Faculty Profile

• LKCSB Excellence in Teaching Award, 2022-2023

• Poets & Quants 50 Best Undergraduate Professors, 2022

• Winner of SMU undergraduate teaching award (category: Excellent Teacher), 2021

• Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 2 Academic Research Fund (AcRF), 2020-2023

• Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 Academic Research Fund (AcRF), 2019-2021

• Elected Officer, Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management, 2017-2021

• Dean's Teaching Honour List (Postgraduate Programs), SMU, 2018

• Constructive deviance (whistle-blowing, voice, creativity, etc.)

• Destructive deviance (unethical behaviors, white-collar crime, organizational corruption, etc.)

• Vadera, A. K., Tenbrunsel, A. E., & Diekmann, K. 2025. Bridging the chasm between intentions and behaviors: Developing and testing a construal level theory of internal whistle-blowing. Organization Science, 36(1): 261-287.

• Menges, J. I., Howe, L. C., Hall, E., Jachimowicz, J. M., Parker, S. K., Takeuchi, R., Vadera, A. K., Whillans, A., & Cohen, S. K. 2024. The human side of the future of work: Understanding the role people play in shaping a changing world. Academy of Management Discoveries, 10(3): 307–318. [From the Guest Editors]

• Lim, G. J. H., Pitesa M., & Vadera, A. K. (2023). Cheating constraint decisions and discrimination against workers with lower financial standing. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 174: 104211.

• Chen, F. X., Graso, M, Aquino, K., Lin, L., Cheng, J, DeCelles, K & Vadera, A. K. (2022). The vigilante identity in organizations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 170: 104136.

• Taiyi Yan, T., Tangirala, S., Vadera, A. K., & & Ekkirala, S. (2022). How employees learn to speak up from their leaders: Gender congruity effects in the development of voice self-efficacy. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(4): 650-667.

• Vadera, A.K., & Rao, C. P. (2021). Competition and cheating: Investigating the role of moral awareness, moral identity, and moral elevation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(8): 1060-1081.

• Taylor, S. G., Folger, R., Vadera, A. K., Griffith, M. D., & Letwin, C. R. (2019). Does having a bad boss make you more likely to be one yourself? Harvard Business Review. Available at https://hbr.org/2019/01/does-having-a-bad-boss-make-you-more-likely-to-be-one-yourself

• Taylor, S. G., Griffith, M. D., Vadera, A. K., Folger, R., & Letwin, C. R. (2019). Breaking the cycle of abusive supervision: How disidentification and moral identity help the trickle-down change course. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104 (1): 164-182.

• Zhu, L., Aquino, K., & Vadera, A.K. (2016). What makes professors credible: The effect of demographic characteristics and ideological beliefs. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(6): 862-880.

• Vadera, A.K., & Aguilera, R.V. (2015).The evolution of vocabularies and its relation to investigation of white-collar crimes: An institutional work perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 128(1), 21-38.

• Baer, M., Vadera, A.K., Leenders, R., & Oldham, G. (2014). Intergroup competition as a doubleedged sword: How sex composition regulates the effects of competition on group creativity. Organization Science, 25(3), 892-908.

• Vadera, A.K, Pratt, M.G., & Mishra, P. (2013). Constructive deviance in organizations: Integrating and moving forward. Journal of Management, 39(5), 1221-1276.

• Vadera, A.K., & Pratt, M.G. (2013). Love, hate, ambivalence, or indifference? A conceptual examination of workplace crimes and organizational identification. Organization Science, 24(1), 172-188.

• Baer, M., Leenders, R., Oldham, G., & Vadera, A.K. (2010). Win or lose the battle for creativity: The power and perils of intergroup competition. Academy of Management Journal, 53(4), 827-845.

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