Patrick Bruning

Patrick Bruning is a Professor of Business Administration within the Faculty of Management. He currently teaches courses in leadership, motivation, and organizational behavior. Patrick’s research covers the general topics of job crafting, social influence, leadership, motivation, well-being, organizational sponsorship, and cross-cultural studies. His research has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Human Resource Management, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, 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, a Faculty Annual Research Award, and a Reviewer of the Year Award at Human Relations. He has served on the editorial boards of Human Relations and Journal of Vocational Behavior, as well as SSHRC adjudication committees. He has also reviewed for other research outlets including Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Studies, Human Resource Management, and Personnel Psychology, among others.

Journal articles

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

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.