Dr. Eyal Rechter

Deputy Dean of Students, Jerusalem Campus, Academic Director of the Laboratory for Motivational Research and Decision Making of the Faculty of Business Administration

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Dr. Eyal Rechter is a researcher and organizational consultant. He specializes in motivation and feedback processes, evaluation and development of employees and positive psychology applications in organizations. Dr. Rechter has extensive experience in consulting for measurement and evaluation processes in organizations. In the past Dr. Rechter served as an economist in the budget department of the Interior Ministry.

Education

.Ph.D
Faculty of Business Administration, The Hebrew University (2011).
M.B.A.
Faculty of Business Administration, The Hebrew University (2004).
B.A.
Psychology and Business Administration, The Hebrew University (1997).

Teaching Areas

Management Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Employee Benefits and Evaluation, Positive Organizational Behavior.

Research interests

Motivation, employee development and evaluation processes, emotions, personality, positive organizational psychology.

Selected Publications

Gardiner, Lee, Baranski, Funder, & Members of the International Situation Project, Happiness around the World: A Combined Etic-Emic Approach across 63 Countries (accepted, PLOS ONE).
Rechter, E., & Avnimelech, G. (accepted; Hebrew). How Startup Accelerators Enhance Women Entrepreneurship in Israel, Innovations in Management (7).
Gardiner, Lee, Baranski, Funder, & Members of the International Situation Project (in press). Happiness around the World: A Combined Etic-Emic Approach across 63 Countries. Journal of Personality.
Baranski, E., Sweeny, K., Members of the International Situations Project, & Funder, D.C. (in press). International Optimism: Correlates and Consequences of Dispositional Optimism across 61 Countries. Journal of Personality.
Lee, D.I., Gardiner, G., Baranski, E., et al. (in press). Situational Experience around the World: A Replication and Extension in 62 Countries. Journal of Personality
Sverdlik, N., & Rechter, E. (2020). Religious and secular roads to justify wrongdoing: How values interact with culture in explaining moral disengagement attitudes. Journal of Research in Personality
Sverdlik, N., & Rechter, E. (2020). Religiosity and the Associations between Personal Values and Morality. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(2), 406-421.
Gardiner, G., Sauerberger, K., Members of the International Situations Project, & Funder, D.C. (2019). Towards meaningful comparisons of personality in large-scale cross-cultural studies. In A. Realo (Ed.), In praise of an inquisitive mind: A Festschrift in honor of Jüri Allik on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Tartu: University of Estonia Press.
Rechter, E., & Bar-Haim, A. (2018), Work Motivation, in Wasserman, V., & Bar-Haim, A. (eds): Organizational Behavior. Open University Press: Ra’anana, Israel.
Rechter, E., & Sverdlik, N. (2016), Adolescents ’and Teachers’ Outlook on Leisure Activities: Personal Values as a Unifying Framework. Personality and Individual Differences, 99, 358-367.