Professor and Lang Chair in Leadership
Department of Management
Email:
lbarcl01@uoguelph.ca
Office:
MAC Rm: 325
Laurie Barclay
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Laurie Barclay is a full professor and the Lang Chair in Leadership. Her research interests focus on creating, maintaining, and enhancing healthy workplaces through fairness and justice, leadership, EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion), and related topics (e.g., behavioral ethics, conflict management).
Laurie Barclay’s research has appeared in top-tier outlets including the Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Her research has received numerous awards and has been supported by prestigious grants including the Ontario Early Researcher Award and multiple grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Laurie is also an enthusiastic teacher and mentor who has received multiple teaching awards and commendations including the Alumni Award of Excellence for Mentoring. She is currently the editor-in-chiief for the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Ph.D. Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, 2006. Organizational Behavior and Human Resources.
B.A. (Honors) Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2000. First Class Honors.
- Fairness
- Leadership
- EDI (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion)
- Behavioral Ethics
- Healthy work
- Conflict Management
- Forgiveness
- Emotions
- Aggression
5 most recent publications:
Palanski, M., & Barclay, L. J. (2026). The leader in context: Developing leaders by adopting a self-in-systems approach. Academy of Management Learning & Education. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2024.0562
Hwang, C. C., Barclay, L. J., & Brady, D. L. (2026). The consequences of failing to act: Examining the Importance of perceived employee-directed managerial inaction. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 33(1), 5-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/15480518251352592
Bashshur, M. R., Barclay, L. J., & Fortin, M. (2025). Of headlamps and marbles: A motivated perceptual approach to the dynamic and dialectic nature of fairness. Organizational Psychology Review, 15, 127-155. https://doi./org/10.1177/20413866231199068
Kiefer, T., Barclay, L. J., & Conway, N. (2025). Applying event system theory to organizational change: The importance of everyday positive and negative events. Journal of Management. 51, 1066-1095. https://doi./org/10.1177/01492063241237221/
Lyubykh, Z., Barclay, L.J., Turner, N., & Hershcovis, M. S. (2025). Perceiving the inevitable: Understanding observer reactions to workplace mistreatment through the lens of system justification theory. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 46, 721-744. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2854
LEAD*6800 Personal Skill Self-Development
LEAD*6420 Developing and Coaching Others
LEAD*6720 Politics in Organizations
- Insight Grant. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (co-applicant). 2022-2026.
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (€184,432.59). 2021-2024. Collaborator (with Francisca Saldanha and Daniel Brady).
- Insight Grant. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($147,385). 2016-2023.
- Ontario Early Researcher Excellence Award ($150,000). 2012-2017.
- Standard Research Grant. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($82,985). 2011-2016.
- University of Guelph Research Leader Award, 2024.
- Lang Chair in Leadership. 2021.
- Recipient of the Alumni Awards of Excellence: University Faculty Mentoring Award (Wilfrid Laurier University. 2016.
- Best Paper Awards
- Academy of Management (Conflict Management). 2014. 2004.
- Emerald. 2016.
- Academy of Management (Management History). 2003.
- Reviewer of the Year
- Journal of Applied Psychology. 2020.
- Journal of Business & Psychology. 2020.
- Journal of Organizational Behavior. 2013, 2014.
Area of Research
Executive Programs
leadership
organizational management
