Alexandra Panaccio, PhD

Alexandra Panaccio joined the John Molson School of Business in 2011, after completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds a PhD and an MBA degree from HEC Montréal, as well as a law degree (LLB) from the University of Montréal. Alexandra’s research focuses on leadership, workplace commitment, motivation, retention, and employee well-being. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Management, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Vocational Behavior, as well as in book chapters and other outlets. In 2019, she became Associate Dean of Accreditation and Faculty Relations.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

CHEN, Y.-P., HSU, Y.-S., PANACCIO, A., WANG, H. (2025). Leading the way to a safer workplace: What enables supervisors to serve and enhance subordinates’ workplace safety behaviors? Journal of Safety Research, 93, 31-43. doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2025.02.005.

CORBIÈRE, M., MAZANIELLO-CHÉZOL, M., LECOMTE, T., PANACCIO, A., GUAY, S., GIGUERE, C.-É. (2025). Web-enhanced return-to-work coordination for employees with common mental disorders: Reduction of sick leave duration and relapse. BMC Public Health, 25 (676). doi:10.1186/s12889-025-21716-5.

FANG, S., BARKER, E., ARASARATNAM, G., LANE, V., DOUCERAIN, M., NGUYEN, C., O'CONNOR, R., PANACCIO, A., RABINOVICH, D. (2025). Trajectories of and risk factors for university students’ emotional well-being and distress across the academic year. Canadian Journal of Higher Education / Revue Canadienne d'Enseignement Supérieur. doi:10.47678/cjhe.v1i1.190039.

TURKOGLU, A., FANG, S., BARKER, E., ARASARATNAM, G., LANE, V., O'CONNOR, R., PANACCIO, A., DOUCERAIN, M., RABINOVICH, D., NGUYEN, C. (2025). More than academics: Time use and friendship stress also covary with Canadian university students’ mental health symptoms across the academic year. Journal of College Student Mental Health. doi:10.1080/28367138.2025.2505574.

FANG, S., BARKER, E., ARASARATNAM, G., LANE, V., RABINOVICH, D., PANACCIO, A., O'CONNOR, R., NGUYEN, C., DOUCERAIN, M. (2024). Resilience, stress, and mental health among university students: A Test of the resilience portfolio model. Stress and Health. doi:10.1002/smi.3508.

PANACCIO, A., TANG, W.-G., VANDENBERGHE, C. (2023). Agreeable supervisors promoting the organization: Implications for employee commitment and retention. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 22 (3), 146-157. doi:10.1027/1866-5888/a000318.

CORBIÈRE, M., MAZANIELLO-CHÉZOL, M., LECOMTE, T., GUAY, S., PANACCIO, A. (2022). Developing a collaborative and sustainable return to work program for employees with common mental disorders: a participatory research with public and private organizations. Disability and Rehabilitation, 44 (18), 5199-5211. doi:10.1080/09638288.2021.1931481.

WANG, Z., PANACCIO, A. (2022). A longitudinal investigation of the changes in work motivation and employees’ psychological health. Administrative Sciences, 12 (4), 193. doi:10.3390/admsci12040193.

WANG, Z., PANACCIO, A. (2022). Thriving in the dynamics: a multi-level investigation of needs-supportive features, situational motivation, and employees’ subjective well-being. Current Psychology. doi:10.1007/s12144-022-03455-7.

WANG, Z., PANACCIO, A., RAJA, U., DONIA, M., LANDRY, G., PEREIRA, M. M., FERREIRA, M. C. (2022). Servant leadership and employee wellbeing: A crosscultural investigation of the moderated path model in Canada, Pakistan, China, the US, and Brazil. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 22 (2), 301-325. doi:10.1177/14705958221112859.

AEON, B., FABER, A., PANACCIO, A. (2021). Does time management work? A meta-analysis. PLOS ONE, 16 (1), e0245066. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0245066.

