Skip to main content
  • Rice Business Wisdom
  • Alumni
  • Companies
  • Events
  • Hire Our Students
  • Give
  • Apply
  • The Rice MBA
    • Find Your MBA
      • Full-Time MBA
      • Professional MBA
      • Hybrid MBA
      • Executive MBA
      • Online MBA
      • Coordinated and Dual Degrees
      • Deferred Enrollment
    • Come Meet Us
      • MBA Admissions Events
    • MBA Admissions
      • MBA Admissions Guide
      • Class Profiles
      • Finance Your Degree
      • Women at Rice
      • Military at Rice
      • MBA Student Ambassadors
      • MBA Admission Events
      • Blog
      • Meet the Team
      • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Why Rice
      • Tight-Knit Culture
      • Entrepreneurial Mindset
      • The Houston Advantage
    • The Rice MBA Curriculum
      • Global Programs
      • Domestic Experiential Programs
      • Leadership Development
      • Our Electives
    • Beyond the Classroom
      • Global Programs
      • Domestic Experiential Programs
      • Conferences & Case Competitions
      • Student Clubs and Organizations
    • Life at Rice
      • Student Life
      • The Rice Campus
      • At Home in Houston
      • Where To Live
      • After Rice
      • Our Podcast
      • Our Stories
    • Belonging and Engagement
      • You Belong Here: The Report on Culture and Community at Rice Business
      • Strategic Partnerships
      • Alumni Spotlight
      • Report Bias
  • Graduate Programs
    • MBA Programs
      • Full-Time MBA
      • Professional MBA
      • Hybrid MBA
      • Executive MBA
      • Online MBA
      • Coordinated and Dual Degrees
      • Deferred Enrollment
    • Master of Accounting
      • MAcc Admissions Guide
      • Program Prerequisites
      • Class Profile
      • Curriculum
      • Tuition and Funding
      • MAcc Student Experience
      • Frequently Asked Questions
      • Blog
    • Ph.D. in Business
      • Accounting
      • Finance
      • Operations Management
      • Organizational Behavior
      • Strategic Management
      • Ph.D. Admissions
      • Financial Assistance
      • Ph.D. Student Mentoring Awards
      • Meet Current Students
    • Executive Programs
  • Undergraduate Programs
    • About the Virani Undergraduate School of Business
    • Business Major
      • Major Requirements
      • Sample Degree Plans
      • Courses
      • Business Major Faculty
      • Student Experience
      • Career Highlights
      • Undergraduate Business Student Ambassadors
      • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Business Minor
      • Course Descriptions
      • Schedule and Requirements
    • Business Major Vs. Business Minor
    • Entrepreneurship Minor
    • Student Experience
    • Career Highlights
    • MBA Deferred Enrollment
  • Executive Education
    • Upcoming Programs
    • Open Enrollment Programs
      • Rice Advanced Management Program
      • Science-Driven Strategy
      • Executive Leadership for Women
      • Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
      • The Leadership Accelerator
      • Leading Organizational Change
      • Leading Innovation
      • Energy Transition for Business Leaders
      • The Management Incubator
      • The Future is AI
      • CoachRICE: Leadership Coaching
    • Custom Programs
    • Online Programs
      • Leading Workplace Diversity
      • Rice Real Estate Investment and Development
      • The Future is AI
      • Business Finance and Data Analysis Fundamentals Specialization
      • CoachRICE: Leadership Coaching
      • Small Business Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business
      • Small Business Entrepreneurship: Marketing a Business
    • Partnerships
    • Meet the Team
    • Executive Education Employer Sponsorship
    • FAQs
  • Faculty & Research
    • Research Area
      • Accounting
      • Communication
      • Energy
      • Entrepreneurship
      • Finance
      • Healthcare
      • Marketing
      • Operations Management
      • Organizational Behavior
      • Real Estate
      • Strategy and Environment
    • Rice Business Wisdom
    • Faculty Directory
    • Research Seminars
    • Faculty Recruitment
    • Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellows Program
    • Centers & Labs
    • News & Events
  • The Rice MBA
    • Find Your MBA
      • Full-Time MBA
        • Curriculum
        • Degree Specializations
        • Deferred Enrollment
        • Global Programming
        • Networking and Leadership Opportunities
        • Career Highlights
        • Career Support
        • Class Profile
        • Tuition and Financial Aid
        • Connect With a Student
        • International Students
        • Why Get an MBA in Houston
        • MBA Admissions
        • Admissions Events
      • Professional MBA
        • Curriculum
        • Networking and Leadership Opportunities
        • Tuition and Fees
        • Career Highlights
        • Class Profile
        • Connect With a Student
        • Global Experience
        • Find Your MBA
        • MBA Admissions
        • Admissions Events
      • Hybrid MBA
        • Curriculum
        • Networking and Leadership Opportunities
        • Tuition and Fees
        • Class Profile
        • Global Experience
        • Find Your MBA
        • Connect with a Student
        • MBA Admissions
        • Admissions Events
      • Executive MBA
        • Curriculum
          • Course Descriptions
        • Global Experience
        • Tuition and Fees
        • Class Profile
