Matt Quade, Ph.D.
Kimberly and Aaron P. Graft Professor in Christian Leadership in Business; Associate Professor of Management; Director, Christian Leadership and Ethics | Baylor University
Waco, TX, UNITED STATES
Dr. Quade’s research focuses on behavioral ethics in the workplace, both ethical and unethical behavior, as well as ethical leadership.
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Matt Quade is an Assistant Professor of Management at Baylor University. He earned his Ph.D. in Business Management from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Quade is passionate about impacting students at Baylor. He currently teaches Leadership & Organizational Behavior (MGT 3305) and Principled Leadership (MGT 4305).
Dr. Quade's research interests center on behavioral ethics in the workplace, both ethical and unethical behavior. He studies topics such as ethical leadership, ethical behavior comparisons, customer unethical behavior, abusive supervision, and ostracism. His research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Organizational Psychology Review.
Prior to joining the faculty at Baylor, Dr. Quade held a visiting assistant professor position at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa. Before returning to school to work on his Ph.D., Dr. Quade worked for Chesapeake Energy.
Areas of Expertise (9)
Teaching
Social Undermining
Customer Unethical Behavior
Ethical Leadership
Data Analysis
Business Ethics
Ethical Behavior Comparisions
Abusive Supervision
Workplace Ostracism
Accomplishments (5)
Best Overall Paper of 2015 SMA Conference (professional)
2015-10-01
Southern Management Association
Best Paper in Track (professional)
2015 Southern Management Association - Ethics/Social Issues/Diversity/Careers Track
Best Student Paper Award (professional)
2015-08-01
Academy of Management - Social Issues in Management Division
Phillips Dissertation Fellowship Award (professional)
2013-05-01
Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University
Outstanding Reviewer (professional)
2012 Southern Management Association
Education (3)
Oklahoma State University: Ph.D., Management (Organizational Behaviour) 2013
Oklahoma State University: MBA, Business 2008
Activities and Societies: President MBA Ambassadors, Member of MBA Travel Case Team
The University of Tulsa: B.S., Management 2004
Activities and Societies: Men's Basketball manager, Mortar Board, President's Honor Roll, Dean's Honor Roll, Athletic Director's Honor Roll, Big Brothers Big Sisters
Affiliations (2)
- Academy of Management : Member
- Southern Management Association : Member
Links (3)
Media Appearances (10)
"Both Sides of the Story" ft. Baylor University's Matthew J. Quade / Saturdays at Seven Ep. 21
Christian Scholar's Review online
2024-02-17
VIDEO: In this conversation series, Matthew J. Quade, Ph.D., The Kimberly and Aaron P. Graff Professor in Christian Leadership in Business and director of Christian leadership and ethics in Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business, talks about the unique opportunities and challenges of teaching ethics today and exploring the relationship between business educators and faith.
5 Ways Leaders Can Support Adoptive Parents
Harvard Business Review online
2023-03-03
Baylor management professors Kaylee J. Hackney, Ph.D., Matthew J. Quade, Ph.D., and Dawn S. Carlson, Ph.D., write that organizational support for adoption – an intentional effort on the part of an organization – has a far-reaching positive impact for both the employees and the organization. The authors outline five ways leaders can better support adoptive parents.
Matt Quade
Baylor Connections online
2023-02-10
AUDIO: What is the impact of a manager focused solely on the bottom line? How do employees respond to different forms of ethical or unethical leadership? Matt Quade, Ph.D., The Kimberly and Aaron P. Graft Professor in Christian Leadership in Business in the Department of Management at Baylor, is a prolific researcher into workplace ethics. He takes listeners inside the importance and impact of workplace ethics in this Baylor Connections.
Business Review - Amoral Management
KWBU-FM online
2022-12-01
AUDIO: Matt Quade, Ph.D., associate professor of management at Baylor, shares how employees make moral decision in the workplace and what happens when amoral decision are being made from the top.
Business Review - "Balancing Ethics"
KWBU-FM online
2022-09-08
AUDIO: Matt Quade, associate professor of management at Baylor, explains that ethical leadership compounded by supervisor-induced stress can lead to employee deviance and turnover.
Business Review: Balancing Ethics
KWBU-FM online
2022-07-07
AUDIO: Matt Quade, Ph.D., associate professor of management at Baylor whose research interests center on behavioral ethics (ethical and unethical) in the workplace, explains that ethical leadership compounded by supervisor-induced stress can lead to employee deviance and turnover.
Business Review: Getting to the Bottom of the Bottom-Line Mentality
KWBU-FM online
2022-05-26
AUDIO: Matt Quade, Ph.D., assistant professor of management, discusses his research about bottom-line mentality. While bosses certainly need to pay attention to the bottom line, Quade found letting that be the main focus can have negative consequences.
EP. 071: Dr. Matt Quade [Ethical Leadership, Moral Courage and Feedback Culture]
Convos with Clay Podcast online
2022-05-17
AUDIO: Matt Quade, Ph.D., associate professor of management and director of Christian leadership and ethics, discusses his research on ethical leadership, behavioral ethics, bottom-line mentality and amoral management.
