Thomas G. Reio, Jr - College of Education

T HOMAS G. REIO, JR., PHD, CPH
A CADEMIC A PPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, Adult Education and Human Resource Development
Appointed Graduate Faculty/Dissertation Advisor Status (2007)
P ROGRAM AFFILIATIONS
Department of Leadership and Professional Studies
E DUCATION
FACULTY
1997 Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Adult and
Continuing Education
Minor: Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics
1992 Master’s Business Administration, Averett University
1979 B.S., University of Maryland, Horticulture
Minors: US History, Spanish
C ONTACT
O FFICE ZEB 310A
A DDRESS 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199-0001
PHONE 305-348-2093
E-MAIL reiot@fiu.edu
W EB LINKS http://education.fiu.edu/
S UMMARY PROFILE
ACADEMIC PROFILE
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Interim Associate Dean of Graduate
Studies & Associate Professor
Thomas G. Reio, Jr. is currently the Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Adult
Education and Human Resource Development. He has also held previous administrative positions in the College including
serving as chair of the former department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.
Dr. Reio was a manager, chief operating officer, and training director for 16 years in the service industry. He has been a
certified professional horticulturist since 1989. After serving four years as a Lecturer at the University of Maryland and six
years as an assistant and tenured associate professor at the University of Louisville, Dr. Reio moved to FIU in 2007.
Dr. Reio has extensive experience in the area of graduate studies, having experienced considerable success teaching and
advising doctoral and master level students. He teaches graduate classes in adult education and human resource
development, educational psychology, and research methods. His research concerns taking a sociocultural view of curiosity
and risk taking motivation and their links to learning and development across the lifespan, socialization practices (e.g.,
mentoring), and workplace incivility. Several of his recent works have won prestigious awards. In August 2010, a coauthored
paper concerning a longitudinal examination of adolescent risk-taking and its health-related outcomes was cowinner
of the paper-of the-year in the Journal of School Psychology (6th ranked journal in psychology). In March 2012, a
co-authored paper with one of his graduate students regarding workplace incivility and conflict management was awarded
the Richard A. Swanson Research Paper-of-the-Year Award for Human Resource Development Quarterly, the most
prestigious research journal in the HRD field. On the same day, two former FIU students and Dr. Reio were awarded the
Issue-of-the-Year Award for their themed issue on workplace engagement in the journal Advances in Developing Human
Resources. As a result of these accomplishments, Tom was awarded an FIU Top Scholar Award in Spring 2012.

Tom is currently co-editor of the journal New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development and
immediate past editor of Human Resource Development Review. He serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary
Educational Psychology, Educational Psychology Review, Human Resource Development Review, International Journal of
Self-Directed Learning, Journal of Experimental Education, and the Journal of Genetic Psychology. He also has served in
several College and University-wide committees including being chair of the COE's Academic Council, the Selective Salary
Committee, and Faculty Senate representative. He recently chaired the Doctoral Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
Committee as they developed SLOs to address SACS standards. Since 2002, he has been chair of the Academic Writing
Program for new faculty in Division C of AERA, and the Graduate Student Research Excellence Award Committee. At his
previous university, he served as program director of the career and technical teacher certification program, co-director of
the Department of Education, Leadership, and Human Resource (ELFH), and co-coordinator of the human resource
education master’s and doctoral.
INTERESTS His research interests include learning motivation-cognitive and sensory curiosity, risk-taking,
workplace socialization, entrepreneurship, and school-to-work transition.
S ELECTED A CADEMIC A DMINISTRATIVE A PPOINTMENTS
FACULTY Adult Education and Human Resource Development 2007-
CHAIRMAN Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2008-2009
S ELECTED C OURSES TAUGHT
ADE 6186 Comprehensive Program Evaluation
ADE 7772 Review of Research in Adult Education and Human Resource Development
EDF 5432 Measurement and Evaluation in Education
EDF 6211 Psychological Foundations of Education
S ELECTED PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, Academy of Human Resource
Development. Member. Divisions C & E, and Workplace Learning SIG, AHRD, APA 15 Reviewer, 1999-2011.
S ELECTED SCHOLARLY AND P ROFESSIONAL WORK
S ELECTED R EFEREED J OURNAL A RTICLES, B OOK C HAPTERS
Robinson, D. M., & Reio, T. G., Jr. (2012). Benefits of mentoring African-American men. Journal of Managerial
Psychology, 27, 406-421. Special issue: Theory and research on social issues in organizations.
Ghosh, R., Reio, T. G., Jr., & Haynes, R. K. (2012). Mentoring and organizational citizenship behavior: Estimating the
mediating effects of organizational based self-esteem and affective commitment. Human Resource Development
Quarterly, 23, 41-64.
Reio, T. G., Jr., & Sanders-Reio, J. (2011). Thinking about workplace engagement: Do supervisor and coworker incivility
really matter? Advances in Developing Human Resources, 13, 462-478.
Shuck, M. B., & Reio, T. G., Jr. (2011). An introduction to employee engagement. Advances in Developing Human
Resources, 13, 419-428.
Trudel, J., & Reio, T. G., Jr. (2011). Managing workplace incivility: The role of conflict management styles – antecedent or
antidote? Human Resource Development Quarterly, 22, 395-423. [Winner of Richard A. Swanson HRDQ Research
Paper-of-the-Year Award]
Reio, T. G., Jr. (2011). Supervisor and coworker incivility: Testing the work frustration-aggression model. Advances in
Developing Human Resources, 13, 54-68.

S ELECTED O THER P UBLICATIONS
Sanders-Reio, J., & Reio, T. G., Jr. (2012). Writing: The neglected ‘R’ in the workplace. In V. C. X. Wang (Ed.),
Encyclopedia of e-leadership, counseling and training (pp. 479-490). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Reio, T. G., Jr. (2011). Teacher emotions and socialization-related learning in the context of educational change. In C.
Day & J. C. Lee (Eds.), New understandings of teacher’s work: Emotions and educational change (pp. 105-118).
Berlin: Springer Publishers.
S ELECTED RECENT SPONSORED SCHOLARSHIP
CO-PRINCIPAL
INVESTIGATOR
S ELECTED RECOGNITION
Boosting entrepreneurship competencies through education (Kauffman Professor,
$25,000). FIU Pino Entrepreneurship Center.
2008-
2009
American Education Research Association (AERA) Workforce Learning SIG Chair, Dissertation-of-the-Year Committee,
2010-2011
Winner, Richard A. Swanson 2011 Research Paper-of-the-Year Award for Human Resource Development
Quarterly
Winner, Issue-of-the-Year Award for Advances in Developing Human Resources
Winner, FIU Top Scholar Award 2012