My research addresses questions at the intersection of three domains of organizational scholarship: (1) Individual Learning, Development, and Growth at Work, (2) Workplace Interactions and Interpersonal Dynamics, and (3) Leading Highly Reliable Health Care Organizations.
Specifically, my research seeks to uncover and test the mechanisms by which individuals learn and develop from their own and others’ experiences in knowledge-intensive work environments such as health care. To do so, I leverage a range of quantitative and qualitative methods and data sources – including field surveys and interventions, qualitative interviews and observational methods, archival data, experiments, and social network methods – and draw from multiple literatures and levels of analysis to examine these interpersonal learning interactions.
Specifically, my research seeks to uncover and test the mechanisms by which individuals learn and develop from their own and others’ experiences in knowledge-intensive work environments such as health care. To do so, I leverage a range of quantitative and qualitative methods and data sources – including field surveys and interventions, qualitative interviews and observational methods, archival data, experiments, and social network methods – and draw from multiple literatures and levels of analysis to examine these interpersonal learning interactions.
Foundational to my research is connecting ideas from different disciplines or traditions. I believe the most interesting organizational problems – and their solutions – are interdisciplinary in nature, so I seek out areas of connection between different streams of research, aiming to offer more nuanced and robust understanding of interpersonal learning processes in health care and other knowledge work.
Publications
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Academic Journal Articles
Kira Schabram, Christopher G Myers, Ashley E Hardin
Organizational Research Methods, 2024
Supporting Robust Teamwork - Bridging Technology and Organizational Science
Anna T. Mayo, Christopher G. Myers, J. Bucuvalas, Sandy Feng, Courtney E Juliano
New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 388(22), 2023 Jun, pp. 2019-2021
High Reliability Organising in Healthcare: Still a Long Way Left to Go
Christopher G. Myers, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
BMJ Quality & Safety, vol. 31(12), 2022 Dec, pp. 845-848
The Growing Role of Chief Medical Officers in Major Corporations.
Christopher G. Myers, Daniel Polsky, Sanjay Desai
JAMA Health Forum, vol. 3(7), 2022 Jul, pp. e222194
Storytelling as a Tool for Vicarious Learning among Air Medical Transport Crews
Christopher G. Myers
Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 67(2), 2022 Jun, pp. 378-422
Samir Nurmohamed, Timothy G Kundro, Christopher G. Myers
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 167, 2021 Nov, pp. 206-221
Gretchen Spreitzer, Christopher G. Myers, Shirli Kopelman, David M. Mayer
Academy of Management Perspectives, vol. 35(3), 2021 Aug, pp. 517-534
Organizational Science and Health Care
Anna T. Mayo, Christopher G. Myers, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Academy of Management Annals, vol. 15(2), 2021 Jul, pp. 537-576
Amit Jain, Tinglong Dai, Christopher G. Myers, Punya Jain, Shruti Aggarwal
BMJ Leader, vol. 5(2), 2021 Jun, pp. 124-126
Performance Benefits of Reciprocal Vicarious Learning in Teams
Christopher G. Myers
Academy of Management Journal, vol. 64(3), 2021 Jun, pp. 926-947
What a Pandemic Reveals About Learning in Health Care Organizations
Christopher G. Myers, Michael A. Rosen, Christina T. Yuan
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, vol. 14(1-2), 2021 Jun, pp. 126-129
Covid-19 has Made Clear Why All Physicians Need to Know About the Business of Healthcare
