Amy L. Kristof-Brown
Henry B. Tippie Dean and Professor
Current Positions
- Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship
- Henry B. Tippie Dean, Dean's Office
Education
- PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, University of Maryland
- BS in Psychology, University of Richmond
Research Interests
- Person-Environment Fit; Selection; Organizational Culture; Misfit
Selected Awards & Honors
- Editor Commendation - Journal of Business & Psychology, 2017
- Iowa MBA Instructor of the Year - Core, 2015
- Highly Commended Paper - Literati Network Awards for Excellence, 2013
- Fellow - American Psychological Association, 2011
- Fellow - Society for Organizational and Industrial Psychology (SIOP), 2011
- Iowa MBA Instructor of the Year - Elective, 2010
- Allen Nash Memorial Distinguished Ph.D. Alumni Award - University of Maryland, 2009
- Iowa MBA Instructor of the Year - Elective, 2008
- Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Management - Tippie College of Business, 2008
- Iowa MBA Instructor of the Year - Elective, 2007
Professional Memberships
- Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research, 2017
- American Psychological Society, 2015
- Society for Human Resource Management, 2014
- Academy of Management, 1993
- American Psychological Association, 1993
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 1993
Selected Publications
- Zhang, Q., Li, C., Goering, D., & Kristof-Brown, A. (In Press). (2023). Fitting in a Workgroup in Unique Ways: A Latent Profile Analysis of Perceived Person-Group Fit Characteristics. Journal of Applied Psychology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001162.
- Kristof-Brown, A., Schneider, B., & Su, R. (2023). Person-Organization Fit Theory and Research: Conundrums, Conclusions, and Calls to Action. Personnel Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/peps.12581.
- Li, C., Kristof-Brown, A., & Nielsen, J. (2019). Fitting in a group: Theoretical development and validation of the Multidimensional New Perceived Person-Group Fit Scale. Personnel Psychology. 72 (1) pp. 139-171. DOI: 10.1111/peps.12295.
- Follmer, E., Talbot, D., Kristof-Brown, A., Astrove, S. L., & Billsberry, J. (2018). Resolution, relief, and resignation: A qualitative study of responses to misfit at work. Academy of Management Journal. 61 (2) pp. 440-465. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2014.0566.
- Kristof-Brown, A. L. & Li, C. S. (2017). Person-Environment Fit In Oxford Bibliographies in Management Science. Griffin, R. (Eds.) United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199846740-0117.
- Downs, P., Kristof-Brown, A. L., Darnold, T., & Judge, T. A. (2017). Motivational mechanisms of self-concordance theory: Goal-specific efficacy and person-organization fit. Journal of Business and Psychology. 32 (2) pp. 197-215. DOI: 10.1007/s10869-016-9444-y.
- Kristof-Brown, A. L., Li, C. S., & Schneider, B. (2016). Fitting In and Doing Good: A Review of Person-Environment Fit and OCB Research In The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Podsakoff, MacKenzie & Podsakoff (Eds.) Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219000.013.26.
- Seong, J., Kristof-Brown, A. L., Park, W., Hong, D., & Shin, Y. (2015). Person-Group fit: Diversity antecedents, proximal outcomes and performance at the group level. Journal of Management. 41 (4) pp. 1184-1213. DOI: 10.1177/0149206312453738.
- Kristof-Brown, A. L., Reeves, C., & Follmer, E. (2014). Organizational Fit and Recruitment In The Oxford Handbook of Recruitment. pp. 437-453. Cable, D. & Yu, T. (Eds.) Oxford University Press.
- Kristof-Brown, A. L. & Billsberry, J. (2013). Organizational Fit: Key Issues and New Directions Wiley & Sons.
Selected Presentations
- "Change, Buffer, Resign or Resist: A Qualitative Study of Efforts Involved in Fitting In," Guest/Invited Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, August 2016.
- "Fitting in with Others: Development of a New Perceived Person-Group Fit Scale," Guest/Invited Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, August 2016.
- "A policy-capturing approach to unpack recruiters' consideration of multiple fit dimensions," Guest/Invited Speaker at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2014.
- "Working to Fit In: A Qualitative Study of Experiences Misfit," Guest/Invited Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, August 2013.
- "Having it All: What It Means for Women in Academics," Panelist at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, August 2013.
- "Spillover effects of person-environment fit on organizational citizenship behaviors," Guest/Invited Speaker at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, April 2013.
- "Testing the homology of person-group fit: A multilevel analysis of supplementary and complementary fit," Guest/Invited Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, August 2011.
- "Person-Group Fit: Relationships with Diversity, Emergent States and Group Performance," Guest/Invited Speaker at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2011.
- "Polynomial regression analysis with response surface methodology in organizational science," Panelist at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 2024. (With Tsai, C.-Y., Yao, Y., Cheong, M., Su, R., Lee, Y.-T., Oh, C., Moon, J., Wang, S.-B., Edwards J. R., Kristof-Brown, A. L., Lambert, L. S.)
- "Misfit managed: Navigating, preventing and even benefitting from misfit at work," Discussant at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 2024. (With Kristof-Brown, A.)
Editorial & Review Activities
- Associate Editor, Journal of Business and Psychology, January 2016 - January 2020.
- Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2005 - January 2008.
- Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Learning & Education, January 2014 - January 2018.
- Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Discoveries, September 2013 - January 2020.
- Editorial Board Member, Personnel Psychology, July 2010 - January 2020.
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2008 - January 2017.
- Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Journal, January 2004 - January 2013.
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2003 - January 2004.
- Editorial Board Member, Personnel Psychology, January 2003 - January 2006.