Faculty Profile

Dr. Paul Tesluk
Tyser Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource
Management Department Chair and
Co-Director, Center for Human Capital, Innovation and Technology

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University

4530 Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4968
E-mail: ptesluk@rhsmith.umd.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Paul Tesluk

Paul Tesluk is Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Chair of the Department of Management and Organization, which is currently rated as one of the top five management departments in the world in research productivity and scholarly impact, and Co-Director of the Center for Human Capital, Innovation and Technology (HCIT). His research focuses on strategies to enhance team effectiveness and innovation, the assessment and development of management and leadership talent, and organizational culture and climate in organizations transitioning to high-involvement workplace systems. He has published dozens of articles and book chapters on these topics and has received awards from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology for his research on work team effectiveness and work experience and leadership development. He is currently on the editorial boards of several of the leading academic journals in the management field. Paul is also a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He has worked with a number of private and public sector organizations in both research and consulting capacities and his research has been supported by agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes for Health.

Primary Research Areas

Issues impacting work team effectiveness including development of managerial talent and human capital through the use of work experiences and implications for organizations and career development

Selected Publications

Dragoni. L, Tesluk, P.E., Russell, J.E.A., & Oh, I.S. (in press). Understanding managerial development: Integrating developmental assignments, learning orientation and access to developmental opportunities in predicting managerial competencies. Academy of Management Journal.

Marrone, J.A., Tesluk, P.E., & Carson, J.B., (2007). A multilevel investigation of the antecedents and consequences to team member boundary spanning. Academy of Management Journal, 50: 1423-1439.

Gupta, A.K., Tesluk., P.E., & Taylor, M.S. (2007). Innovation at and across multiple levels of analysis. Organization Science, 18: 885-897. [Introduction to Special Issue on Innovation at and Across Multiple Levels of Analysis; Served as Co-Guest Editor]

Carson, J.B., Tesluk, P.E., & Marrone, J.A. (2007). Shared leadership in teams: An investigation of antecedent conditions and performance. Academy of Management Journal, 50: 1217-1234.

Quigley, N., Tesluk, P.E., Bartol, K.M., & Locke, E.A. (2007). A multilevel investigation of the motivational mechanisms underlying knowledge sharing and performance. Organization Science, 18: 71-88 

Kirkman, B.L., Rosen, B., Gibson, C.B., and Tesluk, P., & McPherson, S. (2002). Five challenges to virtual team success: Lessons from Sabre, Inc. Academy of Management Executive, 16(3), 67-79.

Takeuchi, R., Yun, S., Tesluk, P.E. (2002). An examination of crossover and spillover effects of spouse's and expatriate's cross-cultural adjustment on expatriate outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 655-666.

Kirkman, B.L., Tesluk, P.E., & Rosen, B. (2001). Alternative methods of assessing team-level variables: comparing the predictive power of aggregation and consensus methods. Personnel Psychology, 54, 645-667.

Tesluk, P. E., & Mathieu, J. E. (1999). "Overcoming road blocks to effectiveness: Incorporating management of performance barriers into models of work group effectiveness.", Journal of Applied Psychology, 84, 200-217

Tesluk, P. E., & Jacobs, R. J. (1998). "Toward an integrated model of work experience.", Personnel Psychology, 51, 321-355.

Honors and Awards

Olian Summer Research Award, Robert H. Smith School of Business (2003)

William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award - presented by the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology for the best publication in the field appearing during the past full year (1998)

S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Research Award - presented by the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology to the author of the best dissertation in the field

Fellow, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Consulting Work

  • Leadership Development
  • Organizational transitions to high-involvement work practices
  • Work team design and performance
  • Organizational climate and performance
  • Performance management and reward system design