Zhanna Lyubykh

  • Assistant Professor, Management and Organization Studies

BURNABY

Room: WMC 3359

Phone:

Email: zhanna_lyubykh@sfu.ca

Credentials

Ph.D. Organizational Behavior (University of Calgary)

Biography

Dr. Zhanna Lyubykh is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organization Studies at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University. She earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Calgary. Her doctoral studies were funded by the Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship.

Lyubykh’s research explores negative interpersonal behaviors in the workplace (e.g., aggression, harassment, and mistreatment), bystander intervention, leadership, and employee well-being. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management, among others. She serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

For her scholarly achievements, she was the recipient of the 2024 CSIOP Outstanding Early Researcher Award and the CPA President’s New Researcher Award. Her research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Lyubykh’s research has also gained attention in popular media, with coverage from CBC News, Globe & Mail, Psychology Today, and The Economist. Additionally, she has contributed articles to Harvard Business Review and The Conversation.

For the latest updates on Zhanna Lyubykh’s publications, please visit her Google Scholar profile.

Research Interests

Workplace aggression, mistreatment, harassment; Third parties, bystanders; Leadership; Well-being

Selected Publications

articles and reports

Lyubykh, Z., Turner, N., Weinhardt, J. M., Davis, J., & Dumaisnil, A. (2025). Facilitating Mental Health Disclosure and Better Work Outcomes: The Role of Organizational Support for Disclosing Mental Health Concerns. Human Resource Management. http://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.22310

Lyubykh, Z., Zhong, R., Robinson, S. L., Hershcovis, S., & Vuong, T. T. (2025, February). Workplace aggression causes real harm - leaders must take action against it. Conversation. https://theconversation.com/workplace-aggression-causes-real-harm-leaders-must-take-action-against-it-249938

Lyubykh, Z., Barclay, L., Turner, N., & Hershcovis, M.  . (2025). Perceiving the Inevitable: Understanding Observer Reactions to Workplace Mistreatment Through the Lens of System Justification Theory. Journal of Organizational Behavior. http://doi.org/10.1002/job.2854

Lyubykh, Z., Alonso, N., & Turner, N. (2024, November). Allyship efforts can face pushback in the workplace. Here's why it happens and what leaders can do about it. Conversation. https://theconversation.com/allyship-efforts-can-face-pushback-in-the-workplace-heres-why-it-happens-and-what-leaders-can-do-about-it-242553

Zhong, R., Yao, J., Wang, Y., Lyubykh, Z., & Robinson, S. L. (2024). Workplace Aggression and Employee Performance: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Mediating Mechanisms and Cultural Contingencies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 110(4), 536-574. http://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001244

Lyubykh, Z., Zhong, R., Vuong, T. T., Robinson, S. L., & Hershcovis, M. S. (2024). Understanding the Impact of Witnessed Workplace Mistreatment: A Meta-Analysis of Observer Deontic Reactions and Employee Outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 110(3), 381-403. http://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001239

Walsh, M. M., Lyubykh, Z., & Arnold, K. A. (2024). Leader Mindfulness, Passive Leadership, and the Mediating Role of Leader Anxiety. Journal of Personnel Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000344

Lyubykh, Z., Alonso, N. M., & Turner, N. (2024). Beyond allies and recipients: Exploring observers’ allyship emulation in response to leader allyship. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 181. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104308

Vranjes, I., Lyubykh, Z., Hershcovis, M. S., & Barker Caza, B. (2024, January). How to Intervene When You Witness Workplace Aggression. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2024/01/how-to-intervene-when-you-witness-workplace-aggression

Vranjes, I., Lyubykh, Z., Hershcovis, M. S., & Caza, B. B. (2023). UNDERSTANDING PERPETRATOR REACTIONS TO BYSTANDER INTERVENTION IN INTERPERSONAL WORKPLACE AGGRESSION. Academy of Management Review. http://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2020.0396

Lyubykh, Z., & Gulseren, D. B. (2023, May). How to Take Better Breaks at Work, According to Research. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2023/05/how-to-take-better-breaks-at-work-according-to-research#:~:text=A%20longer%20break%20does%20not,gazing%20out%20of%20the%20window.

