Dr. Richard Currie is an Assistant Professor of Leadership and Workplace Psychology in the School of Hospitality Administration at Boston University. He instructs undergraduate and graduate courses on topics ranging from human resource management and organizational leadership to research methods in the social sciences. Dr. Currie has completed numerous applied projects in the areas of instructional design and delivery, performance management, and leadership development for clients in industries ranging from staffing, transportation, higher education, hospitality, healthcare, and bio-pharmaceutical research and development.
Dr. Currie’s research interests center around work-related social stressors and the implications that employees’ responses to these stressors have on critical organizational knowledge management outcomes such as knowledge sharing and counterproductive knowledge hiding behaviors. In addition to publishing in leading academic journals, he regularly presents his research at prominent research conferences and conventions such as those for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology as well as the Association for Psychological Science. Moreover, Dr. Currie disseminates his research in non-academic forums including the Boston Hospitality Review.
Currie, R.A., Achyldurdyyeva, J., Guchait, P., Lee, J. (2024). For my eyes only: The effect of supervisor nosiness on knowledge sharing behavior among restaurant workers. International Journal of Hospitality Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103770
Currie, R.A., Lee, J., Min, H., Jex, S.M. (2023). Special privileges or busywork? The impact of qualitative job insecurity on idiosyncratic deals and illegitimate tasks among hospitality workers. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2023.103513
Hughes, I. M., Lee, J., Hong, J., Currie, R. A., & Jex, S. M. (2023). They were uncivil, and now I am too: A dual process model exploring relations between customer incivility and instigated incivility. Stress and Health, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3221
Currie, R. A., Ehrhart, M. G. Mind your own business: Developing and validating the workplace nosiness scale. Manuscript under review (submitted 07/01/2024). Currie, R.A., Lee, J. Silly customer, that’s not my job: How customer-requested illegitimate tasks impact organization-directed citizenship among customer-facing employees. Manuscript under review (submitted 06/28/2024). Lee, J., Currie, R. A., Min, H., Jex, S. M. An investigation of the moderating effects of recovery on the relationship between customer incivility and unhealthy coping behaviors. To be submitted September 2024. Currie, R. A. That wasn’t my job. A daily diary study examining how and when customer-facing employees regret fulfilling customers’ illegitimate requests. To be submitted October 2024. Currie, R. A., Gip, R., Guchait, P. From illegitimate to invaluable: How fulfilling illegitimate tasks enables employees to secure idiosyncratic deals from their supervisors. To be submitted by January 2025.
