research overview Dr. Russell Cropanzano conducts research in two related areas. His principal work investigates workplace emotion and mental health. His other research stream explores the antecedents and consequences of organizational justice perceptions.
keywords organizational behavior, organizational psychology, organizational justice, workplace emotion
selected publications book The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect. Ed. Cropanzano, Russell. 2020 The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect. Ed. Cropanzano, Russell. 2020 The Oxford Handbook of Justice in the Workplace 2015 Social Justice and the Experience of Emotion 2011 Advances in Organizational Justice 2001 Justice in the Workplace. Ed. Cropanzano, Russell. 2001 Justice in the Workplace. Ed. 2. Ed. Cropanzano, Russell. 2001 Organizational Justice and Human Resource Management 1998 Affective events theory: A theoretical discussion of the structure, causes and consequences of affective experiences at work. Ed. 18. 1996 Organizational Politics, Justice, and Support. Ed. Cropanzano, Russell. 1995 chapter Bridging tradition and transformation in social exchange theory. 2-12. 2026 The influence of artificial intelligence on workplace social exchange. 580-596. 2026 La justice c’est bien plus que ce que l’on croit [There's more to justice than meets the eye]. 150-153. 2025 Organisational justice: Revisiting Greenberg’s pay inequity study. 201-220. 2023 Organizational Justice and Mental Health. 341-371. 2023 HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN WE ARE TREATED FAIRLY? JUSTICE RULES AND FAIRNESS JUDGMENTS. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management. 279-350. 2015 Hazards of justice: Egocentric bias, moral judgments, and revenge-seeking 2013 The role of third-parties/mediation in resolving conflict in organizations 2013 The effects of moods and discrete emotions on negotiator behavior 2012 DISPLAY RULES AND EMOTIONAL LABOR WITHIN WORK TEAMS. Research on Emotion in Organizations. 197-223. 2011 Emotional Regulation Display Rules and Terror Management. 173-198. 2011 Justice and the Moral Emotions. 65-114. 2011 Justice, the Self, and Affect. 115-146. 2011 Justice-Relevant Cognitions as a Cause of Affect. 35-64. 2011 Mood and Emotion as Causes of Justice. 147-171. 2011 Social Justice and the Experience of Emotion Conclusion. 199-228. 2011 Social Justice and the Experience of Emotion Introduction. 1-33. 2011 Social Justice and the Experience of Emotion Preface. XIII-+. 2011 From thought to action: Employee work engagement and job performance. 147-163. 2010 Managerial leadership: A short primer on competing perspectives 2010 Moral Leadership: A Short Primer on Competing Perspectives. 21-52. 2010 Social Hierarchies and the Evolution of Moral Emotions. 207-234. 2010 SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY AND ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE Job Performance, Citizenship Behaviors, Multiple Foci, and a Historical Integration of Two Literatures. 63-+. 2008 INTRAUNIT JUSTICE AND INTERUNIT JUSTICE AND THE PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCE THEM. Research in Multi-Level Issues. 415-437. 2007 THE HAPPY/PRODUCTIVE WORKER THESIS REVISITED. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management. 269-307. 2007 An affective events approach to job satisfaction 2006 Organizational politics and workplace stress. 139-160. 2006 Workplace emotion: Where we've been, where we're going, and where we ought to be 2005 The impact of display rules and emotional labor on psychological well-being at work 2004 An overview of organizational justice: Implications for work motivation 2003 If politcs is a game, then what are the rules?: Three suggestions for ethical managers 2003 Some reflections on the morality of organizational justice 2002 Three roads to organizational justice 2002 Emerging justice concerns in an era of changing psychological contracts 2001 Fairness theory: Justice as accountability 2001 History of organizational justice: The founders speak 2001 Procedural and distributive justice are more similar than you think: A monistic perspective and a research agenda 2001 Using social justice to build effective work groups 2001 Doing justice to workplace emotions 1999 Culture and leadership among Taiwanese and U.S. Workers: Do values influence leadership ideas? 1996 Progress in organizational justice: Tunneling through the maze 1996 The social setting of work organizations: Politics, justice, and support 1995 Total quality teams: How politics and support impact the effectiveness of quality improvement teams 1995 Drug use and its implications for employee drug testing 1993 Justice considerations in employee drug testing 1993 Justice in the workplace: A historical review 1993 A DUE-PROCESS METAPHOR FOR PERFORMANCE-APPRAISAL. Research in Organizational Behavior. 129-177. 1992 A GOAL HIERARCHY MODEL OF PERSONALITY, MOTIVATION, AND LEADERSHIP. Research in Organizational Behavior. 267-322. 1992 Procedural justice and worker motivation 1991 conference proceeding A New Way of Working: Towards a Theory of the Gig Economy 2019 "How Executive Pay Leads to Racial and Gender Bias, Aggression and Worse Executive Performance". Academy of Management Proceedings. 16584-16584. 2016 Foreword: Workplace emotion: Where we've been, where we're going, and where we ought to be. XI-+. 2002 journal article A Sensemaking Model of Investor Reactions to CEO Achievement Expression. Journal of Management. 2026 Team Justice as a Consequence of Demographic Faultlines: Climate Level and Strength. Group & Organization Management. 