Faculty profiles
Margaret Ormiston
B.A (University of California) M.S. PhD (Berkeley, Haas School of Business)
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
- Subject area:
- Organisational Behaviour
Expertise
Issues related to teams including managing diversity, corporate social responsibility, and mergers and acquisitions.
Publications
‘The gleam of the double-edged sword: The benefits of subgroups for organizational ethics’ (ME Ormiston & EM Wong) Psychological Science. (2012). ‘The effects of top management team integrative complexity and decentralized decision making on corporate social performance.’ (EM Wong, ME Ormiston, PE Tetlock, Academy of Management Journal (2011). ‘A face only an investor could love: CEO facial structure predicts firm financial performance.’ (EM Wong, ME Ormiston, MP Haselhuhn, Psychological Science (2011). ‘From approach to inhibition: The influence of power on responses to poor-performers’ (A Ferguson, M E Ormiston, & H Moon), Journal of Applied Psychology (2010)
Research interest
Identity construction in teams, diversity in organizations, motives driving behaviour in teams, and psychological processes within top management teams.
Other activities
Issues related to teams including managing diversity, corporate social responsibility, and mergers and acquisitions.
Formerly
Research Analyst, Centre for Effective Organizations, University of Southern California Research Analyst, Sanli, Pastore, & Hill, Los Angeles, California