Faculty Profile

Primary Research Areas: 

• Issues impacting work team effectiveness including
  Development of managerial talent and human capital through the use of work experiences and implications for organizations and career development

Dr. Paul Tesluk is Associate Professor of Management & Organization and Associate Director of the Center for Human Capital, Innovation, and Technology at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He previously taught at Tulane University. Tesluk’s current research projects include studying the factors influencing the effectiveness of virtual teams, the adoption of new technology in work teams, leadership and executive development, the relationships between human resource management practices, employee attitudes, and firm performance, and the implementation of new innovations in organizations. Tesluk’s work has been published in many journals including Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Applied Psychology; he is on the editorial boards for the latter two journals. Tesluk has received awards for his research on team effectiveness and work experience and development from the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. He has worked with a number of private and public sector organizations in both research and consulting capacities and his research has been supported by agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes for Health.

Selected Publications

Kirkman, B.L., Rosen, B., Gibson, C.B., and Tesluk, P., & McPherson, S. (2002). Five challenges to virtual team success: Lessons from Sabre, Inc. Academy of Management Executive, 16(3), 67-79.

Takeuchi, R., Yun, S., Tesluk, P.E. (2002). An examination of crossover and spillover effects of spouse’s and expatriate’s cross-cultural adjustment on expatriate outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 655-666.

Kirkman, B.L., Tesluk, P.E., & Rosen, B. (2001). Alternative methods of assessing team-level variables: comparing the predictive power of aggregation and consensus methods. Personnel Psychology, 54, 645-667.

Tesluk, P. E., & Mathieu, J. E. (1999). "Overcoming road blocks to effectiveness: Incorporating management of performance barriers into models of work group effectiveness.", Journal of Applied Psychology, 84, 200-217

Tesluk, P. E., & Jacobs, R. J. (1998). "Toward an integrated model of work experience.", Personnel Psychology, 51, 321-355.

Honors and Awards

Olian Summer Research Award, Robert H. Smith School of Business (2003)

William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award – presented by the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology for the best publication in the field appearing during the past full year (1998)

S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Research Award – presented by the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology to the author of the best dissertation in the field

Editorial Board of Journal of Applied Psychology (2002-present)

Editorial Board of Personnel Psychology (2001 – present)

Consulting Work

• Organizational transitions to high-involvement work practices
• Work team design and performance
• Organizational climate and performance
• Performance management and reward system design