Professor Tyler Okimoto
Professor
School of Business
Associate Dean (Academic)
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
+61 7 334 68059
Researcher biography
TYLER OKIMOTO is a Professor and Associate Dean (Academic) for the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law at the University of Queensland. He received his Ph.D. in Organisational Psychology from New York University in 2005, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Psychology at Flinders University in Australia, and in the School of Management at Yale University.
Tyler's research aims to better facilitate collaboration and consensus between diverse points of view, and to understand the role of leadership in overcoming those challenges. He often examines consensus/collaboration as a conduit for social justice in organisations and society, both how a lack of consensus contributes to injustice and inequality, and how people can effectively collaborate to move past conflict and repair harmonious relationships. He currently serves as President of the International Society for Justice Research, committed to fostering impactful interdisciplinary research that advances social justice.
He is also an award-winning educator, teaching both traditional and online/blended courses on leadership, human resources, conflict/negotiation, and decision-making in the Undergraduate, MBA, and Executive levels. He was also the Program Director and Academic Lead Designer of UQ's MicroMasters Program in Business Leadership, a series of five postgraduate-level MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses); in its first year, this program reached over 60,000 learners from 193 different countries, and was a 2019 finalist for the global edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions to Online Education.
Book Chapters
Curtis, Caitlin, Gillespie, Nicole and Okimoto, Tyler (2023). Establishing trust in science communication. Teaching science students to communicate: a practical guide. (pp. 39-47) edited by Susan Rowland and Louise Kuchel. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-91628-2_5
Gillespie, Nicole, Lockey, Steve, Hornsey, Matthew and Okimoto, Tyler (2021). Trust repair: a multilevel framework. Understanding trust in organizations: a multilevel perspective. (pp. 143-176) New York, NY., United States of America: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780429449185
Wenzel, Michael and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2016). Retributive justice. Handbook of social justice theory and research. (pp. 237-256) edited by Clara Sabbagh and Manfred Schmitt. New York, NY, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3216-0_13
Mullen, Elizabeth and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2015). Compensatory justice. The Oxford Handbook of Justice in the Workplace. (pp. 477-496) edited by Russell S. Cropanzano and Maureen L. Ambrose. New York, NY, United States: Oxford Univerisity Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199981410.001.0001
Okimoto, Tyler G., Wenzel, Michael and Platow, Michael J. (2010). Restorative justice: Seeking a shared identity in dynamic intragroup contexts. Fairness and groups. (pp. 205-244) edited by Elizabeth A. Mannix, Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth Mullen. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing. doi: 10.1108/S1534-0856(2010)0000013011
Journal Articles
Okimoto, Tyler G. and Gollwitzer, Mario (2024). The Social Psychology of Justice Repair. Annual Review of Psychology. doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-030124-114525
Yan, Hongmin, Okimoto, Tyler G. and Solnet, David (2024). Recovery and Recidivism: The Aftermath of Helping the Organization Unethically. Journal of Business and Psychology, 1-15. doi: 10.1007/s10869-024-09988-x
Gloor, Jamie L., Okimoto, Tyler G., Li, Xinxin, Gazdag, Brooke A. and Ryan, Michelle K. (2024). How identity impacts bystander responses to workplace mistreatment. Journal of Management, 50 (7), 2641-2674. doi: 10.1177/01492063231177976
Thai, Michael, Wenzel, Michael, Quinney, Blake, Woodyatt, Lydia and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2024). Keeping score: Past victimization reduces offenders’ conciliatory sentiments for their present transgressions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54 (6), 1228-1246. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.3075
Edwards, Martin R., Zubielevitch, Elena, Okimoto, Tyler, Parker, Stacey and Anseel, Frederik (2024). Managerial control or feedback provision: how perceptions of algorithmic HR systems shape employee motivation, behavior, and well-being. Human Resource Management, 63 (4), 691-710. doi: 10.1002/hrm.22218
Quinney, Blake, Wenzel, Michael, Thai, Michael, Okimoto, Tyler and Woodyatt, Lydia (2024). Is it Genuine or Pseudo-Forgiveness? Offenders’ Appraisals of Victims’ Expressed Forgiveness as a Function of Engagement in Co-Reflection. International Review of Social Psychology, 37 (1) 15. doi: 10.5334/irsp.887
