Associate Professor Will Felps
- PhD in Management & Organizational Behavior, 2007;听Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- B.A. Marketing, 2002; McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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.听
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- 2019听听听 Dean鈥檚 Research Fellowship (8 in Business School)听听听听听听听听听听听听 equivalent to ~$120,000AU
- 2016听听听 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project DP150104081听听听听听听听 $173,596AU听 听 听 听
- 鈥(When) should organisations employ over/underqualified individuals?鈥
- 2010听听听 EUR fellowship from Erasmus University 听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 鈧200,000
- 2007听听听 National Science Foundation Research Grant 听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 $10,000US
- 2006听听听 Grant from the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics听听听听听听听听听听听听听 $20,000US
- 2021听 听 麻豆社madou Exemplary Teaching Practice Award (finalist)
- 2021听听 听Supervisor of the Year (nominee)
- 2021听听 听Business School鈥檚 Excellence Award for 鈥榁alues in Action鈥 for Virtual Class development听(team)
- 2020听 听 Excellence in Reviewing Award (from Human Resource Management Review)
- 2018听 听 麻豆社madou Business School Research Achievement Award (1 per school)
- 2013听 听 Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Conference
- 2013听 听 Hired by 麻豆社madou under auspices of Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Strategic Priorities Fund for recruiting talent
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鈥檚 moral identity, how institutional factors reinforce the IQ-job performance relationship, and why overqualified employees can't get hired. Will has also collaborated听on a number of articles which use science mapping to review various fields, including human resources, careers, teams, adaptive听performance, organisational behaviour, and management. Will's research has been published in academic outlets听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.听听
ENGAGEMENT/SERVICE AT 麻豆社madou
- Speaker: AGSM Operational Risk Symposium (Oct)
- Member of PULSE reference group for Business School Staff Surveys (2021 - current)
- Workload Committee for School of Management & Governance (Chair) (2020)
- Contributions to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Division.听
- Data analyst for the 2019 麻豆社madou Respect Survey: Worked with co-DVC Leisa Sargent to interpret survey results and prepare reports for variety of 麻豆社madou units and stakeholders (2019)
- Member of the Inclusive Leadership Program design group (for all 麻豆社madou leadership)
- Leader of Research Network: Behavioural Insights for Business & Policy (2019 鈥 2020)
- Organiser of Behavioural Insights for HR Professionals workshop (Dec 2019)
- Coordinator for Organisational Behaviour Brown-Bag Group (2020 鈥 current)
- Serving on two BCom Review Committees: HR Curriculum Panel & Leadership PLO (2020)
- Summative Peer Review of Teaching Reviewer (2019 鈥 current)
- Expert Reviewer for 麻豆社madou Business鈥 Peer Support of Teaching program (2018 鈥 current)
- Mentor in the Early Career Academic (ECA) program (2019 鈥 current)
- Mentor for the PhD Teaching Fellows program (2020 鈥 current)
- Junior faculty buddy in School of Management (2019 鈥 current)
- Presenter: HDR Orientation Sessions (2017 鈥 2020)
- Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI) Advisory Board Officer & Chair (2019 鈥 2020)
- AHRI accreditation for HR majors in the UG BCom and Econ programs
- Set up Articulation pathway from AHRI鈥檚 Practising Certification (APC) program听
- EQUIS re-accreditation panel (2018)
- Chair of New Opportunities Committee (2015 鈥 2019)
- On hiring committees for lecturer, senior lecturer, and associate professor positions (7 hires)
- Associate Head of School, School of Management (from 2015鈥2017, with sabbatical in 2016)
- Chair of Learning & Teaching Committee (from 2015鈥2017, with sabbatical in 2016)
- Director of Studies at the Australian Graduate School of Management (2013 - 2015)听
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SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
- Chair of the Society of Organisational Behaviour Australia (2020 鈥 current)
- Editorial Board 2011-2015 鈥 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
- Ad Hoc Reviewer 鈥 Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Industry and Innovation, Journal of Informetrics, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly, Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Management Review.
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MEDIA MENTIONS
- . AOM Insights. 16th Nov 2021.
- (Frederik Anseel & Will Felps). BusinessThink. 29th September 2021.
- (Christine Ro). BBC Worklife. 17th September 2021.
- (Juliet Bourke & Will Felps). Business Think, July 2020
- . AGSM鈥檚 The Business Of鈥eadership podcast series. September 2020.
- Featured in Hastings, R., & Meyer, E. (2020). No rules rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention. VIRGIN books.
- ; BusINess Australia, 2020
- ; Business Think, May 2020
- ; Business Think, March 2020
- . The Culture Code, Coyle, 2018
- ; Ladders, November 2019
- ; Michael Hyatt & Co, April 2018
- . Best Practice; ABC National Radio, 2017
- ; Business Think, March, 2017
- ; South China Morning Post, May 2017
- ; Deloitte鈥, March 2015鈥
- ; Foster School of Business, University of Washington,听January 2014
- ; [] This American Life,听鈥婦ecember 2008
- ; Access News鈥,听December 2014
- , Wall Street Journal,听October, 2011
- ; Knowledge @ Wharton / Forbes,听Nov 10,听2011
- Does IQ Predict Performance at Work? CNN,听Feb 28,2011听
- ; Wall Street Journal. Oct 2011
- -Chief Learning Officer, Mar 2011
- Hoher IQ ist nicht gleich hohe Leistung -Frankfurter Allgemeine, February 22, 2011
- Intelligence Not the Solution -IEDP, February 4, 2011
- -HBR Blog, August 8, 2010听
- -Fast Company, September 1, 2010
My Research Supervision
- (Dissertation on strategic decision making)
- (Dissertation on听adaptive performance)
- (Dissertation on management ethics)
My Teaching
- (Facilitator in Charge)
- (coordinator and instructor)