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Karen Landay

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Management

College: College of Business

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of Alabama, 2020
    Major: Management

Current Scheduled Teaching

No current or future courses scheduled.

Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

MGMT 5210.401Human Resource Management SeminarSpring 8W1 2025 Syllabus SPOT
MGMT 5120.401Managing Organizational Design and ChangeSpring 8W1 2025 Syllabus SPOT
MGMT 5210.401Human Resource Management SeminarFall 8W2 2024 Syllabus SPOT
MGMT 5120.402Managing Organizational Design and ChangeFall 8W2 2024 Syllabus SPOT
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • Harms, P.D., Landay, K., Fezzey, T. (2024). Explorations of the shadow realm: Examining the role of dark personality in the workplace. The Oxford handbook of individual differences in organizational contexts.
  • Harms, P.D., Landay, K. (2022). Authoritarianism: Understanding the followers of the dark side. Overcoming bad leadership in organizations.
  • Landay, K., Schaefer, J. (2022). My work is who I am, but it’s killing me: An identity-based approach to the paradox of passion. Research in occupational stress and well-being.
  • Landay, K., Frieder, R. (2018). Cold-blooded killers? Re-thinking psychopathy in the military. Research in occupational stress and well-being.

    • Journal Article

  • Landay, K., Schwartz, S., Williams, J. (2024). Passion versus positivity: How work passion and dispositional affect predict job satisfaction and its facets. Human Resource Management.
  • Landay, K., DeSimone, J.A., Harms, P.D. (2022). A psychometric investigation of harmonious and obsessive work passion. Journal of Organizational Behavior.
  • Landay, K., Arena, D.F., King, D.A. (2022). Passion in the pit: The effects of harmonious and obsessive passion on nurse burnout. Journal of Managerial Psychology.
  • Zuo, L., Harms, P.D., Landay, K., Wood, D. (2022). Reckless ambition: How impulsivity moderates the effect of ambition on transformational leadership. Personality and Individual Differences.
  • Landay, K., Wood, D., Harms, P.D., Ferrell, B., Nambisan, S. (2020). Relationships between personality traits and automobile accidents among truck drivers. Journal of Research in Personality.
  • Landay, K., DeArmond, S. (2019). Applicant gender and recruiter and organizational characteristics. Gender in Management: An International Journal.
  • Landay, K., Harms, P.D., Credé, M. (2019). Shall we serve the dark lords? A meta-analytic review of psychopathy and leadership. Journal of Applied Psychology.
  • Landay, K., Harms, P.D. (2019). Whistle while you work? A review of the effects of music in the workplace. Human Resource Management Review.
  • Harms, P.D., Wood, D., Landay, K., Lester, P.B., Lester, G.V. (2018). Autocratic leaders and authoritarian followers revisited: A review and agenda for the future. The Leadership Quarterly.
  • Irwin, K.C., Landay, K., Aaron, J.R., McDowell, W.C., Marino, L.D., Geho, P.R. (2018). Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and human resources outsourcing (HRO): A “HERO” combination for SME performance. Journal of Business Research.
  • Landay, K., DeArmond, S. (2018). Recruitment process outsourcing and recruiter and hiring firm characteristics: A two study investigation. Journal of Personnel Psychology.
  • Turnipseed, D., Landay, K. (2018). The role of the Dark Triad in perceptions of academic incivility. Personality and Individual Differences.
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Overall
Summative Rating		 Challenge and
Engagement Index		 Response Rate

out of 5
out of 7		 %
of
students responded
  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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