Farley, Sam, Dr

Dr Sam Farley

Management School

Senior Lecturer in Work Psychology

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s.j.farley@sheffield.ac.uk

C074, Sheffield University Management School

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Dr Sam Farley
Management School
C074
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL

Profile: Sam is a Senior Lecturer in Work Psychology at Sheffield University Management School. He is particularly interested in the Dark Side of workplace behaviour, including bullying, cyberbullying and incivility. Within this field, his interests include the measurement of bullying, perpetrators of bullying and methods of preventing and addressing bullying in organisational life. Prior to working at Sheffield, Sam worked as an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds Business School.

Qualifications

PhD Organisational Psychology - Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield

MSc Occupational Psychology - Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield

BSc Psychology - School of Psychology, University of Liverpool

Research interests

Publications

Farley S, Niven K, Hughes DJ & Booth T (2025) . Work & Stress.
Ibar DNH, Topakas A, Farley S & Dawson J (2025) . The Leadership Quarterly, 36(2).
Farley S, Cowen Forssell R, Holm K & Berthelsen H (2024) . International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 17(1).
Platts J, Coyne I & Farley S (2023) . International Journal of Workplace Health Management.
Farley S, Mokhtar D, Ng K & Niven K (2023) . Work & Stress.
Farley S, Wei Wu D, Jiwen Song L, Pieniazek R & Unsworth K (2022) . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(23).
Farley S, Dawson J, Greenaway T, Meade K & Hernández Ibar D (2022) . Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53(10), 1277-1299.
Niven K, Connolly C, Stride C & Farley S (2021) . Work and Stress.
Mostafa AMS, Farley S & Zaharie M (2021) . Journal of Business Ethics, 174(2), 355-368.
Sprigg CA, Niven K, Dawson J, Farley S & Christopher A (2018) . Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 24(2), 286-296.
Coyne I, Farley S, Axtell C, Sprigg C, Best L & Kwok O (2017) . International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(7), 945-972.
Farley S, Coyne I, Axtell CM & Sprigg C (2016) . Work and Stress, 30(4), 293-317.
Farley S & Manger J (2016) . Medical Education, 50(8), 798-800.
Stich J-F, Farley S, Cooper C & Tarafdar M (2015) . Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 2(4), 327-345.
Farley S, Coyne I, Sprigg C, Axtell C & Subramanian G (2015) . Medical Education, 49(4), 436-443.

Farley S & Pieniazek R (2025) Work Motivation In Arnold J, Coyne I, Randall R & Patterson F (Ed.), Work Psychology Understanding Human Behaviour in the Workplace, 8th Edition Pearson
Farley S, Coyne I & D’Cruz P (2021) , Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment (pp. 233-263). Springer Singapore
Vranjes I, Farley S & Baillien E (2020) In Einarsen S, Hoel H, Zapf D & Cooper C (Ed.), Bullying and harassment in the workplace: Theory, research and practice (3rd Edition)
Farley S, Pieniazek R & Farley S (2020) Work Motivation In Arnold J, Coyne I, Randall R & Patterson F (Ed.), Work Psychology Understanding Human Behaviour in the Workplace
Coyne I & Farley S (2018) , Cyberbullying at University in International Contexts (pp. 80-96).
Farley S, Evison R, Rackham N, Nicolson R & Dawson J (2018) , Cambridge Handbook of Group Interaction Analysis (pp. 584-593).
Farley S & Coyne I (2018) , Cyberbullying at University in International Contexts (pp. 173-177).

Hernandez Ibar DN, Topakas A & Farley S (2022) . Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2022(1)
Farley S, Dawson JF, Greenaway T, Meade K & Hernandez-Ibar D (2020) . Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2020(1) (pp 10311-10311)

Teaching interests