Dr Malcolm Patterson
Management School
Senior Lecturer Organisational Psychology
+44 114 222 3244
Full contact details
Management School
Room C053
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
- Profile
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Areas of Expertise:
- Organisational culture and climate
- Cross-cultural behaviour
- Human resource management and performance
- Relationships between work conditions (e.g., work characteristics, events and contexts), employee affect (psychological well-being, moods and emotions) and behaviour (e.g. innovative work behaviour, silence and voice at work, pro- and ant-social behaviour)
- Work and depression
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Health care organisation and specifically the care of older people in the NHS
- Research interests
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I am an experienced researcher conducting research into the impact of organizational practices and psycho-social factors on organisational performance and employee behaviour and well-being.
This research stream has grown from my work at the Social and Applied Psychology Unit on a large scale, longitudinal study of organizational effectiveness funded by the ESRC, via the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics.
This study was at the forefront of research in the UK in identifying and demonstrating the importance of human resource management to organizational performance.
As a consequence of the CEP research, I have been involved in a number of projects that have developed the evidence base on the nature of the relationship between employee development and organizational effectiveness.
Specific examples include ongoing investigations into the relationship between individual, team, and organizational learning practices and performance; exploring the relative effects of modern management practices and HR on time series performance data; and examining the relationship between HR and health outcomes in the health sector.
This work has been published in leading international journals (e.g., Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Personnel Psychology), and presented at major international academic conferences (e.g., Academy of Management Meeting, Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology Meeting).
I have also taken an extremely active role in disseminating research findings to both practitioners and policy makers (e.g., DTI, CIPD, Industrial Society).
Many of these research topics, which have been explored predominantly in the private sector, are now underpinning significant policy initiatives in the Health Sector.
More recently, my research interests have focused on this sector where there is the opportunity to study the impact of such major policy initiatives on patient care, staff well-being and organisational effectiveness.
I have led a number of NHS funded research projects in the areas of culture change and quality of care for older people; human resource management and performance; and standardised care practices and staff behaviour and well-being. and contribute to a number of others across the university.
I am a member of the NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for South Yorkshire, specialising in the theme of ‘translating knowledge into action.
I am also engaged in a range of other research projects including investigating the relationship between work and depression, and exploring cultural explanations for cheating behaviour in professional footballers.
I am a member of the Journal of Management Editorial Board.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- A valence and arousal circumplex examination of affect and creativity at work. Applied Psychology, 74(1).
- How Narcissistic Rivalry Shapes Crossover Effects of Work-Induced Ego Depletion. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1).
- An Examination of the Relationship between Idea Generation versus Idea Implementation and Subsequent Self-Efficacy and Positive Affect. Journal of Business and Psychology, 1-9.
- Whom to ask for feedback: insights for resource mobilization from social entrepreneurship.. Business and Society. View this article in WRRO
- Navigating interpersonal feedback seeking in social venturing: The roles of psychological distance and sensemaking. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(4). View this article in WRRO
- How and for Whom Time Control Matter for Innovation? The Role of Positive Affect and Problem‐Solving Demands. Applied Psychology, 69(1), 93-119.
- Becoming a leader: catalysts and barriers to leader identity construction. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. View this article in WRRO
- Fitting in or standing out? How optimal distinctiveness affects workplace behaviours. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019(1), 12899-12899.
- Work engagement interventions can be effective: a systematic review. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 28(3), 348-372. View this article in WRRO
- Building work engagement: A systematic review and meta‐analysis investigating the effectiveness of work engagement interventions. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38(6), 792-812. View this article in WRRO
- Building and sustaining work engagement – a participatory action intervention to increase work engagement in nursing staff. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26(5), 634-649. View this article in WRRO
- The Composition and Dynamics of Credibility: What Entrepreneurs Value in Feedback Sources. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017(1), 15016-15016.
- Creativity at work as a joint function between openness to experience, need for cognition and organizational fairness. Learning and Individual Differences, 51, 409-416.
- Organisations driving positive social change: A review and an integrative framework of change processes. Journal of Management, 42(5), 1250-1281. View this article in WRRO
- Negative core affect and employee silence: How differences in activation, cognitive rumination, and problem-solving demands matter. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(6), 1887-1898. View this article in WRRO
- Organizations Driving Positive Social Change: A Review of Mechanisms and an Integrative Framework. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015(1), 14391-14391.
- To Ask or not to Ask? Interpersonal Feedback Seeking Among Entrepreneurs. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015(1), 13221-13221.
- Teamwork and organizational innovation: The moderating role of the HRM context. Creativity and Innovation Management, 24(2), 261-277. View this article in WRRO
- The role of weekly high-activated positive mood, context, and personality in innovative work behavior: A multilevel and interactional model. Journal of Organizational Behavior.
- Why do patients develop severe pressure ulcers? A retrospective case study. BMJ Open, 4(1).
