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Piers Steel, PhD, is the Brookfield Research Chair at the Haskayne School of Business. He has a BA from the University of Toronto, majoring in philosophy and psychology, completed his masters at the University of Guelph and his PhD at the University of Minnesota, both in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. His advisors for his doctorate were Dr. John Campbell and Dr. Richard Arvey. He is a member of the Academy of Management (AOM) and the Society for Systematic Review and Methodology (SSRM) as well as fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

Upon graduation, he was hired at University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business’ Human Resource Organizational Behavior department, where he earned tenure and presently is a professor. There, he received a series of Haskayne awards, including Outstanding New Scholar, Outstanding Leadership in Teaching and Learning,...

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Steel, P. (2020). Steel, Piers. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1007

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