Professor Robert Wood

Professor
Member of the School of Organisation and Management in the Australian School of Business

Director, Accelerated Learning Laboratory

BBus WAIT
PhD Wash.

Research interests

Flexible expertise and knowledge based leadership
Exploration and search strategies in problem solving
Feedback effects on performance and learning

Recent Publications

Wood, R.E. and Beckmann, N. (In Press) Personality Architecture and the FFM in Organizational Psychology” Applied Psychology: An International Review,

M. Erez, E. Naire, R.E. Wood, and M. Griffin, (In Press). “The history of organizational psychology in Australia, Israel, India and Singapore”. In Rogelberg, S. G. (Ed.) The Encyclopaedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Sage Publishing, California.

Foster, F. D., Gregor, S., Heaney, R. A., O'Neill, T., Northcott, W., Richardson, A. and Wood, R. E., 2006, "Impact Of Computer Based Share Market Simulations On Learning: A Link Between Self Efficacy And Understanding", Journal of College Teaching and Learning, 3, 2, 45-60.

R.E. Wood (2005) “New frontiers in self-regulation research for I-O Psychology” Applied Psychology: An International Review, 54 (2), 192-198.

J Goodman and R.E. Wood (2004) "Feedback Specificity, Learning Opportunities, and Learning". Journal of Applied Psychology. 89(3), 809-821

J Goodman, R.E. Wood and Margaretha Hendrickx (2004) "Feedback Specificity, Exploration, and Learning". Journal of Applied Psychology 89(2), 248-262.

Foster, F. D., Gregor, S., Heaney, R. A., O'Neill, T., Richardson, A. and Wood, R. E., (2004), "Market Games in Finance Education", Journal of College Teaching and Learning, 1, (5), 81-92.

R.E. Wood (2004) “Practical Intelligence” In N. Nicholson, P. Audia &M. Pillutla. (Editors) Blackwell Encylopedic Dictionary of Management: Organizational Behavior 2nd Edition. Oxford: Blackwell.

R.E. Wood (2004) “Emeritus Professor Dennis Turner” Australian Journal of Management, 29 (1), 1-6.

Other Selected Publications

R.E. Wood and A. Bandura, (1989) "Social cognitive theory of organizational management," Academy of Management Review, 14, 361-384.

R.E.Wood and E.A. Locke, (1987) "The relation of self-efficacy and grade goals to academic performance". Educational and Psychological Measurement, 47, 1013-1024.

R.E. Wood, "Task complexity: Definition of the construct" (1986) Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 37, 60-82.

R.E.Wood, A.J. Mento and E.A, Locke, (1987) "Task complexity as a moderator of goal effects: A meta-analysis". Journal of Applied Psychology, 72, 416-425.

T.R. Mitchell, S.G. Green and R.E. Wood, (1981)” An attributional model of leadership and the poor performing subordinate: Development and validation". In B. Staw and L.L. Cummings (Eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 3, 197-234, JAI Press.

Contact details
T: 61 2 9931 9190
F: 61 2 9931 9199
E: rwood@agsm.edu.au