CORBIÈRE, M., WILLEMS, L., GUAY, S., PANACCIO, A., LECOMTE, T., MAZANIELLO-CHÉZOL, M. (2021). Développement et tests utilisateurs de l’application Web PRATICA : Plateforme de retour au travail axée sur les interactions et la communication entre les acteurs, intégrant un programme durable favorisant le rétablissement. Santé mentale au Québec, 46 (1), 175. doi:10.7202/1081515ar.

WANG, Z., GAO, M., PANACCIO, A. (2021). A self-determination approach to understanding individual values as an interaction condition on employees’ innovative work behavior in the high-tech industry. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 55 (1), 183-198. doi:10.1002/jocb.444.

CORBIÈRE, M., MAZANIELLO-CHÉZOL, M., BASTIEN, M.-F., WATHIEU, E., BOUCHARD, R., PANACCIO, A., GUAY, S., LECOMTE, T. (2020). Stakeholders' role and actions in the return-to-work process of workers on sick-leave due to common mental disorders: A scoping review. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 30 (3), 381-419. doi:10.1007/s10926-019-09861-2.

BONELLO, M., LANDRY, G., PANACCIO, A., CHADWICK, I. (2019). Facteurs de stress chez les stagiaires d’école de gestion. Humain et Organisation, 5 (2), 12-22.

LAPOINTE, É., VANDENBERGHE, C., MIGNONAC, K., PANACCIO, A., SCHWARZ, G., RICHEBÉ, N., ROUSSEL, P. (2019). Development and validation of a commitment to organizational career scale: At the crossroads of individuals’ career aspirations and organizations’ needs. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 92 (4), 897-930. doi:10.1111/joop.12273.

VANDENBERGHE, C., PANACCIO, A., BENTEIN, K., MIGNONAC, K., ROUSSEL, P., AYED, A. K. B. (2019). Time-based differences in the effects of positive and negative affectivity on perceived supervisor support and organizational commitment among newcomers. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 40 (3), 264-281. doi:10.1002/job.2324.

BRUTUS, S., JAVADIAN, R., PANACCIO, A. (2017). Cycling, car, or public transit: A study of stress and mood upon arrival at work. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 10 (1), 13-24. doi:10.1108/IJWHM-10-2015-0059.

VANDENBERGHE, C., BENTEIN, K., PANACCIO, A. (2017). Affective commitment to organizations and supervisors and turnover: A role theory perspective. Journal of Management, 43 (7), 2090-2117. doi:10.1177/0149206314559779.

DONIA, M. B. L., RAJA, U., PANACCIO, A., WANG, Z. (2016). Servant leadership and employee outcomes: The moderating role of subordinates’ motives. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 25 (5), 722-734. doi:10.1080/1359432X.2016.1149471.

Book chapters

BENTEIN, K., PANACCIO, A. (2022). Servant leadership: Influence on well-being (1st ed.). In P. Brough, K. Daniels, & E. Gardiner (Eds.), Handbook on Management and Employment Practices. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-24936-6_43-1.

Conference proceedings

ÆON, B., PANACCIO, A. (2019). Against time management. (pp. 14971). Academy of Management Proceedings. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2019.14971abstract.

WANG, Z., PANACCIO, A. (2018). Do changes in basic needs predict the changes of employees' well/ill-being via work motivation? (pp. 11176). Academy of Management Proceedings. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2018.11176abstract.

ÆON, B., PANACCIO, A. (2018). Hammer time: Breaking down time management. (pp. 18005). Academy of Management Proceedings. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2018.18005abstract.

WANG, Z., PANACCIO, A. (2017). Thriving at work: A multi-level investigation of employees’ work motivation and daily well-being. (pp. 10239). Academy of Management Proceedings. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2017.10239abstract.

ÆON, B., PANACCIO, A. (2017). Time and how to manage it: A theory of time management. (pp. 11921). Academy of Management Proceedings. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2017.11921abstract.

Conference presentations

HUANG, J., PANACCIO, A. (2026). Affective events at work and employees’ psychological wellbeing: The moderating role of extraversion, neuroticism and servant leadership. International Congress of Applied Psychology, Florence.

