Brian McCormick

Associate Professor

Department

Management

Education

• Ph.D., University of Iowa, business administration
• B.A., Luther College, English

Bio

Brian McCormick earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Drawn from his years of experience in coaching and administration, he pursues research questions targeted at the determinants of individual and team performance. His award-winning research appears in publications such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Journal, and Personnel Psychology, and he focuses on leadership, employee individual differences, and team composition as the critical factors that can drive (or impede) success. Beyond his own research, he serves the field as a reviewer. His reviewing work has received awards from the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Academy of Management, and he serves as an editorial review board member at Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology and Human Resource Management. Brian teaches managerial leadership, training, staffing, and internship courses, and NIU MBA students have honored him four times with the college's Golden Apple Award for teaching excellence. Seeking to engage with the community, Brian communicates with media on a variety of leadership topics and consults with companies on leadership, recruiting and selecting high potential employees.

Teaching Areas

• Leadership
• Internship
• Training and staffing

Research Interests

• Leadership
• Team composition
• Individual differences

Selected Publications

• Leaders pressuring teams and teams engaged in deviance: An examination of leader–team extraversion incongruence. Journal of Organizational Behavior, (2024). 45: 877-895.
• Incorporating job demand variability into job demands theory: A meta-analysis. Journal of Management, (2021). 47: 1630-1656.
• Team tenure and team performance: A meta‐analysis and process model. Personnel Psychology, (2020). 73: 151-198.
• Scientific contributions of within-person research in management: Making the juice worth the squeeze. Journal of Management, (2020). 46: 321-350.
• Quality charters or quality members? A control theory perspective on team charters and team performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, (2017). 102: 1462-1652.
• My family made me do it: A cross-domain, self-regulatory perspective on antecedents to abusive supervision. Academy of Management Journal, (2016). 59: 1630-1652.
• Can we get some cooperation around here? The mediating role of group norms on the relationship between team personality and individual helping behaviors. Journal of Applied Psychology, (2014). 99: 988-999.
• A meta-analysis of sex differences in physical ability: Revised estimates and strategies for reducing differences in selection contexts. Journal of Applied Psychology, (2013). 98: 632-641