Lyubykh, Z., Barclay, L. J., Fortin, M., Bashshur, M. R., & Khakhar, M. (2022). Why, how, and when divergent perceptions become dysfunctional in organizations: A Motivated cognition perspective. Research in Organizational Behavior. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.riob.2022.100177

Lyubykh, Z., Turner, N., Hershcovis, M. S., & Deng, C. (2022). A Meta-Analysis of Leadership and Workplace Safety: Examining Relative Importance, Contextual Contingencies, and Methodological Moderators. Journal of Applied Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000557

Lyubykh, Z., Gulseren, D., Premji, Z., Wingate, T. G., Deng, C., Bélanger, L. J., & Turner, N. (2022). Role of Work Breaks in Well-Being and Performance: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000337

Lyubykh, Z., Gulseren, D., Turner, N., Barling, J., & Seifert, M. (2022). Shared transformational leadership and safety behaviours of employees, leaders, and teams: A multilevel investigation. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 95(2), 431-458. http://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12381

Lyubykh, Z., Bozeman, J., Hershcovis, S., & Turner, N. (2022, April). Abusive bosses often blame a worker's lack of effort or care for poor performance when it's their own biases that may be the problem. Conversation. https://theconversation.com/abusive-bosses-often-blame-a-workers-lack-of-effort-or-care-for-poor-performance-when-its-their-own-biases-that-may-be-the-problem-172464

Lyubykh, Z., Dupré, K. E., Barling, J., & Turner, N. (2022). Retaliating against abusive supervision with aggression and violence: The moderating role of organizational intolerance of aggression. Work and Stress, 36(2), 164-182. http://doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2021.1969478

Lyubykh, Z., Bozeman, J., Hershcovis, M. S., Turner, N., & Shan, J. V. (2022). Employee performance and abusive supervision: The role of supervisor over-attributions. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43(1), 125-145. http://doi.org/10.1002/job.2560

Gulseren, D., Lyubykh, Z., & Turner, N. (2021). Reimagining work safety behaviors in the light of COVID-19. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 14(1-2), 214-216. http://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2021.45

Lyubykh, Z., Turner, N., Barling, J., Reich, T. C., & Batten, S. (2021). Employee disability disclosure and managerial prejudices in the return-to-work context. Personnel Review, 50(2), 770-788. http://doi.org/10.1108/PR-11-2019-0654

Koc, Y., Gulseren, D., & Lyubykh, Z. (2021). Masculinity Contest Culture Reduces Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Through Decreased Organizational Identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, 27(2), 408-416. http://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000351

Reich, T. C., Hershcovis, M. S., Lyubykh, Z., Niven, K., Parker, S. K., & Stride, C. B. (2021). Observer Reactions to Workplace Mistreatment: It’s a Matter of Perspective. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 26(5), 374-392. http://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000205

Lyubykh, Z., Ansari, M. A., Williams-Whitt, K., & Kristman, V. L. (2020). Disability Severity, Leader–Member Exchange, and Attitudinal Outcomes: Considering the Employee and Supervisor Perspectives. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 30(4), 613-623. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-020-09884-0

books chapters and monographs

Lyubykh, Z., Gulseren, D. B., & Schulte, B. (2024). How to take better breaks at work, according to research. In Clark, M., Erez, M., Gelfand, M. J., Gavett, G., & Hansen, K. (Eds.), Overcoming Overwork. Harvard Business School Publishing. https://store.hbr.org/product/overcoming-overwork/BG2403?srsltid=AfmBOoqcU4YtXiwrqFsh7sciI5W_pT0q28NBy7BaJojFT8r-uHVkhZdt

Lyubykh, Z., & Gulseren, D. B. (2024). How to take better breaks at work, according to research. In Glass, R., Aarons-Mele, M., Westring, A. F., & Imber, A. (Eds.), Boundaries, Priorities, and Finding Work-Life Balance. Harvard Business School Publishing. https://store.hbr.org/product/boundaries-priorities-and-finding-work-life-balance-hbr-work-smart-series/10718

Gulseren, D. B., & Lyubykh, Z. (2023). LEADERSHIP INTERVENTIONS TO FOSTER MENTAL HEALTH AND WORK WELL-BEING. Routledge Companion to Mental Health at Work (pp. 198-217). Routledge. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003255574-13

Vranjes, I., & Lyubykh, Z. (2021). Workplace mistreatment: A review and agenda for research. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management. Oxford University Press. http://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190224851.013.119

Vranjes, I., Lyubykh, Z., & Hershcovis, M. S. (2021). Observer interventions in workplace aggression: The state of the art and future directions. In Kelloway, E. K., & Cooper, S. C. (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Workplace Stress and Wellbeing (pp. 73-90). Edward Elgar Publishing (UK).

Lyubykh, Z., Hershcovis, S., & Turner, N. (2020). Understanding the role of affect in workplace aggression. The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect (pp. 270-283). Cambridge University Press. http://doi.org/10.1017/9781108573887.021