Jesse Michel

Education

About Me

Dr. Jesse S. Michel is a Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Director of the Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Auburn University. He received his B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Wayne State University. Before joining Auburn in 2014, he held faculty and research positions at Florida International University and Michigan State University.

Dr. Michel's research broadly examines employee experiences at the intersection of work, health, and nonwork life. Much of his work focuses on how demands, resources, individual differences, and organizational contexts shape employee well-being and functioning both at work and outside of work. His research has addressed work-family conflict, enrichment and balance, burnout and occupational health, organizational constraints and stressors, workplace aggression and deviance, personality and individual differences, and the development and validation of psychological measures.

His work frequently uses longitudinal, experience-sampling, meta-analytic, and psychometric approaches to examine both substantive and methodological questions in I-O psychology. He has published research in journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Business and Psychology, Work & Stress, and Occupational Health Science. Recent work has included the development of short-form measures of burnout, research on work-family processes across time and domains, and methodological examinations of how organizational researchers test complex theoretical models.

Dr. Michel is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Occupational Health Science. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Lab(s)

Research Interests

Work-nonwork dynamics, Occupational health psychology, Personality and individual differences, Workplace aggression and organizational deviance, Measurement and research methodology

Publications

*Graduate Student Co-author

• Michel, J. S., *McGoey, K., *Shifrin, N. V., *Shannon, F. A., *Postier, L. E., *Barrett, J. R., *Himmler, J. R., & *Hardin, L. (2026). Reducing the Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure: Development and validation of nine-item and three-item short forms. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. doi:10.1037/ocp0000442
• Michel, J. S., Sawhney, G., *Shifrin, N. V., *Rotch, M. A., & *Cunningham, A. M. (2026). Managing work and family demands during times of crisis: A mixed methods examination with evidence from COVID-19. Occupational Health Science, 10, 23. doi:10.1007/s41542-026-00268-z
• Michel, J. S., *Rotch, M. A., *Shifrin, N., *DeBaylo, P., & *Lennox, A. (2025). Work-family conflict and enrichment predict work and family negative and positive affect, and (sometimes) vice versa: A prospective analysis. International Journal of Stress Management, 32(4), 382-394. doi:10.1037/str0000365
• *DeBaylo, P. & Michel, J. S. (2022). Identifying energy and emotion-based conflict: Development of a refined work-life conflict scale. Stress & Health. doi:10.1002/smi.3148
• Michel, J. S., *Shifrin, N. V., *Postier, L. E., *Rotch, M. A., & *McGoey, K. M. (2022). A meta-analytic validation study of the Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure: Examining variable relationships from a Job Demands-Resources perspective. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. doi:10.1037/ocp0000334
• Michel, J. S., *Rotch, M. A., & *O’Neill, S. K. (2022). The effects of work and nonwork boundary fit on role satisfaction and subjective well-being. Stress & Health, 38(1), 163-170. doi:10.1002/smi.3070
• *Shifrin, N. V., & Michel, J. S. (2022). Flexible work arrangements and employee health: A meta-analytic review. Work & Stress, 36(1), 60-85. doi:10.1080/02678373.2021.1936287
• Wayne, J. H., Michel, J. S., & Matthews (2022). Balancing work and family: A theoretical explanation and longitudinal examination of its relation to spillover and role functioning. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(7), 1094-1114. doi:10.1037/apl0001007

Courses Taught

• PSYC 7700 Foundations in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• PSYC 7730 Research Methods in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• PSYC 7790 Workforce Management
• PSYC 8280 Meta-Analysis
• PSYC 8780 Work and Family