        • Meet Our EMBA Community
        • MBA Admissions
        • Admissions Events
      • Online MBA
        • Curriculum
        • Tuition and Fees
        • Connect with a Student
        • Online MBA GMAT Waiver Information
        • Request Info About Our Online MBA
      • Coordinated and Dual Degrees
        • MBA/PSM Program
        • MD/MBA Program
        • MBA Admissions
        • Admissions Events
      • Deferred Enrollment
    • Come Meet Us
      • MBA Admissions Events
    • MBA Admissions
      • MBA Admissions Guide
      • Class Profiles
      • Finance Your Degree
      • Women at Rice
      • Military at Rice
        • Military Scholars Program
        • Military and Veteran Benefits
        • Rice Business Veterans Association
      • MBA Student Ambassadors
      • MBA Admission Events
      • Blog
        • A Message From Our Dean
        • Application Tips
        • Application Tips
        • Choose Houston
        • Decisions, Decisions
        • Game Changer
        • Life Savings
        • One Of A Kind
        • Paving The Way
        • Staying Power
        • Ten Easy Pieces
        • Why A Rice Professional MBA
      • Meet the Team
      • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Why Rice
      • Tight-Knit Culture
      • Entrepreneurial Mindset
      • The Houston Advantage
    • The Rice MBA Curriculum
      • Global Programs
      • Domestic Experiential Programs
      • Leadership Development
        • MBA Courses
        • Leadership Coaching Opportunities
      • Our Electives
    • Beyond the Classroom
      • Global Programs
      • Domestic Experiential Programs
      • Conferences & Case Competitions
      • Student Clubs and Organizations
    • Life at Rice
      • Student Life
      • The Rice Campus
      • At Home in Houston
      • Where To Live
      • After Rice
      • Our Podcast
      • Our Stories
    • Belonging and Engagement
      • You Belong Here: The Report on Culture and Community at Rice Business
      • Strategic Partnerships
        • The Rice Business Consortium
      • Alumni Spotlight
      • Report Bias
  • Graduate Programs
    • MBA Programs
      • Full-Time MBA
      • Professional MBA
      • Hybrid MBA
      • Executive MBA
      • Online MBA
      • Coordinated and Dual Degrees
      • Deferred Enrollment
    • Master of Accounting
      • MAcc Admissions Guide
      • Program Prerequisites
      • Class Profile
      • Curriculum
      • Tuition and Funding
      • MAcc Student Experience
      • Frequently Asked Questions
      • Blog
        • Excellent Job Prospects
        • Life in Houston
        • Meet our MAcc Director
        • Rice MAcc Opens Career Opportunities
        • The Rice MAcc Prepares You for Today’s Data-Driven Business World
        • Top CPA Exam Score Winner -- Third Year in a Row!
        • What's it like to work in audit?
        • What's it like to work in tax?
        • Why Should You Pursue A Master's in Accounting?
    • Ph.D. in Business
      • Accounting
      • Finance
      • Operations Management
      • Organizational Behavior
      • Strategic Management
      • Ph.D. Admissions
        • Doctoral Dissertation
      • Financial Assistance
      • Ph.D. Student Mentoring Awards
      • Meet Current Students
    • Executive Programs
  • Undergraduate Programs
    • About the Virani Undergraduate School of Business
    • Business Major
      • Major Requirements
      • Sample Degree Plans
      • Courses
      • Business Major Faculty
      • Student Experience
      • Career Highlights
      • Undergraduate Business Student Ambassadors
      • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Business Minor
      • Course Descriptions
      • Schedule and Requirements
    • Business Major Vs. Business Minor
    • Entrepreneurship Minor
    • Student Experience
    • Career Highlights
    • MBA Deferred Enrollment
  • Executive Education
    • Upcoming Programs
    • Open Enrollment Programs
      • Rice Advanced Management Program
      • Science-Driven Strategy
      • Executive Leadership for Women
      • Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
      • The Leadership Accelerator
      • Leading Organizational Change
      • Leading Innovation
      • Energy Transition for Business Leaders
      • The Management Incubator
      • The Future is AI
      • CoachRICE: Leadership Coaching
    • Custom Programs
    • Online Programs
      • Leading Workplace Diversity
      • Rice Real Estate Investment and Development
      • The Future is AI
      • Business Finance and Data Analysis Fundamentals Specialization
      • CoachRICE: Leadership Coaching
      • Small Business Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business
      • Small Business Entrepreneurship: Marketing a Business
    • Partnerships
    • Meet the Team
    • Executive Education Employer Sponsorship
    • FAQs
  • Faculty & Research
    • Research Area
      • Accounting
      • Communication
      • Energy
      • Entrepreneurship
      • Finance
      • Healthcare
      • Marketing
      • Operations Management
      • Organizational Behavior
      • Real Estate
      • Strategy and Environment
    • Rice Business Wisdom
    • Faculty Directory
    • Research Seminars
    • Faculty Recruitment
    • Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellows Program
    • Centers & Labs
    • News & Events
  • Rice Business Wisdom
  • Alumni
  • Companies
  • Events
  • Hire Our Students
  • Give
  • Apply

