M. Lance Frazier, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

M. Lance Frazier, PhD

Contact

LanceFrazier@creighton.edu
Heider College of Business
Marketing & Management - Business
Graduate School
Business Administration DBA (Doctorate)
Business Administration MBA (Master's)
HARP - Harper Center for Student Life & Learn

M. Lance Frazier, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

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.

Teaching Interests

  • Employee Proactivity

Research Focus

Employee Proactivity
Employee Thriving and Empowerment
Psychological Safety
Trust at Work

Department

Marketing and Management

Position

Associate Professor

Articles

  • Industrial and Organizational Psychology
    Walker, S.S., Ruggs, E.N., Taylor, R.M., & Frazier, M.L. (in press). Reporting sexual harassment: The role of psychological safety climate 2018
  • Small Group Research
    Duan, J., Xu, Y., & Frazier, M.L. (in press). Voice climate, TMX, and task interdependence: A team-level study.  2018
  • Group & Organization Management
    Frazier, M.L. & Tupper, C. (2018). Supervisor prosocial motivation, employee thriving, and helping behavior: A trickle-down model of psychological safety. Group and Organization Management, 43, 561-593.
    43, p. 561-593 2018
  • Managerial Auditing Journal
    Cooper, M., Knight, M.E., Frazier, M.L., Law, D. (in press). Conflict management style and emotional exhaustion in public accounting 2018
  • Long Range Planning
    Fainshmidt, S. & Frazier, M.L. (2017). What facilitates dynamic capabilities? The role of organizational climate for trust. Long Range Planning, 50, 550-566. 
    50, p. 550-566 2017
  • Personnel Psychology
    Frazier, M.L., Fainshmidt, S., Klinger, R.L., Pezeshkan, A., & Vracheva, V. Psychological safety: A meta-analytic review and extension. 
    70, p. 113-165 2017
  • Journal of Business Research
    Pezeshkan, A., Fainshmidt, S., Markowski, E., Frazier, M.L. & Nair, A. An empirical assessment of the dynamic capabilities – performance relationship
    69(8), p. 2950-2956 2016
  • Journal of Management Studies
    Fainshmidt, S., Pezeshkan, A., Frazier, M.L., Nair, A., & Markowski, E.  Dynamic capabilities and organizational performance: A meta-analytic evaluation and extension
    8, p. 1348-1380 2016
  • Journal of Organizational Behavior
    Frazier, M.L., Tupper, C., & Fainshmidt, S. The path(s) to interpersonal trust in nascent and established employee-supervisor relationships: A fuzzy set analysis
    7, p. 1023-1043 2016
  • Journal of Business and Psychology
    Employee attachment styles: Implications for supervisor trustworthiness and trust
    30(2), p. 373-386 2015
  • Journal of Management
    Frazier, M.L. & Bowler, W.M. Voice climate, supervisor undermining, and work outcomes: A group-level examination
    41(3), p. 841-863 2015
  • Frazier, M.L. Voice climate in organizations: Creating a context for speaking up at work. In Burke, R., & Cooper, C.L. (Eds.), Voice and Whistleblowing in Organizations (pp. 205 – 223). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2013
  • Journal of Trust Research
    Frazier, M.L., Johnson, P.D., & Fainshmidt, S. Development and validation of a propensity to trust scale
    3(2), p. 76-97 2013
  • Group & Organization Management
    Voice climate, work outcomes, and the mediating role of psychological empowerment: A multi-level examination
    37(6), p. 691-715 2012
  • Group & Organization Management
    Frazier, M.L., Johnson, P.D., Gavin, M.B., Gooty, J., & Snow, D.B.  Organizational justice, trustworthiness, and trust: A multifoci examination
    35(1), p. 39-76 2010
  • Journal of Organizational Behavior
    Wallace, J.C., Johnson, P.D., & Frazier, M.L. An examination of the factorial, construct, and predictive validity and utility of the Regulatory Focus at Work Scale
    30(6), p. 805-831 2009
  • Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies
    Gooty, J., Gavin, M.B., Johnson, P.D., Frazier, M.L., & Snow, D.B.  In the eyes of the beholder: Transformational leadership, positive psychological capital, and performance
    15(4), p. 353-367 2009
  • Journal of Applied Psychology
    Wallace, J.C., Edwards B.D., Arnold T., & Frazier, M.L., Finch, D.M. Work stressors, role-based performance, and the moderating influence of organizational support
    94(1), p. 254-262 2009
  • Nelson, D.L., Little, L.M., & Frazier, M.L. (2008). Employee well being: The heart of positive organizational behavior. In Kinder A., Hughes, R., & Cooper, C.L. (Eds.) Employee Well Being Support: A Workplace Resource (pp. 51 – 60). Chicester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. 2008