How to Prepare and Write a Good Review Article for Top-Tier Journals in Management and Applied Psychology?

Presenter: Associate Professor Herman Tse (Monash University)

Abstract
In this research workshop, I will be sharing my own experiences and some effective strategies on how to prepare a good review article for top-tier journals in Management and Applied Psychology. I will be using a recent review article that I have published in the Leadership Quarterly as an illustrative example to go through the key elements of a good review article. The workshop will be informal, interactive and supportive for academic staff, research staff and doctoral students to attend.
The title of my review article is: Affect and Leader-Member Exchange in the New Millennium: A State-of-the-Art Review and Guiding Framework. The idea that affect plays a key role in leader-member exchange (LMX) processes is not new, but it has become a subject of considerable research attention since the turn of the Millennium. This interest has, however, resulted in a multiplicity of views that have tended to obfuscate rather than clarify the affect-LMX nexus. To deal with this lack of clarity, we conducted a systematic integration of affect-LMX literature published in leading journals since 2000, including the role of personal affectivity, discrete affect, emotional intelligence, emotional labor, and affective climate. We structured our review using a multilevel framework of affect that encompasses five levels of analysis: (1) within-person, (2) between persons, (3) interpersonal, (4) team, and (5) organizational levels; as well as consideration of cross-level effects. We address in particular three fundamental issues that we argue may have hampered the development of the affect-LMX nexus in the literature: theoretical diversity, problems of data analysis, and measurement issues. We conclude by discussing opportunities for future research across the different levels and develop a set of research questions that we hope will help to promote research into the role of affect in LMX.

Biography
Herman Tse is an Associate Professor of Leadership in the Department of Management, and is also the Director of the ECR Network at Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia. He obtained his PhD from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Herman’s research interests include transformational leadership, leader-member exchange, emotions in teams and multilevel management issues. In recent years, his research has focused on studying the role of emotions in different types of interpersonal interactions among supervisors, subordinates and coworkers in work teams using new theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques.
Herman’s work has appeared in internationally respected journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of Organizational Behaviour and the Human Resource Management. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behaviour and has also been on the editorial board of three journals including the Management Organization Review, the Journal of Business Research and the Leadership Quarterly.

Light lunch will be served so please advise of any dietary requirements.