David Patient

David Patient is Professor in the People & Organizations area at Vlerick Business School in Belgium since 2020, and a Visiting Professor at CATÓLICA-LISBON.

David has a law degree from the University College London, and an MBA and PhD from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. David's research, which focuses on effective managerial communication and employee motivation, has been published in top academic journals, including Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, and Journal of Organizational Behavior.

From 2006 to 2019, David was a Professor in Organizational Behavior at CATÓLICA-LISBON, where his roles included Director of CUBE - Católica Lisbon Research Unit in Business and Economics, and Academic Director of several programs, including the Master in Psychology in Business and Economics, the Executive Master in Management with a specialization in Leadership Development, and the Lisbon MBA. David has designed, coordinated, and taught in numerous open executive programs and custom executive programs, including for international clients such as WebSummit and Sands China Casinos.

From 2016 to 2019, David served a three-year term as an elected Representative-at-Large on the Board of Governors of the 20,000-member Academy of Management, the leading international organization for management scholarship.

MY EXPERTISE

• Managerial communication
• Power and influence
• Effective teams
• Employee motivation
• Workplace fairness

Publications

• Thank you for the bad news: Reducing cynicism in highly identified employees during adverse organizational change
  Sguera, Francesco; Patient, David; Diehl, Marjo-Riitta; Bobocel, Ramona (Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 2021)
  
• Antecedents and consequences of collective psychological ownership: The validation of a conceptual model
  Giordano, Ana Paula; Patient, David; Passos, Ana Margarida; Sguera, Francesco (Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2020)
  
• The effect of justice expectations on OCBs and its regulation by professional identification
  Sguera, Francesco; Patient, David (2020)
• Thinking of a position outside the US? Dos and Don'ts of international business schools
  Chattopadhyay, P.; Richter, A.; Shenoy, P.; Patient, David; Cojuharenco, I.; El Nayal, O.; Hartman, S.; Caprar, D.; Rerup, C.; Grohsjean, T.; et al. (2020)
• From crisis to enlivenment: An AOM president responds to EO13769
  Pirson, Michael; Adler, Paul; Barney, Jay; Bartunek, Jean; Patient, David; Phillips, Nelson; Pitelis, Christos (Journal of Management Inquiry, 2019)
  
• Systemic justice and burnout: A multilevel model
  Haines,Victor; Patient, David; Marchand, Alain (Human Resource Management Journal, 2018)
• Tell me who, and I’ll tell you how fair: A model of agent bias in justice reasoning
  Cojuharenco, Irina; Marques, Tatiana; Patient, David (Group and Organization Management, 2017)
• Antecedents and consequences of collective psychological ownership
  Giordano, Ana, Paula; Patient, David; Passos, Anna Margarida; Sguera, Francesco (2016)
• The "Who" of organizational justice: Source effects on justice judgements
  Marques, Tatiana; Patient, David; Cojuharenco, Irina (2016)
• It is time for justice: How time changes what weknow about justice judgments and justice effects
  Fortin, Marion; Conjuharenco, Irina; Patient, David; German, Hayley (Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2016)
• How informational injustice leads to exit intentions: Cynicism in highly identified employees
  Patient, David; Sguera, Francesco; Diehl, Marjo-Riitta (2015)
• The “When” of justice events and why it matters
  Patient, David; Cojuharenco, Irina; Fortin, Marion (2015)
• Toward a theory of intraorganizational attention based on desirability and feasibility factors
  Barreto, Ilídio; Patient, David (Strategic Management Journal, 2013)
• Bad news - The importance of how, when and by whom it is communicated
  Patient, David; Saldanha, M.F.; Domingues, J. (2013)
• Workplace fairness versus unfairness: Examining the differential salience of facets of organizational justice
  Cojuharenco, Irina; Patient, David (Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology, 2013)
• Task-relevant justice: Receiving the resources to get the job done
  Patient, David; German, Hayley (2012)
• Bringing together different perspectives on ethical leadership
  Grover, Steven; Nadisic, Thierry; Patient, David (Journal of Change Management, 2012)
• Self-relevance biases in memories of organizatioanal justice: The importance of understanding what happens when
  Cojuharenco, Irina; Van Prooijen, J.W.; Patient, David (2011)
• Pitfalls of administering justice in an inconsistent world: Some reflections on the consistency rule
  Patient, David (Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2011)
• Seeing the forest or the trees of organizational justice: Effects of temporal perspective on employee concerns about unfair treatment at work
  Cojuharenco, Irina; Patient, David; Bashshur, Michael (Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2011)
• Increasing interpersonal and informational justice when communicating negative news: The role of the manager's empathic concern and moral development
  Patient, David; Skarlicki, Daniel (Journal of Management, 2010)
• Cleaning up the water law of British Columbia: A problemistic approach to rule change
  Schultz, Martin; Jennings, Deveraux; Patient, David (2008)
• Weber and legal rule evolution: The closing of the iron cage?
  Jennings, Devereaux; Schultz, Martin; Patient, David; Gravel, Caroline; Yuan, Ke (Organization Studies, 2005)
• Why managers don't always do the right thing when delivering bad news: The roles of empathy, self-esteem, and moral development in interactional fairness
  Patient, David; Skarlicki, Daniel (2005)
• Understanding envy through narrative fiction
  Patient, David; Lawrence, Thomas; Maitlis, Sally (Organization Studies, 2003)