Roger Mayer

Bio

Dr. Roger C. Mayer is a Professor of Management at North Carolina State University. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Notre Dame, Purdue University, Baylor University, Singapore Management University, and The University of Akron, where he served four years as department chair. He received a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University.

Mayer’s research is focused on trust, employee decision making, attitudes and effectiveness. A leading scholar on trust in organizations, his research has been published in many premiere scholarly journals; it has been cited tens of thousands of times in the published literature across a wide variety of fields. He authored a theory of trust with David Schoorman and James Davis which was published in Academy of Management Review (AMR), management’s top theory journal. This paper was recognized in 2004 with the Influential Article Award 1995-1999 by the Conflict Management division of the Academy of Management. In 2006 it was recognized by AMR with the Best of the Second Decade Award for Frame-Breaking, Innovative Theory—at the time, one of only two papers to ever receive this honor. He serves on the editorial board of Journal of Management, Journal of Managerial Psychology, and Journal of Trust Research.

Mayer has served as an organizational consultant to numerous for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. In 1994 he won the Outstanding Teacher Award at the College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He has worked in a wide variety of organizations and industries, including firms in finance, research, construction, steel, and offshore oil drilling. He speaks frequently to business, government, legal, and civic groups on such topics as decision-making, trust, leadership, and negotiation.