BARKER, E., PANACCIO, A. (2025). (ALEX ADD FINAL TITLE AND AUTHORS). Study of Emerging Adulthood conference.

CORBIÈRE, M., MAZANIELLO-CHÉZOL, M., LECOMTE, T., GUAY, S., PANACCIO, A., GIGUERE, C.-É. (2025). Web-enhanced return-to-work coordination for employees with common mental disorders. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Prague.

AZRIELI, T., PANACCIO, A. (2024). The role of psychological needs satisfaction and appraisal in the Job Demands-Resources model of burnout and engagement. International Congress on Occupational Health, Marrakech.

CHEN, Y.-P., HSU, Y.-S., PANACCIO, A., WANG, H. (2024). What enables supervisors to serve and enhance subordinates' workplace safety behaviors? Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

CONIDES, A., PANACCIO, A. (2024). Empowering leadership and employee motivation, behaviors, and well-being: Enabling, not burdening! European Conference on Positive Psychology, Innsbruck.

CORBIÈRE, M., MAZANIELLO-CHÉZOL, M., LECOMTE, T., GUAY, S., PANACCIO, A., ZANIEWSKI, P. (2023). Plateforme de retour au travail axée sur les interactions et la communication entre les acteurs - PRATICAdr - Étude pilote. Congrès de l’Association Internationale de Psychologie du Travail de Langue Française (AIPTLF), Montreal, QC.

LEFTER, A. M., CHADWICK, I., LANDRY, G., PANACCIO, A. (2023). Developing skills for the future: The role of internships in the changing world of work. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) Congress, Katowice.

TAN, Z., PANACCIO, A. (2023). What makes women want to lead? The moderating role of gender in relationships between supervisor leadership style, follower leadership self-efficacy and motivation to lead. European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, Dublin.

CHADWICK, I., LANDRY, G., LEFTER, A. M., PANACCIO, A. (2022). Promoting internship effectiveness through the intern-supervisor exchange. European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, Winterthur.

FANG, S., BARKER, E., ARASARATNAM, G., LANE, V., DOUCERAIN, M., NGUYEN, C., O'CONNOR, R., PANACCIO, A., RABINOVICH, D. (2022). University students’ emotional well-being and distress trajectories across an academic year during the COVID-19 pandemic. Development 2022: A Canadian conference on developmental psychology, Calgary, AB.

WANG, Z., PANACCIO, A., RAJA, U., DONIA, M., LANDRY, G. (2022). Servant leadership and employee well-being: A cross-cultural investigation of the moderated path model in Canada, Pakistan, China, and the USA. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Annual Meeting.

WANG, Z., PANACCIO, A., RAJA, U., DONIA, M., LANDRY, G., PEREIRA, M., FERREIRA, M. C. (2022). Servant Leadership and Employee Wellbeing: A Cross-cultural Investigation of the Moderated Path Model in Canada, Pakistan, China, the US and Brazil. SELF conference.

WANG, Z., PANACCIO, A., WALL, A. (2022). Dealing with the work scheduling challenges: A complete temporal analysis of employees’ situational work motivation and well-being. SELF conference, virtual.

CORBIÈRE, M., WILLEMS, L., GUAY, S., PANACCIO, A., LECOMTE, T., MAZANIELLO-CHÉZOL, M. (2021). Développement et test utilisateurs de l’application web PRATICAdr: Plateforme de Retour Au Travail axée sur les Interactions et la Communication entre les Acteurs, intégrant un programme Durable favorisant le Rétablissement. Congrès annuel de l’Association des Médecins Psychiatres du Québec.

LEFTER, A. M., PANACCIO, A., LANDRY, G. (2021). How can supervisors enhance employee commitment? The role of commitment to employees and communication. International Congress of Psychology, Virtual presentation.

WANG, Z., PANACCIO, A. (2020). A temporal analysis of employees' situational work motivation and well-being. Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting, Virtual. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2020.11407abstract.

