Academy Fellow

Cheri Ostroff is a Research Professor in the University of South Australia Business School and former director of the Centre for Workplace Excellence (CWeX). Cheri’s takes a systems perspective in her research by examining the dynamic interplay of people and their work context. She focuses on how the practices and features of an organisation influence the attitudes, performance, and effectiveness of individuals, and, conversely, how individuals’ characteristics and behaviours collectively influence organisational functioning and effectiveness. For example, she examines how the personality and attributes of employees fit the characteristics of their organisation, and the implications of fit (or lack thereof) for employee well-being and organisational effectiveness. In understanding organisational effectiveness, she examines the dynamic interrelationships between organisational culture, climate, human resource practices, leadership, and employee attitudes and behaviour. The applied nature of Cheri’s research means that she contributes to science as well as provides practical solutions for organisations, which is particularly meaningful today given the continuing forces for change and the movement towards creating high-performing work teams and organisations.

Research Professor, School of Management, University of South Australia, 2013-ongoing

Visiting Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 2015-2016

Professor, Department of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Management, University of Maryland, 2005-2013

Professor, Department of Organization & Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2000-2005

Professor, Department of Management, Arizona State University, 1999-2000; Associate Professor, 1995-1999

Associate Professor, Labor and Industrial Relations Department, University of Minnesota, 1993-1995; Assistant Professor, 1987-1993

Fellow, American Psychological Association

Fellow, Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology in Applied Research/Psychometrics, American Psychological Association 1994

Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award, Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology 1994

Scholarly Achievement Award, Human Resources Division, Academy of Management, 2005

Division Chair Track, Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management, 2009-2014

Leadership in Teaching and Learning Award, UniSA Business School, 2015

Decade Award, Academy of Management Review, for most influential paper published in 10 years, 2015

1. Ostroff, C. 2018. Contextualizing context in organizational research. In S.E. Humphrey and J.M. LeBreton (Eds.), Handbook of Multilevel Theory, Measurement, and Analysis. APA Publications.
2. Fulmer, C.A. & Ostroff, C. 2017. Trust in direct leaders and top leaders: A trickle-up model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102, 648-657
3. Schneider, B. Gonzalez-Roma, V., Ostroff, C., West, M. 2017. A history of organizational culture and climate. Journal of Applied Psychology, 468-482
4. Ostroff, C. & Bowen, D.E. 2016. Is there Strength in HR system Strength? Academy of Management Review. 41, 196-214
5. Ostroff, C. & Schulte, M. 2014c). A configural approach to the study of culture and climate. In B. Schneider & K.M. Barbera (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate (pp 532-552). Oxford University Press.