Tracy Hecht, PhD

Biography

Dr. Tracy Hecht is Associate Professor of Management and Graduate Program Director of the PhD Program in Business Administration at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University. She is also Associate Editor at the Journal of Organizational Behavior. She received her PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on the work-nonwork interface, aiming to understand how interactions between work, family, and other life roles affect job search processes, careers, and well-being. Dr. Hecht’s research appears in Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Dr. Hecht’s research on the work-nonwork interface has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds Québécois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture. Dr. Hecht was the recipient of the Junior Scholarship Award at the John Molson School of Business (2008) and the President’s New Researcher Award of the Canadian Psychological Association (2006).

Dr. Hecht has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including in the PhD, MSc, GDBA, and BComm programs, on the topics of research methods, organizational behaviour, and human resource management. She has supervised numerous MSc and PhD student theses,actively serving as a mentor to her graduate students.

Education

Areas of expertise

• Work-nonwork interface
  
• Work-nonwork boundaries
• Career development
• Job search
  
• Employee well-being
• Teams in the workplace
• Quantitative methods
  

Refereed Journal Articles

Zhu, L., Hecht, T. D., Lefter, A. M., & Boies, K.(2024). Personality and contextual predictors of career advancementprocrastination: An application of the social cognitive model of careerself-management. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 35 (1), 15-39.doi:10.1002/hrdq.21494.

Hecht, T. D., Cluley, H., Lefter, A. M., & Ngamwattana,O. A. (2023). A dynamic framework of boundary permeability: daily events andwithin-individual fluctuations in daily work and nonwork boundary permeation.European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 32 (1), 23-46.doi:10.1080/1359432X.2022.2081075.

Cluley, H. & Hecht, T. (2020). Micro work-familydecision-making of dual-income couples with young children: What does a couplelike us do in a situation like this? Journal of Occupational and OrganizationalPsychology, 93, 45-72. doi:10.1111/joop.12282.

Glaser, W. & Hecht, T. (2013). Work-family conflicts,threat-appraisal, self-efficacy and emotional exhaustion. Journal of ManagerialPsychology, 28 (2), 164-182. doi:10.1108/02683941311300685.

Hecht, T. D., McCarthy, J. M. (2010). Coping with employee,family and student roles: Evidence of dispositional conflict and facilitationtendencies. Journal of Applied Psychology (95), 631-647.

Meyer, J. P., Hecht, T., Gill, H., Topolnytsky, L. (2010).Person–organization (culture) fit and employee commitment under conditions oforganizational change: A longitudinal study. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 76(3), 458-473. doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2010.01.001.

Hecht, T. & Boies, K. (2009). Structure and correlatesof spillover from nonwork to work: An examination of nonwork activities,well-being and work outcomes. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 14(4), 414-426.

Hecht, T. & Allen, N. J. (2009). A longitudinalexamination of the work-nonwork boundary strength construct. Journal ofOrganizational Behavior, 30, 839-862.

Hecht, T. & Allen, N. J. (2005). Exploring links betweenpolychronicity and wellbeing from the perspective of person-job fit: Does itmatter if you prefer to do only one thing at a time? Organizational Behaviorand Human Decision Processes, 98, 155-178.

Hecht, T. & Allen, N. J. (2004). Further thoughts on theromance of teams: A reaction to the commentaries. Journal of Occupational andOrganizational Psychology, 77, 485-491.

Hecht, T. & Allen, N. J. (2004). The “romance of teams”:Toward an understanding of its psychological underpinnings and implications.Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 77, 439-461.