Best Paper Award, Clute Institute for Academic Research, EABR and TLC Conference, Santoreni, Greece, June 2005.

Best Paper Award, European Applied Business Research Conference, Edinburgh , Scotland , June 2004.

Paper of the Year Award, Project Management Institute, Newtown Square PA, 1999.

Management Education and Development's Best Paper in Management Development Award, Academy of Management , Vancouver BC , August 1995.

The Walter F. Ulmer, Jr. Applied Research Award. Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro NC , May 1995.

Recent Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Warner, A., P. Thoms. Some Effects of Reputation on Alliance Formation. Psychological Reports , 2007.

Jackson, E., P. Thoms. Overtime Addiction. Journal of Business and Economics Research, 2007.  

Forester, G., P. Thoms, J. Pinto. Importance of Goal Setting in Virtual Project Teams. Psychological Reports , 100:270-274 (2007).

Thoms, P., A. G. Warner, J. A. Totleben. Individual Time Perspective and Alliance Formation Behavior. Journal of Business and Economics Research, 4(10):83-92 (2006).

Mansfield, P., C. Nixon, P. Thoms. An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship Between Consumer Socialization Agents and Children's Consumption of Tobacco. Journal of College Teaching and Learning 3(1):23-28 (2006).

Thoms, P., D. Blasko. Future time perspective as a temporal anchor, Journal of Business and Economics Research 2(11):27-40 (2004).

Thoms, P, S. Chinn, J. Goodrich, G. Howard. Designing Personable and Informative Job Recruiting Web Sites: Testing the Effect of the Design on Attractiveness and Intent to Apply. Psychological Reports, 94:1031-1042 (2004).

Thoms, P., S. J. Chinn, J. A. Voss. Personal Use of the Internet at Work: Productive Playfulness or Employee Theft? Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship 7(2): 74-90 (2002).

Thoms, P., J. J. Dose, K. S. Scott. Relationships Between Accountability, Job Satisfaction, and Trust. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 13(3):307-323 (2002).

Thoms, P., J. K. Pinto, D. H. Parente, V. U. Druskat. Adaptation to Self-managing Work Teams. Small Group Research 33(1):3-31 (2002).

Thoms, P., R. Venkataraman. Relation of Managers' Personality to Accident and Injury Rates. Psychological Reports 91:1107-1115 (2002).

Thoms, P., P. Wolper, K. S. Scott, D. Jones. The Relationship Between Immediate Turnover and Employee Theft in the Restaurant Industry. Journal of Business and Psychology 15(4):561-577 (2001).

Thoms, P., D. Blasko. Preliminary Validation of a Visioning Ability Scale. Psychological Reports 85:105-113 (1999).

Thoms, P., J. K. Pinto. Project Leadership: A Question of Timing. Project Management Journal 30(1):19-26 (1999).

Thoms, P., R. McMasters, M. R. Roberts, D. A. Dombkowski. Resume Characteristics as Predictors of an Invitation to Interview. Journal of Business and Psychology 13(3):339-355 (1999).

Thoms. P., D. B. Greenberger. A Test of Vision Training and Potential Antecedents to Leaders' Visioning Ability. Human Resource Development Quarterly 9(1):3-20 (1998).

Thoms, P., M. A. Govekar. Vision Is in the Eyes of the Leader: A Control Theory Model Explaining Organizational Vision. OD Practitioner 29(1):15-24 (1997).

Thoms, P., K. S. Moore, K. S. Scott. The Relationship Between Self-efficacy for Participating in Self-managed Work Groups and the Big Five Personality Dimensions. Journal of Organizational Behavior 1March 30, 20027:349-362 (1996).

Thoms, P., D. B. Greenberger. The Relationship Between Leadership and Time Orientation. Journal of Management Inquiry 4(3):272-292 (1995).

Thoms, P., H. J. Klein. Participation and Evaluative Outcomes in Management Training. Human Resource Development Quarterly 5(1):27-39 1994.

Summarized in Personnel Research Highlights , Office of Systems Innovation, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (1995).

Refereed Proceedings

Klein, H. J., P. Thoms. The Setting of Goals for Skill Acquisition. Academy of Human Resource Development, 1995 Conference Proceedings, pp. 14-1 (1995). St. Louis MO.

homs, P., D. B. Greenberger. Training Business Leaders to Create Positive Organizational Visions of the Future: Is it Successful? Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings 1995, pp. 212-216 (1995). Vancouver BC .

Books

Thoms, P., M. Walden (Eds.). Battleground: Business . Greenwood/Praeger, Westport CT (2007).

Thoms, P. Finding the Best and the Brightest, Recruiting, Selecting, and Retaining Effective Leadership. Praiger, Westport, CN [forthcoming].

Thoms, P. Driven by Time. 149 pp. Praeger, Westport CN (2003).

Pinto, J. K., P. Thoms, J. Trailer, T. Palmer, M. Govekar. Project Leadership from Theory to Practice, 145 pp. Project Management Institute, Newtown Square PA (1998).

Parts of Books

Thoms, P. The Labor Shortage. Battleground: Business , pp. 280-288. Edited by M. Walden and P. Thoms, Greenwood/Praeger, Westport CT (2007).

Thoms, P. Mommy Track. Chapter in Battleground: Business , pp. 354-363. Edited by M. Walden and P. Thoms, Greenwood/Praeger, Westport CT (2007).

Thoms, P., J. J. Kerwin. Leadership of Project Teams. Chapter 40 in The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects, pp. 1014-1032. Edited by Peter W. G. Morris and Jeffrey K. Pinto. Wiley, Hoboken NJ (2004).

Thoms, P. Project Team Motivation. Chapter 20 in The Project Management Institute Project Management Handbook, pp. 312-329. Edited by J. K. Pinto. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (1998).