University of Iowa Distinguished Chair, Management and Entrepreneurship

Faculty Director Social Impact Community, Management and Entrepreneurship

Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship

PhD in Business Administration, University of Iowa

MA in Decision Sciences, Saint Louis University

BS in Accounting, Culver-Stockton College

leadership

motivation

interpersonal relationships

identity

employee well-being

Award for Faculty Excellence - Iowa Regents, 2022

Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award - Tippie College of Business, 2021

Senior Faculty Research Award - Tippie College of Business, 2021

Fellow - American Psychological Association, 2018

Fellow - Association of Psychological Science, 2018

Fellow - Society for Organizational and Industrial Psychology (SIOP), 2018

Distinguished Chair Award - University of Iowa, 2024

Outstanding Service Contribution by a Faculty Member - Tippie College of Business, 2017

Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research - Purdue University Center for Families, 2017

Best Aricle Award - Personnel Psychology, 2016

Nielsen, J. D. & Colbert, A. (2022). It’s not always sunny in relationally rich jobs: The influence of negative beneficiary contact. Academy of Management Journal. 65 pp. 1984-1922.

Judge, T. A., Parker, S., Colbert, A., Heller, D., & Ilies, R. (2001). Job satisfaction: A cross-cultural review In International handbook of industrial and organizational psychology. (Vols. 2) pp. 25-52. N. Anderson, D. S. Ones, H. K. Sinangil, & C. Viswesvaran (Eds.) Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.

Colbert, A., Levary, R. R., & Shaner, M. C. (2000). Determining the relative efficiency of MBA programs using DEA. Journal of Operational Research. 125 (3) pp. 656-669.

Colbert, A. & Kwon, I. G. (2000). Factors related to the organizational commitment of college and university auditors. Journal of Managerial Issues. 12 (4) pp. 484-501.

Nielsen, J. & Colbert, A. (2024). Stacking bricks or building a cathedral? How affective shifts shape perceptions of daily task significance. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 155.

Bloom, M., Colbert, A., & Nielsen, J. (2021). Stories of calling: How called professionals construct narrative identities. Administrative Science Quarterly. 66 pp. 298-338.

Zhang, X., Liao, H., Li, N., & Colbert, A. (2020). Playing It Safe for My Family: Exploring the Dual Effects of Family Motivation on Employee Productivity and Creativity. Academy of Management Journal. 63 pp. 1923-1950.

McCormick, B., Guay, R., Colbert, A., & Stewart, G. (2019). Proactive Personality and Proactive Behavior: Perspectives on Person-Situation Interactions. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. 92 (1) pp. 30-51.

Rynes, S., Colbert, A., & O'Boyle, E. (2018). When the 'Best Available Evidence' Doesn't Win: How Doubts about Science and Scientists Threaten the Future of Evidence-Based Management. Journal of Management. 44 (8) pp. 2995-3010.

Ramchandran, K., Colbert, A., Brown, K. G., Denburg, N., & Tranel, D. (2016). Exploring the neuropsychological antecedents of transformational leadership: The role of executive function. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 2 pp. 325-343.

Colbert, A. (Principal Investigator), Principal Investigator(s): Vasi, I., Barnhardt, C., & Williams, M. Organizational Diversity Initiatives. University of Iowa. Funded. January 2022 - May 2023.

Colbert, A. (Co-Investigator), Principal Investigator(s): Livingston, B. Remote Supervision. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Funded. October 2021 - September 2026.

Leonard A. Hadley Chair in Leadership, Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Iowa, 2007 - 2024