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Terence Mitchell
Professor of Management & Organization
Edward E. Carlson Distinguished Professor in Business Administration
Professor of Psychology

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1969
MA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1967
GDPA, University of Exeter, 1965
BA, Duke University, 1964



Phone:   
 206-543-6779 Mailing Address:
Fax:
 206-685-9392 University of Washington Business School
Office:
Email:
 301 Mackenzie Hall
trm@u.washington.edu
 Management and Organization Department
Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200
     

Specialties

    Motivation, leadership and decision making.

Positions Held

    At the University of Washington since 1969
    Visiting scholar at:
    University of Canterbury, New Zealand (1988, 1996)
    University of Western Australia (1990, 1992, 1995)
    University of Amsterdam (1994)

    AACSB faculty fellow at the Department of Labor (1972)

Selected Publications

  • "An examination of whether and how racial and gender biases influence customer satisfaction ratings," with D. Hekman, K. Aquino, B. Owens and P. Schilpzand, Academy of Management Journal, forthcoming.

  • "Turnover contagion: How coworkers’ job embeddedness and coworkers’ job search behaviors influence quitting," with W. Felps, D. Hekman, T.W. Lee, B.C. Holtom and W.S. Harman, Academy of Management Journal, 2009.

  • "Turnover and retention research: a glance at the past, a closer review of the present, and a venture into the future," with B.H. Holtom, T.W. Lee and M. Bussmann, Academy of Management Annals, Vol. 2, 2008, pp. 231-274.

  • " The Academic Life: Realistic Changes Needed for Business School Students and Faculty," Academy of Management Learning and Education, Vol. 6, 2007, pp. 236-251.

  • "The role of job embeddedness in turnover, job performance, citizenship and absenteeism," with T.W. Lee, C. Sablynski and J. Burton, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 47, 2004, pp. 711-722.

  • "Building better theory: Time and the specification of when things happen," with L. James, Academy of Management Review, Vol. 26, 2001, pp. 530-547.

  • "Why people stay: Using job embeddedness to predict voluntary turnover," with B.C Holtom, T.W. Lee, C.J. Sablynski and M. Erez, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 44, 2001, pp. 1102-1122.

  • "A quantitative test of the unfolding model of voluntary turnover," with T.W. Lee, B.C. Holtom, L. McDaniel, and J.W. Hill, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 42, 1999, pp. 450-462.

Current Research

    Development and validation of the Meaning of Money scale, organizational attachment: why people stay and why they leave their jobs, and matching motivation interventions to job contents. Most recent work is on how people pace and space their work when striving to meet deadline goals.

Honors and Awards

    Outstanding Practitioner Oriented Publication in Organizational Behavior Award for their article
    "Increasing Human and Social Capital by Applying Job Embededness Theory" with
    Thomas Lee and Brooks Holtom. Judged best paper of all papers (2006)

    Chosen as charter member of Academy of Management’s Hall of Fame - Gold Level, (August, 2000)
    Winner of Best Paper Published in Academy of Management Review (2001)
    Winner of Best Paper Published (Research in Organizational Behavior chapter)in the Field of
    Organizational Behavior (2001)

    Selected Scholar of the Year by the University of Washington School of Business (2001)
    Fellow of the Academy of Management
    Fellow of the American Psychological Association
    Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational
    Psychology (1998)

    Burlington Northern Foundation Achievement Award for Scholarship (1982).

Selected Consulting Experience

  • Physio-Control, assessment of the success of JIT program.
  • Univar, facilitation of merger.
  • Weyerhauser, development of performance appraisal instrument.

Academic Service

    Executive Committee of the Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management (1998-2003)
    Governing board of the Society for Organizational Behavior (1990-94)
    Editorial board of Academy of Management Review (1988-93, 1996-2002)