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Anna Zabinski

Assistant Professor
Office
SFHB State Farm Hall Of Business 244
Office Hours
TR 12:30-2 PM
Office Phone
(309) 438-3333office
phone
Email
amzabi2@ilstu.eduemail
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Selected Research

Biography

Dr. Zabinski is an Assistant Professor of Management in the College of Business at Illinois State University. She completed her Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in organizational behavior from Oklahoma State University. Her primary research areas include person-environment fit, social exchange, boredom, and research methods. She is particularly interested in scale development, study design, polynomial regression, and response surface analysis within research methods.

Dr. Zabinski's research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management, and the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. She also has three co-authored book chapters on research methods in The SAGE Handbook of Survey Development and Application.

Teen Vogue has interviewed Dr. Zabinski for a piece on boredom at work.

Current Courses

MGT 384.001 Leadership: Decision Making And Problem Solving

MGT 221.001 Organizational Behavior And Administration

Teaching Interests & Areas

organizational behavior, leadership, decision making, research methods

Research Interests & Areas

person-environment fit, boredom, social exchange, research methods

PhD Business Administration, Management

Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK

Bachelor of Arts Psychology

Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA

SMA 2024 Best Paper in the Innovative Teaching Management Education Track (Track 8)

Southern Management Association
2024

Best Review Award - AOM Organizational Behavior Division

Academy of Management
2024

Grants and Contracts

THE AI-READY GRADUATE: CLOSING THE KNOW-DO GAP IN GOAL SETTING WITH AI LITERACY
Anna Zabinski, Nathan S Hartman, Heidi Baumann.
Use of GenAI in Teaching and Learning at ISU SoTL Grant Program. November 20 2025
Experience of Excess
Anna Zabinski, Lisa Schurer Lambert.
University Research Grant. 2023 - 2024

Book, Chapter

Designing the survey: Motivational and cognitive approaches.
Truit Gray, Lisa Schurer Lambert, Anna Zabinski.
(2023), The SAGE Handbook of Survey Development and Application, SAGE
Measurement models: Reflective and formative measures, and evidence for construct validity. The SAGE Handbook of Survey Development and Application.
Lisa Schurer Lambert, Truit Gray, Anna Zabinski.
(2023), The SAGE Handbook of Survey Development and Application, SAGE
Sampling considerations for survey research.
Anna Zabinski, Lisa Schurer Lambert, Truit Gray.
(2023), The SAGE Handbook of Survey Development and Application, SAGE

Presentations

Aha!: Building Leader Identity through Moments of Insight During Experiential Learning Exercises
Heidi M Baumann, Anna S Zabinski, Nathan S Hartman.
Southern Management Association, San Antonio, Texas, October, 2024
The Phenomenon of Quiet Quitting: Establishing a Definition and Measurement Scale
Anna Zabinski, Truit Gray, Sherry Fu, Tanja Darden.
Southern Management Association, San Antonio, TX, San Antonio, Texas, October, 2024
Boredom as a Signal for Misfit
Anna Zabinski, Lisa Schurer Lambert, Nikos Dimotakis, Truit Gray.
Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL, August, 2024
Ask the experts: SAGE handbook of survey design and application
Anna Zabinski.
Academy of Management, Boston, MA, August, 2023
More is not always best: Rebuilding the foundation of workplace status.
Truit Gray, Lisa Schurer Lambert, Matthew Danniel, Anna Zabinski, Daniel Deslatte.
Southern Management Association, Little Rock, AR, October, 2022
Optimal workload and boredom.
Anna Zabinski, Lisa Schurer Lambert, Daniel Deslatte, Truit Gray, Matthew Daniel.
Southern Management Association, Little Rock, AR, October, 2022
Workplace boredom: Defining a construct and developing a measure.
Anna Zabinski, Lisa Schurer Lambert.
Academy of Management, Seattle, WA, April, 2022
Too much of a good thing?: Prosocial fit predicting job satisfaction and pride.
Anna Zabinski, Lisa Schurer Lambert, Abbey Davis, Nick Hayden, Cassidy Creech.
Academy of Management, Online, August, 2021
Too much of a good thing?: Prosocial fit predicting job satisfaction and pride.
Anna Zabinski, Lisa Schurer Lambert, Abbey Davis, Nick Hayden, Cassidy Creech.
Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, Online, April, 2021
Too much of a good thing?: Prosocial fit predicting job satisfaction and pride.
Anna Zabinski, Lisa Schurer Lambert, Abbey Davis, Nick Hayden, Cassidy Creech.
Southern Management Association, Online, October, 2020
Giving more than you get: An information processing model explaining under-reciprocated helpers.
Anna Zabinski, Kris Byron, Diane Bergeron.
Academy of Management, Online, August, 2020
Affective commitment, trust, and the psychological contract: Contributions matter, too!.
Lisa Schurer Lambert, John Bingham, Anna Zabinski.
Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, Washington, D.C., April, 2019
The importance of leader mindsets in leader-follower relationships.
Ryan Gottfredon, Lisa Schurer Lambert, Mark Hiatt, Anna Zabinski.
Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, August, 2018
When helpers don’t receive help: A theoretical model explaining reciprocity failures.
Anna Zabinski, Kris Byron.
Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, August, 2018
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