Carrie Blair Messal, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Associate Dean, School of Business
Office Hours: Contact for appointment
Phone: 843.953.8105 (best way to contact Dr. Messal is via email)
E-mail: messalc@cofc.edu
Curriculum Vitae: Download
Dr. Carrie A. Blair (Messal) is a Professor of Management at the College of Charleston, where she regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Leadership, Management, and Organizational Behavior. She currently serves the Management and Marketing Department as Department Chair. She is the Founding Director of an undergraduate leader development program, the Schottland Scholars Program, and her expertise in leader development is frequently used to design leader development opportunities on campus and in the community.
Her work has been published in journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Human Performance, Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, Management Teaching Review and Human Resource Development Quarterly.
Carrie is actively involved in the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. She was the 2018 recipient of the Howard R. Rudd, Jr. Distinguished Faculty Award for Service Leadership, and the 2015 recipient of the School of Business Teaching Award.
Education
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational, May 2008
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
M.A., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, May 2003
Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky
B.A., Psychology (magna cum laude), May 2001
Research Interests
Dispositional antecedents of leader development
- core self-evaluation
- goal orientation
- narcissism
Courses Taught
- Leadership
- Organizational Behavior and Change
Honors and Awards
- 2018 Highly Commended Award - Emerald Publishing
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College of Charleston School of Business
2018 Howard F. Rudd, Jr. Distinguised Faculty Award for Service Leadership -
College of Charleston School of Business
Teaching Award 2015 -
College of Charleston First Year Student Outstanding Service Award
2013 Award Winner. This Honor bestowed by students for exceptional mentoring and instruction. - Best Student Paper, Research Methods Division, 2009 Southern Management Association
- Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals, 2008-09 Honors Edition
Publications
Shaver, K., Blair, C. A., & Kindy, M. (2020). On horses and jockeys: Perceptions by academic entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 10 (1). Published online May 1, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2019-0011
Peterson, C., Peterson, T., Aikens, S., Beard, J. W., Beatty, J. E., Blair, C. A., Lesko, A. P, & Small, E. (2020). Story hour in the management classroom. Management Teaching Review. DOI: 10.1177/2379298119836073.
Blair, C. A. & Shaver, K. (2019). Meaningful and complex work: An exercise to help students understand intrinsic motivation. Management Teaching Review, 4 (1), 39-48. DOI: 10.1177/2379298117748568
Blair, C. A. & Shaver, K. (2019). Of horses and jockeys: Perceptions of academic entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship Research Journal, DOI: 10.1515/erj-2019-0011.
Blair, C. A., Wilen, R. P, & Paz-Aparicio, C. (2018). Do Big 5 personality characteristics and narcissism predict engagement in leader development. Frontiers in Psychology: Organizational Psychology.
Blair, C. A. & Desplaces, D. E. (2018). Conflict management through the negotiations canvas, getting participants to understand. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 36 (1) 39-51. DOI: 10.1002/crq.21227
Blair, C. A. & Shaver, K. (2017). Meaningful and com complex work: An exercise to help students understand intrinsic motivation. Management Teaching Review, DOI.org/10.1177/2379298117748568. (Online First publication.)
Blair, C.A., Helland, K.R., & Walton, W. (2017). Leaders behaving badly: The relationship between narcissism and unethical leadership. Leadership and Organization Development Journal.
Blair, C.A., Hoffman, B.J., & Ladd, R. T. (2016). Assessment centers vs. situational judgment tests: Longitudinal predictors of success. Leadership and Organization Development Journal. 37 (7), 1-15.
Conference Presentations
Blair, C.A., Milosevic, I., & Carrico, A. (2018). Best practices: Incorporating speakers in the classroom. Class exercise presented at the 2018 Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS) Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Paz-Aparicio, C. & Messal, C. B. (2017). Personality, especially narcissism, predicts engagement in leader development. Paper presented at the 43rd annual conference of the European International Business Academy,
Blair, C. A., & Shaver, K. (2017, October). An exercise: Creating a system that inspires creativity. Paper presented at the 2017 Meeting of the Southern Management Association in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.
Shaver, K. G., Blair, C. A., & Kindy, M. S. (2017, October). Individual motives of academic science faculty: Towards a research agenda. Paper presented at the 2017 Meeting of the Southern Management Association in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.
Blair, C. A. & Passarelli, A. (2017, June). To affinity and beyond: Using diagramming as management educators. Teaching exercise presented at 2017 Organizational Behavior Teaching Society Teaching Conference for Management Educators (OBTC), Providence, RI.
Shea, R. & Blair, C. A. (2017, June). Starting the Day Right. Teaching exercise presented at 2017 Organizational Behavior Teaching Society Teaching Conference for Management Educators (OBTC), Providence, RI.
Gorman, C. A., & Messal, C. A. (2017, May). Inspiring the helpful self: How transformational leadership motivates organizational citizenship behavior. Paper to be presented at the 2nd annual Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium, Mykonos, Greece.
Gorman, C. A., Blair, C. A., & Gable, J. S. (2017, April). Engaging work (ethic): when does work ethic lead to proactive performance? In J. P. Meriac (Chair) New developments in work ethic research: Antecedents, impact, and distinctiveness. Symposium presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Orlando, Florida.
For a comprehensive list of Dr. Carrie Blair Messal's research, please see her CV.