Greg Thrasher

Title: Associate Professor of Management
Office: 319 Elliott Hall
Phone: (248) 370-3295
Email: [email protected]

Education:
Wayne State University, Ph.D. Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Biography:
Greg Thrasher received his Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Wayne State University in 2017. He specializes in leadership, motivation and emotions, and he has published articles in Journal of Business and Psychology, Occupational Health Science, Work, Aging and Retirement. He has also written book chapters on topics that include the aging workforce, motivation and leadership.

Teaching interests: 
Organizational behavior, motivation, leadership

Research interests: 
The aging workforce, leadership, emotion, motivation

Awards:

University Research Committee Summer Research Award, Oakland University, May 2018

Anton Frankel Research Award, Management and Marketing Department, April 2018

Top 10 SIOP Poster, Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology, April 2017

Betty J. Nietzel Award, Wayne State University, April 2016

Institute of Gerontology (IOG) Doctoral Fellowship, Wayne State University, September 2015

MAIOP Best Student Paper, Michigan Association of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, June 2014

Journals and Articles:

Thrasher, G. , Rudolph, C. The Intersectional Role-(In)Congruity Effects of Age and Gender on Leadership Evaluations. Group and Organizational Management. NA

Thrasher, G. , Rudolph, C. , Hammond, M. The Intersectional Role-(In)Congruity Effects of Age and Gender on Leadership Evaluations. Group and Organization Management. 59

Peng, Y. , Thrasher, G. Age and transformational leadership: The roles of motivation to lead and managerial discretion. Journal of Personnel Psychology. NA

Thrasher, G. (2022). Searching for the Effect of Age-Based Stereotypes on Personnel Decisions? Try Looking Through an Intersectional Lens. Work, Aging, and Retirement. NA

Thrasher, G. , Barclay, L. , Markel, K. (2021). Older workers with disabilities: A person-centered approach to understanding the effect of comorbidity on work outcomes. Work, Aging, and Retirement. 7(3), 229-239

York, K. M., Thrasher, G. , Savage, N. , Kang, J. , Hammond, M. , Demsky, C. , Barclay, L. (2021). Careers Roundtable: An Exercise for Student Career Exploration and Future Development. Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management. 100-112

Biermeier-Hanson, B. , Wynne, K. , Thrasher, G. , Lyons, J. Modelling the Joint Effect of Leader and Follower Authenticity on Work and Non-Work Outcomes. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied. NA

Thrasher, G. , Dickson, M. , Najor-Durak, A. (2020). Social identity theory and leader–member exchange: individual, dyadic and situational factors affecting the relationship between leader–member exchange and job performance. Organization Management Journal. 30

Thrasher, G. , Krenn, D. K., Marchiondo, L. (2020). Are counter-productive workplace behaviors and workplace deviance parallel constructs? A meta-analytic test of a common practice.. Occupational Health Science. 30

Thrasher, G. , Biermeier-Hanson, B. , Dickson, M. (2020). Getting Old at the Top: The Role of Agentic and Communal Orientations in the Relationship Between Age and Follower Perceptions of Leadership Behaviors and Outcomes. Work, Aging, and Retirement. NA

Griggs, T. , Lance, C. , Thrasher, G. , Barnes-Farrell, J. , Baltes, B. Eldercare and the Psychology of Work Behavior in the Twenty-First Century. Journal Of Business And Psychology. 25

Thrasher, G. R., Zabel, K. L., Bramble, R. J., Baltes, B. B.Who is aging successfully at work? A latent profile analysis of successful agers and their work motives. Work, Aging, and Retirement. 56

Thrasher, G. R., Zabel, K. L., Wynne, K. , Baltes, B. B.(2016). The Importance of Workplace Motives in Understanding Work Family Issues for Older Workers. Work, Aging, and Retirement. 2(1), 1-11

Books and Chapters:

Thrasher, G. Baltes, B. Demsky, C. (2022). Age and managing the work-nonwork interface. (pp. 29). Other.

Thrasher, G. Bramble, R. Baltes, B. (2016). Job Performance and Job Attitudes in Later Life: The Role of Motives. (pp. 377-417). Emerald Group Publishing.

Thrasher, G. Zabel, K. Baltes, B. (2015). Resiliency at Work for Older Employees. (pp. 212-233). Edward Elgar Publishing.