- Measuring affect at work based on the valence and arousal circumplex model. The Spanish journal of psychology, 17, E50.
- A pragmatic quasi-experimental multi-site community intervention trial evaluating the impact of Emergency Care Practitioners in different UK health settings on patient pathways (NEECaP Trial).. Emerg Med J, 29(1), 47-53. View this article in WRRO
- Systematic review of the links between human resource management practices and performance.. Health Technol Assess, 14(51), 1-iv.
- How do nurses, midwives and health visitors contribute to protocol-based care? A synthesis of the UK literature.. Int J Nurs Stud, 47(6), 770-780.
- Developing therapeutic rapport: A training validation study. Quality in Primary Care, 17(2), 99-106.
- The impact of human resource and operational management practices on company productivity: A longitudinal study. Personnel Psychology, 61(3), 467-501. View this article in WRRO
- Learning to perform? A comparison of learning practices and organizational performance in profit- and non-profit-making sectors in the UK. International Journal of Training and Development, 11(4), 265-281.
- A conceptual framework for implementation fidelity.. Implement Sci, 2, 40. View this article in WRRO
- When promoting positive feelings pays: Aggregate job satisfaction, work design features, and innovation in manufacturing organizations. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, 15(4), 404-430.
- What is protocol-based care? A concept analysis.. J Nurs Manag, 14(7), 544-552.
- Use of a safety climate questionnaire in UK health care: factor structure, reliability and usability.. Qual Saf Health Care, 15(5), 347-353. View this article in WRRO
- HRM as a predictor of innovation. Human Resource Management Journal, 16(1), 3-27.
- Do organizational climate and competitive strategy moderate the relationship between human resource management and productivity?. J MANAGE, 31(4), 492-512.
- Managing People to Promote Innovation. Creativity and Innovation Management, 14(2), 118-128.
- Validating the organizational climate measure: links to managerial practices, productivity and innovation. J ORGAN BEHAV, 26(4), 379-408.
- Sociotechnical study of e-Business: Grappling with an octopus. Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, 3(1), 53-71.
- Integrated manufacturing, empowerment, and company performance. J ORGAN BEHAV, 25(5), 641-665.
- From a distance. People Management, 39-40.
- On the validity of subjective measures of company performance. Personnel Psychology, 57(1), 95-118.
- Organizational climate and company productivity: The role of employee affect and employee level. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 77(2), 193-216.
- ON THE VALIDITY OF REPORTED COMPANY FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE.. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2003(1), E1-E6.
- The link between the management of employees and patient mortality in acute hospitals. INT J HUM RESOUR MAN, 13(8), 1299-1310.
- Learning in manufacturing organizations: what factors predict effectiveness?. Human Resource Development International, 5(1), 55-72.
- Job satisfaction and teamwork: the role of supervisor support. J ORGAN BEHAV, 22(5), 537-550.
- Does doing badly encourage management innovation?. OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 63(1), 5-28.
- The Workforce and Productivity People Management is the Key to Closing the Productivity Gap. New Economy, 6(1), 22-27.
- Collective Climates: A Test of Their Sociopsychological Significance. Academy of Management Journal, 39(6), 1675-1691.
- Collective climates: A test of their sociopsychological significance. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 39(6), 1675-1691.
- Innovation Culture and Organizational Effectiveness. International Journal of Psychology, 27(3-4), 480-480.
- The relationship between managerial practices, culture and organisational-effectiveness. International Journal of Psychology, 27(3-4), 480-480.
- Attachment and self-regulation in the workplace—a theoretical integration. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1387548.
- Beyond the lone hero: How interpersonal feedback seeking helps entrepreneurs to engage with their social environment. Applied Psychology.
- Measurement of the Psychosocial Work Environment in Spanish: Validation of the Psychosocial Factors Questionnaire 75 (PSF-Q75) to Capture Demands and Resources at Different Levels of Analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 11.
- Pressure UlceR Programme Of reSEarch (PURPOSE): using mixed methods (systematic reviews, prospective cohort, case study, consensus and psychometrics) to identify patient and organisational risk, develop a risk assessment tool and patient-reported outcome Quality of Life and Health Utility measures. Programme Grants for Applied Research, 3(6), 1-630.
- Human resource management practices and organizational injury rates. Journal of Safety Research.
Chapters
- Temporary Art Spaces: A Conceptual Framework, Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research (pp. 23-34). Emerald Publishing Limited
- Affect and creativity in organizations: Taking stock and moving forward, Handbook of Organizational Creativity (pp. 147-160). Elsevier
- Group Affect and Creativity In Ivcevic Z, Hoffmann J & Kaufman J (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Emotion
- Affect States and Creativity In Ivcevic Z, Hoffmann J & Kaufman J (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Emotion (pp. 87-108).