Dawson, Niamh E. A., Parker, Stacey L. and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2024). Profiles of diversity and inclusion motivation: toward an employee‐centered understanding of why employees put effort into inclusion and exclusion. Human Resource Management, 63 (1), 45-66. doi: 10.1002/hrm.22186
Yan, Hongmin, Solnet, David and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2023). Helping the organization but harming customers: a social identity perspective of unethical pro-organizational behavior. Journal of Services Marketing, 37 (7), 927-943. doi: 10.1108/JSM-01-2023-0004
Sultana, Nasreen, Pekerti, Andre A., Okimoto, Tyler G. and Härtel, Charmine E. J. (2023). The effect of race and foreign accent on managers’ career progression. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 23 (2), 247-278. doi: 10.1177/14705958231180044
Wenzel, Michael, Rossi, Cara, Thai, Michael, Woodyatt, Lydia, Okimoto, Tyler G. and Worthington, Everett L. (2023). Let's talk about this: Co‐rumination and dyadic dynamics of moral repair following wrongdoing. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53 (4), 623-644. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2927
Thai, Michael, Wenzel, Michael and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2022). Transgression-related co-rumination: Scale validation and prediction of relational outcomes. Journal of Family Psychology, 37 (3), 335-346. doi: 10.1037/fam0001046
Woodyatt, Lydia, Wenzel, Michael, Okimoto, Tyler and Thai, Michael (2022). Interpersonal transgressions and psychological loss: understanding moral repair as dyadic, reciprocal, and interactionist. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 7-11. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.018
Thai, Michael, Wenzel, Michael and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2021). Turning tables: offenders feel like “Victims” when victims withhold forgiveness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49 (2) ARTN 01461672211062401, 014616722110624-250. doi: 10.1177/01461672211062401
Okimoto, Tyler G., Konradt, Udo, Krys, Sabrina and Dawson, Niamh (2021). A person-centered approach to understanding endorsement of restorative justice in response to workplace mistreatment. Social Justice Research, 35 (1), 62-87. doi: 10.1007/s11211-021-00377-w
Pekerti, Andre A., van de Vijver, Fons J.R., Moeller, Miriam, Okimoto, Tyler G. and Edwards, Martin R. (2021). A peer mentoring social learning perspective of cross-cultural adjustment: The rapid-acculturation mateship program. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 84, 276-299. doi: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.08.010
Steffens, Niklas K., Wolyniec, Nathan, Okimoto, Tyler G., Mols, Frank, Haslam, S. Alexander and Kay, Adam A. (2021). Knowing me, knowing us: Personal and collective self-awareness enhances authentic leadership and leader endorsement. The Leadership Quarterly, 32 (6) 101498, 101498. doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101498
Gollwitzer, Mario and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2021). Downstream Consequences of Post-Transgression Responses: A Motive-Attribution Framework. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 25 (4) 108886832110070, 1-20. doi: 10.1177/10888683211007021
Peterson Gloor, Jamie L., Okimoto, Tyler G. and King, Eden B. (2021). “Maybe baby?” The employment risk of potential parenthood. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52 (8) jasp.12799, 623-642. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12799
Kanze, Dana, Conley, Mark A., Okimoto, Tyler G., Phillips, Damon J. and Merluzzi, Jennifer (2020). Evidence that investors penalize female founders for lack of industry fit. Science Advances, 6 (48) abd7664, eabd7664. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abd7664
Reynolds, Tania, Howard, Chuck, Sjåstad, Hallgeir, Zhu, Luke, Okimoto, Tyler G., Baumeister, Roy F., Aquino, Karl and Kim, JongHan (2020). Man up and take it: Gender bias in moral typecasting. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 120-141. doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.05.002
Amir, Sabrina, Okimoto, Tyler G. and Moeller, Miriam (2020). Informal repatriate knowledge transfer: a qualitative analysis of Malaysian corporate executives. Journal of Global Mobility, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 107-140. doi: 10.1108/jgm-09-2019-0043
Pekerti, Andre A., van de Vijver, Fons J.R., Moeller, Miriam and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2020). Intercultural contacts and acculturation resources among international students in Australia: a mixed-methods study. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 75, 56-81. doi: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.12.004
