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Catherine is an associate professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Her research focuses on social comparison, leadership, emotions, job stress, interpersonal relationships, and team processes in organizations. She has published articles in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and so on.
Catherine's research theme revolves around understanding social exchange relationships among employees and between leaders and members. As major part of this theme, she is interested in understanding the impact of positive and negative leadership styles on employees through multiple theoretical lenses.
Her second research area relates to leader-member exchanges and member-member exchanges with particular focus on social comparison.
The third research stream is in the area of employees’ well-being. This research broadly focuses on social exchange relationships with an emphasis on job stress (e.g., emotional exhaustion/ego depletion) and safety.
I am currently accepting MSc or PhD students, with a focus in Organizational Behavior.
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Tai, K., Lin, K. J., Lam, C., & Liu, W. (in press). Biting the hand that feeds: A status-based model of when and why receiving help motivates social undermining. Journal of Applied Psychology.
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Tang, Y., Lam, C. K., Ouyang K., Huang, X., & Tse, H. (2021). Comparisons draw us close: The influence of leader-member exchange dyadic comparison on coworker exchange. Personnel Psychology.
- Deng, H., Lam, C. K., Guan, Y., & Wang, M. (2020). My fault or yours? Leaders’ dual reactions to abusive supervision via rumination depend on their independent self-construal. Personnel Psychology.
- Pan, J., Zheng, X., Xu, H., Li, J., & Lam, C K. (2021). What if my coworker builds a better LMX? The roles of envy and coworker pride for the relationships of LMX social comparison with learning and undermining. Journal of Organizational Behavior.
- Lam, C. K., Walter, F. & Lawrence, S. (2021). Emotion suppression and perceptions of interpersonal citizenship behavior: Faking in good faith or bad faith? Journal of Organizational Behavior. 42(3), 365-367.
- To, M., Lam, C. K., Janssen O., & Lin, X. (2021). Anger display and integrative beahvior among work dyads in teams: A regulatory fit approach. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(4), 464-482.
- Briker, R., Hohmann, S., Walter, F., & Lam, C. K., Zhang, Y. (2021). Formal supervisors' role in stimulating team members' informal leader emergence: Supervisor and member status as critical moderators. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(7), 913-932.
- Deng, H., Leung, K., Lam, C. K., & Huang, X. (2019). Slacking off in comfort: A dual-pathway model for psychological safety climate. Journal of Management, 45(3), 1114-1144.
- Tse, H., Lam, C. K., & Gu, J., Lin, X. (2018). Examining the Interpersonal Consequences of Leader-Member Exchange comparison: The role of procedural justice climate. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(8), 922-940.
- Lam, C. K., Walter, F., & Huang X. (2017). Supervisors’ emotional exhaustion and abusive supervision: The moderating roles of perceived subordinate performance and supervisor self-monitoring. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38(8), 1151-1166.
- Deng, H., Walter, F, Lam, C. K., & Zhao, H. H. (2017). Spillover effects of emotional labor in customer service encounters toward coworker harming: A resource depletion perspective. Personnel Psychology, 70(2), 469-502.
- Lam, C. K., Huang, X., & Chan, S. (2015). The threshold effect of participative leadership: The role of leader information sharing. Academy of Management Journal, 58(3), 836-855.
- Walter, F., Lam, C. K., Van der Vegt, G., Huang, X., & Miao, Q. (2015). Abusive supervision and subordinate performance: Instrumentality considerations in the emergence and consequences of abusive supervision. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98(6), 1056-1072.
- Huang, X., Xu, H. H. E., Chiu W., Lam, C. K., & Farh, J. L. (2015). When authoritarian leaders outperform transformational leaders: Firm performance in harsh economic environments. Academy of Management Discoveries, 1(2), 180-200.
- Tse*, H., Lam*, C. K., Lawrence, S., & Huang, X. (2013). When my supervisor dislikes you more than me: Dissimilarity of leader-member exchange, interpersonal emotion, and perceived help. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98(6), 974-988. (*The first two authors contributed equally as leading authors)
- Xu, H. H. E., Huang, X., Lam, C. K., & Miao, Q. (2012). Abusive supervision and work behaviors: The mediating role of LMX. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 33(4), 531-543.
- Lam, C. K., Van der Vegt, G., Walter, F., & Huang, X. (2011). Harming high performers: A social comparison perspective on interpersonal harming in work teams. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(3), 588-601.
- Janssen, O., Lam, C. K., & Huang, X. (2010). Emotional exhaustion and job performance: The moderating roles of distributive justice and positive mood. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31(6), 787-809.
- Lam, C. K., Huang, X., & Janssen, O. (2010). Contextualizing emotional exhaustion and emotional display: The signaling effects of supervisors’ emotional exhaustion and service climate. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(2), 368-376.
She is the editorial board member of Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Human Relations, Management and Organizational Review, Asian Pacific Journal of Management, and Journal of Managerial Psychology.