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Multilevel Analysis
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Biography

Dr. Janaki Gooty is a professor in the Department of Management in the Belk College of Business, and Organizational Science, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at UNC Charlotte. She currently serves as the Director of the MBA Program (BCOB) & Director, Dual MBA Program with EGADE Business School, Monterrey, Mexico. Her research focuses on inclusion, values/ethics, and the role of emotions in leadership at multiple levels of analyses. Specifically, she studies three phenomena that are deeply intertwined:

1. Creation of gender and race neutral definitions of leadership phenomena (e.g., identity, leader behavior, sensemaking);
2. The role of emotions such as pride, anger, sadness or compassion in motivating followers to action and,
3. The creation of shared realities (i.e., vision) via leader espoused values and expressed emotions in leader-follower relationships.

Her research has appeared in elite leadership and research methods outlets such as Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Management and Leadership Quarterly. Dr. Gooty currently serves as Associate editor at Leadership Quarterly and has previously served as Associate editor at Journal of Occupational and Organizational psychology, Guest Co-editor of two special issues at Leadership Quarterly and on the editorial boards of several other journals.

She currently serves as Past President (2021-2022), has served as President (2020-2021), President-Elect (2019-2020), Program Chair (2018-2019), Program Chair Elect (2017-2018) and representative to the Board of Governors (2011-2014) of the Southern Management Association (SMA), which is the largest affiliate of the Academy of the Management (AoM) and the governing body for the elite Journal of Management (JOM) and newly launched JOM Scientific Reports. In addition, she served as the Representative at Large (2016-2019) for the Research Methods Division (RMD) of the Academy of Management. She is an elected Fellow of SMA and a short course instructor with Consortium for Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA).

Biography

Daniel J. Beal obtained his Ph.D. from Tulane University and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Purdue University. He has been on the faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio and at Rice University, and currently, he is an Associate Professor of Management at Virginia Tech. His research interests span two broad areas: Emotions in organizations and research methods. Within the emotions domain, his research has emphasized the changing nature of emotional experience at work and the manner in which we work to control expressions of those emotions, and he is particularly interested in how these experiences and behaviors predict outcomes such as fatigue and performance.

Methodologically, Dan has interests in three primary areas: 1) multilevel modeling, particularly applications to daily experience methods; 2) structural equation modeling, including the use of item parcels and latent growth models; and 3) developing new meta-analytic methods for artifact correction and detecting outlier studies. His work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Science and has been cited more than 10,000 times. In addition, he has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Management, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, and the Journal of Business and Psychology.

Biography

James Lebreton, a renowned researcher in the field of personality psychology, has dedicated the past two decades to developing, testing, and refining the Conditional Reasoning Theory of Personality. This theory is grounded in the fundamental concept of motivated reasoning, positing that individuals with strong personality motives (e.g., motive to aggress, motive to achieve, motive for power) develop cognitive biases (e.g., hostile attribution bias, efficacy of persistence bias, agency bias) to facilitate the pursuit of behaviors that satisfy these underlying motives (e.g., harming others, working evenings and weekends, pursuing positions of leadership). As part of his research program, Lebreton has been instrumental in the development and validation of several measures designed to assess the implicit motives to aggress, to achieve, and for power. These measures have been employed to test hypotheses linking personality to organizational outcomes such as counterproductive work behavior, leadership, team processes and performance, and job attitudes.

In addition to his primary research interests, Lebreton has also made significant contributions to the field of research methods and statistics. He served as the editor of Organizational Research Methods and recently co-edited the APA Handbook on Multilevel Theory, Measurement, and Analysis. His current research interests encompass topics related to meta-analysis, multilevel research, and the development and validation of surveys and tests used in organizational research.

LeBreton also have secondary interests related to research methods and statistics. He is a past editor of Organizational Research Methods and recently co-edited the APA Handbook on Multilevel Theory, Measurement, and Analysis. His current interests include topics related to meta-analysis, multilevel research, and the development and validation of surveys/tests used in organizational research.