy of Management Learning and Education, vol. 16, pp. 142 - 162,
• Markoulli M; Lee CISG; Byington E; Felps W, 2017, 'Mapping Human Resource Management: Reviewing the field and charting future directions', Human Resource Management Review, vol. 27, pp. 367 - 396,
• Kitts JA; Leal DF; Felps W; Jones TM; Berman SL, 2016, 'Greed and fear in network reciprocity: Implications for cooperation among organizations', PLoS ONE, vol. 11,
• Lee CISG; Felps W; Baruch Y, 2014, 'Toward a taxonomy of career studies through bibliometric visualization', Journal of Vocational Behavior, vol. 85, pp. 339 - 351,
• Jones TM; Felps W, 2013, 'Shareholder wealth maximization and social welfare: A utilitarian critique', Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 23, pp. 207 - 238,
• Jones TM; Felps W, 2013, 'Stakeholder happiness enhancement: A neo-utilitarian objective for the modern corporation', Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 23, pp. 349 - 379,
• Felps W; Byington E, 2012, 'That’s Mundane! The Virtues of Publishing ‘Boring’ Research', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2012, pp. 12341 - 12341,
• Felps W; Clement J; Kroezen J, 2012, 'Meta-Analyzing the Association Between Age and Professorial Performance Across Contexts', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2012, pp. 15741 - 15741,
• Felps W; van Eck NJ; Waltman L; Leahey E, 2012, 'Optimal specialization: Theory development and testing amongst management scholars', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2012, pp. 13505 - 13505,
• Godfrey PC; Agle BR; Waddock S; Wicks A; Ryan L; Harrison J; Hess M; Phillips R; Purnell L; Berman S; Harris J; Bosse D; Keevil A; Griffin J; Freeman E; Donaldson T; Ceranic T; Elms H; Johnson-Cramer M; Epstein E; Felps W; Jones T, 2012, '"He's a Real Dude": Tributes to Tom Jones', BUSINESS & SOCIETY, vol. 51, pp. 310 - 334,
• Byington EK; Felps W, 2010, 'Why do IQ scores predict job performance? An alternative, sociological explanation.', Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 30, pp. 175 - 202,
• Aquino K; Freeman D; Reed A; Lim V; Felps W, 2009, 'Testing a social-cognitive model of moral behavior: How moral identity and situations interact to predict moral outcomes', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 97, pp. 123 - 141,
• Felps W; Mitchell TR; Hekman DR; Lee TM; Harman W; Holtom B, 2009, 'Turnover contagion: How coworkers’ job embeddedness and coworkers’ job search behaviors influence quitting. Academy of Management Journal, 52 (3): 545–561.', Academy of Management Journal, vol. 52, pp. 545 - 561,
• Harman WS; Lee TW; Mitchell TR; Felps W; Owens BP, 2007, 'The psychology of voluntary employee turnover', Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 16, pp. 51 - 54,
• Jones TM; Felps W; Bigley GA, 2007, 'Ethical theory and stakeholder-related decisions: The role of stakeholder culture', Academy of Management Review, vol. 32, pp. 137 - 155,
• Felps W; Mitchell TR; Byington EK, 2006, 'How, when, and why bad apples spoil the barrel: Negative group members and dysfunctional groups.', Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 27, pp. 181 - 230