Nathan J. Hiller

Executive Director for the Center for Leadership

Professor, Department of Global Leadership and Management

College of Business
Florida International University

Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 S.W. 8th St, MANGO 466
Miami, FL 33199

Phone: (305) 348-3299
Email: hillern@fiu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

Master of Science in Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Areas of Expertise

CEO personality
executive leadership
Leadership development

Courses Taught

Advanced Management Research
Dissertation Prep
High Involvement Human Resource Management
Leadership
Leadership in a Global Environment
Org Behav Mgmt
Organization Design and Behavior
Organizational Behavior
Ph.D. Dissertation

Publications

Ozgen S., Sim D., Hiller N. J., Zhou Y., & Parente R. C.
(2026).
<span style="font-size:11pt;">CEO Characteristics and Corporate Social Responsibility and Irresponsibility: Mirrored or Distinct Correlates? A Meta-Analytic Review</span>.
Corporate Governance: An International Review
, 34(2)
.
Zhou S., Hiller N. J., Zaccaro S., Campbell L., McCauley R., Parris T., & Klimoski R.
(2024).
The Corporate Chief of Staff: Strategic Leadership from Outside the Spotlight.
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
, 31(3)
.
Konig, A., Stocklein, B., Hiller, N. J., Cooper, C., & Bong, D.
(2024).

Good fun or laughing stock: How CEO humor affects infomediaries’ social evaluations of organizations.
Academy of Management Review
.
Cooper C., & Hiller N. J.
(2023).
Leader Humor Across Levels.
Current Opinion in Psychology
.
Neely, B. H., Lovelace, J. B., Cowen, A. P., & Hiller, N. J. (2020). Meta-critiques of upper echelons theory: Verdicts and recommendations for future research. Journal of Management.
Hiller N. J., Piccolo R. F., & Zaccaro S. J.
(2020).

Economic assumptions and economic context: Implications for the study of leadership.
The Leadership Quarterly
, 31(3)
.
He, W., Hao, P., Huang, X., Long, L., Hiller, N. J., & Li, S. (2020). Different roles of shared and vertical leadership in promoting team creativity: Cultivating and synthesizing team members’ individual creativity. Personnel Psychology, 73(1).
Hiller, N. J., Sin, H., Ponnapalli, A. R., & Ozgen Novelli, S. (2019). Benevolence and authority as WEIRDly unfamiliar: A multi-language meta-analysis of paternalistic leadership behaviors from 152 studies. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(1).
Hiller, N. J., & Peterson, S. (2019). Assessment and development first requires a deeper understanding of unique categories of senior leaders: A focus on CEOs and C-level executives. Industrial and Organizational Psychology-Perspectives on Science and Practice, 12(2).
Maidique, M. A., & Hiller, N. J. (2018). The Mindsets of a Leader. MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 59(4).
Crossland, C., Zyung, J., Hiller, N. J., & Hambrick, D. C. (2014). CEO career variety: Effects on firm-level strategic and social novelty. Academy of Management Journal, 57(3).
Hiller, N. J., DeChurch, L. A., Murase, T., & Doty, D. (2011). Searching for outcomes of leadership: A 25-year review. Journal of Management, 37(4).
DeChurch, L. A., Hiller, N. J., Murase, T., Doty, D., & Salas, E. (2010). Leadership across levels: Levels of leaders and their levels of impact. Leadership Quarterly, 21(6).
Resick, C. J., Whitman, D. S., Weingarden, S. M., & Hiller, N. J. (2009). The bright-side and the dark-side of CEO personality: Examining core self-evaluations, narcissism, transformational leadership, and strategic influence. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(6).
Hausknecht, J. P., Hiller, N. J., & Vance, R. J. (2008). Work unit absenteeism: Effects of satisfaction, commitment, labor market conditions, and time. Academy of Management Journal, 51(6).
Mohammed, S., Rizzuto, T. E., Hiller, N. J., Newman, D. A., & Chen, T. T. (2008). Individual differences and group negotiation: The role of polychronicity, dominance, and decision-rule. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 1(3).
Hiller, N. J., Day, D. V., & Vance, R. J. (2006). Collective enactment of leadership roles and team effectiveness: A field study. Leadership Quarterly, 17(4).
Hiller, N. J., & Hambrick, D. C. (2005). Conceptualizing executive hubris: The role of (hyper-) core self-evaluations in strategic decision-making. Strategic Management Journal, 26(4).
Day, D. V., Schleicher, D. J., Unckless, A. L., & Hiller, N. J. (2002). Self-monitoring personality at work: A meta-analytic investigation of construct validity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87(2).
Hiller, N. J., & Kline, D. W. (2001). Diminished spatial summation contributes to the age deficit in the discrimination of low-contrast vernier oscillation. Optometry and Vision Science, 78(8).

Books