Jone L. Pearce is Dean's Professor of Leadership at The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. Her field is organizational behavior and she conducts research on workplace interpersonal processes, such as trust, and how these processes may be affected by political structures, economic conditions and organizational policies and practices. Her work has appeared in over ninety scholarly articles in such publications as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science; she has edited several volumes and written three scholarly books, Volunteers: The Organizational Behavior of Unpaid Workers (Routledge, 1993), Organization and Management in the Embrace of Government (Erlbaum, 2001) and Organizational Behavior: Real Research for Real Managers (Melvin and Leigh, 2006). She currently serves on the editorial board of Human Relations and the Journal of Applied Psychology.

She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, The American Psychological Association and the International Association for Applied Psychology. Her honors include research grants from the National Science Foundation; a Fulbright Fellowship to the International Management Center, Hungary; Scholarly Contribution Awards (1998 from the Academy of Management and 1986 from the American Society for Personnel Administration); several teaching excellence awards; and an invitation to testify on legislation pending before the United States House of Representatives. Professor Pearce has been active in the Western Academy of Management, elected as President in 1995-96, and in the Academy of Management elected as a Representative-at-Large on its Board of Governors 1995-98, was the Program Chair for its 2001 Annual Meeting served as its President in 2002-03. In 2004-05 she was Hansen visiting Professor at the University of Washington Business School and visiting Professor at the Stern School, New York University in 2008. She is a fellow of the Sunningdale Institute (UK) and a member of the Scientific Council for CentEr (The Netherlands) and the European Commission's Advanced Grants Programme. BA 1974, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley; MA 1976, Administrative Sciences, Yale University; PhD 1978, Administrative Sciences, Yale University.

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