Tove Hammer

People/Emeriti faculty
Professor Emeritus
Organizational Behavior
Tove Hammer

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607-255-5496
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607-255-2261
CV
ToveHammer_-8-2013.pdf
Overview

Tove Helland Hammer is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the ILR School, Cornell University. She received her BA in Psychology from Cornell University, and her MA and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland. After joining the Cornell faculty in 1974, her research moved from a focus on leadership and management to a long-term project on the performance effects of employee stock ownership, worker buy-outs, and forms of labor-management collaboration, including employee representation on corporate boards of directors. Her current research includes large-scale field studies on the health effects of the physical and psycho-social work environment.
Tove Hammer has served on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Groups and Organization Studies, and as an associate editor of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. She was the senior editor of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review (now ILRREVIEW) from 1994 to 2011.She has held Professor II positions in the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and in the School of Hotel Management at the University in Stavanger (UiS), Norway. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society

Teaching Statement 

Her primary teaching area is leadership and work motivation with courses offered at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She also teaches general micro-organizational behavior courses for professional graduate students.

Research Statement 

Her primary research examines the effects of the physical and psychosocial work environment on employees' mental and physical health. She conducts field studies with a special focus on how organizational level norms about work performance, social support, and reward systems influence the degree of work-family conflict, workplace bullying and harassment, job stress, and psychological and physical health.

Publications

Journal Articles

  • , , & . . Decision diversion in diverse teams: Findings from inside a corporate boardroom. Academy of Management Discoveries, 3 (2017)(4), 358-381.
  • , , & . . Social relations at the collective level: The measurement of collective control in research on the psychosocial work environment. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 3(3), 1-16.
  • , & . . On a psychological trip from latent self to manifest self: A study on multiple selves in a single situation . Japanese Journal of Adminstrative Sciences, 22(2), 103-115.
  • , , & . . Union leadership and member attitudes: A multi-level analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(2), 392-410.
  • , & . . The impact of unions on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover. Journal of Labor Research, 26(2), 241-266.
  • , , , , & . . Expanding the psychosocial work environment: Workplace norms and work-family conflict as correlates of stress and health. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 9, 83-97.
  • , , & . . Methodological challenges in union commitment studies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89, 738-747.
  • , , , & . . Combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies to study group processes: An illustrative study of a corporate board of directors. Organizational Research Methods, 2, 5-36.
  • . . Leadership effectiveness of local union leaders. Work Place Topics, 4(2).
  • , & . . Dimensions of local union effectiveness. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 46, 302-319.
  • . . Worker participation on boards of directors. Work Place Topics, 2(1).
  • , , & . . Worker representation on boards of directors: A study of competing roles. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 44, 661-680.
  • , & . . Overview of Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Work Place Topics, 1(1).
  • , & . . Organizational determinants of leader behavior and authority. Journal of Applied Psychology, 72, 674-682.
  • , & . . Clerical employees: Perceptions of career opportunities. Academy of Management Journal, 29, 385-404.
  • , & . . The Yo-Yo model of union-management cooperation: Union participation in management at the Rath Packing Company. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 39, 337-349.
  • , , & . . Absenteeism when workers have a voice: The case of employee ownership. Journal of Applied Psychology, 66, 561-573.
  • , & . . Methodological issues in the use of absence data. Journal of Applied Psychology, 66, 574-581.
  • , & . . The role of non-economic factors in faculty union voting. Journal of Applied Psychology, 66, 415-421.
  • , & . . Employee ownership: Implications for the organizational distribution of power. Academy of Management Journal, 23, 78-100.
  • , & . . Locus of control and career self-management among non-supervisory employees in industrial settings. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 15, 1-17.
  • . . Affirmative Action programs: Have we forgotten the first-line supervisor?. Personnel Journal, 58, 384-389.
  • , & . . Buying your job: Factors affecting the success or failure of employee acquisition attempts. Human Relations, 31, 1101-1117.
  • , , & . . Mid-career change in academia: The decision to become an administrator. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 12, 229-241.
  • . . Relationships between local union characteristics and worker behavior and attitudes. Academy of Management Journal, 21, 560-577.
  • , , & . . The predictive power of within-versus across-subjects scores in expectancy research. Journal of Psychology, 100, 285-292.
  • , & . . A note on the generality of managers' perceptions of union members. Journal of Social Psychology, 103, 323-324.
  • , & . . Intra-organizational mobility and career perceptions among rank and file employees in different technologies. Academy of Management Journal, 20, 622-634.
  • , & . . A test of some assumptions underlying the path-goal model of supervision: Some suggested conceptual modifications. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 14, 60-75.

Conference Proceedings

  • , & . . A license to misbehave? Organizational harassment norms and employee well-being.
  • , , & . . A multi-level empirical expansion of Siegrist's effort-reward imbalance model of job stress and health.
  • . . The history of the Rath buyout: A role expectations analysis.

Book Chapters

  • . . Fairness in the Workplace. In Work and Organizational Psychology: Topics for A Better Work Life. (pp. pp.335-358). Cappelen Academic Publisher.
  • . . The role of norms in organizational change efforts. In Prerequsites for Health Organizational Change. (pp. 52-61). Bentham Science Publishers.
  • . . Nonunion representational forms: An organizational behavior perspective. In Nonunion Employee Representation: History, Contemporary Practice, and Policy. M. E. Sharpe, Inc..
  • . . Developing global leaders: A European perspective. In Advances in Global Leadership. JAI Press.
  • , , & . . Hva er arbeidsmiljø? En gjennomgang av begrepet (What is the work environment? A conceptual analysis). In Mot et Bedre Arbeidsliv (Towards a Better Working Life). Fagbokforlaget.
  • , & . . Individual-union-organization relationships in a cultural context. In New Perspectives on International Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Jossey-Bass Publishers.
  • . . New developments in profit sharing, gainsharing, and employee ownership. In Productivity in Organizations. Jossey-Bass Publishers.
  • , , & . . Worker ownership and attitudes towards participation. In Workplace Democracy and Social Change. Porter Sargent Publishers.
  • , & . . Organizational behavior and industrial relations. In Industrial Relations Research in the 1970s: Review and Appraisal. Industrial Relations Research Association.

Book Sections

  • . . Industrial democracy.

Books

  • , , , , & . . Workers' Participation and Ownership: Cooperative Strategies for Strengthening Local Economies. ILR Press.
  • , , & . . Employee Ownership in Plant Shutdowns: Prospects for Employment Stability. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
  • . . Rewards Systems and Power Distributions: Searching for Solutions. Cornell University ILR School.

Professional activities

  • A license to misbehave? Organizational harassment norms and employee well-being. Presented to Academy of Management. Boston, MA. 2012.
  • A multi-level empirical expansions of Siegrist’s effort-reward imbalance model of job stress and health. Presented to Academy of Management. San Antonio, Texas. 2011.

Honors and Awards

  • Member, The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciencies and Letters.
  • Fellow, American Psychological Society.
  • Fellow, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
  • Fellow, American Psychological Association.
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