My fondest research-related memories go back to Arkansas during the 1990s, when Dan Ganster, Michelle Duffy and I were working on our research on social support and undermining in the workplace. During the design phase, Dan and I went fishing in the White river and we caught some nice wide-mouth bass. While Dan’s wife was preparing the fish, Michelle joined us and we were working out the details of our study at the kitchen table in Dan’s house. Later, Michelle visited me in Slovenia and we were collecting the data from our Police sample there. Our study revealed that supervisors who directed both positive support and negative undermining behaviors toward an employee caused more damage than if they were always negative. The findings were first presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in San Diego in 1998, and were eventually published in the Academy of Management Journal in 2002. The article generated a lot of interest, and Dan was interviewed on the National Public Radio regarding our findings. To date, the APA PsycNet records 185 citations of our AMJ paper. Daniel C. Ganster is now the Richard and Lorie Allen Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Department of Management at Colorado State University. Michelle K. Duffy is Professor at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

• Ph.D. in Business Administration (Management/Organizational Behavior) – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA.
• Ph.D. in Organizational Sciences (Human Resource Management) – University of Maribor, Slovenia.
• Published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Stress & Health, etc.
• Over 440 citations on the Web of Science.
• Research interests: leadership competences, work stress, cynicism, envy, whistleblowing.