Matthew McLarnon

BIOGRAPHY

Matthew McLarnon is a Professor in the Department of General Management and Human Resources at the Bissett School of Business, Mount Royal University. Matt's program of research focuses on team dynamics and processes, employee well-being and resiliency, assessment of individual differences, and general latent variable modeling. His research appears in journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Organizational Research Methods, and the Academy of Management Learning & Education. His research is currently funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

SELECTED RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY WORK

Knight, C., McLarnon, M.J.W., Olaru, D., Lee, J., & Parker, S.K. (2025). Hybrid work design profiles: Antecedents and well-being outcomes. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 162, 104174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104174

McLarnon, M.J.W., & Beck, A. (2025). Latent profiles of the Dark Triad: Further person-centered exploration. Personality and Individual Differences, 237, 113049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.113049

Handke, L., O’Neill, T.A., McLarnon, M.J.W., & Kauffeld, S. (2025). What goes around comes around: Work characteristics as both antecedents and outcomes of hybrid work adoption. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 34, 12-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2024.2441884

Taras, V., McLarnon, M.J.W., O’Neill, T.A., & Steel, P. (2024). Reducing freeloading in global virtual teams: A quasi-experimental study. Journal of World Business, 59, 101566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101566

McLarnon, M.J.W., Rothstein, M.G., King, G.A., Medianu, S., Suter, A., & Kisinger, K.L. (2023). The effect of resiliency and self-regulation on immigrants’ job search behavior. Journal of Employment Counseling, 60, 159-174. https://doi.org/10.1002/joec.12210

Baird, N., Robertson, J., & McLarnon, M.J.W. (2023). Looking in the mirror: Including the Reflected Best Self Exercise in management curricula to increase students’ interview self-efficacy. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 22, 662-680. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2021.0347

Knight, C., McLarnon, M.J.W., Parker, S.K., & Wenzel, R. (2022). The importance of relational work design characteristics: A person-centred approach. Australian Journal of Management, 47, 705-728. https://doi.org/10.1177/03128962211073021

McLarnon, M.J.W. (2022). Into the heart of darkness: A person-centered exploration of the Dark Triad. Personality and Individual Differences, 186, 111354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111354

Lefsrud, L.M., McLarnon, M.J.W., & Gellatly, I.R. (2021). A pattern-oriented approach to safety climate: An empirical example. Safety Science, 142, 105385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105385

McLarnon, M.J.W., & Woodley, H.J. (2021). Collective efficacy in virtual teams: Emergence, trajectory, and effectiveness implications. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 53, 187-199. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000233

McLarnon, M.J.W., Rothstein, M.G., & King, G.A. (2020). Resiliency, self-regulation, and reemployment after job loss. Journal of Employment Counseling, 57, 115-129. https://doi.org/10.1002/joec.12149

O’Neill, T.A., Boyce, M., & McLarnon, M.J.W. (2020). Team health is improved when peer evaluation scores affect grades on team projects. Frontiers in Education, 5, 49. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00049

Larson, N.L., McLarnon, M.J.W., & O’Neill, T.A. (2020). Challenging the “static” quo: Trajectories of engagement in team processes toward a deadline. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105, 1145-1163. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000479

McLarnon, M. J. W., O’Neill, T. A., Taras, V., Law, D., Donia, M. B. L., & Steel, P. (2019). Global virtual team communication, coordination, and performance across three peer feedback interventions. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 51, 207-218. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000135

Woodley, H. J., McLarnon, M. J. W., & O’Neill, T. A. (2019). The emergence of group potency and its implications for team effectiveness. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 992. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00992

McLarnon, M. J. W., DeLongchamp, A. C., & Schneider, T. J. (2019). Faking it! Individual differences in types and degrees of faking behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 138, 88-95. https://doi.org/10.​1016/​j.​paid.​2018.​09.​024

Tarraf, R. C., McLarnon, M. J. W., & Finegan, J. E. (2019). Dispositional mindfulness buffers against incivility outcomes: A moderated mediation model. Personality and Individual Differences, 138, 140-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.09.035

McLarnon, M. J. W., & O’Neill, T. A. (2018). Extensions of auxiliary variable approaches for the investigation of mediation, moderation, and conditional effects in mixture models. Organizational Research Methods, 21, 955-982. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428118770731

O’Neill, T. A., & McLarnon, M. J. W. (2018). Optimizing team conflict dynamics for high performance teamwork. Human Resource Management Review, 28, 378-394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2017.06.002

O’Neill, T. A., McLarnon, M. J. W., Hoffart, G. C., Woodley, H. J., & Allen, N. J. (2018). The structure and function of team conflict state profiles. Journal of Management, 44, 811-836. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206315581662