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Steven Mellor

Steven Mellor

Title: Associate Professor
Departmental Program: Industrial/Organizational
E-mail: steven.mellor@uconn.edu
Office Phone: (860) 486-2553
Web site: http://www.iopsychology.uconn.edu/people/mellor.htm

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

Research Interests:

  • Organizational behavior
  • Union-management relations

Undergraduate courses:

  • Principles of Research in Psychology

Graduate courses:

  • Organizational Psychology
  • Work Motivation
  • Leadership in the Workplace

Representative Publications:

  • Mellor, S., Golay, L. M., & Tuller, M. D.  (in press, available online: http://www.springerlink. com/content/v2310q0n34937556/). The character of American workers:  Psychological predictors of union interest as tools for American union practitioners.  Employee Rights and Responsibilities Journal.
  • Mellor, S., & Kath, L. M. (2011).  Fear of reprisal for disclosing union interest:  Assessing the effectiveness of perceived anti-unionism.  Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 23, 117-129.
  • Mellor, S. (2009).  Self-evaluation and union interest:  The empirical relevance of a mediated model.  Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology,82, 369-390.
  • Mellor, S., & Mathieu, J. E. (1999). A discriminant validity study of aggregate level constructs and measures of local union formalization, centralization, and innovation. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 133, 1-14.
  • Mellor, S., Paley, M. J., & Holzworth, R. J. (1999). Fans' judgments about the 1994-95 Major League Baseball players' strike. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 34, 61-89.
  • Mellor, S., Barnes-Farrell, J. L., & Stanton, J. M. (1999). Unions as justice-promoting organizations: The interactive effect of ethnicity, gender, and perceived union effectiveness. Sex Roles, 40, 331-346.
  • Mellor, S., & Mark, M. M. (1998). A quasi-experimental design for studies on the impact of administrative decisions: Applications and extensions of the regression-discontinuity design. Organizational Research Methods, 1, 315-333.