Senior Lecturer, Dept of Management & Marketing, Faculty of Business & Economics, The University of Melbourne
Jesse Olsen is a Senior Lecturer of Management in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne and a Research Associate at the Centre for Asian Business and Economics. He earned his PhD in organisational behaviour from the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA.
His research focuses on improvisation in organisations, diversity management, international/cross-cultural management, and leadership.
Jesse's work has been presented in top-tier journals and featured in such media outlets as SBS World News, The Guardian, Forbes, and The Conversation. He has also presented his research at numerous conferences and worked with organisations such as Perpetual, the Australian Workplace Gender Equality Agency, McDonald's, the Queensland Government, and the Asian Development Bank.
Jesse's professional experience includes his position as international exchange coordinator at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan. He was also employed as a business project manager in the Merger Integration Office and Corporate Strategies Group of SunTrust Bank in Atlanta. Before joining the University of Melbourne, Jesse conducted research and taught in the US, South Korea, and Japan. Jesse has also received improvisation and comedy writing training from the Laugh Masters Academy (Melbourne) and the Second City (Chicago, USA).
Experience
2018–present
Senior Lecturer, Department of Management and Marketing, The University of Melbourne
2016–2018
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Workplace Leadership, The University of Melbourne
2014–2016
Research Fellow, Centre for Workplace Leadership, The University of Melbourne
2011–2014
Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University
2010–2011
Assistant Professor, Solbridge International School of Business
2005–2010
PhD Student, Graduate Assistant, and Instructor, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
2004–2005
Business Project Manager, Corporate Strategies Group, SunTrust Bank
2001–2004
Exchange Coordinator, Center for International Education and Cooperation, Kwansei Gakuin University
Education
2010
Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, PhD in Organizational Behavior
2001
Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, BBA in International Business
Publications
2021
Explaining the take-up of virtual work: The role of virtual work self-efficacy and virtual work climate, International Journal of Human Resource Management
2021
Does procedural justice climate increase the identification and engagement of migrant workers? A group engagement model perspective, Personnel Review
2021
Between fit and flexibility? The benefits of high-performance work systems and leadership capability for innovation outcomes, Human Resource Management Journal
2021
Bringing the leader back in: Why, how, and when leadership empowerment behavior shapes coworker conflict, Group and Organization Management
2018
Who is the wolf and who is the sheep? Towards a more nuanced understanding of workplace incivility, Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice
2016
Gender diversity programs, perceived potential for advancement, and organizational attractiveness: An empirical examination of women in the United States and France, Group & Organization Management
2016
Racioethnicity, community makeup, and potential employees' reactions to organizational diversity management approaches, Journal of Applied Psychology
2015
Multiculturalism in Japan: An analysis and critique, Kwansei Gakuin University Journal of International Studies
2015
学生の留学志向をめぐる調査および各種留学プログラムの現状と課題 [A survey on students’ intentions to study abroad and the trend of diversifying study abroad programs], 関西学院大学高等教育研究 [Kwansei Gakuin University Research in Higher Education]
2015
Societal values and individual values in reward allocation preferences, Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal
2013
Social exchange from the supervisor’s perspective: Employee trustworthiness as a predictor of interpersonal and informational justice, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
2012
Understanding organizational diversity management programs: A theoretical framework and directions for future research, Journal of Organizational Behavior
2009
Effects of expatriate demographic characteristics on adjustment: A social identity approach, Human Resource Management