Dan Cable

Professor of Organisational Behaviour

BA (The Pennsylvania State University) MS PhD (Cornell)

Dan Cable is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Dan’s research and teaching focus on organizational culture, activating positive emotions, and getting employees into commitment instead of just compliance. Dan is Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Talent Award, and The Academy of Management has twice honored Dan with “Best article” awards, and The Academy of Management Perspectives ranked Dan in the “Top 25 most influential management scholars.”

Dan’s newest book is Exceptional, published September 2020. Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do appeared in 2018, and his first book was Change to Strange. He also has edited two books and published more than 50 articles in top scientific journals. His most recent research was published in the Academy of Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly. This research recently has been featured in the Economist, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, New York Times, Sloan Management Review, and Business Week.

Dan’s recent clients include Amazon, BMW, Capital One, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, DHL, EY, Estee Lauder, Facebook, HSBC, Ikea, MetLife, NBC Universal, O2, Porsche Consulting, Prudential, PwC, Rabobank, Randstad, Roche, Rolls Royce, Siemens, and Twitter.

Research Awards

2012 Ranked 22nd most influential management scholar who received degree after 1991 (Scholarly Impact Revisited, Academy of Management Perspectives).
2010 “Best Competitive Paper Award” and “McKinsey’s Best Practical Implications Award” of the 2010 Academy of Management Annual Meetings
2006 Won “best paper” of the Academy of Management Annual Meetings
2006 Weatherspoon Distinguished Researcher Award
2003 MBA Master Teacher award
2003 UNC Research all-star award
2003 UNC Teaching all-star award, executive education
2001 Ernest J. McCormick Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
2000 Invited to join Personnel and Human Resources Research Group
2000 Selected by Ones & Viswesvaran’s as “most published authors during the 1990s” The Industrial Psychologist, April.
1999 Weatherspoon BSBA Best Teacher Award
1998 Sage Award for Best Paper, Research Methods Division, Academy of Management
1998 Belk Research Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1996 Best Dissertation Award, Human Resources Division, Academy of Management
1996 S. Rains Wallace Best Dissertation Award, Society of Industrial/Organizational Psychology
1995 Best Student Paper, Human Resources Division, Academy of Management
1994 Martin Catherwood Award for outstanding publication in human resource management
1990 Hinman Industrial and Organizational Psychology Scholarship for undergraduate research

Cultural fit
Talent management
The organizational entry process
Employee engagement
Career success
Authenticity and self verification

2022

Consequences of perceiving organization members as a unified entity: Stronger attraction, but greater blame for member transgressions

Effron D; Kakkar H; Cable D M

Journal of Applied Psychology 2022 Vol 107:11 p 1951-1972

2021

Seeing oneself as a valued contributor: social worth affirmation improves team information sharing

Lee Cunningham J; Gino F; Cable D; Staats B

Academy of Management Journal 2021 Vol 64:6 p 1816-1841

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

A view from Davos: putting purpose to work

Cable D

Huffington Post 2015

The powerful way onboarding can encourage authenticity

Cable D M; Gino F; Staats B

Harvard Business Review Digital Articles 2015

When accomplishments come back to haunt you: The negative effect of competence signals on women’s performance evaluations

Inesi M E; Cable D

Personnel Psychology 2015 Vol 68:3 p 615-657

Winning Through Cheating or Creativity: How Emotions Influence Behavioral Choice in Competition

Steinhage A L; Cable D; Wardley D P

Academy of Management Perspectives 2015 Vol 2015:1

2014

2013

Breaking them in or eliciting their best? Reframing socialization around newcomers' authentic self-expression

Cable D; Gino F; Staats B

Administrative Science Quarterly 2013 March Vol 58:1 p 1-36

Reinventing employee onboarding

Cable D M; Gino F; Staats B R

MIT Sloan Management Review 2013 Vol 54:3 p 23-28

2012

2011

2010

How passive ''face time'' affects perceptions of employees: Evidence of spontaneous trait inference

Elsbach K; Cable D M

Human Relations 2010 June Vol 63:6 p 735-760

2009

Emotional competence and work performance: The mediating effect of proactivity and the moderating effect of job autonomy

Kim T Y; Cable D M; Kim S P; Wang J

Journal of Organizational Behavior 2009 October Vol 30:7 p 983-1000

The value of value congruence

Edwards J R; Cable D M

Journal of Applied Psychology 2009 May Vol 94:3 p 654-677

2008

2007

What causes a management article to be cited—article, author, or journal?

