David Zweig

Professor of OB/HRM, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough

Degrees:

PhD, University of Waterloo
MASc, University of Waterloo
BA, University of Waterloo

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(416) 287-5613

Bio

David Zweig is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour and HR Management and past Chair and Graduate Chair of the Department of Management at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He holds a cross-appointment to the Organizational Behaviour and HR Management area at Rotman. David’s current research focuses on exploring knowledge theft and knowledge hiding in organizations, investigating the antecedents and outcomes of organizational cynicism, and workplace privacy. He teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and HR Recruitment and Selection.

Academic Positions

2011-2020

Chair, Department of Management, UTSC, University of Toronto
2018-2020

Graduate Chair, Department of Management, University of Toronto
2006-Present

Associate Professor, University of Toronto
2001-2006

Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior, University of Toronto
1999-2001

Instructor, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo

Selected Publications - Papers

We’re in this together: A dyadic approach to organizational cynicism, leader-member exchange, and performance

Scott, K.A., & Zweig, D

Human Relations.

Issue:in press

2021
Knowledge Theft in Organizations

Zweig, D. & Damp, A.

Proceedings of the Eighty-First Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

2021
The cynical subordinate: Exploring organizational cynicism, LMX, and loyalty

Scott, K.A., & Zweig, D.

Personnel Review

Issue:49, (8),

2020

Pages: 1731-1748
Understanding and Mitigating Cynicism in the Workplace.

Scott, K.A., & Zweig, D.

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Issue:31, (2)

2016

Pages: 552-569
Hidden Consequences: Anticipated and unanticipated reactions to knowledge hiding in organizations

Connelly, C., Zweig, D.

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.

Issue:24, (3)

2015

Pages: 479-489
Too Drained to Help: A Resource Depletion Perspective on Daily Interpersonal Citizenship Behaviors.

Trougakos, J.T., Hideg, I., Cheng, B., Beal, D., & Zweig, D.

Journal of Applied Psychology

Issue:100

2015

Pages: 227-236
I’m busy (and competitive)! Antecedents of knowledge sharing under pressure.

Connelly, C., Ford, D.P., Turel, O., Gallupe, B., & Zweig, D.

Knowledge Management Research and Practice

Issue:12

2014

Pages: 74-85
Knowledge hiding in organizations.

Connelly, C., Zweig, D., Webster, J., & Trougakos, J.

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Issue:33

2012

Pages: 64-88
Do Promises Matter? The Role of Promises in Psychological Contract Breach

Montes, S., Zweig, D.

Journal of Applied Psychology

Issue:94 (5)

2009

Pages: 1243-1260
When unfairness matters most: Supervisory violations of electronic monitoring practices.

D. Zweig & K. Scott

Human Resources Management Journal

Issue:17 (3)

2007

Pages: 227-247
Organizational socialization tactics and newcomer proactive behavior: An integrative study.

Gruman, J., Saks, A. & Zweig, D.

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Issue:69

2006

Pages: 90-104
Developing a Nomological Network for Interview Structure: Antecedents and Consequences of the Structured Selection Interview

Chapman, D., & Zweig, D

Personnel Psychology

2005

Pages: pp. 673-702
What are we measuring? An examination of the relationships between goal orientation, the big-five personality traits and performance intentions

Zweig, D., & Webster, J.

Personality and Individual Differences

Issue:36, (7)

2004

Pages: pp. 1693-1708
Where is the line between benign and invasive? An examination of psychological barriers to the acceptance of awareness monitoring systems

Zweig, D., & Webster, J.

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Issue:23

2002

Pages: pp. 605-633

Selected Publications - Books and Chapters

Beyond Knowledge Sharing: Withholding Knowledge at Work.

Webster, J., Brown, G., Zweig, D., Connelly, C., Brodt, S., & Simkin, S.

Emerald, JAI Press

Issue:27

2008
Making the decision to monitor in the workplace: Cybernetic models and the illusion of control.

Zweig, D. & Webster, J, & Scott, K.

Oxford University Press

2008
Beyond Privacy and Fairness Concerns: Examining Psychological Boundary Violations as a Consequence of Electronic Performance Monitoring.

Zweig, D.

Idea Group

Issue:In J. Weckert (Ed.). Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace: Controversies and Solutions.

2005

Recent Presentations

How Individuals Respond to Knowledge Theft in Organizations.

Damp, A. & Zweig, D.

European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Conference,

2022
When and How Knowledge Theft Impedes Career Success: Personal Accounts from Those Who Have Experienced Knowledge Theft in the Workplace.

Damp. A.* & Zweig, D.

Symposium paper presented at the 81st Annual Conference of the Academy of Management

2021
Knowledge Theft in Organizations

Zweig, D. & Damp, A.

81st Annual Conference of the Academy of Management

2021
Loyalty, Cynicism and Leader Member-Exchange.

Scott, K.A. & Zweig, D

European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Conference

2019
Exploring Knowledge Theft at Work.

Zweig, D., & Damp, A.

