Sharon Arieli

Sharon Arieli is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategy Department at the Hebrew University Business School, and is a member of the K-Mart Center for Retail and International Marketing, the steering committee of the Asper Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the ethics committee of the Business School.

She studies the interactive effect of personality and social factors on behavior and choices relevant to organizational context. Her research focuses on facilitating creativity of employees, teams, and organizations; the impact of values on organizational behavior, the interplay between culture and cultural mindset and performance in organizations, and multiculturalism in the workplace.

Dr. Arieli has served as a Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan. Her research has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Cognition, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Journal of Personality, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

She won the Abe Gray President’s Prize for Excellence and the Golda Meir Fellowship. Additionally, she has been awarded several grants, including the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF), Recanati Travel Grant, Doctoral Grant of the Israel Foundations Trustees (I.F.T), the Canadian Friends of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Peter Lougheed Fellowship Grant, and the Gal-Ed Grant.

Dr. Arieli earned her PhD in Business Administration; an MBA, and a BA in Business Administration and Communications from the Hebrew University.

She teaches the courses Strategic Management, Creativity in Marketing and Business, Creativity and Innovation in Organizations, and Practical Workshop in Management.

Research Summary

In her research, Dr. Sharon Arieli investigates the interactive effect of personality and social factors on behavior and choices relevant to the organizational context. Her main research areas are creativity – identifying factors that facilitate, or attenuate, creative performance of employees and teams; developing work settings that encourage creativity and innovation; values in organizations – exploring the impact of values on the behavior of individuals and organizations, and on their sense of meaning; and cultural mindset – investigating the interplay between cultural orientations, task demands, and performance.

Education

• 2012-2013 Visiting Scholar (Post-doctoral fellow), University of Michigan, Psychology Department.
• 2007-2012 PhD at the School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Advisor: Prof. Lilach Sagiv.
• 2002-2006 MBA (Summa cum Laude), School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focusing on Organizational Behavior and Marketing. M.A thesis (advisor: Prof. Lilach Sagiv): Value congruency between students and academic disciplines: Self-selection or socialization?
• 1999-2002 BA in Business Administration and Communication, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Publications

• Arieli, S., Sagiv, L., Roccas, S. (2018). Values at work: The impact of personal values in organizations. leading article in Applied Psychology an International Review.
• Arieli, S., & Sagiv, L. (2018). Culture and problem-solving: Congruency between the cultural mindset of individualism versus collectivism and problem type.Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(6), 789-814.
• Arieli, S., Amit, A., Mentser, S. (2018). Identity-Motivated Reasoning: Biased Judgments Regarding Political Leaders and their Actions. Cognition.
• Arieli, S., & Tenne-Gazit, O., (2017). Values and Behavior in Work Environment: Taking a multi-level perspective. In S. Roccas & L., Sagiv (Eds.), Values and Behavior: Taking a Cross-Cultural Perspective. Chapter 6, 115-142. Springer
• Arieli, S., Sagiv, L., Cohen-Shalem, E. (2016). Values in business schools: The role of self-selection and socialization. Academy of Management Learning and Education. 15(3), 493-507.
• Amit, A., Arieli, S., & Porzycki, N. (2016).Distinguishing Epistemically Motivated Thinkers from Systematic Thinkers. In John Humphreys (Ed.), Proceedings of the Seventy-sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Online ISSN: 2151-6561.
• Amit, A., Rusou, Z., & Arieli, S. (2016). An integrative review of the distinctions between intuitive and non-intuitive decision-making: Towards a multidimensional framework. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 5(3), 322-324.
• Arieli, S., Grant, A.M., & Sagiv, L (2014). Convincing Yourself to Care about Others: Increasing Benevolence Values through Self-Persuasion. Journal of Personality, 82(1), 15-24.
• Sagiv, L., Amit, A., Ein-Gar, D., & Arieli, S. (2014). Not all people think alike: individual differences in systematic versus intuitive cognitive style. Journal of Personality, 82(5), 402-417.
• Sagiv, L., Arieli, S., Goldenberg, J., & Goldschmidt, A. (2010). Structure and freedom in creativity: The interplay between task structure and individual cognitive style. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31, 1086-1110.
• Sagiv, L., Schwartz, S.H., & Arieli, S. (2010) Organizational values: Individual and national perspective, in: N. Ashkenasy, M. Peterson, & C. Wilderom (Eds.). Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
• Lin, Y., Arieli., S, Oyserman, D. Cultural Fluency Means All is Okay, Cultural Disfluency Implies Otherwise. R&R for Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
• Arieli, S., Lee, F., Sagiv, L. Appealing to Outsiders: Organizational Impression Management and the value preferences of various external constitutes. Under Review.