George Banks

George C. Banks is chair and professor in the department of management at UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business. He is also an affiliate faculty member of the Organizational Science Ph.D. program, the School of Data Science, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology master’s program. Dr. Banks has over 60 publications, including journal articles in top-tier outlets, such as Science, Psychological Bulletin, Nature Human Behavior, Journal of Management, and Academy of Management Journal. He currently serves as a senior associate editor for The Leadership Quarterly, special issue editor for Organizational Research Methods and is on the editorial boards at  Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Business and Psychology, and Human Resource Management Review. He has received several awards for his research, including: the 2017 Sage Publications/CARMA Early Career Award from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management, and the 2016 Best Paper award from The Leadership Quarterly/Center for Creative Leadership. He was also one of four 2016 Best Paper Award nominees for the Academy of Management Journal. 

Additionally, his work has been featured by popular media outlets, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and National Public Radio (NPR). Since 2019, he has received $1,727,285 in external grant funding. Previously Dr. Banks worked as a consultant for HRinterax, Inc. (Shelton, Connecticut) and Human Technology, Inc. (McLean, Virginia). He also has provided services for diverse clients, such as the Missile Defense Agency, the Forest Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the Patent and Trade Office and the Foreign Agriculture Service.

Education

Ph.D., 2012
Management
Virginia Commonwealth University

Master of Arts, 2008
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
University of New Haven

Bachelor of Arts, 2066
Psychology; Government
College of William and Mary

Research Interests

• Leadership and diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Ethics
• Strategic human resource management
• Research methods and statistics (e.g., data science, open science, meta-analysis)

Selected Publications

Banks, G. C., & Aguinis, H. (2023). Improving management theory and policy-making through innovative methods and data. Academy of Management Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2022.0099

Banks, G. C. (2023). Eight puzzles of leadership science. Leadership Quarterly, 34(4), 101710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101710

Banks, G. C., Ross, R., Toth, A., Tonidandel, S., Goloujeh, A. M., Dou, W., & Wesslen, R. (2023). The triangulation of ethical leader signals using qualitative, experimental, and data science methods. Leadership Quarterly, 34(3), 101658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2022.101658

Heggestad, E. D., Voss, E. N., Toth, A., Ross, R., Banks, G. C., & Canevello, A. (2023). Two meanings of “social skills”: Proposing an integrative social skills framework. Group & Organization Management, 48(2), 361-404. https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011221151006

Whelpley, C., Holladay-Sandidge, H., Woznyj, H., & Banks, G. (2023). The biopsychosocial model and neurodiversity: A person-centered approach. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 16(1), 25-30. doi:10.1017/iop.2022.95

Burnette, J. L., Billingsley, J., Banks, G. C., Knouse, L. E., Hoyt, C. L., Pollack, J. M., & Simon, S. (2023). A systematic review and meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions: For whom, how, and why might such interventions work? Psychological Bulletin, 149(3-4), 174–205. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000368