Fadel Matta

• PhD, Organizational Behavior, Michigan State University, 2016
• MBA, Management, University of Notre Dame, 2011
• BBA, Finance, Loyola University Chicago, 2006

• Leadership
• Leader-Member Social Exchange Relationships
• Organizational Justice and Fairness
• Employee Mood and Emotion

Journal Articles

• Matta, F. K. & Frank, E. L. (2025). It’s not a Cedar tree, therefore it’s not a tree: A comment on Yao & Ma (2023). Journal of Applied Psychology, 110, 297-307.
• Matta, F. K., Frank, E. L., & Muir (Zapata), C. P. 2024. “Seeing eye to eye” about our relationship is good for us and everyone else: An examination of LMX agreement and views of fair treatment. Organization Science, 35, 1489-1511.
• Matta, F. K., Frank, E. L., Farh, C. I. C., & Lee, S. M. 2024. Do intelligent leaders differentiate exchange relationships intelligently? A functional leadership approach to LMX differentiation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109, 490-512.
• Baer, M. D., Sessions, H., Welsh, D., & Matta, F. K. 2022. Motivated to “roll the dice” on trust: The relationships between employees’ daily motives, risk propensity, and trust. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107, 1561-1578.
• Lennard, A. C., Matta, F. K., Lin, S., Koopman, J., & Johnson, R. E. 2022. The dynamism of daily justice: A person-environment fit perspective on the situated value of justice. Organization Science, 33, 1523-1553.
• Frank, E. L., Matta, F. K., Sabey, T., & Rodell, J. B. 2022. What does it cost you to get there? The effects of emotional journeys on daily outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107, 1203-1226.
• Sabey, T., Rodell, J. B., & Matta, F. K. 2021. To and fro: The costs and benefits of power fluctuation throughout the day. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106,1357–1373.
• Hill, E., Matta, F. K., & Mitchell, M. S. 2021. Seeing the glass as half full or empty: The role of affect-induced optimistic and pessimistic states on justice perceptions and performance. Academy of Management Journal, 64, 1265-1287.
• Wilson, K. S., Kleshinski, C. E., & Matta, F. K. 2021. You get me: Examining the implications of couples’ depersonalization agreement for employee recovery. Personnel Psychology, 74, 265-293.
• Baer, M. D., Frank, E. L., Matta, F. K., Luciano, M., Wellman, N. 2021. Under trusted, over trusted, or “just right”? The fairness of (in)congruence between trust wanted and trust received. Academy of Management Journal, 64, 180-206.
• Koopman, J., Lin, S., Lennard, A. C., Matta, F. K., Johnson, R. E. 2020. My coworkers are treated more fairly than me! A self-regulatory perspective on justice social comparisons. Academy of Management Journal, 63, 857-880.
• Scott, B. A., Awasty, N., Johnson, R. E., Matta, F. K., & Hollenbeck, J. R. 2020. Origins and destinations, distances and directions: Accounting for the journey in the emotion regulation process. Academy of Management Review, 45, 423-446.
• Matta, F. K., Sabey, T., Scott, B. A., Lin, S., & Koopman, J. 2020. Not all fairness is created equal: A study of employee attributions of supervisor justice motives. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105, 274-293.
• Matta, F. K., & Van Dyne, L. 2020. Understanding the disparate behavioral consequences of LMX differentiation: The role of social comparison emotions. Academy of Management Review, 45: 154-180.
• Matta, F. K., Scott, B. A., Guo, Z., Matusik, J. G. 2020. Exchanging one uncertainty for another: Justice variability negates the benefits of justice. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105, 97-110.
• Matusik, J., Hollenbeck, J R., Matta, F. K., Oh, J. 2019. Dynamic systems theory and dual change score models: Seeing teams through the lens of developmental psychology. Academy of Management Journal, 62, 1760-1788.
• Lin, S., Scott, B. A., & Matta, F. K. 2019. The dark side of transformational leader behaviors for leaders themselves: A conservation of resources perspective. Academy of Management Journal, 62: 1556-1582.
• Koopman, J., Scott, B. A., Matta, F. K., Conlon, D. E., Dennerlein, T. 2019. Ethical leadership as a substitute for justice enactment: An information-processing perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104: 1103-1116.
• Porck, J. P., Matta, F. K., Hollenbeck, J. R., Oh, J., Lanaj, K., Lee, S. M. 2019. Social identification in multiteam systems: The role of depletion and task complexity. Academy of Management Journal, 62: 1137-1162.
• Mannor, M. J., Matta, F. K., Block, E., Steinbach, A., & Davis, J. H. 2019. The liability of breadth: Situating conflicting influences of experiential breadth into context for founding TMTs. Journal of Management, 45: 1540-1568.
• Lanaj, K., Kim, P. H., Koopman, J., & Matta, F. K. 2018. Daily mistrust: A resource perspective and its implications for work and home. Personnel Psychology, 545-570.
• Tepper, B. J., Dimotakis, N., Lambert, L. S., Koopman, J., Matta, F. K., Park, H. M., & Goo, W. 2018. Examining follower responses to transformational leadership from a dynamic, person-environment fit perspective. Academy of Management Journal, 61: 1343-1368.
• Baer, M. D., Matta, F. K., Kim, J. K., Welsh, D. T., & Garud, N. 2018. It’s not you, it’s them: Social influences on trust propensity and trust dynamics. Personnel Psychology, 71: 423-455.
• Yu, A., Matta, F. K., & Cornfield, B. 2018. Is LMX differentiation beneficial or detrimental for group effectiveness? A meta-analytic investigation and theoretical integration. Academy of Management Journal, 61: 1158-1188.
• Wilson, K. S., Baumann, H. M., Matta, F. K., Ilies, R., & Kossek, E. 2018.  Misery loves company: An investigation of couples interrole conflict congruence. Academy of Management Journal, 61: 715-737.
• Matta, F. K., Scott, B. A., Colquitt, J. A., Koopman, J., & Passantino, L. 2017. Is consistently unfair better than sporadically fair? An investigation of justice variability and stress. Academy of Management Journal, 60: 743-770.
• Wilson, K. S., DeRue, D. S., Matta, F. K., Howe, M., Conlon, D. E. 2016. Personality similarity in negotiations: Testing the dyadic effects of similarity in interpersonal traits and the use of emotional displays on negotiation outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101: 1405-1421.
• Koopman, J., Matta, F. K., Scott, B. A., & Conlon, D. E. 2015. Ingratiation and popularity as antecedents of justice: A social exchange and social capital perspective. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 131: 132-148.
• Matta, F. K., Scott, B. A., Koopman, J., & Conlon, D. E. 2015. Does seeing eye to eye affect work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior? A role theory perspective on LMX agreement. Academy of Management Journal, 58: 1686-1708.
• Matta, F. K., Erol-Korkmaz, T. H., Johnson, R. E., & Bicaksiz, P. 2014. Significant work events and counterproductive work behavior: The role of fairness, emotions, and emotion regulation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 35: 920-944.