European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Conference

2019
The Dark-Side of Psychological Ownership: When Pro-Organization Becomes Pro-Self.

Ghosh, K., Zweig, D., & Sheldon, O.

Annual Conference of the Academy of Management

2019
Deviance Begets Deviance. Knowledge hiding and abusive supervision over time.

Zweig, D. & Scott, K.A.

Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,

2017
Do Promises Matter to the Psychological Contract? Only to your most difficult employees.

Montes, S., & Zweig, D.

Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

2014
Social construals of knowledge hiding in organizations: Perceived consequences of others’ and own knowledge hiding.

Connelly, C., & Zweig, D.

Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,

2012
Too Drained to Help: A Resource Depletion Perspective on Daily Interpersonal Citizenship Behaviors.

Trougakos, J.T., Hideg, I., Cheng, B., & Zweig, D.

Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

2012
Do Promises Matter? The Role of Promises in Psychological Contract Breach.

Montes, S., & Zweig, D.

Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Issue:April

2009

Research and Teaching Interests

My teaching interests lie in Organizational Behavior, Recruitment and Selection, and Leadership.

My research examines organizational monitoring practices, knowledge hiding in organizations, the use of structured interviews in selection, organizational cynicism, and knowledge theft.

Honors and Awards

2021

Best Paper Award - Knowledge Theft in Organizations, Annual Conference of the Academy of Management
2021

Wynne and Beryl Plumptre Research Award, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough
2013

Best Paper Award - Knowledge Hiding in Organizations, Journal of Organizational Behavior
2008

SSHRC Insight Grant - Co-PI, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
2000

Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Waterloo
2018-2022

SSHRC Insight Grant - PI, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
2007-2010

SSHRC Insight Grant - PI, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
2003

SSHRC Insight Grant - PI, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Academic / Professional Service

2018-2020

Graduate Chair - Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough
2011-2020

Chair - Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough

David Zweig

David Zweig

Bio

Academic Positions

Chair, Department of Management, UTSC, University of Toronto

Graduate Chair, Department of Management, University of Toronto

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior, University of Toronto

Instructor, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo

Selected Publications - Papers

We’re in this together: A dyadic approach to organizational cynicism, leader-member exchange, and performance

Knowledge Theft in Organizations

The cynical subordinate: Exploring organizational cynicism, LMX, and loyalty

Understanding and Mitigating Cynicism in the Workplace.

Hidden Consequences: Anticipated and unanticipated reactions to knowledge hiding in organizations

Too Drained to Help: A Resource Depletion Perspective on Daily Interpersonal Citizenship Behaviors.

I’m busy (and competitive)! Antecedents of knowledge sharing under pressure.

Knowledge hiding in organizations.

Do Promises Matter? The Role of Promises in Psychological Contract Breach

When unfairness matters most: Supervisory violations of electronic monitoring practices.

Organizational socialization tactics and newcomer proactive behavior: An integrative study.

Developing a Nomological Network for Interview Structure: Antecedents and Consequences of the Structured Selection Interview

What are we measuring? An examination of the relationships between goal orientation, the big-five personality traits and performance intentions

Where is the line between benign and invasive? An examination of psychological barriers to the acceptance of awareness monitoring systems

Selected Publications - Books and Chapters

Beyond Knowledge Sharing: Withholding Knowledge at Work.

Making the decision to monitor in the workplace: Cybernetic models and the illusion of control.

Beyond Privacy and Fairness Concerns: Examining Psychological Boundary Violations as a Consequence of Electronic Performance Monitoring.

Recent Presentations

How Individuals Respond to Knowledge Theft in Organizations.

When and How Knowledge Theft Impedes Career Success: Personal Accounts from Those Who Have Experienced Knowledge Theft in the Workplace.

Knowledge Theft in Organizations

Loyalty, Cynicism and Leader Member-Exchange.

Exploring Knowledge Theft at Work.

The Dark-Side of Psychological Ownership: When Pro-Organization Becomes Pro-Self.

Deviance Begets Deviance. Knowledge hiding and abusive supervision over time.

Do Promises Matter to the Psychological Contract? Only to your most difficult employees.

Social construals of knowledge hiding in organizations: Perceived consequences of others’ and own knowledge hiding.

Too Drained to Help: A Resource Depletion Perspective on Daily Interpersonal Citizenship Behaviors.

Do Promises Matter? The Role of Promises in Psychological Contract Breach.

Research and Teaching Interests

Honors and Awards

Best Paper Award - Knowledge Theft in Organizations, Annual Conference of the Academy of Management

Wynne and Beryl Plumptre Research Award, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough

Best Paper Award - Knowledge Hiding in Organizations, Journal of Organizational Behavior

SSHRC Insight Grant - Co-PI, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Waterloo

SSHRC Insight Grant - PI, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

SSHRC Insight Grant - PI, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

SSHRC Insight Grant - PI, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Academic / Professional Service

Graduate Chair - Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough

Chair - Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough