Ozias A. Moore

Ozias A. Moore is an associate professor of management in the College of Business at Lehigh University. He previously served as a visiting assistant professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. 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’s research focuses on the changing nature of work and its consequences for individuals, teams, and organizations. His program of work spans two connected areas. The first examines how shifts in work design and organizational change shape individual and team functioning, with attention to overlapping team memberships, intraorganizational network dynamics, and the ways employees acquire resources and reposition themselves following organizational change events. This work clarifies how dynamic team configurations and disruptive change shape team processes, emergent states, and performance over time. The second area examines workplace decision-making and learning in dynamic work contexts. This work investigates how personal characteristics and contextual factors influence evaluation bias and judgment in hiring and idea assessment, and how individuals develop capability through peer learning, leadership development experiences, active-learning approaches to diversity training, and human-AI team collaboration. Across both areas, Ozias is committed to methodological rigor across quantitative and qualitative approaches, including advancing transparency in qualitative research and integrative cross-disciplinary scholarship, in service of trustworthy theory development and testing.

Ozias’s research has been published in leading management journals, including 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 has been translated for practice through Academy of Management Insights, Filene Research Institute research reports and training programs, and corporate leadership development programs. Ozias serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of Organizational Behavior and Journal of Management Studies, and he is an inaugural associate editor of Academy of Management Inside Organizations (AMIO).

Ozias has received several honors and awards for his research and teaching. His research and reviewing have been recognized with multiple awards, including the 2024 Best Paper Award from the Research Methods Division at the Academy of Management, finalist for the 2024 Best Symposium Award from the Organizational Behavior Division at the Academy of Management, and the 2024 Journal of Organizational Behavior Best Reviewer Award. He has also 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, and he recently integrated artificial intelligence into his Leadership in Organizations course, an innovation informed by his research on human-AI collaboration and featured by Lehigh University News. 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 academia, Ozias held 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.
• 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. H. (2024). A resource-acquisition perspective: Examining the effects of downsizing on work-related relationships and performance. Group & Organization Management. 51(2),575-607.
• 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