Usman Raja began teaching at Goodman School of Business in 2009. He holds a PhD in Management from John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, a MBA from International Islamic University, and a BSc Honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore, Pakistan. He teaches courses in organizational behaviour and human resource management.

He has published in several top journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Human Relations, Leadership Quarterly and the Journal of Business Ethics. He also regularly reviews for many top journals.

Raja received Goodman's Distinguished Scholar Award in 2018 and was also appointed Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs at the School in 2024.

RESEARCH AREA

Raja is interested in studying micro organizational behaviour, psychological contracts, personality, perceived organizational justice, stress, perceived organizational politics, and impression management.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Haq, I., Raja, U., Azeem, M. and Bajwa, A.. Combined effects of abusive supervision, willpower and waypower on employees’ task performance and helping behavior, through quality of work life, Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, Forthcoming.

Khalid, A., Raja, U., Malik, A. and Jahanzeb, S.. The Effects of Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Work-Life Balance, Work-Family Conflict, and Employee Burnout, Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, Volume 11, Number 4, October, 2024.

Jahanzeb, S. and Raja, U.. Does Ethical Climate Overcome the Effect of Supervisor Narcissism on Employee Creativity, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Volume 73, Number 3, July, 2024.

Sufi, A., Raja, U. and Butt, A.. Impact of peer unethical behaviors on employee silence: The role of organizational identification and emotions, Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 190, Number 2, April, 2024.

Raja, U., Naseer, S. and Bashir, F.. “Losing it” in the wake of a pandemic: The interactive effects of fear of COVID-19 virus and emotional regulation on paranoid cognition and outcomes, International Journal of Stress Management, Volume 31, Number 1, January, 2024.

Raja, U., Jahanzeb, S., Malik, M. and Baig, M.. Dispositional causes of burnout, satisfaction, and performance through the fear of COVID-19 during times of pandemic, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Volume 72, Number 3, June, 2023.

Jahanzeb, S. and Raja, U.. Does ethical climate overcome the effect of supervisor narcissism on employee creativity?, Applied Psychology: An International Review, 2023.

Ishaq, E., Raja, U., Bouckenooghe, D. and Bashir, S.. Leaders’ trait signaling effect on followers’ psychological contract dynamics., Personnel Review, Volume 51, Number 3, 2022.

Haq, I., Raja, U., Alam, I., De Clercq, D. and Saleem, S.. Servant Leadership and Mistreatment at the Workplace: Mediation of Trust and Moderation of Ethical Climate, Personnel Review, Volume 51, Number 3, 2022.

Naseer, S., Raja, U., Syed, F. and Baig, U.. When and Why Organizational Cynicism leads to CWBs, Personnel Review, 2021.

Fatima, T., Raja, U., Malik, M. and Jahanzeb, S.. Leader-member exchange quality and followers’ performance and creativity: A parallel mediation model, Eurasian Business Review, Volume 10, 2020.

Haq, I., Raja, U., Azeem, M. and Naseer, S.. Perceived threat of terrorism and employee outcomes: The moderating role of negative affectivity and psychological capital, Journal of Business Research, 2020.

Bouckenooghe, D., De Clercq, D. and Raja, U.. A Person-centered, Latent Profile Analysis of Psychological Capital, Australian Journal of Management, Volume 44, Number 1, 2019.

Naseer, S. and Raja, U.. Why does workplace bullying affect victims’ job strain? Perceived organization support and emotional dissonance as resource depletion mechanisms, Current Psychology, 2019.

De Clercq, D., Haq, I., Azeem, M. and Raja, U.. Family Incivility, Emotional Exhaustion at Work, and Being a Good Soldier: The Buffering Roles of Waypower and Willpower, Journal of Business Research, Volume 89, August, 2018.

Raja, U., Javed, Y. and Abbas, M.. A time lagged study of burnout as a mediator in the relationship between workplace bullying and work–family conflict, International Journal of Stress Management, Volume 25, Number 4, 2018.

Abbas, M. and Raja, U.. Challenge-Hindrance Stressors and Job Outcomes: the Moderating Role of Conscientiousness, Journal of Business and Psychology, 2018.

Naseer, S., Raja, U., Anjum, M. and Bouckenooghe, D.. Combined effects of workplace bullying and perceived organizational support on employee behaviors: does resource availability help?, Anxiety, Stress and Coping, Volume 31, Number 6, 2018.

Raja, U., Sheikh, R., Abbas, M. and Bouckenooghe, D.. Do procedures really matter when rewards are important? A Pakistani perspective on the effects of distributive and procedural justice on employee behaviors., European Review of Applied Psychology, Volume 68, 2018.

Donia, M., Raja, U. and Johns, G.. Getting Credit for OCBs: Potential Costs of being a Good Actor vs. a Good Soldier, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Volume 27, Number 2, 2018.

Raja, U., Bouckenooghe, D., Syed, F. and Naseer, S.. Interplay between P-O fit, transformational leadership and organizational social capital., Personnel Review, Volume 47, 2018.

Jam, F., Donia, M., Raja, U. and Hui Ling, F.. A Time-Lagged Study on the Moderating Role of Overall Satisfaction in Perceived Politics: Job Outcomes Relationships, Journal of Management and Organization, Volume 23, Number 3, 2017.

Bouckenooghe, D., Raja, U., Butt, A., Abbas, M. and Bilgrami, S.. Unpacking the curvilinear relationship between negative affectivity, performance, and turnover intentions: The moderating effect of time-related work stress., Journal of Management and Organization, Number 23, 2017.

