Alexander C. Romney
Associate Professor
Department(s):- Marketing and Strategy
Education
PhD, Management (Organizational Behavior), University of Utah, 2016
BA, History, Brigham Young University, 2007 (Minor: Psychology)
Awards
Teacher of the Year - 2022
Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year - 2021
Research Area(s)
Employee voice, the meaning of work, groups and teams, leadership
Biography
Alexander C. Romney is an Associate Professor in the Marketing and Strategy Department of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. Dr. Romney earned his B.A. from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Utah. He worked as a research associate at the Harvard Business School and taught at the University of Utah prior to coming to the Huntsman School. He teaches courses on leadership and teams. His research is focused on employee voice, meaningful work, leadership and teams. Romney's research has been published in the Journal of Management, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology, Human Relations, and the Journal of Business and Psychology.
Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Romney, A.C, Heydarifard, Z., Lam, C., (2024). Reconciling Competing Perspectives? Does Spousal Undermining Promote or Prevent Employee Voice . Journal of Business and Psychology, 39, 513-526.
- Hetrick, A.L, Spoelma, T.M, Newton , D.W, Romney, A.C, (2024). “You Don’t Want My Help?” The Negative and Positive Consequences of Help Offer Rejection. Journal of Management
- Lam, C., Romney, A.C, Newton, D., Wang, M., (2023). Challenging the Status-quo in a Non-Challenging Way? A Dominance Complementarity View of Voice Inquiry in Securing Voice Endorsement. Personnel Psychology
- Romney, A.C, Allen, J., Heydarifard, Z., (2023). Meeting Load Paradox: Balancing the Benefits and Burdens of Work Meetings. Business Horizons
- Soderberg, A., Romney, A.C, (2022). Building Trust: How Leaders Can Engender Feelings of Trust Among Followers. Business Horizons, 65, 173-182.
- Romney, A.C, (2021). It’s Not Just What You Say It’s How You Say It: How Callings Influence Voice Delivery. Human Relations, 20, 2021-2050.
- Romney, A.C, Smith, I., Okhuysen, G., (2019). In the Trenches: Making Your Work Meetings a Success. Business Horizons, 62, 459-477.
- Bonner, B., Baumann, M., Romney, A.C, (2017). Working Outside of Your Wheelhouse: Effects of Incentives and Framing on Transactive Memory Systems and Performance. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 20, 894-908.
- Bonner, B., Soderberg, A., Romney, A.C, (2016). In the Same Group but Moving in Different Directions: Coordination Effects in Tasks with Simultaneous intellective and Judgmental Performance Criteria. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 22, 471-487.
- Burris, E., Detert, J., Romney, A.C, (2013). Speaking up Versus Being Heard: Disagreement Around and Outcomes of Employee Voice. Organization Science, 24, 22-38.
Curriculum
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