Sharon Arieli is an associate professor in the Strategy Department at the Hebrew University Business School, and is the Director o f the MBA program.
Prof. Sharon Arieli studies how values influence behavior in the workplace across individuals, organizations, and nations. Her research examines the personal and situational factors that motivate people to pursue meaningful goals, solve problems creatively, and engage in prosocial behavior.
She focuses on creativity and prosocial behavior, exploring how these behaviors can be encouraged in the short term through mindset shifts and sustained in the long term through value change. By integrating psychological theory with organizational contexts, her work highlights how values drive innovation, collaboration, and resilience in modern workplaces. In her recent research, Prof. Arieli also leverages advances in artificial intelligence to detect values of employees and organizations from texts, and develops chatbots that simulate and convey different motivational orientations, offering new tools for studying and shaping workplace behavior.
Looking ahead, Prof. Arieli aims to deepen our understanding of the future of work in light of rapid technological advancements, examining how values shape adaptation, creativity, and well-being in an era of profound change.
Prof. Arieli earned her PhD in Business Administration; an MBA, and a BA in Business Administration and Communications from the Hebrew University. Prof. Arieli has served as a Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan.
Her research has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Cognition, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Journal of Personality, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
She won the Abe Gray President’s Prize for Excellence and the Golda Meir Fellowship. Additionally, she has been awarded several grants, including the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF).
She teaches the courses Generative Tools for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Global Competence: Thriving in Multicultural Landscapes, Strategic Management, and Practical Workshop in Management.
- Research Summary
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In her research, Prof. Sharon Arieli investigates the interactive effect of personality and social factors on behavior and choices relevant to the organizational context. Her main research areas are creativity – identifying factors that facilitate, or attenuate, creative performance of employees and teams; developing work settings that encourage creativity and innovation; values in organizations – exploring the impact of values on the behavior of individuals and organizations, and on their sense of meaning; and cultural mindset – investigating the interplay between cultural orientations, task demands, and performance.
- Publications
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Daniel, E., Arieli, S. & Akerman, L. The values of schools: an analysis of vision statements. Eur J Psychol Educ (2024).
Lipshits-Braziler, Y., Arieli, S., & Daniel, E. (2024). Personal values and career-related preferences among young adults. Journal of Personality, 00, 1–16.
S Arieli, S Mentser, The impact of language-induced cultural mindset on originality in idea generation - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2022
NJ Adler, SA Sackmann, S Arieli, MM Akter…, The Grand Challenge None of Us Chose: Succeeding (and Failing) Against the Global Pandemic 1 - Advances in global leadership, 2022
Amit, A. PI, Mentser, S.S, Arieli, S. PI, & Porzycki, N.S (2021). Distinguishing deliberate from systematic thinking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(3), 765–788. IF: 6.335; ISI: 4/64 (Psychology, Social); ABS: 4.
Arieli, S.PI, Lee, F.PI, Sagiv, L.PI (2020). Roles affect individuals’ preferences for organizations: A values perspective. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26(2), 350-359. IF: 1.972; ISI: 37/82 (Psychology, Applied); ABS: 4.
Arieli, S.PI, Sagiv, L.PI, Roccas, S.PI (2020). Challenges and gaps in studying value–behavior associations in work settings. Applied Psychology an International Review, 69(2), 296-301. IF: 3.265; ISI: 15/82 (Psychology, Applied); ABS: 3.
Arieli, S.PI, Sagiv, L.PI, Roccas, S.PI (2020). Values at work: The impact of personal values in organizations. Lead article in Applied Psychology an International Review, 69(2), 230-275. IF: 3.265; ISI: 15/82 (Psychology, Applied); ABS: 3, citations: 29.
Lin, Y.S, Arieli., S.C, Oyserman, D.PI (2019). Cultural fluency means all is okay, cultural disfluency implies otherwise. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84, 103822. IF: 3.291; ISI: 8/63 (Psychology, Social); ABS: 6.
Arieli, S.PI, Amit, A.PI, Mentser, S.S (2019). Identity-motivated reasoning: Biased judgments regarding political leaders and their actions. Cognition, 188, 64-73. IF: 3.537; ISI: 11/88 (Psychology, Experimental), citations: 1.
Arieli, S.PI, & Sagiv, L.PI (2018). Culture and problem-solving: Congruency between the cultural mindset of individualism versus collectivism and problem type. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(6), 789-814. 3.498; 12/88; 2. IF: 3.498; ISI: 12/88 (Psychology, Experimental); citations: 22.
Arieli, S.PI, Sagiv, L.PI, Cohen-Shalem, E.S (2016). Values in business schools: The role of self-selection and socialization. Academy of Management Learning and Education. 15(3), 493-507. IF: 3.274; ISI: 56/217 (Management); ABS: 4; citations: 46.
Amit, A.PI, Rusou, Z.C, & Arieli, S.PI (2016). Uni-dimensional or multi-dimensional? Empirical evidence for distinguishing between different aspects of intuition. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 5(3), 322-324. IF: 2.418; ISI: 31/88 (Psychology, Experimental); citations: 6.
Arieli, S.PI, Grant, A.M.PI, & Sagiv, L.PI (2014). Convincing yourself to care about others: An intervention for enhancing benevolence values. Journal of Personality, 82(1), 15-24. IF: 3.084; ISI: 10/63 (Psychology, Social); citations: 84.
Sagiv, L.PI, Amit, A.PI, Ein-Gar, D.PI, & Arieli, S.PI (2014). Not all people think alike: Systematic versus intuitive cognitive style. Journal of Personality, 82(5), 402-417. IF: 3.084; ISI: 10/63 (Psychology, Social); citations: 35.
Sagiv, L.PI, Arieli, S.PI, Goldenberg, J.PI, & Goldschmidt, A.C (2010). Structure and freedom in creativity: The interplay between externally imposed structure and personal cognitive style. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31, 1086-1110. IF: 5.00; ISI: 20/147 (Business) 26/217 (Management)10/82 (Psychology, Applied); ABS: 4; citations: 133.
- Awards & Honors
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A. Awards and Fellowships
2006 Gal-Ed Grant, School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2006-2009 Scholarship for Doctoral Studies from the School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2008 Recanati Travel Grant, School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2008 Solomon Fellowship Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2009 Promising Dissertation Proposal Award, Academy of Management, International Management division.
2009 Gal-Ed Grant, School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2009 Peter Lougheed Fellowship Grant, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for conducting a research project in Canada, 7,500CD.
2009 The Canadian Friends of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, extended scholarship for outstanding doctoral students.
2010 The 29th Doctoral Grant of the Israel Foundations Trustees (I.F.T), for conducting PhD research, $10,000.
2011 Recanati Travel Grant, School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2011 The Haim Shtesel Extended Scholarship for outstanding doctoral students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2012 Scholarship for postdoctoral training, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 50,000$.
2019 Golda Meir Fellowship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2019 The Abe Gray President’s Prize in Excellence, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Research Grants
2024-2029 Israeli Science Foundation (ISF), Individual Research Grant for five years (156/24): Taking a Value-Fit Perspective to Facilitate Creativity: Matching Between Personal Values, Tasks and Rewards, 1,050,000 NIS (with Prof. Anat Bracha).
2017-2021 Israeli Science Foundation (ISF), Individual Research Grant for four years (655/17): The Role of Cultural Identity in the Quest for Meaning at Work, 620,000 NIS.
- In the News
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