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Faculty Profile

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Jochen REB

Full-time Faculty
Lee Kong Chian Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources; Director, Mindfulness Initiative
Lee Kong Chian School of Business LKCSB

Education

2005 Ph.D. in Management
University of Arizona
2000 Master (Diplom-Kaufmann) in Business Management
Berlin University of Technology

Current Appointment(s)

2025 - Now Lee Kong Chian Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2021 - 2025 Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2009 - 2021 Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2014 - Now

Director of Mindfulness Initiative @ SMU
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • Lee Kong Chian Fellow, Singapore Management University, 2020, 2024.
  • Academy of Management Conference, ODC Division, Rupe Chisolm Award for Best Theory-to-Practice Paper, 2018.
  • Outstanding Reviewer, Academy of Management Discoveries, 2018.

Research Interests

  • Decision Making in Work Contexts
  • Mindfulness in Leadership, Organizations, Entrepreneurship

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

* denotes equal contribution of authors; ^ denotes (former) PhD student; #denotes (former) post doc
  • Lee, R. P., & Reb, J. (2025). “Waste-to-products” for the sustainability transformation of megacities: Case analysis of impacts of public knowledge and perception on chemical recycling deployment in Singapore. Cleaner Waste Systems
  • ^Maistry, G., Reb, J., Luan, S., & Menkhoff, T. (2025). Can a simple rules training improve decision making quality? A field intervention study in the context of underwriting decision making. Journal of Business Research.
  • ^Peters, E. K., Sim, S., Reb. J., Young, J. H., & Elser Young, M. (2025). Minding well-being: Validation of the Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training (MBSAT) for non-clinical populations. Mindfulness
  • Lyddy, C. J., Good, D. J., Yuan, S., Michel, E. J., Ahlvik-Garrison, C., & Reb, J. (2025). Reperceiving personal resources within JD-R: Mindfulness drives burnout and work engagement by shaping perceptions of job demands and job resources. Journal of Business Research, 193. 
  • Goldman Schuyler, K., Watson, L. W. & Reb, J. (2025). Seeking new ground for managing — An introduction to the special issue on “Awakening to Ourselves, One Another, and the Earth: Awareness Practices and Systems Change”. Humanistic Management Journal
  • Reb, J., & ^Neal, J. (2024). Smart heuristics in business relationships: Towards a typology. Management Decision, 62(11), 3457-3472.  Full text
  • ^Tan, N., ^Peters, E. K., & Reb, J. (2023). Effects of a mindfulness-based leadership training on leadership behaviors and effectiveness. Mindfulness, 14, 2181-2194. Full text
  • Kay, A., *^Masters-Waage, T. C., *Reb, J., & *Vlachos, P. (2023). Mindfully outraged: Mindfulness increases deontic retribution for third-party injustice. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 176, 104249. Full text
  • Gigerenzer, G., Reb, J., & Luan, S. (2022). Smart heuristics for individuals, teams, and organizations. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 9, 171–98. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-012420-090506. Full text
  • Masters-Waage, T. C., Reb, J., Tov, W., & Bandara, U. (2022). An initial examination of state and longitudinal effects of loving-kindness practice on affective and motivational states at work. Mindfulness, 13, 174–187. Full text
  • Wihler, A., Hüsheger, U., Reb, J., & Menges, J. (2022). It’s so boring – or is it? Examining the role of mindfulness for work performance and attitudes in monotonous jobs. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 95(1), 131–154. Full text
  • Shaffakat, S., Otaye-Ebede, L., Reb, J., Chandwani, R., & Vongswasdi, P. (2022). Mindfulness attenuates both emotional and behavioral reactions following psychological contract breach: A two-stage moderated mediation model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(3), 425–443. Full text
  • Masters-Waage, T. C., Nai, J., Sim, S., Reb, J., Narayanan, J., & Tan, N. (2021). Going far together by being here now: Mindfulness increases cooperation in negotiations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 167, 189-205. Full text
  • Dietl, E., & Reb, J. (2021). Examining mindful self-regulated attention and political skill as antecedents of leader authenticity and leadership effectiveness. Human Relations, 74(4), 473-501. Full text
  • Howes, S. S., Kausel, E. E., Jackson, A.T., & Reb, J. (2020). When and why narcissists exhibit greater hindsight bias and less perceived learning. Journal of Management, 46(8), 1498-1528. Full text
  • Reb, J., Allen, T., & Vogus, T. (2020). Mindfulness arrives at work: Deepening our understanding of mindfulness in organizations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 159, 1-7. Full text
  • Luan, S., Reb, J., & Gigerenzer, G. (2019). Ecological rationality: Fast-and-frugal heuristics for managerial decision making under uncertainty. Academy of Management Journal, 62, 1735–1759. Full text
  • Reb, J., Narayanan, J., Chaturvedi, S., & Kudesia, R. (2019). Leader mindfulness and employee performance: A sequential mediation model of LMX quality, interpersonal justice, and employee stress. Journal of Business Ethics, 160, 745-763. Full text
  • Ferris, D. L., Reb, J., Lian, H., Sim, S., & Ang, D. (2018). What goes up must… keep going up? Cultural differences in cognitive styles influence evaluations of dynamic performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103, 347-358. Full text
  • Luan, S., & Reb, J. (2017). Fast-and-frugal trees as noncompensatory models of performance-based personnel decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 141, 29–42. Full text
  • Reb, J., Narayanan, J., Chaturvedi, S, & Ekkirala, S. (2017). The mediating role of emotional exhaustion in the relationship of mindfulness with turnover intentions and job performance. Mindfulness, 8(3), 707-716. Full text
  • Reb, J., Narayanan, J., & Ho, Z. W. (2015). Mindfulness at work: Antecedents and consequences of employee awareness and absent-mindedness. Mindfulness, 6(1), 111-122. Full text
  • Reb, J., Narayanan, J., & Chaturvedi, S. (2014). Leading mindfully: Two studies on the influence of supervisor trait mindfulness on employee well-being and performance. Mindfulness, 5(1), 36-45. Full text
  • Reb, J., & Narayanan, J. (2014). The influence of mindful attention on value claiming in distributive negotiations: Evidence from four laboratory experiments. Mindfulness, 5(6), 756-766. Full text