Jone L. Pearce is Dean's Professor of Leadership at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. Her field is organizational behavior, with research centering on how the institutional context affects individuals’ behavior and their affective reactions the workplace, often proposing (and testing) the mediating role of social processes. Her work has appeared in over ninety scholarly articles in such publications as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science; she has edited several volumes and written books that include Volunteers: The Organizational Behavior of Unpaid Workers (Routledge, 1993), Organization and Management in the Embrace of Government (Erlbaum, 2001) and Organizational Behavior: Real Research for Real Managers (Melvin & Leigh, 2006).
 
Pearce is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and the International Association for Applied Psychology. Her honors include research grants from the National Science Foundation; a Fulbright Fellowship to the International Management Center, Hungary; Scholarly Contribution Awards (1998 from the Academy of Management and 1986 from the American Society for Personnel Administration); Teaching Excellence Awards; and an invitation to testify on legislation pending before the United States House of Representatives. 
  
Professor Pearce has been active in the Western Academy of Management, elected as President in 1995-96, and in the Academy of Management, elected as a President in 2002-03. She was Hansen Visiting Professor in the School of Business, University of Washington in 2004-05, and Visiting Professor in the Stern School, New York University, in 2008. Pearce is a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute (UK) and a member of the Scientific Council for CentER (the Netherlands), and the European Commission's Advanced Grants Programme.
  
She has held numerous administrative positions in the UC Irvine’s School, most notably as Interim Dean from 2002 to 2004.