Peter A. Bamberger

Peter A. Bamberger
Tel Aviv University | TAU · Faculty of Management

Ph. D.

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October 1990 - September 1993
Bar Ilan University
Position
  • Lecturer
May 2010 - present
Tel Aviv University
Position
  • Professor (Full)
October 1993 - May 2010
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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  • Professor (Full)

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Publications (218)
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Compares the relative impact of Design Thinking against two alternative Team Development Interventions (Team Building and After-Event Reviews) with respect to team effectiveness, and examines the mechanisms (i.e., team learning climate, transactive memory system) underlying the differential effects.
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Do the key drivers of alcohol misuse change as young adults transition from early to late stages of employee onboarding? To answer this question, a series of hypotheses were tested based on two waves of data collected from 1240 college graduates from four different universities in the United States who reported obtaining full-time employment follow...
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With a significant proportion of college students in many countries engaging in risky drinking behavior, this study examines the tendency of such young adults to ‘mature out’ of such behavior in their first year of employment after graduating, and the degree to which three mainstream organizational on-boarding experiences may expedite such ‘maturin...
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A growing body of research shows that rudeness negatively affects individual functioning and performance. Considerably less is known about how rudeness affects team processes and outcomes. In a series of five studies aimed at extending theories of the social–cognitive implications of rudeness to the team level, we show that rudeness is detrimental...
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Bringing together 150+ scholars and practitioners from 50+ countries, and funded by the European Commission, COST Action LeverAge (https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22120/) is the first network-building project of its kind in the work and organizational psychology and human resource management (WOP/HRM) aspects of work and aging. Focused on the aging w...
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Although the implications of team interdependence for team performance are well established, little is known regarding its consequences on the team members’ emotional states. Drawing from Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, we propose a dual-path model of the impact of team interdependence on two distinct negative emotional states (NES), powerl...
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Having limited information regarding how pay is distributed in their organization, employees often find it difficult to assess the fairness of their pay. Uncertainty management theory (UMT) posits that fairness uncertainty is aversive and that individuals experiencing it search for information to reduce this uncertainty. Pay information exchange –...
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While governments around the world have adopted policies and regulations making pay more transparent, pay transparency continues to be a contentious issue. Proponents argue that greater transparency is more consistent with the ethical underpinnings of humanistic societies and likely to benefit employees, employers, and/or society. In contrast, oppo...
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Little is known about its prevalence of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and its work-based etiology among employed adults in developing countries. To address this knowledge gap, we surveyed a total of 423 Ethiopian textile workers (of whom 313 were non-abstaining) assessing AUD. Using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test or “AUDIT” and categori...
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Should employees be allowed to discuss their pay with other employees? Should managers explain the logic underlying organizational pay structures and decisions to their employees? Should companies disclose the mean or median rates of pay for particular positions, or perhaps even individual employees’ actual pay? Concerns over gender and racial disp...
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Drawing from research on the transparency-privacy dilemma in management, we theorize that firm-level pay transparency elicits a multistep process involving managers and employees that shifts the dispersion in remuneration from more to less observable forms, thus making pay transparency a “moving target.” We posit a serial indirect effect of pay tra...
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In addition to helping advance theory, replication studies offer rich and complementary learning experiences for doctoral students, enabling them to learn general research skills, through the process of striving to imitate good studies. In addition, students gain replication-specific methodological skills and learn about the important roles replica...
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Should employees be allowed to discuss their pay with other employees? Should managers explain the logic underlying organizational pay structures and decisions to their employees? Should companies disclose the mean or median rates of pay for particular positions, or perhaps even individual employees’ actual pay? Concerns over gender and racial disp...
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Should employees be allowed to discuss their pay with other employees? Should managers explain the logic underlying organizational pay structures and decisions to their employees? Should companies disclose the mean or median rates of pay for particular positions, or perhaps even individual employees’ actual pay? Concerns over gender and racial disp...
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Should employees be allowed to discuss their pay with other employees? Should managers explain the logic underlying organizational pay structures and decisions to their employees? Should companies disclose the mean or median rates of pay for particular positions, or perhaps even individual employees’ actual pay? Concerns over gender and racial disp...
