Kurt T. Dirks
Senior Associate Dean-Programs and Bank of America Professor of Managerial Leadership
Area of Expertise:
Leadership Development, Management Development, Organizational Change and Development
Research Interests:
Organizational behavior, trust in work relationships, feelings of ownership in the workplace, leadership, and teams
Selected Publications:- "Microfoundations of strategic problem formulation", Strategic Management, with M. Baer, J. Nickerson, 2013
- "Understanding the effects of substantive responses on trust following a transgression", Organziational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 87-103, with P. Kim, D. Ferrin, C. Cooper, 2011
- "Repairing relationships within and between organziations: Building a conceptual foundation", Academy of Management Review, 68-84, with R. Lewicki, A. Zaheer, 2009
- "Direct & Indirect effects of third party relationships on interpersonal trust", Journal of Applied Psychology, 870-933, with D. Ferrin, P. Shah, 2006
- "Removing the shadow of suspicion: The effects of apology vs. denial for repairing competence- vs. integrity- based trust violations", Journal of Applied Psychology, 104-118, with P. Kim, D. Ferrin, C. Cooper, 2004
- "Trust in leadership: meta-analytic findings and implications for organizational research", Journal of Applied Psychology, 611-628, with D. Ferrin, 2002
- "The role of trust in organizational settings.", Organization Science, 450-467, with D. Ferrin, 2001
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Academic/Professional Activities:- Member, Academy of Management, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists, and American Psychological Association
- Representative-at-Large, Conflict Management Division, Academy of Management
- Guest Editor, Academy of Management Review
- Editorial Review Board Member, Academy of Management Journal (2009-2012), Journal of Applied Psychology (2008-2012), Organization Science (2003-2012), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2007-2012), Journal of Organizational Behavior (2006-2009)
Awards/Honors:- Olin Award: Research that Transforms Business, Olin School of Business, 2009
- Best Empirical Paper Award, AOM Conflict Management Division, 2005
- MBA Reid Teaching Award 2007 (PMBA), 2010 (MBA), and 2011 (MBA)
- Outstanding Article Award for the Best Paper Published in 2004, International Association for Conflict Management
Personal Interests:
Professor Dirks is married, and has a son and a daughter.
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Prior to joining Olin, Professor Dirks served as an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, and as a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kurt T. Dirks' Curriculum Vitae
Email: dirks@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-5206
PhD 1997, University of Minnesota
MS 1993, Iowa State University
BBA 1990, Iowa State University
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