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David Patient

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Qualifications: Ph.D University of British Columbia M.B.A. University of British Columbia LL.B. University of London London, UK

Biography

Has a law degree from University College London (UK) and an MBA and PhD from University of British Columbia (Canada). His research is published in top academic journals, including OBHDP, Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Organization Studies. At Católica-Lisbon, David is Director of the CUBE Research Unit and Academic Director of the Executive Master in Leadership Development and for the Master in Psychology for Business and Economics. He coordinates and teaches in numerous custom and open executive programs on effective communication and leadership development. His background includes sales and marketing with IBM Canada, and working as a freelance editor and writer. In 2016, David was elected to a three-year term as Representative-at-Large on the Board of Governors of the 20,000-member Academy of Management, the leading international organization for management scholarship.

Areas of Expertise

Management

Research Interest

Organization Management

Cojuharenco, I., Marques, T., & Patient, D. L. (2017). Tell me who, and I’ll tell you how fair: A model of agent bias in justice reasoning. Group & Organization Management. 

Haines, V. Y., III, Patient, D. L., & Marchand, A. (2017). Systemic justice and burnout: A multilevel model. Human Resource Management Journal, as of June 2017. 

Fortin, I., Cojuharenco, I., Patient, D. L., & German, H. (2016). It’s time for justice. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 

Cojuharenco, I., & Patient, D. L. (2014). Workplace fairness versus unfairness: Examining the differential salience of facets of organizational justice. Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology. 

Barreto, I., & Patient, D. L. (2013). Toward a theory of intraorganizational attention based on desirability and feasibility factors. Strategic Management Journal, 34, 687-703. 

Grover, S., Nadisic, T., & Patient, D. L. (2012). Bringing together different perspectives on ethical leadership. Journal of Change Management, 12, 

Cojuharenco, I., Patient, D. L., & Bashshur, M. (2011). Seeing the forest or the trees of organizational justice: Effects of temporal perspective on employee concerns about unfair treatment at work. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 116, 17-3. 

Patient, D. L., & Skarlicki, D. P. (2010). Increasing interpersonal and informational justice when communicating negative news: The role of the manager's empathic concern and moral development. Journal of Management, 26, 555-578. 

Jennings, P. D., Schultz, M., Patient, D. L., Gravel, C., & Yuan, K. (2005). Weber and legal rule evolution: The closing of the iron cage? Organization Studies, 26, 621-653. 

Patient, D. L, Lawrence, T. B., & Maitlis, S. (2003). Understanding envy through narrative fiction. Organization Studies, 24, 1015-1044. 

Sguera, F., Patient, D., Diehl, M. R., & Bobocal, R. The power of information: Reducing cynicism in highly identified employees during adverse organizational change. Under review at Journal of Organizational Behavior. 

Sguera, F., & Patient, D. (authors contributed equally). Patient, D., & Sguera, Unforgotten justice: The effect of anticipatory procedural justice on employees OCBs and its regulation by professional identification. Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Vocational Behavior. 

Giordano, A. P., Patient, D., Passos, A. M., & Sguera, F. Antecedents and consequences of collective psychological ownership: The validation of a conceptual model. Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Organizational Behavior. 

Patient, D. L. (2011). Pitfalls of administering justice in an inconsistent world: Some reflections on the consistency rule. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32, 1008-1012. Invited commentary for Special Issue on “The organizational science of disaster/terrorism prevention.” (ABS 4). 

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