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Should employees be allowed to discuss their pay with other employees? Should managers explain the logic underlying organizational pay structures and decisions to their employees? Should companies disclose the mean or median rates of pay for particular positions, or perhaps even individual employees’ actual pay? Concerns over gender and racial disp...
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Should employees be allowed to discuss their pay with other employees? Should managers explain the logic underlying organizational pay structures and decisions to their employees? Should companies disclose the mean or median rates of pay for particular positions, or perhaps even individual employees’ actual pay? Concerns over gender and racial disp...
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Should employees be allowed to discuss their pay with other employees? Should managers explain the logic underlying organizational pay structures and decisions to their employees? Should companies disclose the mean or median rates of pay for particular positions, or perhaps even individual employees’ actual pay? Concerns over gender and racial disp...
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Should employees be allowed to discuss their pay with other employees? Should managers explain the logic underlying organizational pay structures and decisions to their employees? Should companies disclose the mean or median rates of pay for particular positions, or perhaps even individual employees’ actual pay? Concerns over gender and racial disp...
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Should employees be allowed to discuss their pay with other employees? Should managers explain the logic underlying organizational pay structures and decisions to their employees? Should companies disclose the mean or median rates of pay for particular positions, or perhaps even individual employees’ actual pay? Concerns over gender and racial disp...
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While some studies suggest that alcohol use reduces productivity and hence may reduce wages, others argue that it can enhance network relations and thus increase wages. The current study aims to unravel these equivocal findings by employing a prospective design focusing on young adults. Applying a social capital perspective, we posit that the relat...
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Pay transparency refers to a pay communications policy in which a company voluntarily provides pay-related information to employees — for example, about the process of the pay system (process transparency) and actual pay levels or ranges (outcome transparency), or even an open policy for employees to freely share information about their pay (commun...
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To what extent and under what conditions do college graduates disengage from employment‐incompatible behaviors during the college‐to‐work transition? Drawing from the life course perspective, we proposed a model highlighting considerable stability of employment‐incompatible behaviors during initial months of organizational socialization. Our model...
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Findings regarding the mechanism underlying the impact of supervisor incivility on subordinate alcohol misuse remain equivocal. Specifically, some studies indicate that stress mediates the impact of supervisor incivility on subordinate alcohol misuse, while others, find no evidence for such an effect, suggesting the need to investigate other mechan...
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Research on family firms’ employment practices remains equivocal with findings from studies framed on the basis of stewardship and Socio-Emotional Wealth (SEW) preservation perspectives suggesting that family firms are better employers than non-family peers, and findings from studies grounded on agency theory suggesting the opposite. Arguing that t...
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The impacts of COVID-19 on workers and workplaces across the globe have been dramatic. This broad review of prior research rooted in work and organizational psychology, and related fields, is intended to make sense of the implications for employees, teams, and work organizations. This review and preview of relevant literatures focuses on (a) emerge...
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COVID-19’s impacts on workers and workplaces across the globe have been dramatic. We present a broad review of prior research rooted in work and organizational psychology, and related fields, for making sense of the implications for employees, teams, and work organizations. Our review and preview of relevant literatures focuses on: (i) emerging cha...
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Grounded on uncertainty management theory, the current research examines the role of employee justice perceptions in explaining the distinct effects of two forms of pay transparency—process versus outcome pay transparency—on counterproductive workplace behavior (CWB). Study 1, a field study of 321 employees, revealed that process pay transparency i...
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Student loan debt represents an important phenomenon in the United States, as around 61% of bachelor’s degree recipients graduate with a debt of over $28,100. Although studies emphasize that holding student loan debt delays the transition to adulthood in terms of marriage and home ownership, little is known about its impact on employment and this l...
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What drives newcomers to adopt behaviors that, while perhaps helping them meet short-term role demands and organizational objectives, may also place themselves and/or their organization at risk in the long term? Based on social learning theory, research on onboarding and newcomer socialization suggests that such behavior may be explained by peer mo...
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Does ‘being nice’ to each other always improve employee performance? Although research on workplace incivility has been growing, little is known about the flip side of it – workplace civility. In fact, different theoretical perspectives have suggested that civility could have positive (i.e. the flexibility perspective) or negative (i.e. the heurist...
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Background and objectives: Exposure to negative social interactions (such as rudeness) has robust adverse implications on medical team performance. However, little is known regarding the effects of positive social interactions. We hypothesized that expressions of gratitude, a prototype of positive social interaction, would enhance medical teams' e...
