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Professor Irene Elisabeth de Pater

Professor of Business Psychology

Staff Member Details
Email: i.depater@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9578-9638

Professor Irene de Pater is a Professor of Business Psychology in the School of Business and Law.

Biography

Irene de Pater is a Professor of Business Psychology in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University. Before that, she was an Associate Professor in the School of Management and Marketing at Curtin University, an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore Business School (Singapore) and the School of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Irene received her doctorate degree in Work and Organisational Psychology from the University of Amsterdam.

In her research, Irene applies the theory of organisational behaviour to understand how employees react to and can deal effectively with their work experiences and the consequences these experiences have for both their work and personal life. This research mainly focuses on experiences related to their work (i.e., the content of work) and the people they encounter (i.e., interpersonal interactions). It has been published in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organisational Behaviour, and Personnel Psychology.

Irene serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Organisational Behaviour and is an active reviewer for numerous scientific journals in business and psychology.

Research Areas and Interests
  • Challenging work experiences
  • Workplace rudeness
  • Interpersonal work behaviour
  • Leadership

Professional Associations
  • Member of the Academy of Management (AOM)
  • Member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)
  • Member of the Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)

ECU Research Themes

Organisational behaviour

Media Topics
  • Rudeness
  • Leadership
  • Interpersonal work behaviour
  • Job challenge

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Psychology, Netherlands, 2005.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Wray-Bliss, E., De Pater, I. (2024). Examining Love as a Central Ethic of Leadership: a Kierkegaardian and Feminist Reading. Journal of Business Ethics, 2024(Article in press), 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05867-w.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Yi, M., Wang, S., De Pater, I., Luo, J. (2022). Who Speaks Up?: Motivational Configurations of Personality Traits to Voice Behavior. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 21(2), 66-75. https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000289.
  • Wang, S., De Pater, I., Yi, M., Zhang, Y., Yang, T. (2022). Empowering leadership: employee-related antecedents and consequences. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 39(2), 457-481. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-020-09734-w.

2021

Book Chapters

  • De Pater, I., Ting, G. (2021). Leadership development: Challenging work experiences in Singapore. On the Emergence and Understanding of Asian Global Leadership (133-152). Walter de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671988-011.

Journal Articles

  • Liu, X., De Pater, I., Ilies, R. (2021). Turning lemons into lemonade: The role of proactive personality and information exchange in limiting reciprocal negative affect transference in service encounters. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(9), 1282-1300. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2542.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Aw, S., Ilies, R., De Pater, I. (2020). Dispositional empathy, emotional display authenticity, and employee outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(9), 1036-1046. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000471.
  • Foulk, T., De Pater, I., Schaerer, M., Du Plessis, C., Lee, R., Erez, A. (2020). It's lonely at the bottom (too): The effects of experienced powerlessness on social closeness and disengagement. Personnel Psychology: the study of people at work, 73(2), 363-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12358.

2019

Book Chapters

  • Van Vianen, A., De Pater, I., Preenen, P. (2019). Career Success: Employability and the Quality of Work Experiences. International Handbook of Career Guidance (241-262). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25153-6_11.

Journal Articles

  • Van Hooff, M., De Pater, I. (2019). Daily associations between basic psychological need satisfaction and well-being at work: The moderating role of need strength. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 92(4), 1027-1035. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12260.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Van De Ven, C., Van Vianen, A., Nauta, A., De Pater, I. (2018). The relationship between challenge deals and supervisors’ assessment of employee promotability [Potentieelbeoordeling van medewerkers: De rol van uitdagende werkafspraken]. Gedrag en Organisatie, 31(1), 30-49.

2017

Journal Articles

  • Van Hooff, M., De Pater, I. (2017). Let's Have Fun Tonight: The Role of Pleasure in Daily Recovery from Work. Applied Psychology: an international review, 66(3), 359-381. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12098.

2016

Journal Articles

  • Dalhoeven, B., Van Vianen, A., De Pater, I. (2016). De leerervaringen en ontwikkelbereidheid van (Oudere) medewerkers na een functioneringsgesprek en reorganisatie. Gedrag en Organisatie, 29(3), 211-231. https://doi.org/10.5117/2016.029.003.001.
  • Schilpzand, P., De Pater, I., Erez, A. (2016). Workplace incivility: A review of the literature and agenda for future research. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 37(2016), S57-S88. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.1976.

Research Projects

  • MARS: Investigating Awareness of and the Affective, Cognitive and Behavioural Responses to Sexual Harassment Legislation Among FIFO Mining Workers, DMIRS: Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety - MARS, Grant, 2024, $40,000.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Shining a Spotlight on Leader Mental Health: Exploring its Antecedents and Consequences
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The impact of telecommuting, awareness, and self-determination on worker performance and well-being

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Decent Work and Human Sustainability: An Exploratory Study in Western Australia

Completed Supervisions

Co-principal Supervisor

  • PhD: Challenge at work: A matter of give and take
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