Dr Michael Collins

Senior Lecturer

School of Business

+61 7 344 31246

m.collins@business.uq.edu.au

Room 408, Joyce Ackroyd (37), St. Lucia Campus

Researcher biography

Michael joined the Business School in 2019 after completing a PhD in Organisation and Management at UNSW Business School in 2016. Prior to this he served as a Commissioned Officer in the Australian Defence Force for 15 years and as a Director of a management consultancy until 2018.

During this period he gained extensive front-line to executive leadership experience across a diverse range of organisations and cultures. He has worked across a broad range of industries, including finance, mining, rail and government, and his consulting expertise encompasses organisation development and learning, talent management and leadership assessment and development.

Publications

Journal Articles (7)

Conference Papers (6)

Research Reports (2)

Journal Articles

Collins, Michael D. (2023). Train driver selection: The impact of cognitive ability on train driving performance. International Journal of Selection and Assessment. doi: 10.1111/ijsa.12461

Collins, Michael D. (2023). A multiperspective approach to paradoxical leadership: the moderating effect of intelligence and trait emotions on leader behavior. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 44 (6), 812-832. doi: 10.1108/lodj-02-2023-0077

Collins, Michael D., Dasborough, Marie T., Gregg, Heath R., Xu, Changmeng, Midel Deen, Catherine, He, Yaqing and Restubog, Simon Lloyd D. (2023). Traversing the storm: an interdisciplinary review of crisis leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 34 (1) 101661, 1-28. doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2022.101661

Collins, Michael D. and Restubog, Simon Lloyd D. (2021). The effect of trait anger and impulsiveness on ethical leadership and support for organizational change. Journal of Research in Personality, 91 104072, 104072. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104072

Hickey, Anthea R. and Collins, Michael D. (2017). Disinhibition and train driver performance. Safety Science, 95, 104-115. doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2017.02.016

Collins, Michael D., Jackson, Chris J., Walker, Benjamin R., O'Connor, Peter J. and Gardiner, Elliroma (2017). Integrating the context-appropriate balanced attention model and reinforcement sensitivity theory: towards a domain-general personality process model. Psychological Bulletin, 143 (1), 91-106. doi: 10.1037/bul0000082

Collins, Michael D. and Jackson, Chris J. (2015). A process model of self-regulation and leadership: How attentional resource capacity and negative emotions influence constructive and destructive leadership. Leadership Quarterly, 26 (3), 386-401. doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.02.005

Conference Papers

Collins, Michael, Li, Yiqiong and Restubog, Simon (2023). Out of control: how trait impulsiveness and intelligence influence abusive supervision and leader effectiveness. European Academy of Management, Dublin, Ireland, 14-16 June 2023.

Collins, Michael (2017). Leading in a digital age: a competition for attention. 31st Annual ANZAM Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 6-8 December 2017.

Collins, M. D. and Hickey, A. R. (2017). Selecting high performing train drivers: the role of attention and cognitive flexibility. Sixth International Human Factors Rail Conference, London, United Kingdom, 6 – 9 November 2017.

Collins, M. D. and Jackson, C. J. (2015). How the interaction of attentional resource capacity and negative trait emotions predicts constructive and destructive leadership. Frontiers in Managerial and Organizational Cognition Conference, Roskilde University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-27 June 2015.

Collins, M. D., Rafferty, A. R. and Jackson, C. J. (2014). Causing harm: attentional resource capacity and abusive supervision. 28th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Sydney, NSW Australia, 3 – 5 December 2014. Otago, New Zealand: Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management.

Collins, M. D. (2013). Emotions, motivation and self-regulation: a neurocognitive leadership theory. 2013 Annual Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences, Brisbane, Australia, 22-23 November 2013.

Research Reports

Collins, Michael, Brienza, Justin and O'Quinn, Richard (2021). Centre for Australian Army Leadership Research Report 1-2021. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, Business School. doi: 10.14264/3640893

Collins, Michael, McKenna, Bernard and Intezari, Ali (2020). Leading to serve: a community-centred approach to leadership in the Queensland Police Service. Brisbane, Queensland: The University of Queensland.