Faculty and ResearchFaculty Awards and Honors

(December 9, 2020) Fred Walumbwa, a professor of international business is among the top 2% of researchers in their fields according to analysis of author citations published by the journal PLOS Biology. The publicly available database provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator. Researchers are classified into 22 fields and 176 sub-fields.

Walumbwa’s main research focuses on understanding how effective leaders emerge, evolve and develop, and how different clusters of leadership behaviors enhance or inhibit climates more open to corporate, work unit and employee citizenship and proactive behaviors, engagement, fairness, learning, thriving, voicing, creativity/innovation, knowledge sharing, and withdrawal behaviors across cultures. Walumbwa has published over 100 papers, including over 60 refereed research articles in a wide range of prestigious journals in business, management and psychology, book chapters, peer-reviewed proceedings, and technical reports; and has made over 100 national and international conference presentations and lectures.

Walumbwa’s achievement was featured by FIU ADVANCE News. Read more here.