Patrick Downes

Research

Downes’ research interests include employees’ social contexts (e.g., social networks, social comparisons, social learning, and teamwork) as well as research methods applied in both social science and people analytics practice. His work has been published in academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Harvard Business Review, Human Resource Management Review, and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Peer-reviewed Publications

  1. Conroy, S. A. & Downes, P. E. (2025) Pay takes flight! An experiential compensation exercise. Management Teaching Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/23792981241301349
  2. Ferguson, A., Downes, P. E., Brymer, R., Hayman, M. G., & Stoverink, A. (2024). Relieving the pressure: Team familiarity attenuates external conformity pressure on team member decisions. Journal of Management, 50, 1836-1864. (PDF)
  3. Ferguson, A. & Downes, P. E. (2024). Where are all the low-risk R&Rs? Group & Organization Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011241273309 (PDF)
  4. Li, P., Qu, Y., Li, M., Downes, P. E., & Wang, G. (2024) The effects of relational human resource management: A moderated mediation model of positive affective climate and collective occupational calling. Human Resource Management, 63, 673-689. (PDF)
  5. Downes, P. E., Harris, T. B., & Allen, D. A. (2023). Getting from valid to useful: end user modifiability and human capital analytics implementation in selection. Human Resource Management, 62 (6), 917-932.
  6. Downes, P. E., & Lee, E. S. (2022). A relational view of shiftwork: Co-scheduling with higher performers. Forthcoming, Human Resource Management, 62, 429-443. *Winner of 2022 HRM Best Paper Award. (PDF)
  7. Methot, J. R., Rosado-Solomon, E., Gabriel, A., & Downes, P. E. (2021). Office chit-chat as a social ritual: The uplifting yet distracting effects of daily small talk at work. Academy of Management Journal, 64, 1445-1471. (PDF)
    1. Selected press coverage: The New York Times, AOM Insights; Fast Company, The Insider
    1. Adapted for Harvard Business Review, “Remote workers need small talk, too”. Published March 25, 2021.
  8. Downes, P. E., Gonzalez‐Mulé, E., Seong, J. Y., & Park, W. W. (2021). To collaborate or not? The moderating effects of team conflict on performance‐prove goal orientation, collaboration, and team performance. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 94, 568-590. (PDF)
  9. Downes, P. E., Reeves, C. J., McCormick, B., Boswell, W. R, & Butts, M. (2021). Incorporating job demand variability into job demands theory: A meta-analysis. Journal of Management, 47,1630-1656. (PDF)
  10. Downes, P. E., Crawford, E. R., Seibert, S. E., Stoverink, A. C., Campbell, E. M. (2021). Referents or role models? The self-efficacy and job performance effects of perceiving higher performing peers. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106, 422-438. (PDF)
  11. McCormick, B., Reeves, C. J., Downes, P. E., Li, N., & Ilies, R. (2020). Scientific contributions of within-person research in management: Making the juice worth the squeeze. Journal of Management, 46, 321-350. (PDF)
  12. Yu, J., Downes, P. E., Carter, K., & O’Boyle, E. H. (2018). The heterogeneity problem in meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) revisited: A reply to Cheung. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103, 804-811. (PDF)
  13. Downes, P. E., Kristof-Brown, A. L., Judge, T. A., & Darnold, T. C. (2017). Motivational mechanisms of self-concordance theory: Goal-specific efficacy and person-organization fit. Journal of Business and Psychology, 32, 197-215. *Awarded 2017 Editor Commendation (PDF)
  14. Seibert, S. E., Kacmar, K. M., Kraimer, M. L., Downes, P. E., & Noble, D. (2017). The role of research strategies and professional networks in management scholars’ productivity. Journal of Management, 43, 1103-1130. (PDF)
  15. Yu, J.*, Downes, P. E.*, Carter, K., & O’Boyle, E. H. (2016). The problem of effect size heterogeneity in meta-analytic structural equation modeling. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101, 1457-1473. *equal contribution (PDF)
  16. Downes, P. E., & Choi, D. (2014). Employee reactions to pay dispersion: A typology of existing research. Human Resource Management Review, 24, 53-66. (PDF)