Richard Currie

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.