Michael A. Johnson

Associate Professor & PhD Advisor
Rucks Department of Management

Contact
michaeljohnson@lsu.edu
225-578-6110
2712 Business Education Complex North

Education
PhD Management, University of Central Florida, 2017
MBA Management, Rider University, 2012
BBA Music Business, Belmont University, 2007

 

Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson is an Associate Professor of Management and an Ourso Professor in Management in the Rucks Department of Management at Louisiana State University (Ph.D., University of Central Florida). His research explores how wide-ranging identification characteristics affect workplace experiences, studying the workplace implications of marginalized identities, workplace inclusion and exclusion, and business ethics issues. He studies topics such as social class, obesity, criminal history, gender, and unethical workplace behaviors.
   
His research has been published in leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Leadership Quarterly, and others. Also, his work has been featured in media outlets like USA Today, Forbes, and the New York Post. Dr. Johnson has served on the editorial boards of several top management outlets, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, the Journal of Management, and Human Relations. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Business and Psychology. Before entering higher education, Dr. Johnson worked in human resource management and the music industry.

Moreno F.J., Johnson M.A., Boyd T.L. (2026) Applicant Reactions to Criminal History Hiring: Stereotype Processes, Diversity Rationale, and Individual Difference. Journal of Management. Published online ahead of publication.
https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063261429947
   
Priesemuth M., Mawritz M.B., Johnson M.A., Choi S. Y. (2026) Were You Expecting This? The Effects of Infertility Struggles on Negative Self‐Concept and Workplace Outcomes. Journal of Organizational Behavior. Published online ahead of publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70076
   
Johnson, M.A. & Schminke, M., (2026) Proximally Fat? Extending Stigma by Association to Explore Why an Employee May be Impacted by Another Employee's Obesity. Group & Organization Management. 51, 399-443.

Boyd, TL. Johnson, M.A., Birch, A.V. (2026) Expanding the Caring Capacity: An Integrative Review of Nontraditional Caregiving and the Workplace Caregiving Literature. Journal of Management. 52, 369-409.

Moreno, F., Bigelow, B., Johnson, M.A. (2025) Working on an Empty Stomach: How Food Insecurity Impacts Job Performance Through Rumination. 78, 794-813.

Loignon, A., Bergeron, D., Johnson, M.A., Woznyj, H., Li, C., Dunn, A., Speights, S., Hector, M. (2025) Signaling with Babble? Exploring the Effects of Gender and Speaking Time on Leader Emergence. Leadership Quarterly. 36 (4), 101879.

Priesemuth, M., Bigelow, B., & Johnson, M. A. (2025). Bad Guys Finish First? A Moral Emotional Perspective of Job Performance Outcomes for Abusive Supervisors. Business & Society, 64 (5), 968-1009.

Johnson, M. A., Priesemuth, M., & Moreno, F. (2024). Weighing Down My Career? An Exploration of the Mechanisms for Body Fat’s Impact on Long-Term Career Success and the Moderating Role of Employee Sex and Industry. Human Performance, 37(5), 201-223.

Loignon, A., Johnson, M.A., Veestraeten, M., Boyd, T.L. (2024). A Tale of Two Offices: The Socioeconomic Environment's Effect on Job Performance while Working from Home. Group & Organizational Management. 49, 183-214.

Johnson, M.A., Schminke, M., De Cremer, D., (2024). Do these jeans make me feel fat? Exploring subjective fatness, its workplace outcomes, and rethinking the role of subjectivity in the stigmatization process. Personnel Psychology, 77, 789-818.

Loignon, A., Johnson, M.A., Veestraeten, M. (2024). A window into your status: Environment-based social class's effect on virtual leadership. Leadership Quarterly. 35, 101735.

Letwin, C., Ciuchta, M., Johnson, M.A., Stevenson, R., Ford, C. (2024). Passion and attractiveness on display: an examination of gender bias in crowdfunding. Small Business Economics. 63, 165-192.

Johnson, M., Priesemuth, M., and Bigelow, B. (2021). Making sense of 'good' and 'bad': A deonance and fairness approach to abusive supervision and prosocial impact. Business Ethics Quarterly, 31(3), 386-420.

Johnson, M. and Leo, C. (2020). The Inefficacy of LinkedIn? A Latent Change Model and Experimental Test of Using LinkedIn for Job Search.. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(11), 1262-1280.

Johnson, M. and Schminke, M. (2020). Thinking big: An integrative conceptual review of the workplace consequences of obesity and a theoretical extension of the processes that create them. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(7), 671-692.

Hacker, J. V, Johnson, M., Saunders, C., and Thayer, A. L (2019). Trust in virtual teams: A multidisciplinary review and integration. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 23.

Johnson, M., Stevenson, R., and Letwin, C. (2018). A woman's place is in the startup: Exploring stereotype content and investor bias in crowdfunding. Journal of Business Venturing, 33(6), 813-831.

Folger, R., Johnson, M., and Letwin, C. (2014). Evolving concepts of evolution: The case of shame and guilt. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8, 659-671.

Teaching Interests: Human Resource Management, Business Ethics, Organizational Behavior

Research Interests: Obesity, Justice & Ethics

Journal of Business and Psychology, Associate Editor (2026 - Present)

Personnel Psychology, Editorial Review Board Member (2021 - Present)

Journal of Applied Psychology, Editorial Review Board Member (2021 - Present)

Human Relations, Editorial Review Board Member (2020 - Present)

Journal of Management, Editorial Review Board Member (2021 - 2024)

Human Performance, Editorial Review Board Member (2018 - 2021)

  • Ourso Professorship in Management, E.J. Ourso College of Business
  • Outstanding Untenured Professor Teaching Award, E.J. Ourso College of Business
  • Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Students, E. J. Ourso College of Business
  • Dean's Award for Research Excellence, E. J. Ourso College of Business
  • Best Reviewer Award (2024), Personnel Psychology
  • Best Editorial Reviewer (2024), Journal of Applied Psychology
  • Outstanding Doctoral Student Conference Paper (2022), Southern Management Association

Boyd, T. L., Johnson, M., and Loignon, A. (2020, August). The power to push through: Investigating the connection between disability association and psychological resilience on leader effectiveness. Presented at Academy of Management Conference sponsored by Academy of Management, Vancouver, CA.

Johnson, M., Schminke, M., and Rice, D. (2015). Justice and organizational structure: A review In R. Cropanzano and M. Ambrose (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Justice. New York: Oxford University Pres.