Judge T. A; Colbert A; Cable D M; Rynes S

Academy of Management Journal 2007 Vol 50:3 p 491-506

2006

2005

Socialization tactics, employee proactivity, and person-organization fit

Kim T Y; Cable D; Kim S P

Journal of Applied Psychology 2005 Vol 90:2 p 232-241

2004

Complementary and supplementary fit: theoretical and empirical integration

Cable D M; Jeffrey R

Journal of Applied Psychology 2004 Vol 89:5 p 822-834

The effect of physical height on workplace success and income

Judge T A; Cable D M

Journal of Applied Psychology 2004 Vol 89:3 p 428-441

2003

2002

Network ties, reputation, and the financing of new ventures. Management Science

Shane S; Cable D

Management Science 2002 Vol 48 p 364-381

The Construct, Convergent, and Discriminant Validity of Subjective Fit Perceptions

Cable D M; DeRue S

Journal of Applied Psychology 2002 Vol 87 p 875-884

2001

Are you attracted? Do you intend to pursue? A recruiting policy-capturing study

Aiman-Smith L; Bauer T; Cable D M

Journal of Business and Psychology 2001 Vol 16 p 219-237

Consideration of the incomplete block design for policycapturing research

Graham M; Cable D M

Organizational Research Methods 2001 Vol 4 p 24-45

Cutting off your nose to spite your face: effects of justice on students’ decisions to damage the reputational rankings of their alma maters

Cable D M; Parsons C

Journal of Applied Social Psychology 2001 Vol 31 p 59-72

Socialization tactics and person-organization fit

Cable D M; Parsons C

Personnel Psychology 2001 Vol 54 p 1-22

2000

1999

Assessment of applicant work values through interviews: The impact of focus and functional relevance

Parsons C K; Cable D M; Wilkerson J M

Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 1999 Vol 72 p 561-566

Tournament vs. sponsored mobility determinants of job search success

Cable D M; Murray B

Academy of Management Journal 1999 Vol 42 p 439-449

1998

Looked-over or overlooked? The effect of interviewers’ prescreening decisions on post-interview evaluations

Cable D M; Gilovich T

Journal of Applied Psychology 1998 Vol 83 p 501-508

1997

A prisoner’s dilemma approach to entrepreneur-venture capitalist relationships

Cable D M; Shane S

Academy of Management Review 1997 Vol 22 p 142-176

Applicant personality, organizational culture, and job choice decisions

Judge T A; Cable D M

Personnel Psychology 1997 Vol 50 p 359-394

1996

Person-organization fit, job choice decisions, and organizational entry

Cable D; Judge T A

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 1996 Vol 67 p 294-311

1995

An empirical investigation of the predictors of executive career success

Judge T A; Cable D M; Boudreau J W; Bretz R D Jr

Personnel Psychology 1995 Vol 48 p 485-519

Group incentives and pay satisfaction: Understanding the relationship through an identity theory perspective

Welbourne T; Cable D

Human Relations 1995 Vol 48 p 711-726

1994

Pay preferences and job search decisions: A personorganization fit perspective

Cable D M; Judge T A

Personnel Psychology 1994 Vol 47 p 317-348

2020

Don't be so emotional: how social media communication affects potential applicants' engagement

Moser K J; Tumasjan A; Cable Dan

Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Systems

2018

Alive at work: the neuroscience of helping your people love what they do

Cable D M

Harvard Business School Press, 2018

2013

Oxford handbook of recruitment

Yu K Y T; Cable D

New York: Oxford University Press

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Poll after poll has confirmed that an astonishing number of workers are disengaged from their work. But more than ever before, organizations need employee engagement and creativity to win. Why is this happening? And how can we fix the problem?
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Dan Cable

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