Donia, M., Johns, G. and Raja, U.. Good Soldier or Good Actor? Supervisor Accuracy in Distinguishing Between Selfless and Self-Serving OCB Motives, Journal of Business and Psychology, Volume 31, Number 1, March, 2016.

Naseer, S., Raja, U., Syed, F., Donia, M. and Darr, W.. Perils of being close to a bad leader in a bad environment: Exploring the combined effects of despotic leadership, leader member exchange, and perceived organizational politics on behaviors, Leadership Quarterly, Volume 27, Number 1, January, 2016.

Naseer, S., Raja, U. and Donia, M.. Effect of Perceived Politics and Perceived Support on Bullying and Emotional Exhaustion: The Moderating Role of Type A Personality, Journal of Psychology, Volume 150, Number 5, 2016.

Murtaza, Ghulam, Abbas, Muhammad, Raja, U., Roques, Olivier , Khalid, Afsheen and Mushtaq, Rizwan. Impact of Islamic Work Ethics on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and Knowledge-Sharing Behaviors, Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 133, Number 2, 2016.

Naseer, S., Raja, U., Syed, F., Donia, M. and Darr, W.. Perils of Being close to a bad leader in a bad environment: Exploring the combined effects of Despotic Leadership, Leader Member Exchange, and Perceived Organizational Politics on Behaviors, The Leadership Quarterly, 2016.

Donia, M., Raja, U., Panaccio, A. and Zheng, W.. Servant Leadership and Employee Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Subordinates Motives, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Volume 25, Number 5, 2016.

Bouckenooghe, D., Zafar, A. and Raja, U.. How Ethical Leadership Shapes Employees’ Job Performance: The Mediating Roles of Goal Congruence and Psychological Capital, Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 129, Number 2, 2015.

Abbas, Muhammad and Raja, U.. Impact of Psychological Capital on Innovative Performance and job stress, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Volume 32, Number 2, 2015.

Khan, Khurram, Abbas, Muhammad, Gul, Asma and Raja, U.. Organizational Justice and Job Outcomes: Moderating Role of Islamic Work Ethics, Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 126, Number 2, 2015.

Abbas, M., Raja, U., Darr, W. and Bouckenooghe, D.. Combined effects of perceived politics and psychological capital on job satisfaction, turnover intentions, and performance., Journal of Management, Volume 40, Number 7, 2014.

Bouckenooghe, D. and Raja, U.. How does self-regulation of emotions impact employee work engagement: The mediating role of social resources, Journal of Management and Organization, Volume 20, Number 4, 2014.

De Clercq, D., Bouckenooghe, D., Raja, U. and Matsyborska, G.. Servant Leadership and Work Engagement: The Contingency Effects of Leader-Follower Social Capital, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Volume 25, Number 2, 2014.

De Clercq, D., Bouckenooghe, D., Raja, U. and Matsyborska, G.. Unpacking the Goal Congruence-Organizational Deviance Relationship: The Roles of Work Engagement and Emotional Intelligence, Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 124, Number 4, 2014.

Bouckenooghe, D., Raja, U. and Butt, N.A.. Combined effects of positive and negative affectivity and job satisfaction on job performance and turnover, Journal of Psychology, Volume 147, Number 2, 2013.

Jamil, Amber, Raja, U. and Darr, Wendy. Psychological Contract Types as Moderator in the Breach-Violation and Violation-Burnout Relationships, Journal of Psychology, Volume 147, Number 5, 2013.

Raja, U., Johns, Gary and Bilgrami, Sabahat. Negative consequences of felt violations: The deeper the relationship, the stronger the reaction, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Volume 60, Number 3, 2011.

Raja, U. and Johns, Gary. The joint effects of personality and job scope on in-role performance, citizenship behaviors, and creativity, Human Relations, Volume 63, Number 7, 2010.

Raja, U., Johns, Gary and Ntalianis, Filotheos. The impact of personality on the psychological contract, Academy of Management Journal, Volume 47, Number 3, 2004.

Ntalianis, F and Raja, U.. Influence of religion on citizenship behavior and whistle blowing, Current Topics in Management, Volume 7, 2002.

Book Chapters / Sections

Raja, U. and Naseer, S.. SAGE Handbook of Industrial, Work, and Organizational Psychology - Chapter: Servant Leadership. Editors: . SAGE Publishing, California, 2015.

Conference Proceedings and Presentations

Fatima, T., Raja, U. and Jahanzeb, S.. A moderated mediation model of ostracism, psychological capital, need frustration and deviance - Academy of Management (AOM), Atlanta, Georgia, 2017.

Naseer, S., Raja, U. and Syed, F.. Combined effects of Organizational Cynicism and Psychological Capital on CWBs: A Mod-Med Model - 77th Annual Academy of Management (AOM), Atlanta, Georgia, 2017.

Naseer, S. and Raja, U.. POS and Emotional Dissonance as resource depletion mechanisms in the Workplace Bullying and Job Strains relationship - 76th Annual Academy of Management (AOM), Anaheim, California, August, 2016.

Fatima, T., Jahanzeb, S., Raja, U. and Batool, N.. Is ostracism always counterproductive: The role of organizational silence? - Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), Edmonton, Alberta, 2016.

Fatima, T., Raja, U. and Jahanzeb, S.. LMX quality and work outcomes: Mediating role of POP and perceived leader integrity - Southern Management Association Annual Conference (SMA), Charlotte, North Carolina, 2016.

Naseer, S., Raja, U. and Syed, F.. Perils of being close to a bad leader in a bad environment - 75th Annual Academy of Management (AOM), Vancouver, British Columbia, August, 2015.