Shaul Oreg is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Hebrew University Business School. He earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Cornell University. He holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Ben-Gurion University, and a B.A. in Psychology and Computer Sciences from Tel-Aviv University.
In his research, he considers individual differences in social and organizational contexts, focusing on the effects of traits and values on individuals’ attitudes and behaviors, with a particular interest in people’s responses to organizational change. He is a former associate editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and of Personnel Psychology, and serves on the editorial boards of these journals along with that of the Journal of Change Management. Amongst the journals in which his research has been published are the Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
He teaches the core undergraduate course in organizational behavior, as well as courses on Research Methods and electives and seminars on the topics of Organizational Change, Leadership, and Personality.
- Publications
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Books
Oreg, S., & Goldenberg, J., (2015), Resistance to innovation: Its sources and manifestations, University of Chicago Press. (https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo9150505.html)
Oreg, S., Michel, A., & By, T. B., (Eds.) (2013), The psychology of organizational change: Viewing change from the employee's perspective, Cambridge University Press. (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/psychology-of-organizational-change/07872AA5602442924EF0B6BC782FFBDB)
Journal Articles
Benish-Weisman, M., Oreg, S., & Berson, Y., (in press), The contribution of peer values to children’s values and behavior, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Oreg, S., Edwards, J., & Rauthmann, J., (2020), The Situation Six: Uncovering basic dimensions of psychological situations from the Hebrew language, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(4), 835–863.
Sverdlik, N., Oreg, S., & Berson, Y., (2020), When do leaders initiate changes? The roles of coping style and organization members’ stability-emphasizing values. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 69 (4), 1338–1360.
Oreg, S., & Berson, Y., (2019), Leadership and organizational change: Bridging theoretical and methodological chasms, Academy of Management Annals, 13(1), 272-307.
Oreg, S., & Sverdlik, N., (2018), Translating dispositional resistance to change to the culture level: Developing a cultural framework of change orientations, European Journal of Personality, 32, 327-352.
Oreg, S., & Berson, Y., (2018), The impact of top leaders’ personality: The processes through which organizations become reflections of their leaders, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(4), 241-248.
Oreg, S., Bartunek, J., Lee, G., & Do, B., (2018), An affect-based model of recipients' responses to organizational change events, Academy of Management Review , 43(1), 65-86.
Oreg, S., (2018), Resistance to change and performance: Towards a more even-handed view of dispositional resistance, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 54 (1), 88-107.
Berson, Y., & Oreg, S., (2016), The role of school principals in shaping children's values, Psychological Science, 27(12), 1539–1549.
Sverdlik, N., & Oreg, S., (2015), Identification during imposed change: The roles of personal values, type of change, and anxiety. Journal of Personality 83(3), 307-319.
Oreg, S., and Berson, Y., (2015), Personality and charismatic leadership in context: The moderating role of situational stress, Personnel Psychology, 68(1), 49-77.
Oreg, S., and Sverdlik, N., (2014), Source personality and persuasiveness: Big-five predispositions to being persuasive and the role of message involvement, Journal of Personality 82(3), 250-264.
Oreg, S., & Berson, Y., (2011), Leadership and employees' reactions to change: The role of leaders' personal attributes and transformational leadership style, Personnel Psychology, 64(3), 627-659
Oreg, S., Vakola, M., & Armenakis, A., (2011), Change recipients' reactions to organizational change: A 60-year review of quantitative studies. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 47(4), 461–524.
Oreg, S. & Sverdlik, N., (2011), Ambivalence toward imposed change: The conflict between dispositional resistance to change and the orientation toward the change agent, Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(2), 337-349
Goldenberg, J., Lowengart, O., Oreg, S., & Bar-Eli, M., (2010), How do revolutions emerge? Lessons from the Fosbury Flop. International Studies of Management and Organization, 40(2), 30-51.
Oreg, S., & van Dam, K., (2009), Organizational justice in the context of organizational change. Netherlands Journal of Psychology, 65(4), 127-135.
Oreg, S., (2009), A call for greater caution in drawing conclusions from individual samples: A comment on "A test of the measurement validity of the resistance to change scale in Russia and Ukraine", Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 45(4), 490-493.
Oreg, S. & Bayazit, M., (2009), Prone to bias: Development of a bias taxonomy from an individual differences perspective. Review of General Psychology, 13(3), 175-193.
Sverdlik, N. & Oreg, S., (2009), Personal values and conflicting motivational forces in the context of imposed change. Journal of Personality, 77(5), 1437-1466.
Oreg, S., Nevo, O., Metzer, H., Leder, N., & Castro, D., (2009), Dispositional resistance to change and occupational interests and choices. Journal of Career Assessment, 17(3), 312-323.
Oreg, S., Bayazit, M., Vakola, M., Arciniega, L., Armenakis, A., Barkauskiene, R., Bozionelos, N., Fujimoto, Y., Gonzalez, L., Han, J., Hrebickova, M., Jimmieson, N., Kordacova, J., Mitsuhashi, H., Mlacic, B., Feric, I., Kotrla, M., Ohly, S., Saksvik, P., Hetland, H., Saksvik, I., & van Dam, K., (2008), Dispositional resistance to change: Measurement equivalence and the link to personal values across 17 nations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(4), 935-944.
Oreg, S., & Nov, O., (2008), Exploring Motivations for contributing to open source initiatives: The roles of contribution context and personal values. Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 2055-2073.
Berson, Y., Oreg, S., & Dvir, T., (2008), CEO values, organizational culture, and firm outcomes. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29, 615-633.
Herzog, S., & Oreg, S., (2008), Chivalry and the moderating effect of ambivalent sexism: Individual differences in crime seriousness judgments. Law and Society Review, 42(1), 45-73.
van Dam, K., Oreg, S., & Schyns, B., (2008), Daily work contexts and resistance to organizational change: The role of leader-member exchange, perceived development climate, and change process quality. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 57(2), 313-334.
Goldenberg, J. & Oreg, S., (2007), Laggards in disguise: Resistance to adopt and the Leapfrogging Effect. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 74, 1272-1281.
Oreg, S. & Katz-Gerro, T., (2006), Predicting pro-environmental behavior cross-nationally: National values and the theory of planned behavior. Environment and Behavior, 38(4), 462-483.
Oreg, S., (2006), Personality, context and resistance to organizational change, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 15(1), 73-101.
Roberson, Q., Collins, C. & Oreg, S., (2005), The effects of recruitment message specificity on applicant attraction to organizations. Journal of Business and Psychology, 19(3), 319-339.
Oreg, S., (2003), Resistance to change: Developing an individual differences measure. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88(4), 680-693.
- Recent and Past Research Grants
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2019-2024: Research grant from the Israel Science Foundation, $200,000
2014-2019: Research grant from Yad Hanadiv, $190,000
2014-2017: Research grant from the Israel Science Foundation, $100,000
2012-2015: Research grant from Israel’s Ministry of Education, $50,000
2012-2015: Research from the Rothschild Caesarea Foundation, $60,000
2011: Research grant from the Israel Science Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, $27,000
2010-2013: Research grant from the Israel Science Foundation, $100,000
2010-2012: Research grant from the Aveni Rosha Institute, $70,000
2007-2009: Research grant from the Israel Science Foundation, $50,000
2006-2008: Research grant from the Israel Foundation Trustees, $20,000