Terry Beehr, Ph.D.
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  • Position: I/O Faculty, Director of I/O Program
  • Department: Psychology
  • Campus Address: Sloan Hall 233, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859
  • Email: beehr1ta@cmich.edu
  • Vitae: Curriculum Vitae

Bio:

Dr. Beehr received his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1974. He held a research position at the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research until 1975, engaging in organizational behavior research. He was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Illinois State University from 1975 until 1978, when he moved to the Psychology Department at Central Michigan University. He has long term interest in several research topics, including job stress, career movement, job satisfaction and motivation, retirement, and leadership. Currently, Dr. Beehr is involved in projects on retirement, job stress, and career movement. In the occupational stress area, he is specifically interested in the nature and effects of social support for the stressed employee.

Research Interest:

Dr. Beehr has had long term interest in several research topics, including job stress, career movement, job satisfaction and motivation, retirement, and leadership. He currently is involved in projects on retirement, job stress, career movement, and job satisfaction. One of his specific current interests in the occupational stress area is the nature and effects of social support for the stressed employee.

I conduct research primarily in areas often characterized as the social psychology of organizations, including leadership, groups, motivation, attitudes, health, careers, culture, life decisions, and organizational and individual effectiveness. Two of my most active long-term research interests are older employees' decisions to retire and occupational stress.

Recent Research:

Beehr, T. A., LeGro, K., Porter, K., Bowling, N. A., & Swader, W. M. (in press). Required volunteers: Community volunteerism among students, in college classes. Teaching of Psychology.

 Webster, J., Beehr, T. A., & Christiansen, N. (2010). Toward a better understanding of the effects of hindrance and challenge stressors on work behavior. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 56, 68-77.

Webster, J. R., Beehr, T. A., & Christiansen, N. D. (2010). Toward a better understanding of the effects of hindrance and challenge stressors on work behavior. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 76, 68-77.

Beehr, T. A. (2009). Bridge employment and retirement: Issues and opportunities during the latter part of one's career. Maintaining focus, energy, and options over the career.

Wang, M., Adams, G. A., Beehr, T. A., & Shultz, K. S. (2009). Bridge employment and retirement: Issues and opportunities during the latter part of one's career. In S. G. Baugh & S. E. Sullivan (Eds.), Maintaining focus, energy, and options over the career (pp. 135-162). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.

Elacqua, T. C., Beehr, T. A., Hansen, C. P., Webster, J. (2009). Managers' beliefs about the glass ceiling. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 33, 285-294.

Beehr, T. A., & Grebner, S. (2009). When stress is less (harmful). In A. G. Antoniou, C. L. Cooper, G. P. Chrousos, C. D. Spielberger, & M. W. Eysenck (Eds.), Handbook of managerial behavior and occupational health psychology (pp. 20-34). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Beehr, T. A., Glazer, S., Fischer, R., Linton, L. L., & Hansen, C. P. (2009). Antecedents for achievement of alignment in organizations. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 82, 1-20.

Gobeski, K. T., & Beehr, T. A. (2009). How retirees work: Prediction of different types of bridge employment. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 30, 401-425.

Semmer, N. K., Elfering, A., Jacobshagen, N., Beehr, T. A., & Boos, N. (2008). The emotional meaning of social support. International Journal of Stress Management, 15, 235-251.

Beehr, T. A., & Bennett, M. M. (2008). Unemployment and retirement. In J. Barling & C. Cooper (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Behavior (Vol. 1, pp. 217-232). Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publishers.

Raabe, B., Frese, M., & Beehr, T. A. (2007). Action regulation theory and career self-management. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 70, 297-311.

Beehr, T. A., & Bennett, M. M. (2007). Early retirement from a multi-level perspective. In K. S. Shultz & Gary A. Adams (Eds.), Aging and work in the 21st Century (pp. 288-302). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, Publishers.

Bowling, N. A., Beehr, T. A., & Lepisto, L. (2006). Beyond Job Satisfaction: A Five-Year Prospective Analysis of the Dispositional Approach to Work Attitudes. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 69, 315-330.

Bowling, N. A., & Beehr, T. A. (2006). Workplace Harassment from the Victim’s Perspective: A Theoretical Model and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 998-1012.

Beehr, T. A., Glaser, K. M., Beehr, M. J., Beehr, D. E., Wallwey, D. A., Erofeev, D., & Canali, K. G. (2006). The nature of satisfaction with subordinates: Its predictors and importance to supervisors. Journal of Applied Social Psychology , 36, 1523-1547 .