2026 Special Issue Call for Papers: Thirty Years of Affective Events Theory: New Directions in the Knowledge Era. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 246-248. 2026 The Journal of Management's 50th Reflections 2005-2023. Journal of Management. 9-23. 2025 What Henri Fayol couldn't know: Managing gig workers in the new economy. Organizational Dynamics. 2024 Multiple Salary Comparisons, Distributive Justice, and Employee Withdrawal. Journal of Applied Psychology. 1533-1554. 2024 The Relationship of Overall Justice to Flourishing and Job Performance: The Moderating Role of Materialism. Social Justice Research. 1-24. 2024 Peer Justice and the Individual. Journal of Business and Psychology. 233-248. 2024 Peer justice and the individual. Journal of Business and Psychology. 233-248. 2024 Assessing the Efficacy of Online Learning in Disparate Business Subjects: Lessons from Distributed Practice and Social Learning Theory. Journal of Management Education. 505-547. 2023 The Organizational Psychology of Gig Work: An Integrative Conceptual Review. Journal of Applied Psychology. 492-519. 2023 When Managers Become Robin Hoods: A Mixed Method Investigation. Business Ethics Quarterly. 209-242. 2022 How CEOs Respond to Mortality Salience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Integrating Terror Management Theory With Regulatory Focus Theory. Journal of Applied Psychology. 1188-1201. 2021 Work-Family Crossover: A Meta-Analytic Review. International Journal of Stress Management. 89-104. 2021 How do people judge fairness in supervisor and peer relationships? Another assessment of the dimensions of justice. Human Relations. 1632-1663. 2020 Emotional Labor Within Teams: Outcomes of Individual and Peer Emotional Labor on Perceived Team Support, Extra-Role Behaviors, and Turnover Intentions. Group & Organization Management. 38-71. 2018 Employee Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Supervisor Justice Rule Compliance: A Three-Study Investigation. Journal of Applied Psychology. 1564-1589. 2017 Deontic Justice and Organizational Neuroscience. Journal of Business Ethics. 733-754. 2017 AFFECTIVE EVENTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE. Academy of Management Review. 233-258. 2017 SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY: A CRITICAL REVIEW WITH THEORETICAL REMEDIES. The Academy of Management Annals. 479-516. 2017 The buffering role of sportsmanship on the effects of daily negative events. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 263-274. 2017 The impact of stereotypes and supervisor perceptions of employee work-family conflict on job performance ratings. Human Relations. 119-145. 2017 Validating justice climate and peer justice in a real work setting. Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 191-205. 2016 Beyond the Particular and Universal: Dependence, Independence, and Interdependence of Context, Justice, and Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics. 639-647. 2016 How Leader-Member Exchange Influences Effective Work Behaviors: Social Exchange and Internal-External Efficacy Perspectives (Expression of Concern of Vol 64, Pg 739, 2011). Personnel Psychology. 521-521. 2016 Unit-level fairness and quality within the health care industry: A justice-quality model. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 627-644. 2015 Expanding the Horizons of Social Justice Research: Three Essays on Justice Theory. Social Justice Research. 229-246. 2015 Voice and Culture: A Prospect Theory Approach. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 167-175. 2015 "Justice" and "fairness" are not the same thing. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 313-318. 2015 Good acting requires a good cast: A meso-level model of deep acting in work teams. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 232-249. 2015 Dynamic models of well-being: implications of affective events theory for expanding current views on personality and climate. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 844-847. 2015 Justice Climate and Peer Justice Climate A Closer Look. Small Group Research. 563-592. 2013 Organizational justice: New insights from behavioural ethics. Human Relations. 885-904. 2013 The Promise and Peril of Organizational Neuroscience: Today and Tomorrow. Journal of Management Inquiry. 306-310. 2013 Perceived Reciprocity and Well-Being at Work in Non-Professional Employees: Fairness or Self-Interest?. Stress and Health. 31-39. 2013 Organizational Neuroscience: Taking Organizational Theory Inside the Neural Black Box (vol 37, pg 933, 2011). Journal of Management. 456-456. 2012 Death awareness and organizational behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 1189-1193. 2011 How and why terrorism corrupts the consistency principle of organizational justice. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 984-1007. 2011 Peer Justice and Teamwork Process. Group & Organization Management. 567-596. 2011 HOW LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE INFLUENCES EFFECTIVE WORK BEHAVIORS: SOCIAL EXCHANGE AND INTERNAL-EXTERNAL EFFICACY PERSPECTIVES (Publication with Expression of Concern. See vol. 69, pg. 521, 2016). Personnel Psychology. 739-770. 2011 Organizational Neuroscience: Taking Organizational Theory Inside the Neural Black Box. Journal of Management. 933-961. 2011 Dynamic Aspects of Voluntary Turnover: An Integrated Approach to Curvilinearity in the Performance-Turnover Relationship. Journal of Applied Psychology. 233-246. 