Enter a Search Term

Jennifer M. George
View CV
Organizational Behavior

Jennifer M. George

Mary Gibbs Jones Professor Emeritus of Management – Organizational Behavior

Faculty
McNair Hall 334
jgeorge@rice.edu
Jennifer M. George
View CV
Organizational Behavior

Jennifer M. George is a Mary Gibbs Jones Professor Emeritus of Management in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. She was the Program Director of the Ph.D. in Business Program in the Jones School from 2008-2017 and the Area Coordinator of the Organizational Behavior Group from 2007-2016. She received her B.A. in Psychology/Sociology from Wesleyan University, her M.B.A. in Finance from New York University, and her Ph.D. in Management and Organizational Behavior from New York University. Prior to joining the faculty at Rice University, she was a Professor in the Department of Management at Texas A&M University. Professor George’s research focuses on understanding how people experience their jobs and organizations, why they experience them as they do, and the consequences of these experiences. She is well-known for her research on affect, mood, and emotion in the workplace, their determinants, and their effects on various individual and group-level work outcomes. She also is interested in creativity in organizations and has explored how personal factors (including positive and negative mood) interact with situational factors to facilitate or inhibit creativity at work. Additional research interests of Professor George include nonconscious processes, personality influences, groups and teams, prosocial behavior, customer service, values, work-life linkages, and stress and well-being. Professor George has published many articles in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. She has received awards for her research and ranks among the most highly cited research scholars in the field of management. She also has co-authored textbooks in management and organizational behavior. Professor George is, or has been, on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, Organization Science, the Academy of Management Journal, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, and the Journal of Managerial Issues, was a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and was a member of the Editorial Board of the SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series. She also completed a six-year term as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and a member of the Society for Organizational Behavior.