- Affect and Proactivity in Teams, EMOTION AND PROACTIVITY AT WORK (pp. 215-236).
- Contributors, Individual Creativity in the Workplace (pp. xiii-xiv). Elsevier
- Affect and Creativity, Individual Creativity in the Workplace (pp. 245-265). Elsevier
- Organizational Psychology In Hewstone M, Fincham FD & Foster J (Ed.), Psychology (pp. 428-451). Oxford: Blackwell.
Conference proceedings papers
- Attachment styles and loneliness: The role of leader-follower relationship quality. 81th Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Virtual.
- A Participatory Action Intervention to Increase Work Engagement in Nursing Staff. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2017(1) (pp 10633-10633)
- Leadership Identity Construction Through Reciprocal Identity Claims and Grants. Symposium Program
- To Ask or not to Ask? How Entrepreneurs Manage the Feedback-seeking Paradox. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2016(1) (pp 12216-12216)
- Co-creating and maintaining wellbeing through feedback seeking: The topics of feedback requests. ISIRC 2016, Glasgow, Abstract Book
- Negative moods and silence: Rumination and complexity as boundary conditions. Negative moods and silence: Rumination and complexity as boundary conditions
- Do transformational leaders influence all the stages of innovation? Evidence for the discrete impact. Do transformational leaders influence all the stages of innovation? Evidence for the discrete impact
- The dual-model of affect and innovative work behaviour: How feelings interplay with job characteristics in generating, promoting and implementing novel ideas. The dual-model of affect and innovative work behaviour: How feelings interplay with job characteristics in generating, promoting and implementing novel ideas
- Environmental features, personal judgements, values and well-being. Environmental features, personal judgements, values and well-being
- Clinical Guidelines: Challenging midwives autonomy and womens choices?. Clinical Guidelines: Challenging midwives autonomy and womens choices?
- Clinical Guidelines: Challenging midwives autonomy and womens choices?. Clinical Guidelines: Challenging midwives autonomy and womens choices?
- Protocol based care: autonomy or straightjacket. Protocol based care: autonomy or straightjacket
- Daily Investigation of Leaders’ Sleeping Hours, Abusive Supervisory Behaviours and Well-being: The Moderating Effect of Leader Narcissism.. 6th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium, Rhodes, Greece.
- Being treated well at work always good? Investigation of spillover effects of leader-member exchange on employees’ daily emotional well-being.. Mini-Conference on Relational Leadership, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK.
Reports
- Systematic Review: Business-Driven Social Change
- Multi-centre Community Intervention Trial to Evaluate the Clinical and Cost Effectiveness of Emergency Care Practitioners
Theses / Dissertations
- The role of emotional language and identity in accounts of organisational change.
Presentations
- The power of momentary feelings and their dispositional correlates over innovative work behaviour.
- Innovative work behaviour engagement: Testing a multilevel and interactional model.
- Cheating In Association Football: Team culture, Player Behaviour, Or Just A Question Of Circumstance?.
- Cheating In Association Football: Team culture, Player Behaviour, Or Just A Question Of Circumstance?.
- Assessing the usefulness of a safety climate questionnaire in UK healthcare. Meeting diversity in ergonomics.
- The emergence of Creativity Retreat Centres: An evaluation of a new approach for enhancing innovation.
- Enhancing Innovation: New Times Demand New Ways of Thinking.
- Who learns wins? Investigating the relationship between organizational learning practices, innovation and financial performance.
- Individual, team and organisational learning practices and organisational performance.
- A valence and arousal circumplex examination of affect and creativity at work. Applied Psychology, 74(1).
- Research group
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The Institute of Work Psychology (IWP)
Affiliated member of Organization Studies (OS)
- Teaching activities
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I teach on the MSc in Occupational Psychology, Sheffield MBA and undergraduate psychology courses.
My primary responsibility is for the Research Methods module on the MSC in Occupational Psychology and for the Occupational Psychology module delivered to Psychology undergraduates.
My approach is theory led and critical in approach, leading on to practical implications and uses.
I am able to draw on many examples from my own research and organizational experience to enhance teaching and casework.
Where possible I am keen to employ multiple levels of analysis, including, for example, individual, organizational and policy concepts.
- PhD Supervision
I am currently supervising PhD students in the following areas:
- destructive leadership
- emotions, moods and innovative work behaviour
- knowledge sharing
- organisational interventions to enhance employee engagement
- start-up journeys of entrepreneurs
- participative action research interventions to improve quality of patient care
I would welcome applications and inquiries in these areas and related areas corresponding to my areas of expertise listed above.
I currently supervise:
I have previously supervised:
Name Thesis title Year of completion Xiaoyu Gan Exploring the relationship between narcissistic leadership, climate of authenticity, and emotional labour: The moderating effect of Guanxi. 2024 Are you interested in applying for a PhD?
