Dr Michael Collins
Senior Lecturer
School of Business
+61 7 344 31246
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.
Journal Articles
Collins, Michael, Li, Yiqiong, Brienza, Justin P. and Restubog, Simon (2024). Organizational formalization neutralizes the effect of leader trait anger and vision on follower trust in the leader. Personnel Review. doi: 10.1108/pr-01-2023-0042
Collins, Michael D. (2024). Train driver selection: the impact of cognitive ability on train driving performance. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 32 (2), 249-260. 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, M.D. (2024). Goal driven and emotionally self-aware: shedding light on narcissistic leadership. 33rd International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic, 21-26 July 2024. CHICHESTER: JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD.
Collins, M.D., Brienza, J. P. and Langdon, R. (2024). Crisis leadership and trust repair: think crisis-think female?. 40th European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Milan, Italy, 4-6 July 2024.
Collins, M.D. (2024). Goal driven and wise: Shedding light on the different shades of dark side leadership. European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, Bath, United Kingdom, 25-28 June 2024. EURAM.
Collins, M.D. (2023). A Review of Crisis Leadership: Implications for Crisis Communication Research and Practice. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference, Lyon, France, 26 June - 13 July 2023. International Association for Media and Communication Research.
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, 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, 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 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.