Professor Prashant Bordia

Prashant Bordia is a professor in the School of Management at the University of South Australia. Before moving to UniSA, he was at the University of Queensland where he received the Early Career Research Excellence Award ($55,000) in 2003. He has received competitive research grant funding for his research from the Australian Research Council (Discovery & Linkage schemes) and the US National Science Foundation and has conducted research and consulting projects with several public and private sector organizations. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, Human Resource Management, Intl. Journal of Human Resource Management, and Group & Organization Management.

• My teaching interests are in organisational behaviour and human resource management.

Academy of Management (USA)

Australian Psychological Society

PhD (Temple University, Philadelphia, 1996)

• Rumours in organisations, management of uncertainty during organisational change, psychological contracts, international OB/HRM

Selected refereed publications:

Book

DiFonzo, N., & Bordia, P. (2007). Rumor psychology: Social & organizational approaches. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.

Selected Refereed Publications

Bordia, P., Restubog, SLD., & Tang, R. L. (2008). When employees strike back: Investigating mediating mechanisms between psychological contract breach and workplace deviance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(5), 1104-1117.

Restubog, SLD., Hornsey, M. J., Bordia, P., & Esposo, S. (2008). Effects of psychological contract breach on organizational citizenship behaviors: Insights from the group value model. Journal of Management Studies, 45(8), 1377-1400.

Bordia, P., Jones, E., Gallois, C., Callan, V., & DiFonzo, N. (2006). Management are aliens! Rumors and stress during organizational change. Group & Organization Management, 31, 601-621.

Restubog, S. L. D., Bordia, P., & Tang, R. L. (2006). Effects of psychological contract breach on performance of IT employees: The mediating role of affective commitment. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 79, 299-306.

Bordia, P., Hobman, E., Jones, E., Gallois, C., & Callan, V. (2004). Uncertainty during organizational change: Types, consequences, and management strategies. Journal of Business & Psychology, 18(4), 507-532.

Bordia, P., & Blau, G. (2003). Moderating effect of allocentrism on the pay referent comparison-pay satisfaction relationship. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 52(4), 499-514.

Chang, A., Bordia, P., & Duck, J. (2003). Developmental patterns of project teams: An empirical attempt at reconciling the differences between linear progression and punctuated equilibrium models of group development. Academy of Management Journal, 46, 106-117.

DiFonzo, N., & Bordia, P. (2002). Rumors and stable-cause attribution in prediction and behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 88, 785-800.

Bordia, P., & Blau, G. (1998). Pay referent comparison and pay level satisfaction in public versus private sector organizations in India. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 9(1), 155-167.

DiFonzo, N., & Bordia, P. (1998). A tale of two corporations: Managing uncertainty during organizational change. Human Resource Management, 37, 295-303.

DiFonzo, N., & Bordia, P. (1997). Rumor and prediction: Making sense (but loosing dollars) on the stock market. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 71(3), 329-353. Reprinted 2005 in International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, 187, 248-272.

DiFonzo, N., Bordia, P., & Rosnow, R. L. (1994). Reining in Rumors. Organizational Dynamics, 23(1), 47-62.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management

• Employer-employee psychological contracts
• Organisational communication and rumours
• Organisational change and uncertainty