Lance Frazier is an Associate Professor of Management and the department chair for the Marketing and Management Department in the Heider College of Business at Creighton University. He earned his doctorate from Oklahoma State University with an emphasis on organizational behavior. His research focuses on proactivity at work, examining the factors that encourage employees to speak up at work and help their colleagues. These factors include trust, psychological safety, and leadership. His work has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Personnel Psychology, among others. He is an active member in the Academy of Management and Southern Management Association. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Frazier worked for nearly ten years in the telecommunications industry.
Research Focus
Employee Proactivity Employee Thriving and Empowerment Psychological Safety Trust at Work
Frazier, M.L., Frieder, R. E., & Oksoy, A. (2017). The post-voice impact of supervisor justice and employee emotions on work outcomes. In J. Gooty & C.E. Williams (Chairs), The Role of Discrete Emotions in Organizations: An Empirical Investigation of Work Outcomes. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management. Atlanta, GA. 2017
Weber, T., Markowski, E., Madden, T.M., & Frazier, M.L. (2016). Strategic caring: An empirical study. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management. Anaheim, CA 2016
Fainshmidt, S. & Frazier, M.L. (2015). Why dynamic capabilities are heterogeneously distributed: The facilitating role of organizational climate for trust. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Management Association. St. Pete Beach, FL 2015
Frazier, M.L., Frieder, R. E., & Oksoy, A. (2015). I said it, now what? How perceptions of supervisor justice impact work outcomes after employee voice. In M.L. Frazier & R.E. Frieder (Chairs), Extending the Nomological Network of Voice: Antecedents, Contingencies, and Outcomes of Speaking Up. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management. Vancouver, BC, Canada 2015
Frazier, M.L., Tupper, C., & Fainshmidt, S. (2014). The path(s) to interpersonal trust in nascent and established employee-supervisor relationships: A fuzzy set analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Management Association. Savannah, Georgia 2014
Frazier, M.L. & Tupper, C. (2014). Psychological safety and voice behavior: A trickle-down model of supervisor prosocial motivation. In H. Guenter (Chair), An Impetus for Voice/Silence Research: Uncovering New Drivers and Contingencies. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management. Philadelphia, PA 2014
Fainshmidt, S., Pezeshkan, A., Frazier, M.L., Markowski, E., & Nair, A. (2013, November). Dynamic capabilities, environment, and performance: A meta- analytic review. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Management Association. New Orleans, Louisiana 2013
Frazier, M.L., Edwards, B. D., & Casper, C. (2013, August). Workplace incivility, feedback from others, and voice behavior: Organizational justice as uncertainty reduction. In M.L. Frazier (Chair), The Positive Side of Fairness: The Role of Organizational Justice in Positive Workplaces. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management. Lake Buena Vista, FL 2013
Frazier, M.L., Fainshmidt, S., Klinger, R.L., Vracheva, V., & Pezeshkan, A. (2012, August). A meta-analytic examination of the antecedents and consequences of psychological safety. In M.L. Frazier (Chair), Research on Psychological Safety: Past Findings and Future Directions. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management. Boston, MA 2012
Frazier, M.L., Johnson, P.D., & Fainshmidt, S. (2011, August). Development and validation of a propensity to trust scale. In M.L. Frazier (Chair), Trust in Interpersonal Relationships: Emerging Concepts and Future Directions. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management. San Antonio, TX 2011
Frazier, M.L. (2010, August). Voice climate, work outcomes, and the mediating role of psychological empowerment. In M.L. Frazier (Chair), Empowerment research: Enabling employees to make a difference. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management. Montreal, QC Canada 2010
Frazier, M.L. & Bowler, W.M. (2009, August). Voice climate in organizations: A group-level examination of antecedents and performance outcomes. In M.L. Frazier (Chair), Challenging the status quo: Advances in voice behavior research. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management. Chicago, IL 2009
Frazier, M.L, Little, L.M., Gooty, J., Nelson, D.L. Johnson, P.D., & Bolton, J.F. (2009, April). Does similarity in attachment security predict performance outcomes? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. New Orleans, LA 2009
Gooty, J., Gavin, M.B., Johnson, P.D., Frazier, M.L., & Snow, D.B. (2008, April). Transformational leadership and psychological capital: Implications for performance and OCB. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. San Francisco, CA 2008
Finch, D., Wallace, J.C., Edwards, B.D., Arnold, T., & Frazier, M.L. (2008, April). Work stressors, role-based performance, and support climate: A moderated model. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. San Francisco, CA 2008
Frazier, M.L., Wallace, J.C., Edwards, B.D., & Arnold, T. (2007, November). The relationship between challenge stress and performance: The moderating role of perceived organizational support. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Management Association. Nashville, TN 2007
Frazier, M.L., Johnson, P.D., Gooty, J., & Gavin, M.B. (2007, August). Fairness heuristic theory: The influence of justice on trustworthiness and trust perceptions. In R.J. Lewicki (Chair), Justice and trust: Disentangling their connection. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management. Philadelphia, PA 2007
Frazier, M.L., Johnson, P.D., Bolton, J.F. (2007, August). Attachment at work questionnaire: Development of a scale. In J.C. Quick (Chair), Good relationships, positive outcomes: Attachment theory, trust, and leadership at work. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management. Philadelphia, PA 2007
DeGroot, T., Kluemper, D., Frazier, M.L., Johnson, P. & Bolton, J. (2006, October). An examination of computerized versus paper-and-pencil data gathering techniques in the assessment of personality, vocal attractiveness, and job performance. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Management Association. Clearwater Beach, FL 2006
Frazier, M.L. (2006, October). Performance appraisal systems in an organizational justice context: A theoretical model of the effects on performance of organizational citizenship behaviors. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Management Association. Clearwater Beach, FL 2006