“When conflicts arise between personal and organizational values, some employees may feel pressure to suppress their own values and pretend to embrace organizational values. I describe this behavior as creating facades of conformity.“

Selected Work by Topic

To thine own self be true?: Facades of conformity, values congruence, and the magnifying impact of leader integrity.

Hewlin, P. F., Dumas, T. L., & Burnett, M. (2017). Academy of Management Journal, 1: 178-199.

Creating facades of conformity in the face of job insecurity: A study of consequences and conditions.

Hewlin, P. F., Kim, S. S., & Song, Y. H. (2016). Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 89: 539–567.

Wearing the cloak: Antecedents and consequences of creating facades of conformity.

Hewlin, P. F. (2009). Journal of Applied Psychology, 94: 727-741.

And the award for best actor goes to…: Facades of conformity in organizational settings.

Hewlin, P. F. (2003). Academy of Management Review, 28: 633-642.

Authenticity at work: Its shapes, triggers, and consequences

Hewlin, Karelaia, N., Kouchaki, M, & Sedikides, C. (2020). Guest Editorial. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 158:80-82.

Authenticity in the workplace: An African American perspective

Hewlin, P. F. & Bromes, A. M. (2019). In L. M. Roberts, T. Mayo & D. Thomas (Eds.), Race, Work, Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience. Cambridge: Harvard Business Review Press.

Being Your True Self at Work: Integrating the Fragmented Research on Authenticity in Organizations

Cha, S., Hewlin, P. F., Roberts, L. M., Buckman, B., Leroy, H., & Steckler, E. (2019). Academy of Management Annals, 13: 633-671. Finalist for best paper award.

Conformity

Seegars, L. & Hewlin, P. F. (2017). In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. New York: Springer.

Authenticity on one’s own terms.

Hewlin, P. F. (2015). In R. M. Roberts, M. L. Davidson, & L. Wooten (Eds.) Positive Organizing in a Global Society. New York: Taylor & Francis, pp. 53-57.

Bringing the inside out: Enhancing authenticity and positive identity in organizations

Roberts, L. M., Cha, S., Hewlin, P. F., Settles, I. (2009). In L. M. Roberts & J. Dutton (Eds.), Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation. Philadelphia: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 149-169.

Turning a Blind or Critical Eye to Leader Value Breaches: The Role of Value Congruence in Employee Perceptions of Leader Integrity

Cha, S. E., Kim, S. S., Hewlin, P. F., & DeRue, D. S. (2020). Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 27: 286-306.

Paternalistic leadership and employee well-being: A moderated mediation model

He, G., An, R. & Hewlin, P. F. (2019). Chinese Management Studies, 3: 645-663.

An exploratory study of employee silence: Issues that employees don’t communicate upward and why.

Milliken, F. J., Morrison, E. W., & Hewlin, P. F. (2003). Journal of Management Studies, 40: 1453-1476.

How do callings relate to job performance? The role of organizational commitment and ideological contract fulfillment.

Kim, S. S., Shin, D, Vough, H., Hewlin, P. F., and Vandenberghe, C. (2018). Human Relations, 71: 1319-1347. Nominated by editors as among the top papers published in 2018.

Why do racial slurs remain prevalent in the workplace? Integrating theory on intergroup behavior.

Rosette, A. S., Carton, A. M., Bowes-Sperry, L., & Hewlin, P. F. (2013). Organization Science, 24: 1402-1421.

Does coworkers’ upward mobility affect employees’ turnover intention?: The roles of perceived employability and prior job similarity.

Huang, W., Wang, D., Pi, X., & Hewlin, P. F. (2020). The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1-32.

Silicon Alley.com: Struggling for legitimacy in the new media.

Lant, T., & Hewlin, P. F. (2005). In T. Lant, J. Lampel, & J. Shamsie, (Eds.), The Business of Culture: Emerging Perspectives on Cultural Industries. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Splintered identities and organizational change.

Wiesenfeld, B. M., & Hewlin, P. F. (2003). In B. Mannix, M. Neale, & J. Polzer (Eds.), Research on Managing Groups and Teams, Volume 5, pp. 27-52. San Diego: Elsevier.

Information cues and decision making: The effects of learning, momentum and social comparison in competing teams.

Lant, T., & Hewlin, P. F. (2002). Group and Organization Management, 27: 374-407.