Workplace mistreatment
How rudeness and incivility unfold, and how people respond when workplace interactions go wrong.
Organizational behavior · Human resources
Nicholas
Andriese, PhD
Assistant Professor of Management
Sorrell College of Business · Troy University
I study the perceptions, values, and everyday interactions that shape life at work.
01 About
A scholar with
a practical foundation.
I’m Nick Andriese, an organizational behavior researcher and educator at Troy University.
My research examines workplace mistreatment, morality and values, and interpersonal perception. I’m particularly interested in how people understand their own behavior and how they believe others perceive them. I partner with organizations to pursue research that advances academic knowledge and helps address practical workplace challenges.
Before entering academia, I worked in employee assessment and client support, including 360-degree feedback at DecisionWise and federal government client work at Crucial Learning. That experience informs my interest in connecting organizational research with the questions leaders and employees face in practice.
My teaching and applied interests span organizational behavior and human resource management. My teaching philosophy centers on helping students think critically, evaluate evidence, and apply research to practical management decisions.
Education
- PhD, Business Administration
- Organizational Behavior · University of Central Florida
- 2026
- Graduate Certificate
- Advanced Quantitative Methodologies · University of Central Florida
- 2024
- BS, Psychology
- Brigham Young University
- 2020
02 Research
How we perceive, treat, and lead one another at work.
My work explores the human side of organizations, with a focus on four connected areas.
Research interests
Morality & values
How moral motivations and organizational values shape choices, relationships, and trust at work.
Interpersonal perception
How people see their own behavior, how they think others see it, and why those perceptions matter.
Research methods
Using experiments, longitudinal and dyadic research, meta-analysis, and statistical modeling to investigate organizational questions.
Selected publications
Return migrant entrepreneurship: A systematic review and future research agenda (opens in a new tab)
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 50(1), 115–149.
First published online in 2025.
A systematic review of 80 studies examining why migrants return home and how they enter entrepreneurship.
Read article (opens in a new tab)Workplace deviance and workplace violence (opens in a new tab)
In H. S. Friedman & C. H. Markey (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Mental Health (3rd ed., pp. 620–628). Academic Press.
Read chapter (opens in a new tab)Abduction and creative theorizing (opens in a new tab)
In L. Magnani (Ed.), Handbook of Abductive Cognition (pp. 1181–1204). Springer.
Read chapter (opens in a new tab)Dissertation
Did They Think I Was Rude? The Emotional and Relational Consequences of (In)congruence Between Perpetrators’ Self- and Meta-Perceptions of Workplace Rudeness (opens in a new tab)
Doctoral dissertation, University of Central Florida.
Across two studies, I examine how employees’ views of their own rudeness and their beliefs about others’ perceptions relate to emotions, clarification seeking, and relationship repair.
Read dissertation (opens in a new tab)Selected works in progress
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[Trust field experiment]
Study 2 data collection.
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[Moral Motivations and Decision Making]
Final edits.
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[Interpersonal Dark Side of Authenticity]
Model specification and study design.
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[Toxic Workplace Climates]
Data collection.
03 Methods
Methodological &
statistical toolkit.
My toolkit spans experimental design, analysis of relationships and change, and quantitative evidence synthesis.
Design & evidence synthesis
- Experimental design
- Quasi-experimental design
- Field studies
- Meta-analysis
Relationships & change
- Dyadic analysis
- Multilevel analysis
- Longitudinal modeling
- Latent growth modeling
Statistical modeling
- Structural equation modeling
- Moderated mediation
- Multivariate analysis
- Person-centered methods
- Response surface analysis
Software
- R
- Mplus
- SPSS
Advanced training
Graduate Certificate in Advanced Quantitative Methodologies, UCF (2024).
04 Teaching
From understanding
to application.
I teach organizational behavior and human resource management, connecting research on people and leadership with practical approaches to workforce planning, recruitment, selection, and employee assessment.
Through discussion, applied assignments, and data analysis, I help students develop the judgment to evaluate evidence and make informed management decisions.
Troy University · Undergraduate
Organizational Behavior
Understanding individuals and groups at work, and applying that knowledge to organizational challenges.
MGT 4472 · In personTroy University · Graduate
Workplace Planning and Staffing
Planning, recruitment, selection, and the use of research and statistical analysis to inform staffing decisions.
HRM 6622 · OnlinePreviously at UCF
Organizational Behavior and Strategic Management Capstone
05 Contact & collaboration
Let’s start
a conversation.
I welcome research and consulting collaborations on employee listening, employee assessment, staffing, and other organizational challenges.
Have a project or question in mind? Email me with a little about your work and what you’d like to explore together.
contact@nicholasandriese.com