百媚导航

David Howard

Associate Professor of Instruction, Academic Director - Center for Executive and Leadership Education
davidhoward@usf.edu 
Campus: Tampa
Room: BSN 3518

David Howard is an associate professor of instruction in the School of Management and the academic director for the Muma College of Business Center for Executive and Leadership Education. He began his full-time faculty position in 2025, coming from the TGH-百媚导航 People Development Institute where we served as director of the institute for three years. Prior to academia, he worked in telecommunications as a systems engineer and in a small family-owned business as a DJ. He currently consults with organizations on leadership, organizational culture, and as an executive coach.

Howard previously taught undergraduate and doctoral-level courses at 百媚导航, including undergraduate Psychological Tests and Measurement and Multivariate Statistics in the Doctor of Business Administration program. He has published research in high-impact journals, including Computers in Human Behavior, Human Performance, and the Journal of Business & Psychology. His research interests focus on the impact of leadership on organizational outcomes, organizational politics, organizational culture, and the study of technology in the workplace with a focus on the negative effects of technology on organizations and worker wellbeing (e.g., cybersecurity, email incivility).

Howard earned his PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, and his master's and bachelor's degrees in Psychology from the 百媚导航.

Research

• Spector, P. E., Howard, D. J., Eisenberg, E. M., Couris, J. D., & Quinn, J. F., (2025) The Impact of Authentic Leadership on Employee Trust, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment: An Experimental Evaluation of a Workplace Intervention in a Healthcare Organization. Human Performance
• Pindek, S., Hayman, M. R., Howard, D. J., Arvan, M. L., & Spector, P. E. (2025). Understaffing as a Two鈥怐imensional Phenomenon: A Cross鈥怱ectional Study of Hospital Nurses' Manpower and Expertise Understaffing. Journal of Advanced Nursing.
• Dalal, R.S., Howard, D.J., Bennett, R.J., Posey, M.C., Zaccaro, S.J. & Brummel, B., (2022). Organizational science and cybersecurity: Abundant opportunities for research at the interface. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-021-09732-9
• Howard, D.J. & Spector, P.E. (2020). The Dark Side of Workplace Technology: Technology-Driven Counterproductive Work Behavior, Workplace Mistreatment, and Workplace Ethics, Eds. Hoffman, B., Shoss, M. & Wegman, L. The Cambridge Handbook on the Changing Nature of Work. Cambridge University Press
• Pindek, S., Demircioglu, E., Howard, D.J., Eatough, E., & Spector, P.E. (2019). Illegitimate Tasks Were Not Created Equal: Examining the Effects of Attributions on Unreasonable and Unnecessary Tasks. Work & Stress, 33(3), 231-246.