Wenzel, Michael, Woodyatt, Lydia, Okimoto, Tyler G. and Worthington, Everett L. (2020). Dynamics of moral repair: forgiveness, self-forgiveness, and the restoration of value consensus as interdependent processes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47 (4), 014616722093755-626. doi: 10.1177/0146167220937551
Konradt, Udo, Okimoto, Tyler, Garbers, Yvonne and Otte, Kai-Philip (2019). The shape of justice repair: asymmetric nonlinear retributive and restorative justice effects to unfair supervisor treatment. International Journal of Conflict Management, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 149-173. doi: 10.1108/IJCMA-06-2019-0096
Hornsey, Matthew J., Wohl, Michael J. A., Harris, Emily A., Okimoto, Tyler G., Thai, Michael and Wenzel, Michael (2019). Embodied remorse: physical displays of remorse increase positive responses to public apologies, but have negligible effects on forgiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119 (2), 367-389. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000208
Okimoto, Tyler G., Hornsey, Matthew J. and Wenzel, Michael (2019). The power of grassroots expressions of remorse for promoting intergroup forgiveness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 80, 39-51. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2018.10.003
Yates, Miriam S. and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2019). Changing beliefs about female leader advancement following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10 (4), 423-431. doi: 10.1177/1948550618766399
van Doorn, Janne, Zeelenberg, Marcel, Breugelmans, Seger M., Berger, Sebastian and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2018). Prosocial consequences of third-party anger. Theory and Decision, 84 (4), 585-599. doi: 10.1007/s11238-017-9652-6
Dat, Mylyn C. and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2018). Exploring new directions in self-forgiveness research: integrating self and other perspectives on moral repair. Social Justice Research, 31 (2), 206-217. doi: 10.1007/s11211-018-0308-7
Brescoll, Victoria L., Okimoto, Tyler G. and Vial, Andrea C. (2018). You've Come a Long Way…Maybe: How Moral Emotions Trigger Backlash Against Women Leaders. Journal of Social Issues, 74 (1), 144-164. doi: 10.1111/josi.12261
Wenzel, Michael, Okimoto, Tyler G., Hornsey, Matthew J., Lawrence-Wood, Ellie and Coughlin, Anne-Marie (2017). The mandate of the collective: apology representativeness determines perceived sincerity and forgiveness in intergroup contexts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43 (6), 758-771. doi: 10.1177/0146167217697093
Wenzel, Michael, Lawrence-Wood, Ellie, Okimoto, Tyler G. and Hornsey, Matthew J. (2017). A long time coming: delays in collective apologies and their effects on sincerity and forgiveness. Political Psychology, 39 (3), 649-666. doi: 10.1111/pops.12421
Zhu, Yunxia, Okimoto, Tyler G., Roan, Amanda and Xu, Henry (2017). Developing management student cultural fluency for the real world: a situated cultural learning approach. Education and Training, 59 (4), 353-373. doi: 10.1108/ET-03-2016-0059
Hornsey, Matthew J., Okimoto, Tyler G. and Wenzel, Michael (2017). The appraisal gap: why victim and transgressor groups disagree on the need for a collective apology. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47 (2), 135-147. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2279
Okimoto, Tyler G. and Gromet, Dena M. (2016). Differences in sensitivity to deviance partly explain ideological divides in social policy support. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111 (1), 98-117. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000080
Steffens, Nick K., Mols, Frank, Haslam, S. Alexander and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2016). True to what We stand for: Championing collective interests as a path to authentic leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 27 (5), 726-744. doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2016.04.004
Wenzel, Michael and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2015). “We forgive”: A group’s act of forgiveness and its restorative effects on members’ feelings of justice and sentiments towards the offender group. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 18 (5), 655-675. doi: 10.1177/1368430215586274
Okimoto, Tyler G., Wenzel, Michael and Hornsey, Matthew J. (2015). Apologies demanded yet devalued: normative dilution in the age of apology. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 60, 133-136. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.05.008
van den Bos, Kees, Cropanzano, Russell, Kirk, Jessica, Jasso, Guillermina and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2015). Expanding the Horizons of Social Justice Research: Three Essays on Justice Theory. Social Justice Research, 28 (2), 229-246. doi: 10.1007/s11211-015-0237-7
