Amanda Ferguson
Professor
Department
Education
- Ph.D., London Business School, organisational behaviour
- M.B.A., Missouri State University
- B.S., Missouri State University
Biography
Amanda Ferguson is a professor in the Department of Management at NIU. She earned her Ph.D. in organisational behaviour at London Business School (2012). Her research focuses on the role of team composition and team processes on team effectiveness. Professor Ferguson's work has been published in outlets such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Applied Psychology. Prior to studying at London Business School, Professor Ferguson worked as a senior sales representative at Eli Lilly and Company in St. Louis, Missouri, and earned her B.S./MBA degrees at Missouri State University.
Teaching Areas
- Organizational behavior
- Teams
Selected Publications
- Where are all the low-risk R&Rs? Group and Organization Management (In Press).
- Four Common Types of Team Conflict - And How to Resolve Them. Harvard Business Review (2024).
- Relieving the pressure: Team familiarity attenuates external conformity pressure on team member decisions. Journal of Management (2024). 50: 1836-1864.
- Better together: Member proactivity is better for team performance when aligned with conscientiousness. Academy of Management Discoveries (2024). 10: 250-272.
- Team composition revisited: Expanding the team member attribute alignment approach to consider patterns of more than two attributes. Organizational Research Methods (2024). 27: 329-348.
- Team composition revisited: A team member attribute alignment approach. Organizational Research Methods (2022). 25: 642-672
- Things are not always what they seem: The origins and evolution of intragroup conflict. Administrative Science Quarterly (2021). 66: 426-474.
- Winner of the 2022 "Outstanding Publication in OB" Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management.
- The effects of cohesion and structural position on the top management team boundary spanning-firm performance relationship. Group and Organization Management (2019). 44: 1099-1135.
- Winner of a 2019 Outstanding Article Award by the Group and Organization Management Editorial Team.
- Finding the 'I' in 'Team': The role of groups in an individual's pursuit of calling. Journal of Vocational Behavior (2019). 114: 88-99.
- Misfit and milestones: Structural elaboration and capability reinforcement in the evolution of entrepreneurial top management teams. Academy of Management Journal (2016). 54: 1430-1450.
- Sinking slowly: Diversity in propensity to trust predicts downward trust spirals in small groups. Journal of Applied Psychology (2015). 100: 1012-1024.
