Melissa Gutworth

  • Associate Professor Management
Email
gutworthm@montclair.edu
Phone
(732) 570-7883
Location
Montclair Campus > School of Business

Education

  • BS, The College of New Jersey
  • PhD, The Pennsylvania State University

Publications

  • Book Chapter: M. Gutworth, D. Morton, J. Dahling, D. Svyantek, K. Mahoney (2013). Managing organizational deviance: Focusing on causes, not symptoms. Information Age Publishing
  • Book Chapter: S. Hunter, M. Gutworth, M. Crayne, B. Jayne, M. Mumford, M. Frese (2015). Planning for innovation: The critical role of agility. Taylor & Francis
  • Journal Article: J. Dahling, M. Gutworth (2017). Loyal rebels? A test of the normative conflict model of constructive deviance. Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • Journal Article: M. Howard, J. Farr, A. Grandey, M. Gutworth (2017). The creation of the workplace social courage scale (WSCS): An investigation of internal consistency, psychometric properties, validity, and utility. Journal of Business and Psychology
  • Journal Article: M. Gutworth, S. Hunter (2017). Ethical Saliency: Deterring deviance in creative individuals. Psychology of Creativity, Aesthetics, and the Arts
  • Book Chapter: S. Hunter, M. Gutworth, J. Lovelace, S. Rogelberg, S. Tonidandel, K. Shockley (2017). Originality. Sage Press
  • Book Chapter: S. Hunter, B. Neely, M. Gutworth, R. Reiter-Palmon (2018). Selection and team creativity: Meeting unique challenges through diversity and flexibility. Oxford University Press
  • Journal Article: M. Howard, M. Gutworth (2020). A Meta-analysis of virtual reality training programs for social skill development. Computers and Education
  • Journal Article: M. Gutworth, M. Howard (2019). Improving sexual harassment training effectiveness with climate interventions. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice
  • Journal Article: M. Gutworth, L. Cushenbery, S. Hunter (2018). Creativity for deliberate harm: Malevolent creativity and social information processing theory. Journal of Creative Behavior
  • Journal Article: A. McKay, M. Gutworth (2021). Temporal individual differences and creativity: An exploratory investigation . Psychology of Creativity, Aesthetics, and the Arts (APA Journal)
  • Journal Article: S. Hunter, L. Blocker, M. Gutworth, J. Allen (2023). Why we support some original ideas but reject others: An application of signaling theory. Journal of Creative Behavior
  • Journal Article: M. Howard, M. Gutworth (2021). A meta-analysis of virtual reality training programs. Computers in Human Behavior
  • Journal Article: S. Kessler, M. Gutworth (2023). The forgotten working class: A call to action based upon a repeated cross-sectional examination of the relationships among social class, financial satisfaction, and exhaustion. Group and Organization Management
  • Journal Article: M. Gutworth, M. Howard, D. Simonet (2024). Mandated but willing? Preferences and expectations among mandatory work from home employees. Human Resource Management Journal
  • Journal Article: M. Howard, K. Alipour, M. Gutworth (2025). Operationalizing a more comprehensive conceptualization of polychronicity: A consideration of single-tasking, task-switching, and dual-tasking. Personality and Individual Differences
  • Book Chapter: M. Gutworth, J. Dahling (2025). Constructive Deviance in the Workplace: New Developments and Lingering Questions. Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Journal Article: M. Gutworth (2024). Antiwork highlights the need for humanism in IO psychology. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice

Honors & Awards

  • Graddick-Weir Research Award (2 awards totaling $7500), Pennsylvania State University ( 2013)
  • College Teaching Certificate from the Schreyer Institute of Teaching Excellence, Pennsylvania State University ( 2015)
  • Effective Online Teaching Certificate, Pennsylvania State University ( 2015)
  • Liberal Arts College Dissertation Grant ($2000), Pennsylvania State University ( 2016)
  • Research and Graduate Office Travel Award (3 awards totaling $1600), Pennsylvania State University ( 2016)
  • Empowering Online Teaching and Learning Certificate, (August 2020)
  • Journal of Organizational Behavior Best Paper of the Year Runner Up Award, (August 2018)
  • Outstanding Teaching Award, Pennsylvania State University Psychology Department ( 2017)
  • Group and Organization Management Best Quantiatitve Paper 2023, Group and Organization Management (June 2023)