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Background: Little is known about the impact of social interactions on iatrogenesis and lapses in patient safety. Methods: This field-based experience-sampling study of primarily nurses in a general hospital explored the impact of rudeness on patient safety performance, state depletion (that is, exhaustion of mental energy for reflective behavior),...
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Although it is well established that workplace demands and culture can affect employee well-being, to what degree might these same factors have lingering implications on individual well-being after employees retire? To begin to answer this question, in this article we propose and test a model explaining how retiree alcohol consumption may depend on...
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While the impact of team reflexivity (a.k.a. after-event-reviews, team debriefs) on team performance has been widely examined, we know little about its implications on other team outcomes such as member well-being. Drawing from prior team reflexivity research, we propose that reflexivity-related team processes reduce demands, and enhance control an...
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Background: The transition from college to work is both an exciting and potentially high risk time for young adults. As students transition from academic settings to full-time employment, they must navigate new social demands, work demands, and adjust their drinking behaviors accordingly. Research has shown that there are both protective factors a...
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Although scholars have extensively studied the impact of academic and vocational factors on college students’ employment upon graduation, we still know little as to how students’ health-related behaviors influence such outcomes. Focusing on student alcohol use as a widely prevalent, health-related behavior, the current study examines the employment...
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We extend recent research on the costs and benefits of helping to help providers by asking whether and under what conditions newcomer help giving may amplify or mitigate the role-conflict-based resource drain such individuals may experience in the context of their initial socialization. Drawing from Conservation of Resources theory, we propose that...
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Objectives: Rudeness is routinely experienced by medical teams. We sought to explore the impact of rudeness on medical teams' performance and test interventions that might mitigate its negative consequences. Methods: Thirty-nine NICU teams participated in a training workshop including simulations of acute care of term and preterm newborns. In ea...
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This study examines a long-standing contention of practitioners and scholars alike, namely that pay transparency may adversely affect employees' tendency to offer assistance to coworkers. Drawing from research on social comparison, information vividness, and envy, we develop and test a moderated-mediation model positing that transparency adversely...
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Compensation decisions are some of the most important decisions made in organizations, and research in this area has the potential to inform these decisions. Yet compensation has been viewed as a neglected area of HR research. In order to encourage greater quantity and quality of compensation research, this article provides an overview of perspecti...
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Purpose Adopting an information processing perspective, we argue that in pay-for-performance contexts, pay secrecy may adversely affect the ability of members of newly formed, virtual work groups to source assistance from those most able to provide it, referred to here as efficacious help-seeking. Design/Methodology/Approach We conducted a repeated...
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Using a grounded theory approach and real-time data capturing the expressions and behaviors of help givers and recipients in the course of their interactions at work, we generated a typology of interactive and episodic helping behaviors (both help giving and receiving) and applied it to explore if, when, and how the behavioral configurations of the...
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Iatrogenesis often results from performance deficiencies among medical team members. Team-targeted rudeness may underlie such performance deficiencies, with individuals exposed to rude behavior being less helpful and cooperative. Our objective was to explore the impact of rudeness on the performance of medical teams. Twenty-four NICU teams particip...
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The aging of the workforce in the developed world has prompted organizations to implement human resource (HR) policies and practices encouraging older workers to defer retirement. However, little is known about the prevalence of such practices, and the organizational factors associated with their adoption. In this study, we used data collected from...
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This study examines the role of workplace risk factors associated with stress, social availability, and policy enforcement in explaining the severity of alcohol misuse among truck and bus drivers. Using a sample of 227 commercial (i.e., bus and truck) drivers drawn randomly from the employees of eight Israeli transportation enterprises, findings in...
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While incivility has been routinely shown to have destructive effects on individuals’ functioning, we have little knowledge about the impact of such behaviors on teams. In two studies we explore the effects of incivility enacted by external and internal actors on team processes and outcomes. Study 1, a field experiment conducted in Israeli neonatal...
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Seeking to explain the varying effects of retirement on alcohol consumption and drawing from both theories of aging and retirement and recent neurobiological research on habit formation, we propose that psychological distress serves as a primary mechanism linking retirement to changes in modal consumption, with two aspects of the pre-retirement amb...