Dr. Paul E. Levy
Title: Professor & Vice President and Chief of Staff
Program: Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Dept/Program: Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Office of the President
Office: BH 215
Phone: 330-972-8369
Email: pelevy@uakron.edu
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Biography
Dr. Paul E. Levy, is a Professor and Vice President and Chief of Staff at The University of Akron. He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Psychological Association. Dr. Levy received his Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from Virginia Tech in 1989 when he joined the faculty at UA. His consulting and research interests include performance management, feedback, employee development, motivation, and leadership. He is the author of one of the leading I/O textbooks in the field and is an active member of many editorial boards. His publications have appeared in the top journals in the discipline such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Academy of Management Journal. He has over 25 years of consulting experience and his clients/sponsors have included the federal government, large private organizations, and local not for profit companies.
Publications
Bachrach, D. G., Naskar, S. T., Patel, P. C., & Levy, P. E. (2023). Horizontal pay dispersion as social context for predicting employee performance outcomes associated with diagnostic- versus criterion-referenced performance feedback. Applied Psychology, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12458
Drawbaugh, M. L., Gianelloni, J. E., & Levy, P. E. (2021). The role of the feedback environment in self-development. In M. London. The Oxford Handbook of Lifelong Learning (2 ed.). Oxford Press. http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197506707.013.13
Levy, P. E., Drawbaugh, M. L., & Farr, J. (2020). History of performance management. In L. L. Koppes, Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Psychology Press.
Levy, P.E., Thibodeau, R., & Tseng, S. (2020). Giving better feedback in the classroom. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 13(4), 572-576. https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2020.93
Roberts, A., Levy, P. E., Flores, C., & Thoebes, G. (2020). Performance management and workplace affect. Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect. Cambridge University Press.
Tseng, S. T., Levy, P. E., Aw Young, S., Thibodeau, R., & Zhang, X. (2019). Frequent feedback in organizations: Panacea or Fad? In J.R. Williams & L.A. Steelman (Eds.), Feedback in the Workplace: Bringing Research and Practice Together. Springer.
Levy, P.E., Cavanaugh, C.M., Frantz, N.B., Borden, L.A., & Roberts, A. (2018). Revisiting the social context of performance management: Performance appraisal effectiveness. In, N. Anderson, C. Viswesvaran, H.K. Sinangil, & D.S. Ones. The Sage Handbook of Industrial, Work, and Organizational Psychology, 2nd edition. Sage Publications, 196.
Schleicher, D. J., Baumann, H.M., Sullivan, D., Levy, P.E., Hargrove, D. & Rivera, B. (2018). Putting the system into Performance Management (PM) systems: A review and agenda for PM research. Journal of Management Annual Review Issue, 44(6), 2209-2245. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206318755303
Tseng, S. T., & Levy, P. E. (2018). A multilevel leadership process framework of performance management. Human Resource Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2018.10.001
Beenen, G., Pichler, S., & Levy, P. E. (2017). Self‐Determined Feedback Seeking: The Role of Perceived Supervisor Autonomy Support. Human resource management, 56(4), 555-569. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21787
Borden, L., Levy, P. E., & Silverman, S. B. (2017). Leader Arrogance and Subordinate Outcomes: the Role of Feedback Processes. Journal of Business and Psychology, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-017-9501-1
Levy, P.E., Tseng, S.T., Rosen, C.C., & Lueke, S.B. (2017). Performance management: A marriage between practice and science – Just say “I do.” In M.R.. Buckley, J.R.B. Halbesleben & A.R. Wheeler (Eds.), Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management,35, 155-213. Elsevier.