Christopher G. Myers, Anna T. Mayo, Allen Kachalia, Daniel Polsky, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, vol. 26(2), 2021 Apr, pp. 51-55
How Did You Do That? Exploring the Motivation to Learn from Others’ Exceptional Success
Ryan W. Quinn, Christopher G. Myers, Shirli Kopelman, Stefanie Simmons
Academy of Management Discoveries, vol. 7(1), 2021 Mar, pp. 15-39
Working Toward the Triple Bottom Line in Surgery
Emily Johnson, Gifty Kwakye, Christopher G. Myers, Amir A. Ghaferi
NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery, 2021 Jan
Vicarious Learning in the Time of Coronavirus
Christopher G. Myers
Behavioral Science & Policy, vol. 6(2), 2020 Oct, pp. 153-161
Gender Bias in Collaborative Medical Decision Making: Emergent Evidence
Erik G. Helzer, Christopher G. Myers, Christine Fahim, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, James H. Abernathy
Academic Medicine, vol. 95(10), 2020 Oct, pp. 1524-1528
Resilience in Action: Leading for Resilience in Response to COVID-19
Michelle A. Barton, Marlys K. Christianson, Christopher G. Myers, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
BMJ Leader, vol. 4(3), 2020 Sep, pp. 117-119
The genealogy of teaching clinical reasoning and diagnostic skill: the GEL Study
Stephen W. Russell, Sanjay V. Desai, Paul O'Rourke, Neera Ahuja, Anand Patel, Christopher G. Myers, Donna M. Zulman, Heather F. Sateia, Gail V. Berkenblit, Erica N. Johnson, Brian T. Garibaldi
Diagnosis, vol. 7(3), 2020 Aug, pp. 197-203
Christopher G. Myers, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Bernard T. Ferrari
Academic Medicine, vol. 94(10), 2019 Oct, pp. 1416-1418
Association Between Team Learning Behavior and Reduced Burnout Among Medicine Residents
Christopher G. Myers, Heather F. Sateia, Sanjay V. Desai
Journal of General Internal Medicine, vol. 33(12), 2018 Dec, pp. 2037-2039
Excising the “Surgeon Ego” to Accelerate Progress in the Culture of Surgery
Christopher G. Myers, Yemeng Lu-Myers, Amir A. Ghaferi
BMJ, vol. 363, 2018 Nov, pp. k4537
Coactive Vicarious Learning: Toward a Relational Theory of Vicarious Learning in Organizations
Christopher G. Myers
Academy of Management Review, vol. 43(4), 2018 Oct, pp. 610-634
Social Media as a Platform for Surgical Learning: Use and Engagement Patterns Among Robotic Surgeons
Christopher G. Myers, Omar Y. Kudsi, Amir A. Ghaferi
Annals of Surgery, vol. 267(2), 2018 Feb, pp. 233-235
Incorporating Interpersonal Skills into Otolaryngology Resident Selection and Training
Yemeng Lu-Myers, Christopher G. Myers
Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, vol. 158(1), 2018 Jan, pp. 21-23
Making Management Skills a Core Component of Medical Education.
Christopher G. Myers, Peter J. Pronovost
Academic Medicine, vol. 92(5), 2017 May, pp. 582-584
Shirli Kopelman, Ashley E. Hardin, Christopher G. Myers, Leigh P. Tost
Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 101(5), 2016 May, pp. 721-730
Where in the World Are the Workers? Cultural Underrepresentation in I-O Research
Christopher G. Myers
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, vol. 9(1), 2016 Mar, pp. 144-152
Lisa A. Marchiondo, Christopher G. Myers, Shirli Kopelman
Leadership Quarterly, vol. 26(5), 2015 Oct, pp. 892-908
Learning Agility: In Search of Conceptual Clarity and Theoretical Grounding
D. Scott DeRue, Susan J. Ashford, Christopher G. Myers
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, vol. 5(3), 2012 Sep, pp. 258-279
Learning Agility: Many Questions, a Few Answers, and a Path Forward
D. Scott DeRue, Susan J. Ashford, Christopher G. Myers
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, vol. 5(3), 2012 Sep, pp. 316-322
The Hierarchical Face: Higher Rankings Lead to Less Cooperative Looks
Patricia Chen, Christopher G. Myers, Shirli Kopelman, Stephen M. Garcia
Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 97(2), 2012 Mar, pp. 479-486
