Steven Rogelberg

Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg holds the title of Chancellor’s Professor at UNC Charlotte for distinguished national, international and interdisciplinary contributions. He is a professor of organizational science, management and psychology. He has over 150 publications addressing issues such as team effectiveness, leadership, engagement, health and employee well-being, meetings at work, and organizational research methods. He is the editor of the Journal of Business and Psychology. Dr. Rogelberg has received over $2,500,000 of external grant funding, including funding from the National Science Foundation. 

Awards and honors include receiving the 2017 Humboldt Award, the 2019 recipient of the First Citizens Bank Scholar Award, the inaugural winner of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Humanitarian Award, receiving the SIOP Distinguished Service Award, Bowling Green State University (BGSU) Master Teacher Award, Psi Chi Professor of the Year Award, Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and serving as the 2000 BGSU graduation commencement speaker. 

He is currently immediate past president of SIOP (and executive board member) and past secretary general of the Alliance for Organizational Psychology.  He served SIOP in a host of additional roles including Executive Board Member, Research & Science Officer, Chair of Education & Training, and Program Chair.

Dr. Rogelberg’s book, The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance (Oxford), was released in 2019 and has been on over 25 “best of” lists including being recognized by the Washington Post as the #1 leadership book to watch for in 2019 and Business Insider as one of the “Top 14 business books everyone will be reading in 2019.”  In his forthcoming book, Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings, Rogelberg presents strategies to elevate 1:1 meetings, unleashing the true potential of these transformative interactions.

His research has been profiled on television (“CBS This Morning,” “BBC News”), radio (e.g., NPR, CBC, CBS), newspapers (e.g., Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, London Guardian) and magazines (e.g., National Geographic, Forbes, Scientific American Mind). 

He has been a visiting scholar and guest speaker at universities around the world including: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), BI Norwegian Business School (Norway), Peking University (China),  University of Edinburgh (Scotland), Reykjavik  University (Iceland), Hong Kong Baptist University, The University of Sheffield (England), The University of Zurich (Switzerland), The University of Tel Aviv (Israel), Technion University (Israel), Concordia University (Canada), the University of Mannheim (Germany) and Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium).

Dr. Rogelberg has run three consulting centers, engaged with many Fortune 100 companies, and served on multiple advisory boards.  He founded and currently directs two large outreach initiatives, spanning eight universities, focusing on nonprofit organization effectiveness. Over 3000 nonprofits have been served.

Education

Ph.D., 1994
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
University of Connecticut

Master of Arts, 1991
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
University of Connecticut

Bachelor of Science, 1989
Psychology
Tufts University

Research Interests

• Leadership effectiveness and development
• Teams effectiveness and innovation
• Employee health and well-being
• Employee engagement

Selected Publications

Budhwar, P., Chowdhury, S., Wood, G., Aguinis, H., Bamber, G. J., Beltran, J. R., Boselie, P., Cooke, F. L., Decker, S., DeNisi, A. S., Dey, P. K., Guest, D., Knoblich, A. J., Malik, A., Paauwe, J., Papagiannidis, S., Patel, C., Pereira, V., Ren, S., . . . Varma, A. (2023). Human resource management in the age of generative artificial intelligence: Perspectives and research directions on ChatGPT. Human Resource Management Journal, 33(3), 606–659. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12524

Rogelberg, S. G. (2022). Make the most of your one-on-one meetings. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2022/11/make-the-most-of-your-one-on-one-meetings

Rogelberg, S., King, E., & Alonso, A. (2022). How we can bring I-O psychology science and evidence-based practices to the public. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 15(2), 259-272. doi:10.1017/iop.2021.142

Flinchum, J. R., Kreamer, L., Rogelberg, S. G., & Gooty, J. (2022). One-on-one meetings between managers and direct reports: A new opportunity for meeting science. Organizational Psychology Review, 204138662210975. https://doi.org/10.1177/20413866221097570

Kreamer, L., Albritton, B. H., Tonidandel, S., & Rogelberg, S. G. (2021). The use and misuse of Organizational Research Methods ‘Best Practice’ articles. Organizational Research Methods, 26(3), 387–408. https://doi.org/10.1177/10944281211060706

Rogelberg, S.G. (2019). The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance. Oxford University Press.