Affiliation: Griffith Business School
Email: peter.jordan@griffith.edu.au

Biography

Peter Jordan, Ph.D. is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources, Griffith Business School, Brisbane, Australia. Peter gained his PhD in Management from the University of Queensland in Australia. His doctoral thesis examined the impact of emotional intelligence on the longitudinal performance of teams. His current research focuses on four main areas:

Performance in work teams and particularly the impact of emotional intelligence on work team processes;

Emotions and job insecurity in organizations and the influence of emotional intelligence on individual decision making and innovation in organizations undergoing change;

The negative effects of emotional intelligence;

Training in emotional intelligence abilities and whether emotional intelligence can be trained.

Peter’s research has been published in journals such as The Academy of Management Review, Human Performance, Human Resource Management Review, and Leadership and Organizational Development Journal. He has also published a number of book chapters relating to emotional intelligence. Peter has been awarded 4 Australian Research Council Grants for researching various aspects of the impact of emotional intelligence in the workplace. These grants are to examine the efficacy of training emotional intelligence (2003 – 2005), the moderating effect of emotional intelligence on job insecurity (2004 – 2006) and the impact of emotional intelligence on conflict resolution in teams (2005 – 2007) and the impact of emotional intelligence in complex project management (2009 – 2011).

In addition to his research interests, Peter presents and consults on the topics of organizational change, work team performance and emotional intelligence to a wide array of organizations in South East Asia. He has presented his research to a broad range of international conferences and made presentations to business groups in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and the Middle East. Prior to entering academia, Peter was involved in operational and strategic planning for the Australian Government.

Articles

Lindebaum, D. & Jordan, P.J. (in press) Relevant but exaggerated: The effects of emotional intelligence on project manager performance in construction, Construction Management and Economics

Jordan, P.J. & Troth, A.C. (2011) Emotional intelligence and leader member exchange: the relationship with employee turnover intentions and job satisfaction. Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, 38, 260 - 280.

Ramachandran, Y., Jordan, P.J., Troth, A.C. & Lawrence, S.A. (2011)  Emotional intelligence, emotional labor and organisational citizenship behaviour in service environments, International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion , 1,

Jordan, P.J., Dasborough, M.T., Daus, C.S, & Ashkanasy, N.M. (2010) A Call to Context: Comments on Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Social Competencies.  Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 3, 145 - 148.

Jordan, P.J. & Lawrence, S.A.  (2009) Emotional intelligence in Teams: Development and initial validation of the Workgroup Emotional Intelligence Profile – Short Version (WEIP-S).  Journal of Management & Organization, 15 (4), 452 - 469.

Christie, A., Jordan, P. J., Troth, A. C., & Lawrence, S. A. (2007). Testing the links between emotional intelligence and motivation. Journal of Management & Organization, 13(3), 212 – 226.

Jordan, P.J., Lawrence, S.A., & Troth, A.C.   (2006)  The impact of negative mood on team performance.  Journal of Management & Organization., 12 (2): 131 - 145

Book Chapters

Lawrence, S.A., Jordan, P. J., Troth, A. C., & Collins, A.L.  (2011). A review of emotion regulation and development of a framework for emotion regulation in the workplace.  In P. Perrewe & D. Ganster (Eds.), Research in occupational stress and well-being (pp. 197 - 263). Emerald Group Limited.

Jordan, P.J., Murray, J.P. & Lawrence, S.A. (2009).  The application of emotional intelligence in industrial and organizational psychology.  In C. Stough, D. Saklofske & J. Parker (Eds), Assessing Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Research, and Applications. (pp.171 – 190)  New York, N.Y.: Springer Publishing.

Ashkanasy, N.M. & Jordan, P.J.  (2008) A Multi-level View of Leadership and Emotion. In Ronald H. Humphrey, Chester A. Schriesheim and Linda L. Neider, (Eds.), Affect and Emotion: New Directions in Management Theory and Research. (pp17 – 39) Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Jordan, P. J., Ashkanasy, N. M., & Daus, C. S.  (2008). Emotional Intelligence: Rhetoric or reality?  In S. Cartwright & C. L. Cooper (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of personnel psychology. (pp. 37 – 57) Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jordan, P.J (2008). The use of emotional intelligence in business: Resolving varying definitions and measures and their relationship to work performance.  In N. M. Ashkanasy & C. L. Cooper (Eds.), Research companion to emotions in organizations. (pp. 211 – 225). Cheltenham, UK: Edwin Elgar Publishing (New Horizons in Management Series).

Jordan, P. J, Ashkanasy, N. M., & Ascough, K.  (2007). Emotional intelligence in organizational behavior and industrial-organizational psychology. In G. Matthews, M. Zeidner & R. D. Roberts (Eds.), Science of emotional intelligence: Knowns and unknowns (pp. 356 – 375). New York: Oxford University Press.