Research Interests

Susan Mohammed is an industrial/organizational psychologist whose research follows two streams: team/group dynamics and decision making. At a basic level, she is interested in the variables that contribute to team success and failure and has investigated factors such as team composition/diversity, team mental models, and temporal dynamics. Several of her studies have investigated the relationship between the individual differences of team members (e.g., Big Five personality traits, gender, ability) and team processes and outcomes (e.g., conflict, performance). She is now investigating the conditions under which the mix of temporal traits in a team (e.g., time urgency, pacing preference) is helpful or harmful to team performance. Her team mental model research highlights the importance of team members being “on the same page” with regard to how they view the group task and how they work together as a team. Current work in this area is funded by the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Mohammed also examines individual and group decision making, with recent work focusing on decision making styles and group negotiation. Across both research streams, she adopts a multilevel as well as interdisciplinary perspective, and individual differences and cognition are dominant themes in her studies.

Selected Publications

Recent Publications

Mohammed, S., & Nadkarni, S. (in press). Time-based individual differences and team performance: The moderating role of temporal leadership. Academy of Management Journal. 
 
Mohammed, S., & Hamilton, K. (in press). Studying team cognition: The good, the bad, and the practical. In  A. B. Hollingshead & M. S. Poole (Eds.), Research Methods for Studying Groups: A Behind-the-Scenes Guide. Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
           
Mohammed, S., Hoult, R., & Hamilton, K. (in press). Time and shared cognition: Towards greater integration of temporal dynamics. In E. Salas, S. Fiore, & M. Letsky (Eds.), Theories of Team Cognition: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives. Taylor and Francis.
 
Dalal, R., Bonaccio, S., Highhouse, S., Ilgen, D., Mohammed, S., & Slaughter, J. E. (in press). What if Industrial/Organizational Psychology decided to take workplace decisions seriously? Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.
 
Mohammed, S., Ferzandi, L., & Hamilton, K. (2010). Metaphor no more: A 15-year review of the team mental model construct. Journal of Management, 36(4), 876-910.
 
Mohammed, S., Cannon-Bowers, J., & Foo, S. (2010). Selection for team membership: A contingency and multilevel perspective. In J. L. Farr and N. T. Tippins (Eds.), Handbook of Employee Selection (pp. 801-822). Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
 
Mohammed, S., & Schwall, A. (2009). Individual differences and decision making: What we know and where we go from here. In G. P. Hodgkinson & J. K. Ford (Eds.), International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 24 (pp. 249-312). John Wiley & Sons.
 
Mohammed, S., Hamilton, K., & Lim, A. (2009). The incorporation of time in team research: Past, current, and future. In E. Salas, G. F. Goodwin, & C. S. Burke (Eds.), Team effectiveness in complex organizations: Cross-disciplinary perspectives and approaches (pp. 321-348). New York: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. (Organizational Frontiers Series sponsored by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology).
 
Mohammed, S., & Zhang, Y. (2009). Providing timely assistance: Temporal measurement guidelines for the study of virtual teams. In D. Schmorrow, J. Cohn, & D. Nicholson (Eds.), Handbook of Virtual Environments for Training and Education: Developments for the Military and Beyond, (Volume 1, pp. 376-389). Praeger Security International, Westport, CT.
            
Mohammed, S., Rizzuto, T., Hiller, N., Neuman, D. & Chen, T. (2008). Individual differences and group negotiation: The role of polychronicity, dominance, and decision rule. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 1(3), 281-306.
 
Badke-Schaub, P., Neumann, A., Lauche, K., & Mohammed, S. (2007). Mental models in design teams: A valid approach to performance in design collaboration? CoDesign, 3 (1), 5-20.