Teaching Interests: 

  • Complexities of people and organizations
  • Action learning project

Research Interests: 

  • Affect, mood, and emotion in the workplace
  • Non-conscious processes
  • Personality influences
  • Groups and teams
  • Creativity
  • Prosocial behavior
  • Customer service
  • Values
  • Work-life linkages
  • Stress and well-being

Intellectual Contributions

Journal Article
George, J.M. & Danie, E. (2016).  Affect, emotion, and decision making. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 136, 47-55. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.06.004.
Journal Article
Dane, E., & George, J. M. (2014). Unpacking affective forecasting and its ties to project work in organizations. Academy Of Management Review, 39(2), 181-201. doi:10.5465/amr.2012.0244
Journal Article
George, J.M. (2013). Compassion and capitalism: Implications for organizational studies. Journal of Management, 40(1), 5-15. doi:10.1177/0149206313490028
Journal Article
Chan-Serafin, S., Brief, A.P., & George, J. M. (2012). How does religion matter and why? Religion and the organizational sciences. Organization Science, 24, 1585-1600. doi:10.1287/orsc.1120.0797
Journal Article
George, J. M. (2011). Dual tuning: A minimum condition for understanding affect in organizations? Organizational Psychology Review, 1(2), 147-164. doi:10.1177/2041386610390257
Journal Article
George, J. M. (2009). The illusion of will in organizational behavior research: Nonconscious processes and job design. Journal of Management, 35(6), 1318-1339. doi:10.1177/0149206309346337. 
Journal Article
George, J.M. (2007). Creativity in organizations. Academy of Management Annals, 1(1), 439-477. doi:10.1080/078559814
Journal Article
George, J. M., & Zhou, J. (2007). Dual tuning in a supportive context: Joint contributions of positive mood, negative mood, and supervisory behaviors to employee creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 50(3), 605-622. doi:10.5465/AMJ.2007.25525934
Journal Article
Jett, Q. R., & George, J. M. (2003) Work interrupted: A closer look at the role of interruptions in organizational life. Academy of Management Review, 28(3), 494-507. doi:10.2307/30040736
Journal Article
George, J. M., & Zhou, J. (2002). Understanding when bad moods foster creativity and good ones don’t: The role of context and clarity of feelings. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87(4), 687-697. doi:10.1037//0021-9010.87.4.687

Rice Business Wisdom

Two boys holding hands
Corporate Social Responsibility | Peer-Reviewed Research

Playing Nice

Can companies cultivate kindness?
""
Organizational Behavior | Peer-Reviewed Research

Mood Swing

Our emotions affect our decision making more than we know.
""
Worker Well-Being | Peer-Reviewed Research

Happy Place

Research on worker well-being is usually more about the company than the worker.
The impact of discussing religious beliefs at work
Faith and Work | Peer-Reviewed Research

Can We Talk? How Religion Matters In Organizational Life

Religious beliefs can help and harm business In unexpected ways.
While we tend to assume positive emotions are more desirable, negative emotions serve a purpose.
Workplace Psychology | Peer-Reviewed Research

The Good, The Bad And The Ambivalent

Throw out assumptions to better understand the impact of emotions on the workplace.

Site Footer

Rice Business

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • YouTube
  • TikTok
  • Threads

Footer

  • About
  • Directory
  • Departments & Offices
  • Work with Us
  • Current Students
  • Faculty and Staff Resources
  • News & Events
  • Facilities

Directions

6100 Main Street
Houston, Texas
77005-1892
713-348-4622

Rice Business Wisdom

Copyright © 2025 Rice Business, Rice University

Privacy Notice