Michael A. Johnson
Associate Professor
Rucks Department of Management
Contact
michaeljohnson@lsu.edu
225-578-6110
2712 Business Education Complex North
Education
PhD Management, ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Central Florida, 2017
MBA Management, Rider ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, 2012
BBA Music Business, Belmont ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, 2007
Michael Johnson is an Associate Professor of Management and an Ourso Professor in
Management in the Rucks Department of Management at Louisiana State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø. He
earned his Ph.D. at the ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Central Florida.
His research explores the workplace implications of marginalized identities, workplace
inclusion and exclusion, and business ethics issues. His work has examined the unique
workplace consequences of issues like social class, gender, criminal histories, obesity,
and unethical workplace behaviors. His research has been published in top management
journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal
of Business Venturing, Leadership Quarterly, and others.
Additionally, His work has been featured in popular press outlets like USA Today,
Forbes, the New York Post, and other press outlets.
Dr. Johnson has served on the editorial boards of several top management journals,
including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, the Journal of
Management, and Human Relations.
Before entering higher education, Dr. Johnson worked in human resource management
and the music industry.
Loignon, A., Bergeron, D., Johnson, M.A., Woznyj, H., Li, C., Dunn, A., Speights, S., Hector, M. (accepted) Signaling with Babble? Exploring the Effects of Gender and Speaking Time on Leader Emergence. Leadership Quarterly.
Boyd, TL. Johnson, M.A., Birch, A.V. (in press) Expanding the caring capacity: An integrative review of nontraditional caregiving and the workplace caregiving literature. Journal of Management.
Priesemuth, M., Bigelow, B., & Johnson, M. A. (in press). Bad Guys Finish First? A Moral Emotional Perspective of Job Performance Outcomes for Abusive Supervisors. Business & Society, .
Johnson, M. A., Priesemuth, M., & Moreno, F. (2024). Weighing Down My Career? An Exploration of the Mechanisms for Body Fat’s Impact on Long-Term Career Success and the Moderating Role of Employee Sex and Industry. Human Performance, 37(5), 201-223.
Loignon, A., Johnson, M.A., Veestraeten, M., Boyd, T.L. (2024). A Tale of Two Offices: The Socioeconomic Environment's Effect on Job Performance while Working from Home. Group & Organizational Management. 49, 183-214.
Johnson, M.A., Schminke, M., De Cremer, D., (2024). Do these jeans make me feel fat? Exploring subjective fatness, its workplace outcomes, and rethinking the role of subjectivity in the stigmatization process. Personnel Psychology, 77, 789-818.
Johnson, M.A. & Schminke, M., (2024). Proximally Fat? Extending Stigma by Association to Explore Why an Employee May be Impacted by Another Employee's Obesity. Group & Organization Management.
Loignon, A., Johnson, M.A., Veestraeten, M. (2024). A window into your status: Environment-based social class's effect on virtual leadership. Leadership Quarterly. 35, 101735.
Letwin, C., Ciuchta, M., Johnson, M.A., Stevenson, R., Ford, C. (2024). Passion and attractiveness on display: an examination of gender bias in crowdfunding. Small Business Economics. 63, 165-192.
Johnson, M., Priesemuth, M., and Bigelow, B. (2021). Making sense of 'good' and 'bad': A deonance and fairness approach to abusive supervision and prosocial impact. Business Ethics Quarterly, 31(3), 386-420.
Johnson, M. and Leo, C. (2020). The Inefficacy of LinkedIn? A Latent Change Model and Experimental Test of Using LinkedIn for Job Search.. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(11), 1262-1280.
Johnson, M. and Schminke, M. (2020). Thinking big: An integrative conceptual review of the workplace consequences of obesity and a theoretical extension of the processes that create them. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(7), 671-692.
Hacker, J. V, Johnson, M., Saunders, C., and Thayer, A. L (2019). Trust in virtual teams: A multidisciplinary review and integration. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 23.
Johnson, M., Stevenson, R., and Letwin, C. (2018). A woman's place is in the startup: Exploring stereotype content and investor bias in crowdfunding.. Journal of Business Venturing, 33(6), 813-831.
Folger, R., Johnson, M., and Letwin, C. (2014). Evolving concepts of evolution: The case of shame and guilt. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8, 659-671.
Teaching Interests: Human Resource Management, Business Ethics, Organizational Behavior
Research Interests: Obesity, Justice & Ethics
Human Relations, Editorial Review Board Member (August, 2020 - December, 2021)
Personnel Psychology, Editorial Review Board Member (June 8, 2021)
Journal of Management, Editorial Review Board Member (September, 2021)
Journal of Applied Psychology, Editorial Review Board Member (September, 2021)
- Olinde Professorship in Management, E.J. Ourso College of Business
- Outstanding Untenured Professor Teaching Award, E.J. Ourso College of Business
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Students, E. J. Ourso College of Business
Boyd, T. L., Johnson, M., and Loignon, A. (2020, August). The power to push through: Investigating the connection between disability association and psychological resilience on leader effectiveness. Presented at Academy of Management Conference sponsored by Academy of Management, Vancouver, CA.
Johnson, M., Schminke, M., and Rice, D. (2015). Justice and organizational structure: A review In R. Cropanzano and M. Ambrose (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Justice. New York: Oxford ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø Pres.