Patrick Bruning

Patrick Bruning is a Professor of Business Administration within the Faculty of Management. He currently teaches courses in organizational behavior, motivation and leadership. Patrick’s topical interests focus on interrelated streams of workplace behavior (with the specific topic of job crafting being a central part of this research), and social relationships and influence between people and organizations (including research on organizational sponsorships).

His research has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Human Resource Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, European Journal of Marketing, and other outlets.

Patrick has received three SSHRC Grants, a Harrison McCain Young Scholar’s Award, a UNB Merit Award, a University Research Fund Award, a Faculty Excellence in Research Award, two Faculty Annual Research Awards, and a Reviewer of the Year Award at Human Relations.

He has served on the editorial boards for Human Relations, Journal of Management, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. He has also served on multiple SSHRC adjudication committees and conducts ad-hoc reviews on an ongoing basis for other research outlets including Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Studies, Human Resource Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology among others.

Journal articles

Chi, N. -W., Lin, C. -Y., Bruning, P. F., & Hung, Y. (2024). Forced to be a good citizen: Exploring the bright- and dark-side effects of daily compulsory citizenship behaviors on subsequent proactive helping and interpersonal deviance. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 97(2), 647-671.

Lin, H. -C., & Bruning, P. F. (2024). Guidelines for sponsorship signaling within socially complex markets. Business Horizons, 67(1), 19-30.

Bruning, P. F., Lin, H. -C., & Hsu, C. -Y. (2022). Crafting solutions to leadership demands for well-being and effectiveness. Business Horizons, 65(5), 603-615.

Bruning, P. F. & Campion, M. A. (2022). Assessing job crafting competencies to predict tradeoffs between performance and well-being. Human Resource Management, 61(1), 91-116.

Bruning, P. F., Alge, B. J., & Jackson C. L. (2022). Explaining the relational mechanisms and outcomes of multi-modal LMX differentiation. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 39(1), 5-20.

Lin, H. -C., & Bruning, P. F. (2021). Sponsorship in focus: A review and typology of sponsorship contexts. Marketing Intelligence & Planning, 39(2), 213-233.

Bruning, P. F., Turner, N, & Lin, H. -C. (2020). Transformational leadership, group affective tone, and group member social inferences: A leadership complementarity perspective. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 37(4), 383-395.

Bruning, P. F., Alge, B. J., & Lin, H. -C. (2020). Social networks and social media: Understanding and managing vulnerability to social influence in a connected society. Business Horizons, 63(6), 749-761.

Lin, H. -C., & Bruning, P. F. (2020). Comparing in-group-favor and out-group-animosity processes in consumers' reactions to sport sponsorship. European Journal of Marketing, 54(4), 791-824.

Bruning, P. F., & Campion, M. A. (2019). Exploring job crafting: Diagnosing and responding to the ways employees adjust their jobs. Business Horizons, 62(5), 625-635.

Lin, H. -C., Bruning, P. F., Cole, N. D., Flint, D. H., Ngin, C., & Supangco, V. (2019). Exploring justice judgment patterns in Asia: A four country multi-group latent class analysis. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(2), 306-336.

Bruning, P. F., Alge, B. J., & Lin, H. -C. (2018). The embedding forces of network commitment: An examination of the psychological processes linking advice centrality and susceptibility to social influence. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 148, 54-69.

Bruning, P. F., & Campion, M. A. (2018). A role-resource approach-avoidance model of job crafting: A multi-method integration and extension of job crafting theory. Academy of Management Journal, 61(2), 499-522.

Lin, H. -C., Bruning, P. F., & Swarna, H. (2018). Using online opinion leaders to promote the hedonic and utilitarian value of products and services. Business Horizons, 61(3), 431-442.

Lin, H. –C., Swarna, H., & Bruning, P. F. (2017). Taking a global view on brand post popularity: Six social media brand post practices for global markets. Business Horizons, 60(5), 621-633.