Thomas, David C, Liao, Yuan, Aycan, Zeynep, Cerdin, Jean-Luc, Pekerti, Andre A., Ravlin, Elizabeth C., Stahl, Günter K., Lazarova, Mila B., Fock, Henry, Arli, Denni, Moeller, Miriam, Okimoto, Tyler and van de Vijver, Fons (2015). Cultural intelligence: a theory-based, short form measure. Journal of International Business Studies, 46 (9), 1099-1118. doi: 10.1057/jibs.2014.67
Okimoto, Tyler G. (2014). Toward more interesting research questions: problematizing theory in social justice. Social Justice Research, 27 (3), 395-411. doi: 10.1007/s11211-014-0215-5
Okimoto, Tyler G. and Wenzel, Michael (2014). Bridging diverging perspectives and repairing damaged relationships in the aftermath of workplace transgressions. Business Ethics Quarterly, 24 (3), 443-473. doi: 10.5840/beq201471515
Gromet, Dena M. and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2014). Back into the fold: the influence of offender amends and victim forgiveness on peer reintegration. Business Ethics Quarterly, 24 (3), 411-441. doi: 10.5840/beq20147814
Wenzel, Michael and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2014). On the relationship between justice and forgiveness: are all forms of justice made equal?. British Journal of Social Psychology, 53 (3), 463-483. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12040
Okimoto, Tyler G., Wenzel, Michael and Hedrick, Kyli (2013). Refusing to apologize can have psychological benefits (and we issue no mea culpa for this research finding). European Journal of Social Psychology, 43 (1), 22-31. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.1901
Okimoto, Tyler G. and Heilman, Madeline E. (2012). The “Bad Parent” assumption: how gender stereotypes affect reactions to working mothers. Journal of Social Issues, 68 (4), 704-724. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2012.01772.x
Gromet, Dena M., Okimoto, Tyler G., Wenzel, Michael and Darley, John (2012). A victim-centered approach to justice? Victim satisfaction effects on third-party punishments. Law and Human Behavior, 36 (5), 375-389. doi: 10.1037/h0093922
Okimoto, Tyler G. and Wrzesniewski, Amy (2012). Effort in the face of difference: Feeling like a non-prototypical group member motivates effort. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42 (5), 628-639. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.1877
Wenzel, Michael and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2012). The varying meaning of forgiveness: Relationship closeness moderates how forgiveness affects feelings of justice. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42 (4), 420-431. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.1850
Okimoto, Tyler G., Wenzel, Michael and Feather, N. T. (2012). Retribution and Restoration as General Orientations Towards Justice. European Journal of Personality, 26 (3), 255-275. doi: 10.1002/per.831
Wenzel, Michael, Okimoto, Tyler G. and Cameron, Kate (2012). Do Retributive and Restorative Justice Processes Address Different Symbolic Concerns?. Critical Criminology, 20 (1), 25-44. doi: 10.1007/s10612-011-9147-7
Okimoto, Tyler G. and Wenzel, Michael (2011). The other side of perspective taking: Transgression ambiguity and victims' revenge against their offender. Social Psychological & Personality Science, 2 (4), 373-378. doi: 10.1177/1948550610393032
Okimoto, Tyler G. and Wenzel, Michael (2011). Third-party punishment and symbolic intragroup status. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47 (4), 709-718. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.02.001
De Castella, Krista, Platow, Michael J., Wenzel, Michael, Okimoto, Tyler and Feather, Norman T. (2011). Retribution or restoration? Anglo–Australian's views towards domestic violence involving Muslim and Anglo–Australian victims and offenders. Psychology, Crime and Law, 17 (5), 403-420. doi: 10.1080/10683160903292253
Lotz, Sebastian, Okimoto, Tyler, G., Schlosser, Thomas and Fetchenhauer, Detlaf (2011). Punitive versus compensatory reactions to injustice: Emotional antecedents to third-party interventions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47 (2), 477-480. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.10.004
Wenzel, Michael, Turner, Jasmin K. and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2010). Is forgiveness an outcome or initiator of sociocognitive processes? Rumination, empathy, and cognitive appraisals following a transgression. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1 (4), 369-377. doi: 10.1177/1948550610376598
Wenzel, Michael, Okimoto, Tyler G., Feather, Norman T. and Platow, Michael J. (2010). Justice through consensus: Shared identity and the preference for a restorative notion of justice. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40 (6), 909-930. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.657
