Steven Winton, Ph.D.
Director, Leadership & Organizational Development
Associate Professor, Organizational Studies
Education
Ph.D. Industrial / Organizational Psychology, Saint Louis University
M.S. Industrial / Organizational Psychology, Missouri State University
Research Interests
My primary research interests center around understanding the work related behaviors and attitudes necessary for an increasingly complex world. This includes exploring topics such as leadership, engagement, adaptive/proactive behaviors, and leadership development.
Publications and Media Placements
Winton, S., Devany, K., Cornelius, A., & Hughes, P.J. (In Press). Meet our Leadership
Students: An Online Exercise to Develop Personas. Journal of Leadership Education.
Winton, S., Cornelius, A., & Grawitch, M. (2021). Providing Context to the Engagement-Behavior
Linkage: A Facet-Level Examination. Human Performance, 35(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959285.2021.1998062
Cornelius, A., Lavigne, K. N., Grawitch, M. J., Gill, R., & Winton, S. L. (2021, April).
Does the plot thicken or twist? The pandemic, individual differences, and wellbeing.
In SIOP Annual Conference. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Winton, S.L., Hughes, P.J., & Cornelius, A. (2019). Reflective Practice in Leadership
Education. Roundtable presented at the Annual Association of Leadership Education
Conference, Albuquerque, NM, July, 2019.
Winton, S.L., & Guarino, S.N. (2018). It’s about Time: Measuring Employee Engagement.
Strategic HR Review, 17(3). https://doi.org/10.1108/SHR-01-2018-0010
Winton, S.L., Guarino, S.N., & Hughes, P.J. (2018). Developing Leadership for Increasing
Complexity: A Review of Online Graduate Leadership Programs. Journal of Leadership
Education, 17(10). https://doi:10.12806/V17/I1/A4
Winton, S.L., & Hughes, P.J. (2018). The Culminating Experience: Sharing Innovative
Best Practices for Graduate Leadership Program Capstones. Roundtable presented at
the Annual Association of Leadership Education Conference, Chicago, July, 2018.
Winton, S.L., Guarino, S.N., & Maurer, A.H. (2017). It’s about Time: Inclusion of
a Time-Based Frame of Reference Alters Stability of Self-Reported Employee Engagement
Measurement. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Association for
Psychological Science, Boston, May, 2017.
Grawitch, M.J., Winton, S.L., Mudigonda, S.P., & Buerck, J.P. (2017). Technology Is
More Than Just Error. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 10(3), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2017.72
Winton, S.L., & Kane, T.D. (2016). Effects of group goal content on group processes,
collective efficacy, and satisfaction. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 46(2),
129-139.
Winton, S.L., Sabin, E.J., & Grawitch, M.J. (2014). Job Attitudes and Affective Experience
in a Mediated Model of Employee Engagement. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Conference
of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, May, 2014.
Bagsby, P. G., Bolton, L., Grawitch, M. J., Winton, S., & Barber, L. K. (2011). Role
identification and resource allocation: Promoting positive and decreasing negative
work outcomes. Paper presented at Work, Stress & Health: Work and Well-Being in an
Economic Context, Orlando, FL, May, 2011.
Sabin, E.J., Winton, S.L., Wilson, D.S., & Devine, J. (2011). An Initial Structural
Equation Model of Safety Climate for Air Traffic Control. Proceedings of the 16th
International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Dayton, May, 2011.
Professional Organizations and Associations
Associate of Leadership Educators
Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology
Association for Psychological Science
St Louis Organizational Development Network