Book Chapters

• Matta, F. K., & Frank, E. L. (2024). Fairness in leader-follower relationships. Contemporary perspectives on relationship-based leadership. Information Age Publishing: 147-180.
• Scott, B. A., Matta, F. K., Koopman, J.2018. Within-person approaches to the study of organizational citizenship behaviors: Antecedents, consequences, and boundary conditions. The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior: 417-434.
• Matta, F. K., & Van Dyne, L. 2015. Leader-member exchange and performance: Where we are and where we go from here. The Oxford Handbook of Leader-Member Exchange: 157-174.

• Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Journal, 2020–present
• Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Review, 2020–present
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Applied Psychology, 2018–present
• Editorial Board Member, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2016–present
• Editorial Board Member, Personnel Psychology, 2017–present

• 2024 Academy of Management Review Outstanding Bridge Reviewer Mentor Award
• 2023 SIOP Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award
• 2023 Academy of Management HR Division Early Career Achievement Award
• 2023 Journal of Applied Psychology Best Editorial Board Member Reviewer
• 2022 Terry Research Excellence Award
• 2021 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Best Reviewer Award (Inaugural)
• Institute for Leadership Advancement Research Scholar Award
• 2020 Rising Star in Leadership Research Award—hosted by the Exeter Centre for Leadership and the Academy of Management's Network of Leadership Scholars
• 2020 Personnel Psychology Best Reviewer Award
• Georgia Power Foundation Developing Scholar Award (2019-2020)

Academy of Management

• PDW Chair for Academy of Management OB Division (2024)
• OB Division Executive Committee – Elected Representative-at-Large (2023-2025)
• Chair of the HR Division Early Career Award Committee (2024)
• OB Division Making Connections Committee (2016-2023)
• Subject Matter Expert (2022-present)

University of Georgia

• Promotion and Tenure Committee – 2024
• Research Excellence Award Committee – 2023
• Post-Tenure Review Committee – 2022, 2023, 2024
• Head of Terry Research Pool – 2019-Present
• Terry MBA Program Committee—2021-Present
• Terry Undergraduate Program Committee – 2019-2021
• Faculty Search Committee Chair (OB position) – 2022, 2022, 2021
• Faculty Search Committee Member (OB positions) – 2024, 2019, 2019, 2016
• First Year Coach – 2017-2018, 2022-2023