Angelo DeNisi
Professor & Albert Harry Cohen Chair of Business Administration
Biography
Angelo DeNisi has been a professor for 40 years and at Tulane since 2005, where he first served as dean for six years. He has served as the President of both the Academy of Management and The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). His research interests include performance appraisals, expatriate management, and work experiences of persons with disabilities, and his work has been funded by the Army Research Institute, the National Science Foundation, and several state agencies. He has been honored with lifetime achievement awards from SIOP and from the HR Division of the Academy of Management.
Originally from the Bronx, Professor DeNisi loves living in and exploring New Orleans. He is married to Adrienne Colella, and has two grown children -- Jessica and Rebecca.
Education
Purdue University
Purdue University
Herbert H. Lehman College (C.U.N.Y.)
Links
Articles
Performance Management Systems in Multinational Enterprises: Developments and Future Directions
2019
Every few months, the popular press or business publications publish a news item about some well-known organization that is getting rid of its’ performance management system (PMS).
The Dark Side of the Entrepreneurial Personality
2017
This chapter discusses the dark side of the entrepreneurial personality with regard to the decision to become an entrepreneur, entrepreneurial success, and broader social well‐being. The vocational behavior literature does point to some dark side for entrepreneurial success.
Organizational Citizenship and Selection: Does Candidate Gender Matter?
2017
A recent study by Podsakoff et al. (2011) reported that candidates for jobs who were judged as displaying higher levels of certain organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) were evaluated more favorably for selection. The present study extends that work by testing several competing hypotheses related to potential gender differences in evaluations, based on social role theory and status theories.
Success and failure in international assignments: A review and a proposed multi-dimensional model
2016
The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on how success and failure for international assignments have been defined, and integrate several proposals for these definitions into a multi-dimensional model that considers task performance, relationship building, contextual performance and retention as all being part of how success or failure should be defined.
Halo Effects
2015
Halo effects have long been identified as a type of rating error in performance appraisals. There has been some consideration of the possible causes for halo effects, and there has been a great deal of attention paid to ways to minimize or eliminate halo effects.
Managing Performance to Change Behavior
2011
Performance appraisal systems are often considered primarily in their role as criterion measures for validation studies. Even when they are considered in other organizational roles, there has traditionally been a strong focus on improving the accuracy of the appraisals. The present article argues that the proper focus of performance appraisal is to change employees' behavior on the job—both task performance behavior and contextual performance.