Academic Journal Correspondence
Safety of Health Care in the Inpatient Setting
Christopher G. Myers, Keith E. Mandel, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 388(16), 2023 Apr, pp. 1535-1536
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Anna T. Mayo, Christopher G. Myers, Michelle A. Barton, Sarah L. Szanton
International Journal of Nursing Studies, vol. 138, 2023 Feb, p. 104393
Responding to the “Surgeon Ego”: Progress Made and Paths Forward
Christopher G. Myers, Yemeng Lu-Myers, Amir A. Ghaferi
BMJ, 2018 Dec
Christopher G. Myers, Peter J. Pronovost
Academic Medicine, vol. 93(4), 2018 Apr, p. 517
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Agency in Vicarious Learning at Work
Christopher G. Myers, D. Scott DeRue
SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series, Jill E. Ellington, Raymond A. Noe, Autonomous Learning in the Workplace, chapter 2, Routledge, New York, 2017, pp. 15-37
Leadership Development: A Review and Agenda for Future Research
D. Scott DeRue, Christopher G. Myers
David V. Day, The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations, chapter 37, Oxford University Press, New York, 2014, pp. 832-855
Popular Press Articles
Let's Realign the Surgeon-Hospital Relationship
Amit Jain, Christopher G. Myers, Alpesh Patel
MedPage Today, 2022 Mar 5
A 100% COVID Vaccination Rate Is Possible -- We Did It
Ravi Mittal, Surbhi Jain, Christopher G Myers, Tinglong Dai, Amit Jain
MedPage Today, 2021 Oct 22
Covid-19 Created an Elective Surgery Backlog. How Can Hospitals Get Back on Track?
Amit Jain, Tinglong Dai, Kristin Bibee, Christopher G. Myers
Harvard Business Review, 2020 Aug
Get Adventurous with Your Leadership Training
Christopher G. Myers, Mike Doyle
Harvard Business Review, 2020 Feb
To Cope with Stress, Try Learning Something New
Chen Zhang, Christopher G. Myers, David M. Mayer
Harvard Business Review, 2018 Sep
How Discrimination Against Female Doctors Hurts Patients
Christopher G. Myers, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Harvard Business Review, 2018 Aug
Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills
Christopher G. Myers, Yusef Kudsi, Amir A. Ghaferi
Harvard Business Review, 2017 Oct
Health Care Providers Can Use Design Thinking to Improve Patient Experiences
Sharon H. Kim, Christopher G. Myers, Lisa Allen
Harvard Business Review, 2017 Aug
When Health Care Providers Look at Problems from Multiple Perspectives, Patients Benefit
Jemima A. Frimpong, Christopher G. Myers, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Yemeng Lu-Myers
Harvard Business Review, 2017 Jun
Peter J. Pronovost, Christopher G. Myers
AM Rounds, 2017 Jun 13
The Next Wave of Hospital Innovation to Make Patients Safer
Amir A. Ghaferi, Christopher G. Myers, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Peter J. Pronovost
Harvard Business Review, 2016 Aug
Why Companies Are Becoming B Corporations
Suntae Kim, Matthew J. Karlesky, Christopher G. Myers, Todd Schifeling
Harvard Business Review, 2016 Jun
Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?
Christopher G. Myers
Harvard Business Review, 2015 Nov
Technical Reports
Well-being at Work: Fostering a Healthy Work Climate for All
Richard Smith, Michelle Barton, Christopher G Myers, Marcus Erb
Johns Hopkins Human Capital Development Lab / Great Place to Work , 2024
Developmental Readiness and Mindful Engagement in the Singapore Public Service
D Scott Derue, Christopher G Myers
Centre for Leadership Development, Civil Service College, Singapore, 2013
Christopher G Myers, D Scott DeRue
Centre for Leadership Development, Civil Service College, Singapore, 2012
Teaching Materials
Dr. Jamie Thompson: Diagnosing an Organizational Issue
Christopher G. Myers, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Yemeng Lu-Myers
2017