Talk:Arthur P. Brief

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Hi, Volunteers! I am Arthur Brief's spouse, writing in his behalf. This entry appears to have been written by someone with the best intentions, but it does contain errors and is incomplete. He never was on the Rice faculty and his Utah title is incorrect, for example. Below is something that I wrote, that Art has fact-checked and we've sourced. Please use, of course, what you feel is appropriate. If you have any questions, please reach out to me.

One point ... He has mentored so many successful academics and others in his career that the list of prominent scholars is long. (In fact, he was nominated by his mentees and received a national award as mentioned below.) Consequently, as excellent as Jeorg Dietz is, we suggest that he not be singled out. There is a risk of offending so many others, so please remove his name.

Thank you, again, for your volunteerism and dedication.

Kay Brief

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Arthur P. Brief

Nationality - American

Known for - Research on workplace ethics, diversity, and organizational behavior

Awards - Academy of Management Distinguished Educator Award, Academy of Management Award for Leadership and Contributions to the Organizational Behavior Division

Academic background - University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Academic work

Discipline - Organizational behavior

Institutions - University of Utah Tulane University New York University University of Iowa University of Kentucky

Arthur Paul Brief (born August 4,1946) is an American scholar and researcher who has focused on the moral dimensions of organizational life (e.g. ethical decision making, race relations and worker wellbeing). Now Presidential Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah, Brief retired in 2016 as the George S. Eccles Chair in Business Ethics in Utah’s David S. Eccles School of Business. Education

Brief began his studies at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where in 1968 he received his BS in Industrial Management. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he earned his MS in 1971 and his PhD in Management and Organization with minors in Sociology and Minority Employment and Enterprise Development in 1974.

Career Over his more than 40-year career, he has held academic appointments in business schools at the University of Kentucky, University of Iowa, New York University, Tulane University and the University of Utah.[1] His appointments have focused on ethics, particularly at the University of Utah and Tulane’s A.B. Freeman School of Business where he was director of the William B. and Evelyn Burkenroad Institute for the Study of Ethics and Leadership in Management and held the Lawrence Martin Chair of Business. At Tulane, he was also affiliated with the Department of Psychology.

Additionally, he was a Fulbright/FLAD Chair in Market Globalization: Organizational Behavior at the University of Lisbon and held visiting positions at Harvard Business School as the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Professor, the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration as a Batten Fellow[1] and Texas Christian University as the Cecil and Ida Green Honors Professor. He has also been a visiting professor at universities in Australia, Italy, Finland, Germany, France, Switzerland and the People’s Republic of China (in 1987 as part of an early U.S. State Department program designed to share business knowledge with Chinese organizational leaders).

Contributions Brief's research and professional leadership has had a significant impact on the field of organizational behavior, particularly in the areas of workplace ethics, diversity, and prosocial behavior in organizations.[2] His research on modern racism and employment discrimination has influenced discussions on workplace diversity and ethical management practices.[3] He has authored or co-authored more than a 100 journal articles as well as numerous book chapters and books including Attitudes In and Around Organizations (Sage,1968) and Diversity at Work (Cambridge, 2008). He was consulting editor to the LEA Series in Organization and Management, Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates and consulting editor for Ancestral Books in Administrative Science, Garland Publishing.[1]

As of June 23, 2025, his work has had 43,925 citations.[6]

Through service on editorial boards and professional organizations, he has helped shape the field. He has been editor of the Academy of Management Review, founding co-editor (with James Walsh) of the Academy of Management Annals[1] and co-editor (with Barry Staw) of Research in Organizational Behavior. He has served on numerous editorial boards including Human Relations, International Public Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

In addition, he has been invited to review work for numerous organizations, including the National Science Foundation. His work has also been reported on by ABC’s “Good Morning America,” CNN Headline News, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times as well as various other news outlets. Brief was a member of the Academy of Management Board of Governors (2004-2005) as well as its Publications Committee and president of the Midwest Academy of Management, among other leadership positions.

Awards and Recognition Brief is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Management (1999), American Psychological Association, Association of Psychological Science, Society of Personality and Organizational Society, and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He became a charter fellow of the American Psychological Society in 1989 and was elected to the Society of Organizational Behavior in 1991. He was a fellow of the Aspen’s Institute’s Initiative for Social Innovation through Business (2001). In 2021, he received the Academy of Management’s Distinguished Educator Career Achievement Award which “is presented annually to an outstanding individual who has excelled in developing doctoral students, effective teaching in the classroom, fostering pedagogical innovations, and/or disseminating new teaching methods and designs,” according to the Academy.[5]

“Art stands as a giant in my mind—a mythical being still of what it looks like to be an academic, who cares about the important questions, and perhaps even more about the value and worth of the people pursuing them,” states the AOM 2021 award nomination letter.

According to the Academy, “The bulk of Art’s research has focused on the underbelly of organizational life. His most cited paper, co-authored with Steve Motowidlo, conceives of prosocial organizational behaviors. Much of the research focused on contributing to a better understanding of workplace racial discrimination. This research helped open the door for Art to work with extraordinarily talented doctoral students and up-and-coming academics, many of whom are people of color.”

“The committee found especially noteworthy your attention to, mentorship, and intellectual development of a great number of graduate students and junior faculty (at your institution or elsewhere!) who have become leading figures in their own fields,” wrote Dr. Corinne Post, chair of the awards committee. “This care for emerging scholars speaks to the generosity and effectiveness of your educational contributions and provides significant evidence of your distinguished career as an educator. The broad impact of your developmental contributions as an educator has brought lasting and now multiplying benefits to the field![5]

The Academy of Management also recognized him for his Leadership and Contributions to the Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior Division on the occasion of its 30th anniversary in 2000. He received the Academic Leadership Award from the Aspen Institute’s Initiative for Social Innovation through the Business and the World Research Institute (2001), the Distinguished Service Award from the Association on Employment Practices and Principles (2000).

