Rate My Professor Rebecca Mitchell

Rebecca Mitchell is Professor in the Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, at Macquarie University. Her research interests lie in organisational behaviour, including health and wellbeing at work, team dynamics, leadership and social identity in organizations, particularly in healthcare settings. Current research programs focus on resilience and wellbeing at work, the impact of gender at work, team performance and innovation, transformational leadership in multidisciplinary teams, and shared leadership for team innovation. Prior to her academic career, she served as a senior policy advisor in the Australian and Irish public sectors, including roles as State representative on Council of Australian Government (COAG) working parties and the COAG Working Group on Health Reform, focusing on health, community, and social services policy at state and national levels.

Mitchell has received the Academy of Management Best Paper Award in Organizational Behavior (2008), Academy of Management Newman Award Finalist (2008), British Academy of Management Best Paper Award in Strategic Management Division (2014), Best Paper in Knowledge and Learning (2010), and Best Paper in Organisational Psychology (2012). She is a full professional member of the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology and the US Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Key publications include "Inspirational leadership, positive mood, and team innovation: A moderated mediation investigation into the pivotal role of professional salience" (Human Resource Management, 2019), "Managing inclusiveness and diversity in teams: How leader inclusiveness affects performance through status and team identity" (Human Resource Management, 2015), "Professional diversity, identity salience and team innovation: The moderating role of openmindedness norms" (Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2015), "Transformation through tension: The moderating impact of negative affect on transformational leadership in teams" (Human Relations, 2014), and "When do interprofessional teams succeed? Investigating the moderating roles of team and professional identity in interprofessional effectiveness" (Human Relations, 2011). Her research impacts projects such as the Care Economy Cooperative Research Centre (2025-2035), MRFF-funded patient-reported measures for intellectual disability (2024-2027), resilience and mental health in mining, and gender equity in medical technology. She was appointed to the British Academy of Management Organizational Psychology Committee (2015) and supervises doctoral students to completion.