BONELLO, M., LANDRY, G., PANACCIO, A., CHADWICK, I. (2019). Factors generating psychological distress among management school interns. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) Congress, Turin.

MAZANIELLO, M., CORBIÈRE, M., LACHANCE, J.-P., GUAY, S., PANACCIO, A., LECOMTE, T. (2019). Utilization of validated tools to identify obstacles and work accommodations within a sustainable Return-to-Work (RTW) program for employees on sick leave due to common mental disorders (CMDs). European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) Congress, Turin.

PANACCIO, A., BARONIAN, N., ARSEL, Z., AUDOUSSET-COULIER, S., CHRÉTIEN-GUILLEMETTE, K., BERTONE, V. (2019). Barriers to the accountancy profession for students from minority groups: Findings from a qualitative study. Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Annual Convention, Halifax, NS.

PANACCIO, A., BRUTUS, S., ARASARATNAM, G., MITCHELL, L., HOARE, C., LAVIGNE, G. (2019). Student well-being: A longitudinal study using the Demands-Resources model. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) Congress, Turin.

PANACCIO, A., LAVIGNE, G., BRUTUS, S., HOARE, C., DONIA, M., ARASARATNAM, G., MITCHELL, L. (2019). Role overload, work-life-school conflict, resilience and student ill-being: A longitudinal study using the demands-resources perspective. European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, Lisbon.

WANG, Z., GAO, M., PANACCIO, A. (2019). A self-determination approach to understanding individual values as a boundary condition on employees’ innovative work behavior in the high-tech. Self-Determination Theory (SDT) Conference, Egmond aan Zee.

SARGHI, D., PANACCIO, A. (2018). Can servant leaders reduce burnout in followers and teams through meaningfulness? Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

ÆON, B., PANACCIO, A. (2018). Time’s up: The case against time management. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Talinn.

HOARE, C., WANG, Z., COUTURIER, P., PANACCIO, A. (2017). A demands-resources perspective on student wellbeing: Relationships between school-work-life conflict, social support, resilience and emotional exhaustion. Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Annual Convention, Toronto, ON.

LAPOINTE, É., VANDENBERGHE, C., MIGNONAC, K., PANACCIO, A., RICHEBÉ, N. (2017). Commitment to organizational career: Definition, discriminant and predictive validity, and boundary conditions. Conference on Commitment, Columbus, OH.

PANACCIO, A., VANDENBERGHE, C. (2017). When supervisors are perceived as agreeable and promote the organization: Implications for employee commitment and turnover. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) Congress, Dublin.

WANG, Z., PANACCIO, A., LANDRY, G., DONIA, M. (2017). Servant leadership and employees’ well-being: Examining autonomous motivation as a mediator. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) Congress, Dublin.

ÆON, B., WANG, Z., ALFORD, R., PANACCIO, A. (2017). Better living through time management: Does managing time lead to greater satisfaction and help students with conflicting school, work and life obligations? Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Annual Convention, Toronto, ON.

PANACCIO, A., WANG, Z. (2016). Do servant leaders enhance group performance by building a climate of trust? Examining trust in the supervisor and in the organization as mediators between servant leadership and group performance. ATINER International Conference on Management, Athens.

VANDENBERGHE, C., PANACCIO, A., BENTEIN, K., MIGNONAC, K., ROUSSEL, P. (2016). Trait affectivity, perceived supervisor support, and organizational commitment during socialization: A dynamic, within-person perspective. Association francophone de Gestion des Ressources Humaines conference, Strasbourg.

ÆON, B., PANACCIO, A., WANG, Z. (2016). Temporal self-efficacy: The missing moderator in the time management - job performance relationship? Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Annual Convention, Victoria, BC.

Research seminars

PANACCIO, A. (2019). Can you burnout before even starting your career? A longitudinal examination of role overload, work-life-school conflict, resilience and student ill-being. Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.