Early Life Brief was born in Newark, N.J., and his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, when he was six months old. His parents owned a series of grocery stores. Much of his father’s family was killed in the Holocaust; his father fled from Poland at age 12 to South Africa, Brazil and finally to the United States. Brief says that this family destruction and the anti-semitism and racism he witnessed in the south informed his interest in ethical decision making in the work place. He shared this perspective in an invited presentation at the Academy of Management annual meeting.

Widely Cited Articles Brief, Arthur P.; Motowidlo, Stephan J. (1986) "Prosocial Organizational Behaviors.” Academy of Management Review. 11 (4): 710–725. doi:10.5465/amr.1986.4283909. Brief, Arthur P.; Weiss, Howard M. (2002). "Organizational Behavior: Affect in the Workplace.” Annual Review of Psychology. 53 (1): 279–307. doi:. PMID 11752487. George, Jennifer M.; Brief, Arthur P.(1992). “Feeling Good-Doing Good: A Conceptional Analysis of the Mood at Work-Organizational Spontaneity Relationship.” Psychological Bulletin. 112(2) 310-329. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.112.2.310

Select Books Brief, Arthur P. (1998). Attitudes In and Around Organizations. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-0761900177. Brief, Arthur P. (2008) Diversity at Work. Cambridge. ISBN 978-0521677639. Brief, Arthur P.; Nord, W.R. (1990). Meanings of Occupational Work: A Collection of Essays. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0669123418. Brief, Arthur P. (Editor) (1984). Productivity Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Praeger. ISBN 978-0030605680

References Arthur P. Brief. Faculty Profile.University of Utah David Eccles School of Business. Retrieved 2024-10-15. https://eccles.utah.edu/team/arthur-brief/ Brief, Arthur P.; Motowidlo, Stephan J. (1986). "Prosocial Organizational Behaviors". Academy of Management Review. 11 (4): 710–725. doi:10.5465/amr.1986.4283909. Brief, Arthur P.; Dietz, Joerg; Cohen, Robin R.; Pugh, S. Douglas; Vaslow, Joel B. (2000). "Just Doing Business: Modern Racism and Obedience to Authority as Explanations for Employment Discrimination". Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 81 (1): 72–97. doi:10.1006/obhd.1999.2867. "Member Spotlight: Arthur Brief". AOM News, Academy of Management. 2021-12-31. Retrieved 2024-10-15. News Release, University of Utah David Eccles School of Business.https://eccles.utah.edu/news/arthur-brief-named-2021-distinguished-educator-by-academy-of-management/ Retrieved 2025-2-02 Arthur P. Brief, Profile, Google Scholar. Retrieved 2025-06-23. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tTiDpXcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao KayWB (talk) 20:07, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

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Conflict-of-interest disclosure and requested corrections

Disclosure: Arthur P. Brief was my doctoral advisor. Because of this relationship, I have a conflict of interest and am not editing the article directly. I am requesting that independent editors review the following proposed changes. I have tried to limit these requests to factual statements supported by published sources.

1. Correct academic affiliation: remove Rice University and add Stern School of Business, New York University

Current text/infobox: The article lists Rice University among Arthur Brief’s workplaces and states in the Academic career section that he “held academic appointments at Rice University and Tulane University.”

Requested change: Please remove Rice University and replace it with Stern School of Business, New York University as an academic appointment/workplace.

His University of Utah faculty biography and his CV uploaded there identifies his University of Utah position and documents his other professional roles, and Academy of Management records identify him with Tulane University during his term as editor of the Academy of Management Review.

Suggested revised wording:

“Brief held an academic appointment at Tulane University and Stern School of Business, New York University before joining the University of Utah, where he held the George S. Eccles Chair in Business Ethics and is Presidential Professor Emeritus.”

2. Correct journal editorship: Academy of Management Review, not Academy of Management Journal

Current text: The Editorial roles section states that Brief was “editor of the Academy of Management Journal, editor of the Academy of Management Review, and co-founder of the Academy of Management Annals.”

Requested change: Please remove the statement that Brief was editor of the Academy of Management Journal. I have not found a source supporting that claim.

Academy of Management’s official list of past editorial teams identifies Arthur P. Brief as editor of the Academy of Management Review for 2003–2005. The same AOM source identifies Arthur P. Brief and James P. Walsh as the original editors of the Academy of Management Annals for 2005–2010.

Suggested replacement:

“Brief served as editor of the Academy of Management Review from 2003 to 2005 and, with James P. Walsh, was a founding editor of the Academy of Management Annals, serving from 2005 to 2010.”

3. Correct Academy of Management award

Current text/infobox: The article lists both the Academy of Management Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management Award and the Distinguished Educator Award among Brief’s awards.

Requested change: Please remove the Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management Award unless a reliable source can be found establishing that Brief received it.

The Academy of Management’s official 2021 Career Achievement Awards page identifies Arthur P. Brief as the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Educator Award. AOM’s records identify Fred Luthans—not Arthur Brief—as the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management Award.

Suggested replacement:

“In 2021, Brief received the Academy of Management Distinguished Educator Award.”

The infobox should likewise list the 2021 Distinguished Educator Award and omit the Distinguished Scholarly Contributions award unless an independent source establishes that he received it in another year.

MapleHub (talk) 22:01, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

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