Crystal M. Harold

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Crystal M. Harold

  • Fox School of Business and Management

    • Management

      • Associate Professor

Biography

Dr. Crystal Harold (PhD, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, George Mason University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Prior to joining the Fox School of Business, she was an Assistant Professor in the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI and also worked as a Strategic Human Resources Consultant for numerous governmental agencies such as the Air Force, The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and Department of the Interior (DOI).

Her research focuses on issues related to employee recruitment (in particular the role of PE fit and fairness) and the impact of management practices and characteristics that engender perceptions of workplace fairness and counterproductive behaviors. Her work appears in top OB/HRM outlets including Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. She serves on the editorial boards of Personnel Psychology and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. Findings from her research have been discussed in numerous media outlets including the CBS Early Show, Strategy + Business, The Telegraph, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Dr. Harold was awarded a 2005 APA Dissertation Award and the HUMRRO Fellowship in I/O Psychology. In recognition of her research and teaching accomplishments, she was recently appointed a Cigna Research Fellow, a Dean’s Teaching Fellow, and the Adrisani-Frank Undergraduate Teaching Award.

She would welcome collaborations with doctoral students on projects related to employee recruitment, person-environment fit, leadership, and workplace deviance.

Research Interests

  • Employee Recruitment
  • Fairness
  • Leadership

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BA 3102

Business Society and Ethics

Undergraduate

HRM 2501

Introduction to Human Resource Management

Undergraduate

HRM 3904

Honors, The Leadership Experience: Leading Yourself, Leading Change, Leading Communities

Undergraduate

HRM 9011

Pro-Seminar in Human Resource Management and Organization Behavior

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Oh, I., Han, S., Harold, C., & Kim, J. A meta-analytic examination of the effects of workplace incivility on discretionary work behaviors. Online.

  • Mandviwalla, M.Y. & Harold, C. Information Systems Job Index 2019. Institute for Business and Information Technology, Temple University and The Association for Information Systems. Retrieved from https://isjobindex.com/.

  • Wang, M., Chawla, N., Hu, B., Lee, Y.E., Locklear, L.R., Ambrose, M.L., Conway, J.M., Dimotakis, N.E., Ellis, A.P., Gabriel, A.S., Harold, C.M., Koopman, J., Lount, R.B., Pardal, V., Pitts, V., Rogelberg, S., Spoelma, T., Taylor, S.G., & Tepper, B.J. (2019). Examining the Instigation and Receipt of Antisocial Work Behaviors. doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2019.12964symposium.

  • Harold, C.M., Hu, B., & Pardal, V. Examining the indirect effect of nonleadership on employee time theft.

  • Han, S., Harold, C., & Cheong, M. (2019). Examining why employee proactive personality influences empowering leadership: The roles of cognition- and affect-based trust. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 92(2), 352-383. doi: 10.1111/joop.12252.

  • Han, S., Harold, C., & Vogel, R. Antecedents of empowering leadership. Chicago, IL.

  • Harold, C.M., Mandviwalla, M., & Boggi, M. Information Systems Job Index 2017. The IBIT Report. Institute for Business and Information Technology.

  • Hubbard, M. & Harold, C. (2017). Where are the Women?

  • Kim, J., Harold, C., & Kim, Y. (2017). Organizational Citizenship Giving, Receiving, and the Mediating Role of Support. Atlanta, GA.

  • Han, S. & Harold, C.M. (2017). The Effects of Regulatory Focus and Perceptions of Empowering on Empowering Leadership. doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2017.12696abstract.