Dina Krasikova

Dina V. Krasikova, PhD

Associate Professor, Management

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Dina Krasikova is an associate professor in the Department of Management at The University of Texas at San Antonio. She holds doctoral and master's degrees in industrial/organizational psychology from Purdue University and has diploma with highest honors from Voronezh State University, Russia.

Her research interests include leadership in its destructive and constructive forms, deviant behavior in organizations, employee well-being and research methods with special interest in multilevel modeling, dyadic analysis and effect size estimation. Her research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Organizational Research Methods, among other scholarly outlets. Her work has also been featured in Forbes, (Research explains how you can conquer your fear of speaking up at work, 2023; Why we need leaders to be confident in their creativity, 2016), Psychology Today (2 ways to get rid of your fear of speaking up at work), 2023), Inc. (6 ways to build your self-confidence and get ahead in the world, 2016), Investor’s Business Daily (Build confidence and boost your creativity, 2018) and other national an international media outlets.

Krasikova is a recipient of the 2025 Best Research Paper Award from the UT San Antonio Academy of Distinguished Researchers, the 2023 Col. Jean Piccione and Lt. Col. Philip Piccione Endowed Research Award, the 2017 Dean’s Research Excellence Award for tenure-track faculty and the 2023 and 2019 Dean’s Distinguished Research Award. She also received the 2020 Developmental Reviewer Award and the 2018 and 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Awards from the Academy of Management Review.

She served as a representative-at-large at the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. She has also served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business and Psychology and Organizational Research Methods, and she served as an associate editor at Organizational Research Methods.

Degrees

  • PhD, Purdue University
  • MS, Purdue University
  • Diploma, Voronezh State University

Publications

“What Constitutes a Methodological Contribution at ORM?” with T. Köhler, L. Schurer Lambert, T. Greckhamer, M. Sturman, C. Welch, J. Dawson, J. DeSimone, J. Le, M. Rönkkö, J. Stanton and M. Withers, Organizational Research Methods, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2026, pp. 443-461.

“Destructive Leadership Versus Leader Ineffectiveness: Leveraging Arguments from Prior Research to Clarify the Distinction and Construct Boundaries,” with J. M. LeBreton, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2026, pp. 262-266.

“Reducing Workplace Loneliness and Improving Well-being of Full-time Remote Workers: The Benefits of Sleep,” with K. Faile and Z. Heydarifard, Journal of Business and Psychology, Vol. 40, No. 6, 2025, pp. 1355-1370.

“Losing Sleep Over Speaking Up at Work: A Daily Study of Voice and Insomnia,” with Z. Heydarifard, Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 108, 2023, pp. 1559–1572.

“Repeated Engagement in Misconduct by Executives Involved with Financial Restatements,” with P. Khanna, S. Khan and S. Miller, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 166, 2021, pp. 194-203.

“Avoiding or Embracing Social Relationships? A Conservation of Resources Perspective of Leader Narcissism, LMX Differentiation, and Follower Voice,” with L. Huang and P. D. Harms, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 41, 2020, pp. 77-92. 

“Multilevel Measurement: Agreement, Reliability, and Non-independence,” with J. M. LeBreton. In S. E. Humphrey & J. M. LeBreton (Eds.), The Handbook of Multilevel Theory, Measurement, and Analysis, Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2019, pp. 279-304.

“Toward Customer-centric Organizational Science: A Common Language Effect Size Indicator for Multiple Linear Regressions and Regressions with Higher-order Terms,” with H. Le and E. Bachura, Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 103, 2018, pp. 659-675.

“I Can Do It, So Can You: The Role of Leader Creative Self-efficacy in Facilitating Follower Creativity,” with L. Huang and D. Liu, D. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 132, 2016, pp. 49-62.

“Effects of Psychological Capital on Mental Health and Substance Abuse,” with P. B. Lester and P. D. Harms, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Vol. 22, 2015, pp. 1-12.

“Destructive Leadership: A Theoretical Review, Integration, and Future Research Agenda,” with S. G. Green, and J. M. LeBreton, J. M., Journal of Management, Vol. 39, 2013, pp. 1308-1338.

“Residualized Relative Importance Analysis: A Technique for the Comprehensive Decomposition of Variance in Higher-order Regression Models,” with J. M. LeBreton and S. Tonidandel, Organizational Research Methods, Vol. 16, 2013, pp. 449-473.

“Just the Two of Us: Misalignment of Theory, Method, and Analyses in Examining Dyadic Phenomena,” with J. M. LeBreton, Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 97, 2012, pp. 739-757.