2011 Organizational neuroscience: The promise and prospects of an emerging discipline. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 1055-1059. 2010 PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL: THE HIDDEN FORCES THAT SHAPE OUR DECISIONS. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 330-331. 2010 Writing Nonempirical Articles for Journal of Management: General Thoughts and Suggestions. Journal of Management. 1304-1311. 2009 Organizational justice, voluntary learning behavior, and job performance: A test of the mediating effects of identification and leader-member exchange. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 1103-1126. 2009 Do East Asians Respond More/Less Strongly to Organizational Justice Than North Americans? A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Management Studies. 787-805. 2009 Fairness at the Group Level: Justice Climate and Intraunit Justice Climate. Journal of Management. 564-599. 2009 Organizational Justice and Behavioral Ethics: Promises and Prospects. Business Ethics Quarterly. 193-233. 2009 The role of employee psychological wellbeing in cardiovascular health: when the twain shall meet. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 193-208. 2009 How regulatory focus impacts the process-by-outcome interaction for perceived fairness and emotions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 36-51. 2008 Organizational justice and extrarole customer service:: The mediating role of well-being at work. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 327-348. 2008 The role of ideology in mediated disputes at work: a justice perspective. International Journal of Conflict Management. 210-233. 2008 The management of organizational justice. Academy of Management Perspectives, The. 34-48. 2007 The benefits of justice for temporary workers. Group & Organization Management. 176-207. 2007 The moderating role of employee positive well being on the relation between job satisfaction and job performance. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 93-104. 2007 Evaluating dynamic performance: The influence of salient Gestalt characteristics on performance ratings. Journal of Applied Psychology. 490-499. 2007 Gender discrimination may be worse than you think: Testing ordinal interactions in power research. Journal of General Psychology. 117-130. 2006 Different wrongs, different remedies? Reactions to organizational remedies after procedural and interactional injustice. Personnel Psychology. 31-64. 2006 Self-interest: defining and understanding a human motive. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 985-991. 2005 Social exchange theory: An interdisciplinary review. Journal of Management. 874-900. 2005 Organizational justice and Black applicants' reactions to affirmative action. Journal of Applied Psychology. 1168-1184. 2005 Relationships Between Organizational Justice and Burnout at the Work-Unit Level.. International Journal of Stress Management. 99-116. 2005 A Construct Validity Study of Commitment and Perceived Support Variables. Group & Organization Management. 153-180. 2005 A construct validity study of commitment and perceived support variables - A multifoci approach across different team environments. Group & Organization Management. 153-180. 2005 Game theory at work: How to use game theory to outthink and outmaneuver your competition. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 409-410. 2004 Accountability for corporate injustice. Human Resource Management Review. 107-133. 2004 Ne role of psychological well-being in job performance: A fresh look at an age-old quest. Organizational Dynamics. 338-351. 2004 State and trait correlates of job performance: A tale of two perspectives. Journal of Business and Psychology. 365-383. 2004 The Deontic justice: the role of moral Incubator principles in workplace fairness. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 1019-1024. 2003 The Structure of Affect: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Negative and Positive Affectivity. Journal of Management. 831-857. 2003 A longitudinal analysis of organizational fairness: An examination of reactions to tenure and promotion decisions. Journal of Applied Psychology. 266-275. 2003 The relationship of emotional exhaustion to work attitudes, job performance, and organizational citizenship behaviors. Journal of Applied Psychology. 160-169. 2003 Procedural justice and organizational staffing: a tale of two paradigms. Human Resource Management Review. 7-39. 2003 The structure of affect: Reconsidering the relationship between negative and positive affectivity. Journal of Management. 831-857. 2003 Organization structure and fairness perceptions: The moderating effects of organizational level. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 881-905. 2002 The mediating effects of social exchange relationships in predicting workplace outcomes from multifoci organizational justice. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 925-946. 2002 Using social exchange theory to distinguish procedural from interactional justice. Group & Organization Management. 324-351. 2002 When a happy worker is a productive worker: A preliminary examination of three models. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science. 146-150. 2002 Moral virtues, fairness heuristics, social entities, and other denizens of organizational justice. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 164-209. 2001 Self-enhancement biases, laboratory experiments, George Wilhelm Friedrich!Hegel, and the increasingly crowded world of organizational justice. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 260-272. 2001 When a "happy" worker is really a "productive" worker: A review and further refinement of the happy-productive worker thesis.. Consulting Psychology Journal. 182-199. 2001 Procedural Justice, Outcome Favorability and Emotion. Social Justice Research. 339-360. 2000 Who is supporting whom?: quality team effectiveness and perceived organizational support. Journal of Quality Management. 207-223. 2000 The effect of organizational structure on perceptions of procedural fairness. Journal of Applied Psychology. 294-304. 2000 Psychological well-being and job satisfaction as predictors of job performance.. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 84-94. 2000 The role of organizational behavior in occupational health psychology: A view as we approach the millennium.. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 5-10. 2000 Effects of justice conditions on discrete emotions. Journal of Applied Psychology. 786-794. 1999 Disputant reactions to managerial conflict resolution tactics - A comparison among Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the United States. Group & Organization Management. 124-154. 1999 The conservation of resources model applied to work-family conflict and strain. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 350-370. 1999 Organizational politics and organizational support as predictors of work attitudes, job performance, and organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 159-174. 1999 A 5-year study of change in the relationship between well-being and job performance.. Consulting Psychology Journal. 252-265. 1999 Positive and negative creativity in groups, institutions, and organizations: A model and theoretical extension. Creativity Research Journal. 211-226. 1999 Emotional exhaustion as a predictor of job performance and voluntary turnover. Journal of Applied Psychology. 486-493. 1998 The relationship of organizational polities and support to work behaviors, attitudes, and stress. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 159-180. 1997 Resolving the justice dilemma by improving the outcomes: The case of employee drug screening. Journal of Business and Psychology. 239-263. 1996 Elaborating procedural fairness: Justice becomes both simpler and more complex. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 435-441. 1996 RESOLVING THE JUSTICE DILEMMA BY IMPROVING THE OUTCOMES - THE CASE OF EMPLOYEE DRUG SCREENING. Journal of Business and Psychology. 221-243. 1995 VALIDATION EVIDENCE FOR 3 COPING MEASURES. Journal of Personality Assessment. 434-455. 1995 INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONAL-PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM, COLORADO STATE-UNIVERSITY, USA. International Journal of Selection and Assessment. 242-244. 1995 Advance notice as a means of reducing relative deprivation. Social Justice Research. 217-238. 1995 GOAL HIERARCHIES AND PLAN REVISION. Motivation and Emotion. 77-98. 1995 DISPOSITIONAL GROUP LOYALTY AND INDIVIDUAL ACTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF AN INGROUP - EXPERIMENTAL AND CORRELATIONAL EVIDENCE. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 179-205. 1994 CORRELATIONAL AND KNOWN-GROUP COMPARISON VALIDATION OF A WORKPLACE PREJUDICE DISCRIMINATION INVENTORY. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 1573-1592. 1994 DISPOSITIONAL AFFECTIVITY AS A PREDICTOR OF WORK ATTITUDES AND JOB-PERFORMANCE. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 595-606. 1993 ORGANIZATIONAL-CHANGE AND DRUG-FREE WORKPLACES - TEMPLATES FOR SUCCESS - BACKER,TE, OHARA,KB. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 197-200. 1993 PERCEIVED FAIRNESS OF EMPLOYEE DRUG-TESTING AS A PREDICTOR OF EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES AND JOB-PERFORMANCE. Journal of Applied Psychology. 698-707. 1991 INJUSTICE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF POWER RESTORATION. International Journal of Conflict Management. 5-26. 1991 LEVELS OF THINKING. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 743-757. 1990 A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE SIZE OF NESTING FEMALE ALLIGATORS. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 296-298. 1990 Focus of attention and locus of control as moderators of fraternal justice effects. Social Justice Research. 169-185. 1990 SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL GENETIC-ANALYSIS OF WORK ATTITUDES. Journal of Applied Psychology. 433-439. 1990 REFERENT COGNITIONS AND TASK DECISION AUTONOMY - BEYOND EQUITY THEORY. Journal of Applied Psychology. 293-299. 1989 COGNITIVE OPERATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES IN AFFECT INTENSITY. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 767-774. 1987
editor of book The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect 2020 The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect 2020 Justice in the Workplace 2001 Justice in the Workplace. Ed. 2. 2001 Organizational Politics, Justice, and Support 1995
education and training Ph.D., Purdue University 1988 M.A., Southern Methodist University 1985 B.A., Louisiana State University System office 1983
awards and honors Distinguished Professorship, conferred by University of Colorado President, 2025 BFA Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work, conferred by Boulder Faculty Assembly, 2019 Fellow, conferred by Association for Psychological Science, 2013 AMP Best Paper Award, conferred by Academy of Management, 2008
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