Theses supervised completed

PhD dissertations

2020: Brad AEON, Everything you always wanted to know about time management (but didn’t have time to ask)

2018: Zheni WANG, Thriving at work: A multi-level and longitudinal investigation of changes in work motivation and employees’ daily well-being/ill-being

MSc theses

2023: Gabryella SONDERGAARD, Does motivating language matter? The effect of leader communication and characteristics on employee motivation and commitment

2023: Talya AZRIELI, Why are you not burned out yet? The role of psychological needs satisfaction and appraisal in the Job Demands-Resources Model

2022: Talha AZIZ, Who helps the helpers? A thematic enquiry into the organizational correlates of burnout through the lens of clinical psychologists in Quebec’s mental health teams

2021: Vanessa BERTONE, The effects of goal orientation and psychological safety on feedback seeking, changes in performance, and learning in student internships

2019: Anna CONIDES, Empowering leadership and employee motivation, behaviors, and well-being: Enabling or burdening?

2019: Zhejun TAN, The impact of supervisor’s leadership style on followers’ leadership self-efficacy and motivation to lead: Differential effects for men and women

2017: Diana SARGHI, Can servant leaders reduce burnout in their followers through meaningfulness?

2017: Jingmin HUANG, The impact of affective events on employees’ psychological well-being: Personality and servant leadership as moderators

2017: Mengchan GAO, A self-determination approach to understanding employees' innovative work behavior

Theses committee membership

PhD dissertations

2025: James MICHAUD, Different type of employee, different motivators: Exploring fixed-term contract employees’ motivations to engage in OCBs

2024: Simon HOULE, Trajectories of affective organizational and occupational commitment: The case of public service employees

2022: Gabor SOMOGYVARI, But wait, before you go… The effect of psychological contract breach on employee commitment targets and retention (PhD thesis)

2022: Ann-Louise HOWARD, I didn’t know it was a thing either: Women engineers’ Experience of suffering in the workplace (PhD Phase II committee)

2021: Véronique ROBERT, Three essays on the effects of laissez-faire leadership on employees’ job attitudes and psychological well-being

2020: Sarah NEWCOMB-ANJO, A person-centered, mixed methods account of emerging adults’ internalizing symptoms before, across, and after graduating from university (PhD thesis)

2020: Dongkyu KIM, Three essays on the antecedent and mechanisms of ethical leadership

2019: Myriam CHINIARA, Par quels mécanismes le leadership-servant influence-t-il la performance individuelle et d’équipe? Une étude des effets médiateurs de la satisfaction des besoins psychologiques et des processus relationnels de groupe

2018: Xiaotian DAI, PhD Phase II committee

MSc theses

2024: Karishma VORA, Balancing act: How students navigate work and study in Canada

2023: Halina IHNATSENKA, Technological change and older workers

2022: Meghan MASTROBERARDINO, Strengths-based nursing and healthcare leadership: An approach to minimize the rate of burnout in healthcare

2022: Michael OGOMS, Academic performance in the 21st Century – Impact of learning disabilities

2019: Sophia CHIOVITTI, The role of attractive employers and perceived organizational support on employee motivation and engagement

2019: Yanjun CHEN, Student evaluation of teaching in the Chinese tertiary education sector: Potential response biases

2017: Javier HERNANDEZ, New immigrants’ perceptions of ethnic small businesses

2017: Ali CHRAIM, The impact of servant leadership behaviors on trust and organizational citizenship behavior

2017: Can LEE, Does friendship make employees better citizens?

John Molson School of Business

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Research

Teaching

John Molson School of Business

Since 2024: Professor, Department of Management

Since 2019: Associate Dean, Accreditation and Faculty Relations

2016 - 2024: Associate Professor, Department of Management

2011 - 2016: Assistant Professor, Department of Management

Concordia University

Since 2016: Member, Center for Clinical Research in Health

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Academic

2009 - 2011: Postdoc Fellow and Lecturer

Degrees

2009: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Business Administration, Business Economics 2002: Master of Business Administration (MBA) 1998: Bachelor of Law (LLB)

Certificates

2001: Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, Management 1999: Quebec Bar School