Ozias A. Moore

Ozias A. Moore is an associate professor of management in the College of Business at Lehigh University. He also held a visiting assistant professor position at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was in residence during the 2019-2020 academic year. He earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S. in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Human Resource Studies from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

Ozias' research examines the conditions that shape whether individuals gain access to what they need in organizations — supportive relationships and resources, fair evaluation, learning, and trustworthy knowledge — and what blocks that access. His work spans individual and team levels of analysis, connected by four themes: (a) understanding how dynamic team composition, in particular, multiple team membership (MTM), and the microdynamics of social networks shape individual and team interactions within and across team boundaries, including the multi-level effects of simultaneous team memberships on team processes, emergent states, and outcomes, and the enabling mechanisms that support multi-team effectiveness; (b) exploring how personal characteristics and contextual factors (whether organizational, team, or more immediate social contexts) shape evaluation bias, decision-making, and performance for employees and leaders; (c) investigating how team structure and interdependence influence learning under dynamic conditions, how AI literacy shapes trust in human-generative AI collaboration, and the conditions under which individuals learn and transfer that learning across settings, including through active learning approaches to diversity training; and (d) examining how transparency in research practices affects the trustworthiness of theory development and testing.

Ozias’ research has been published in leading management journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal, Group & Organization Management, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology,The Leadership Quarterly, Learning and Motivation, Personnel Psychology, and Small Group Research. He has contributed a chapter on learning, training, and development in organizations to The SAGE Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology, and his research findings have been featured in popular media outlets. Ozias serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Journal of Management Studies.

Ozias has received several honors and awards for his research and teaching. He has received national and university-wide recognition for excellence in teaching, including being named among the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants and receiving the Lehigh University College of Business Teaching Excellence Award. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational behavior, leadership, talent management, and work groups and teams. He has also been awarded grants from the United States Air Force, Cornell’s Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS), the Bert Trucksess Foundation, the Wharton School’s Center for Leadership and Change Management, and the Lee Hakel Scholarship by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Before completing his Ph.D., Ozias’ held key management and executive-level positions at Westinghouse Electric Corporation, IBM Corporation, American Express, and Pfizer, Inc. He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) through the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Education

• University of Pittsburgh, B.S.
• University of Pennsylvania, M.S.E.
• Cornell University, M.S.
• Cornell University, Ph.D.

Research Interests

• Dynamic team composition
• Multi-teaming
• Team dynamics and process
• Team and individual decision-making

Select Publications

• Moore, O. A., *Aguinis, H., & Darden, T. R. (In press). Defining, assessing, and reporting saturation in qualitative research: Review and recommendations. The Leadership Quarterly (*Denotes shared first authorship).
• Moore, O. A., & Munley, V. G. (In press). Understanding peer learning participation: A multi-method study of gender roles, team interdependence, and personal attributes. Learning and Motivation.
• Pan, Z., Moore, O. A., Papadimitriou, A., &. Zhu, J. (2025). AI literacy and trust: A multi-method study of Human-GAI team collaboration. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans.
• Moore, O. A., Susskind, A. M., & Margolin, D. B., & Hanna, A. A. (2024). A resource-acquisition perspective: Examining the effects of downsizing on work-related relationships and performance. Group & Organization Management.
• Roberson, Q. M., Moore, O. A., & Bell, B. S. (2024). An active learning approach to diversity training. Academy of Management Review, 49(2),344-365.
• Moore, O. A., Susskind, A. M., & Margolin, D. (2023). Dynamic Resource-Acquisition Strategies: Analysis of Survivor Betweenness Centrality Relationships After Downsizing. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 96(2), 378-396.
• Moore, O. A., Livingston, B. A., & Susskind, A. M. (2023). Résumé screening heuristic outcomes: An examination of hiring manager evaluation bias. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 42(1),104-134.
• Mistry, S., Kirkman, B. L., Moore, O. A., Hanna, A. H., & Rapp, T. L. (2022). Too many teams? Examining the impact of multiple team memberships and permanent team identification on employees’ identity strain, cognitive depletion, and turnover. Personnel Psychology, 76(3), 885-912.
• Bell, B. S., & Moore, O. A. (2018). Learning, training, and development in organizations: Emerging trends, recent advances, and future directions. In D. S. Ones, N. Anderson, C. Viswesvaran, & H. K. Sinangil (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology: Organizational Psychology (pp. 215-234). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• * Liu, Y. C., McLeod, P. L., & Moore, O. A. (2015). Personality and small groups: An interdisciplinary perspective. Small Group Research, 46(5), 536-575.
  * Order of authorship is alphabetical. The authors contributed equally to the article.   
• Dragoni, L., Oh, I.-S., Tesluk, P. E., Moore, O. A., VanKatwyk, P., & Hazucha, J. (2014). Developing leaders’ strategic thinking through global work experience: The moderating role of cultural distance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99(5), 867–882. 

In the News

• Should we keep the office or go remote? That’s the lingering question for Lehigh Valley employers, The Morning Call
• Lehigh Students Assess Organizational Effectiveness at Nonprofits, Lehigh University
• The Changing Way We Work: For Better and Worse, The Workplace is No Longer Just one Place, Lehigh University
• Improving Organizational and Team Effectiveness, Lehigh University
• How to Create an Introvert Friendly Workplace: 10 tips, The TechRepublic
• Do you look like me? How Bias Effects Affirmative Action in Hiring, Hotel News Resource

ilLUminate Posts

• Being a Team Player in a Multiple Team World

Awards

• Top 50 Undergraduate Business School Professors, Poets & Quants
• Teaching Excellence Award, College of Business, Lehigh University