Business Review - Stop Tolerating Unacceptable Behavior
KWBU online
2022-01-13
AUDIO: Matthew Quade, Ph.D., associate professor of management, discusses how unethical behavior in the workplace can impact productivity, workplace relationships and many other important office principles.
This type of manager will eventually create unethical employees
Ladders online
2021-02-03
A new study from Baylor management professor Matt Quade, Ph.D., found that managers without morals can lead to employees’ unethical behavior.
Articles (6)
Employee unethical behavior to shame as an indicator of self-image threat and exemplification as a form of self-image protection: The exacerbating role of supervisor bottom-line mentality
Journal of Applied Psychology2017 Employee unethical behavior continues to be an area of interest as real-world business scandals persist. We investigate what happens after people engage in unethical behavior. Drawing from emotion theories (e.g., Tangney & Dearing, 2002) and the self-presentation literature (e.g., Leary & Miller, 2000), we first argue that people are socialized to experience shame after moral violations (Hypothesis 1). People then manage their shame and try to protect their self-images by engaging in exemplification behaviors (i.e., self-sacrificial behaviors that give the attribution of being a dedicated person; Hypothesis 2). We also examine the moderating role of supervisor bottom-line mentality (BLM; i.e., a supervisor's singular focus on pursuing bottom-line outcomes) in relation to our theoretical model. We argue that high supervisor BLM intensifies the employee unethical behavior to shame relationship (Hypothesis 3) and results in heightened exemplification as a way to protect one's self-image by portraying the self as a dedicated person who is worthy of association (Hypothesis 4). We test our theoretical model across 2 experimental studies and 2 field studies. Although our results provide general support for Hypotheses 1, 2, and 3, our results produced mixed findings for Hypothesis 4. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Employee Machiavellianism to unethical behavior: The role of abusive supervision as a trait activator
Journal of ManagementRebecca L Greenbaum, Aaron Hill, Mary B Mawritz, Matthew J Quade
2017 Drawing on trait activation theory, we examine a person-situation interactionist model to predict unethical behavior in organizations. In particular, we examine abusive supervision as a condition under which employee Machiavellianism (Mach) is activated and thus more strongly predicts unethical behavior. We offer a more fine-grained analysis of the Mach–trait activation process by specifically examining the interactive effect of each Mach dimension (viz., Distrust in Others, Desire for Control, Desire for Status, and Amoral Manipulation) ...
“I don’t want to be near you, unless…”: The interactive effect of unethical behavior and performance onto relationship conflict and workplace ostracism
Personnel Psychology2016 Examined through the lens of moral psychology, we investigate when and why employees’ unethical behaviors may be tolerated versus rejected. Specifically, we examine the interactive effect of employees’ unethical behaviors and job performance onto relationship conflict, and whether such conflict eventuates in workplace ostracism. Although employees’ unethical behaviors typically go against moral norms, high job performance may provide a motivated reason to ignore moral violations. In this regard, we predict that job performance will mitigate the relationship between employee unethical behavior and workplace ostracism, as mediated by relationship conflict. Study 1, a multisource field study, tests and provides support for Hypotheses 1 and 2. Study 2, also a multisource field study, provides support for our fully specified model. Study 3, a time-lagged field study, provides support for our theoretical model while controlling for employees’ negative affectivity and ethical environment. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
When the customer is unethical: the explanatory role of employee emotional exhaustion onto work–family conflict, relationship conflict with coworkers, and job neglect
Journal of Applied PsychologyRebecca L Greenbaum, Matthew J Quade, Mary B Mawritz, Joongseo Kim, Durand Crosby
2014 We integrate deontological ethics (Folger, 1998, 2001; Kant, 1785/1948, 1797/1991) with conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989) to propose that an employee's repeated exposure to violations of moral principle can diminish the availability of resources to appropriately attend to other personal and work domains. In particular, we identify customer unethical behavior as a morally charged work demand that leads to a depletion of resources as captured by employee emotional exhaustion.
Why Do Leaders Practice Amoral Management? A Conceptual Investigation of the Impediments to Ethical Leadership
Organizational Psychology ReviewRL Greenbaum, MJ Quade, J Bonner
2014 We present a theoretical model of amoral management in an effort to understand impediments to ethical leadership. We posit that a number of anticipated negative consequences of engaging in ethical leadership are positively related to amoral management and these relationships are strengthened by contextual factors. Furthermore, we argue that under certain conditions, amoral managers may experience enough moral motivation to engage in initial ethical leadership practices.
Stressful demands or helpful guidance? The role of display rules in Indian call centers
Journal of Vocational Behavior2011 This paper utilizes conservation of resources (COR) theory and two of Hofstede's (1980) dimensions of culture (individualism and power distance) to examine the impact of display rules on job satisfaction and performance in an Indian call center sample. Contrary to findings in an American sample (Wilk & Moynihan, 2005), we proposed that due to cultural differences as well as differences in the nature of the job among representatives in an Indian call center, supervisory focus on display rules would reduce emotional exhaustion, and in turn, have positive consequences for employee performance and job satisfaction. Using multi-source data in a sample of 137 Indian call center representatives, results confirmed the hypothesized mediating effects of emotional exhaustion on performance and job satisfaction. Implications of these results for future cross-cultural research are presented.
