Denise Rousseau

Denise M. Rousseau is a scholar and educator focusing on how workers shape their organizations (and vice versa) and own their career and personal well-being, particularly through her research on psychological contracts and idiosyncratic deals.  She co-founded the movement promoting Evidence-Based Management, working to promote education, training, and practice of evidence-use in decision making. She was 2004‐2005 President of the Academy of Management and served as Editor-in-chief, Journal of Organizational Behavior. Two time winner of the Academy of Management’s George Terry Award for best management book in 1996 for Psychological Contracts in Organizations: Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreement, and in 2006 for I-Deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Workers Bargain for Themselves, Rousseau has been honored with the Distinguished Scholarly Contributions Award from the Academy of Management, the Life-time Scholarly Achievement Award from the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and the Michael Losey Award for Research in HRM from the Society for Human Resource Management, in addition to numerous divisional awards. She has received several honorary doctorates and is an elected Fellow in the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Management, and the British Academy of Management.  Her current research focuses on the role of self-promises in helping contemporary workers attain heartfelt personal goals under challenging non-supportive conditions.