Faculty Director

Dean's Professor Jone L. Pearce

Jone L. Pearce is Dean’s Professor of Leadership in The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. Her field is organizational behavior and she conducts research on workplace interpersonal processes, such as trust and status, and how these processes may be affected by political structures, economic conditions and organizational policies and practices.  Her work has appeared in nearly 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 four books, 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, revised and expanded in 2009).  She currently serves on several editorial boards including Administrative Science Quarterly, and Human Relations.

She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the International Association of Applied Psychology, the American Psychological Association (Div 14, SIOP), and the Association for Psychological Science. 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); several teaching excellence awards; and an invitation to testify on legislation pending before the United States House of Representatives.  She is a member of the Scientific Council for Centre at Tilburg University (The Netherlands), and is a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute (United Kingdom), and a member of panel the European Commission’s Advanced Research Grants.  Professor Pearce has been active in the Academy of Management, elected as elected as, was the Program Chair for its 2001 Annual Meeting and is serving as its President in 2002-03.

BA 1974, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley; MA 1976, Administrative Sciences, Yale University; PhD 1978, Administrative Sciences, Yale University