Okimoto, Tyler G. and Brescoll, Victoria L. (2010). The price of power: Power seeking and backlash against female politicians. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36 (7), 923-936. doi: 10.1177/0146167210371949
Okimoto, Tyler G. and Wenzel, Michael (2010). The symbolic identity implications of inter and intra-group transgressions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40 (3), 552-562. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.704
Wenzel, Michael and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2010). How acts of forgiveness restore a sense of justice: Addressing status/power and value concerns raised by transgressions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40 (3), 401-417. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.629
Okimoto, Tyler G. and Wenzel, Michael (2009). Punishment as restoration of group and offender values following a transgression: Value consensus through symbolic labelling and offender reform. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39 (3), 346-367. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.537
Okimoto, Tyler G., Wenzel, Michael and Feather, N. T. (2009). Beyond retribution: Conceptualizing restorative justice and exploring its determinants. Social Justice Research, 22 (1), 156-180. doi: 10.1007/s11211-009-0092-5
Okimoto, Tyler G. (2009). The moderating and mediating role of group identification in observers' reactions to intragroup disrespect. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39 (1), 69-81. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.474
Liberman, Benjamin E. and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2008). Information regarding social-sexual behavior as an antecedent to perceptions of ineffectiveness in the workplace. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38 (11), 2787-2820. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00414.x
Wenzel, Michael, Okimoto, Tyler G., Feather Norman T. and Platow, Michael J. (2008). Retributive and restorative justice. Law and Human Behavior, 32 (5), 375-389. doi: 10.1007/s10979-007-9116-6
Okimoto, Tyler G. (2008). Outcomes as affirmation of membership value: Monetary compensation as an administrative response to procedural injustice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44 (5), 1270-1282. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.04.009
Heilman, Madeline E. and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2008). Motherhood: A potential source of bias in employment decisions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93 (1), 189-198. doi: 10.1037/0021-9010.93.1.189
Okimoto, Tyler G. and Wenzel, Michael (2008). The symbolic meaning of transgressions: Towards a unifying framework of justice restoration. Advances in Group Processes, 25, 291-326. doi: 10.1016/S0882-6145(08)25004-6
Okimoto, Tyler G. and Tyler, Tom R. (2007). Is compensation enough? Relational concerns in responding to unintended inequity. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 10 (3), 383-398. doi: 10.1177/1368430207078701
Heilman, Madeline E. and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2007). Why are women penalized for success at male tasks?: The implied communality deficit. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92 (1), 81-92. doi: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.1.81
Conference Papers
Dawson, Niamh, Okimoto, Tyler Gene, Parker, Stacey L. and Steffens, Niklas (2024). What do we actually do to include each other: Exploring the content of employee inclusion behaviors. 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024), Chicago, IL United States, 9-13 August 2024. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/amproc.2024.19325abstract
Edwards, M.R., Parker, S., Okimoto, T.G. and Anseel, F. (2022). The impact of performance Monitoring & Metric systems. European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 11-14 January 2022.
Phommalath, Vanvilay, Okimoto, Tyler G. and Hartel, Charmine E. J. (2014). Appraisal Reactions: A Lao Perspective. 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA United States, August 2014. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2014.14854abstract
Okimoto, Tyler and Blader, Steven (2013). Ingroup bias in the enactment of organizational fairness. ANZAM Conference 2013: 27th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Hobart, Australia, 4-6 December 2013. Deakin, ACT, Australia: ANZAM.
Okimoto, Tyler and Gromet, Dena (2013). The influence of offender amends and victim forgiveness on reintegration. ANZAM Conference 2013: 27th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 4-6 December, 2013. Deakin, ACT, Australia: ANZAM.
Okimoto, T. and Wrzesniewski, A. (2006). Inclusionary concerns and effort-based performance in groups: Expectations and peripheral membership. ABINGDON: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD.