Research Interests
- Adverse impact/diversity in HR management (racial equality in hiring/admissions, minority recruiting, personality and individual differences);
- Emotional intelligence (Cascading model, measurement, leadership);
- Leadership & Gender (dominant personality/agency/competitiveness, emotional & social skills);
- Social networks and levels of analysis (social network contagion, within-group agreement, climate emergence);
- Narcissism (leadership, counterproductive work behavior, gender);
- Work engagement (Attitude-engagement model; time & change; work withdrawal, citizenship, & performance; job attitudes; personality);
- Research methods (missing data, longitudinal/multilevel models, social networks, measurement, Bayesian meta-analysis)
Research Description
- Elected Division Chair, Research Methods Division, Academy of Management (2,300 members; 5 year chair cycle, 2013-2018)
- Best Convention Paper Award (2016), Human Resources Division, Academy of Management
- Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2013), School of Labor & Employment Relations, U. of Illinois (awarded to one faculty member per year, selected by students)
- Early Career Achievement Award (2010), Research Methods Division, Academy of Management
- Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award (2010), Research Methods Division, Academy of Management
- Best Paper of the Year (2014), Organizational Research Methods
- Scholarly Achievement Award (2007), Human Resources Division, Academy of Management
- William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award (2008), Society for I/O Psychology
- Sage Best Paper Award (2008), Research Methods Division, Academy of Management
- Best Reviewer of the Year (2008), Organizational Research Methods
Education
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, B.A. Rice University
Awards and Honors
- Sage/McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award (2020), Research Methods Division, Academy of Management
- Best Paper of the Year (2020), Personnel Psychology
- Elected Division Chair, Research Methods Division, Academy of Management (2,300 members; 5 year chair cycle, 2013-2018)
- Best Convention Paper Award (2016), Human Resources Division, Academy of Management
- Best Paper of the Year (2014), Organizational Research Methods
- Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2013), School of Labor & Employment Relations, U. of Illinois (awarded to one faculty member per year, selected by students)
- Early Career Achievement Award (2010), Research Methods Division, Academy of Management
- Sage/McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award (2010), Research Methods Division, Academy of Management
- Scholarly Achievement Award (2007), Human Resources Division, Academy of Management
- William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award (2008), Society for I/O Psychology
- Sage Best Paper Award (2008), Research Methods Division, Academy of Management
- Best Reviewer of the Year (2008), Organizational Research Methods
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations
Highlighted Publications
Badura, K. L., Grijalva, E., Newman, D. A., Yan, T. T., & Jeon, G. (2018). Gender and leadership emergence: A meta-analysis and explanatory model. Personnel Psychology, 71(3), 335-367. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12266
Chelsea Song, Q., Wee, S., & Newman, D. A. (2017). Diversity Shrinkage: Cross-Validating Pareto-Optimal Weights to Enhance Diversity via Hiring Practices. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102(12), 1636-1657. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000240
Newman, D. A., Harrison, D. A., Carpenter, N. C., & Rariden, S. M. (2016). Construct Mixology: Forming New Management Constructs by Combining Old Ones. Academy of Management Annals, 10(1), 943-995. https://doi.org/10.1080/19416520.2016.1161965
Grijalva, E., Newman, D. A., Tay, L., Brent Donnellan, M., Harms, P. D., Robins, R. W., & Yan, T. (2015). Gender differences in narcissism: A meta-analytic review. Psychological bulletin, 141(2), 261-310. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038231
Grijalva, E., Harms, P. D., Newman, D. A., Gaddis, B. H., & Fraley, R. C. (2015). Narcissism and Leadership: A Meta-Analytic Review of Linear and Nonlinear Relationships. Personnel Psychology, 68(1), 1-47. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12072
Joseph, D. L., Jin, J., Newman, D. A., & O'Boyle, E. H. (2015). Why does self-reported emotional intelligence predict job performance? A meta-analytic investigation of mixed EI. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(2), 298-342. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037681
Recent Publications
Jones, K. S., Newman, D. A., Su, R., & Rounds, J. (Accepted/In press). Black-White differences in vocational interests: Meta-analysis and boundary conditions. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-020-09693-5
Kim, J. Y., Hsu, N., Newman, D. A., Harms, P. D., & Wood, D. (2020). Leadership perceptions, gender, and dominant personality: The role of normality evaluations. Journal of Research in Personality, 87, [103984]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103984
Newman, D. A., & Sin, H. P. (2020). Within-Group Agreement (rWG): Two Theoretical Parameters and their Estimators. Organizational Research Methods, 23(1), 30-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428118809504
Wee, S., Newman, D. A., Song, Q. C., & Schinka, J. A. (Accepted/In press). Vocational interests, gender, and job performance: Two person–occupation cross-level interactions. Personnel Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12411
Badura, K. L., Grijalva, E., Newman, D. A., Yan, T. T., & Jeon, G. (2018). Gender and leadership emergence: A meta-analysis and explanatory model. Personnel Psychology, 71(3), 335-367. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12266
