Madelynn Stackhouse
Biography
Dr. Madelynn Stackhouse, Associate Professor of Management and Margaret Van Hoy Hill Dean’s Notable Scholar, specializes in leadership, personality, workplace relationships, and ethics. With 25+ top-tier journal publications, she’s received multiple research awards at national and international conferences, including a Bryan junior researcher award. Dr. Stackhouse teaches cross-cultural management, organizational psychology, workplace flourishing, and organizational behavior across academic levels, earning numerous teaching award nominations. Her 20+ years of corporate experience, most recently as a consultant, focuses on helping organizations thrive through effective strategy, positive work culture, and leadership training. Her work bridges academic research and practical application in organizational settings.
Education
Ph.D. in Management at Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary (Phi Beta Kappa)
Emphasis: Organizational Behavior and Human Resources
M.Sc. in Organizational Psychology, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester (Phi Beta Kappa)
B.A., Psychology (First Class Honors), Department of Psychology, University of Calgary
B.A., Social Anthropology (Distinction), Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary
Research/Publications
Stackhouse, M. (2025). Work-Related Psychological Trauma Research: A Multidisciplinary Review and Integrated Trauma Response and Adaptation Model. Academy of Management Annals, 19(2) https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2022.0176
Maerz, A., & Stackhouse, M. (2025). Activating moral knowledge or suppressing deviance? The interactive effects of honesty-humility and ethical leadership on workplace deviance. Journal of Business Research, 200, 115606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115606
Boon, S. D., Stackhouse, M., & Lozano, H. (2025). Reconsidering Forgiveness and Unforgiveness: A Call for a More Nuanced Understanding of Unforgiveness. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 19(3), e70047. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.70047
Stackhouse, M., Rickley, M., Liu, Y., & Taras, V. (2024). Homogeneity, heterogeneity, or independence? A multilevel exploration of Big Five personality traits and cultural values in 40 nations. Personality and Individual Differences, 230, 112795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112795
Stackhouse, M., Turner, N., & Kelley, K (2024). Repairing Damaged Professional Relationships with Leader Apologies: An Examination of Trust and Forgiveness. European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology, 33(3), 399-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2024.2319903
Ogunforora, B., Andiappan, M., Stackhouse, M., and Varty, C. (2023). CEO Ethical Leadership as a Unique Source of Substantive and Rhetoric Ethical Signals for Attracting Job Seekers: The Moderating Role of Job Seeker Moral Identity. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(9), 1380-1399. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2725
Stackhouse, M., Boon, S., & Paulin, M. (2023). Why we harm the organization for a perpetrator’s actions: The roles of unforgiveness, group betrayal, and group embodiment in displaced revenge. European Journal of Social Psychology, 23, 664-680. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2929
Taras. V., Steel., P., & Stackhouse, M. (2023). A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede’s model of culture. Journal of World Business, 58, 101386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101386
Blevins, D. P., Stackhouse, M., and Dionne, S. (2022). Righting the balance: Understanding introverts (and extraverts) in the workplace. International Journal of Management Reviews, 24, 78-98. *the first and second author contributed equally and are co-first authors. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12268
Ogunfowora, B., Stackhouse, M., Maerz, A., Varty, C., Hwang, C., & Choi, J. (2021). The impact of team moral disengagement composition on team performance: the roles of team cooperation, team interpersonal deviance, and collective extraversion. Journal of Business and Psychology, 36, 479-494. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-020-09688-2
Stackhouse, M., Falkenberg, C., Drake, C., Mahdavi Mazdeh, H., (2020). Why Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) have been resisted: A qualitative study and resistance typology. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 57, 450-459. 10.1080/14703297.2020.1727353
Yang, J., Liu, Y., Stackhouse, M., & Wang, W. (2020). Forgiveness and attribution: When abusive supervision enhances performance. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 35, 575-587. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMP-04-2019-0239