Prof. Tal Katz-Navon

Arison School of Business Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology, Columbia University

Organizational behavior, management

Research and Teaching Expertise

  • Tal Katz-Navon (katzt@idc.ac.il) is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Arison School of Business of Reichman University. She received her Ph.D in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. Prof. Katz-Navon studies cross-level models of organizational climates, employee motivation, learning processes, autonomy, and voice, that aim to improve employees and organizational performances. Among others, her research integrates organizational behavior and health services research and is focused on quality improvement and clinical outcomes in healthcare. Her research has been published in top journals as Academy of management journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Management Science, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Medical Care, and more.


  • Delegach, M., Katz‐Navon, T., & Vashdi, D. R. (2026). Cultural Pathways to Sustainability: How Organizational Cultures Shape Firms' ESG Performance. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management.


    Birman, N. A., Katz-Navon, T., & Vashdi, D. R. (2026). Disrupted balance: understanding work–family balance dynamics during enforced remote work transitions. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 37(2), 271-293.


    Katz-Navon, T., Aharonson, V., & Malachi, A. (2025). The Charismatic Lecturer’s Voice: Explainable Machine Learning Models. International Journal of Educational Methodology, 11(4), 479-493.


    Shavit, R., Katz-Navon, T., & Delegach, M. (2025). ‘The Charismulator’–charisma simulator: A study of a new VR intervention to improve charisma. Journal of Management & Organization, 31(2), 479-494.


    Birman, N. A., Katz-Navon, T., Vashdi, D., & Hofstetter, H. (2024). Remotely engaged—The role of job crafting in the change of employees' engagement after an abrupt transition to remote work. Frontiers in Organizational Psychology, 2, 1363859.


    Delegach, M., Klein, G., & Katz-Navon, T. (2024). Furlough and its effects on employees after returning to work: The roles of psychological contract breach and violation, and perceived organizational support. Journal of Management & Organization, 30(5), 1408-1425.


    Katz-Navon, T., Naveh, E., & Ebenstein-Ziv, N. (2024). Lean management and innovation—A paradox? Reinventing the role of problem-solving within organizations. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 71, 7669-7680.


    Katz-Navon, T., Delegach, M., & Haim, E. (2023). Contagious charisma: the flow of charisma from leader to followers and the role of followers’ self-monitoring. Frontiers in psychology, 14, 1239974.


    Aharonson, V., Malachi, A., & Katz-Navon, T. (2023, September). Affective learning and the charismatic lecturer. In 2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.


    Reader, T. W., Katz-Navon, T., & Grote, G. (2023). Safety Science in the new age of work. Safety science, 158, 105970.


    Vashdi, D. R., Katz–Navon, T., & Delegach, M. (2022). Service priority climate and service performance among hospitality employees: the role of emotional labor and workload pressure. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 63(4), 504-518.


    Unger-Aviram, E., Katz-Navon, T., & Vashdi, D. R. (2022). Advancing influence tactics to the team level: the case of self-managed teams. Team Performance Management: An International Journal, 28(5-6), 306-330.


    Katz-Navon, T., & Naveh, E. (2022). Resident physicians’ advice seeking and error making: A social networks approach. Health Care Management Review, 47(3), E41-E49.


    Delegach, M., & Katz-Navon, T. (2021). Regulatory foci and well-being: Coping flexibility and stressor appraisal as explanatory mechanisms. International Journal of Stress Management, 28(2), 117.


    Katz-Navon, T., Vashdi, D. R., & Naveh, E. (2020). The toll of service climate on employees: an emotional labor perspective. Journal of Service Theory and Practice, 30(2), 105-121.


    Katz–Navon, T., Kark, R., & Delegach, M. (2020). Trapped in the middle: Challenging the linear approach to the relationship between leadership and safety. Academy of Management Discoveries, 6(1), 81-106.



    Delegach, M., Kark, R., Katz-Navon, T., & VanDijk, D. (2017). A focus on commitment:
    The roles of transformational and transactional leadership and self-regulatory focus in fostering organizational and safety commitment. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26(5), 724-740. DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2017.1345884.



    Katz-Navon, T.,
    & Naveh, E. (2016). A New Perspective on Organizational Climate as a
    Boundary Spanner: Integrating a Fragmented Health Care System. Ch.12. In T. Vogus & A. Avgar (Eds.) The Evolving Healthcare Landscape: How Employees, Organizations, and Institutions Adapt and Innovate. Pp. 285- 305. Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Annual Research, Vol.



    Katz-Navon, T
    ., Block, J. C., & Unger-Aviram, E. (2016). Examining the cross-level
    influence of dispositional and team goal orientations on employee self-regulation and performance in a complex task environment. Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences, 1-26. DOI: 10.1177/0021886316665460



    Kark, R., Katz-Navon, T., & Delegach, M. (2015). The dual effects of leading for safety: The
    mediating role of employee regulatory focus. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(5), 1332-
    1348.



    Naveh E., Katz-Navon, T., & Stern, Z. (2015). Active learning climate and employee errors:
    The moderating effects of personality traits. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 36, 441-
    459. DOI: 10.1002/job.2000



    Naveh E., Katz-Navon, T., (2015). A longitudinal study of an intervention to improve road
    safety climate: Climate as an organizational boundary spanner. Journal of Applied
    Psychology,
    100(1), 216-226.



    Naveh E., Katz-Navon, T., & Stern, Z. (2014). Resident physicians’ clinical training and error rate:
    the roles of autonomy, consultation, and familiarity with the literature. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 20, 59–71. DOI: 10.1007/s10459-014-9508-6.



    Stern, Z., Naveh, E. & Katz-Navon, T. (2013). Beyond fatigue: Managerial Factors Related to
    Resident Physicians’Medical Errors. In Y. Dunchin & D. Gopher (Eds.). Around the Patient Bed: Human Factors and Safety in Health Care, Pp. 285-292. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis.



    Naveh E., & Katz-Navon, T., (2013). Antecedents of Willingness to Report Medical
    Treatment Errors in Health Care Organizations: A Multilevel Theoretical Framework. Healthcare Management Review, 39(1), 21-30.



    Katz-Navon, T.,
    & Timmor, Y. (2012). Dual needs based segmentation: Developing the
    concept. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 36, 251-262.



    Naveh, E., Katz-Navon, T., Stern, Z. (2011). The effect of safety management systems on
    continuous patient safety improvement: the moderating role of safety climate and autonomy, Quality Management Journal, 18(1), 54-67.


    Katz-Navon, T., Naveh, E., Stern. Z. (2009). Learning behaviors – Is more always better? The case of resident physicians’ medical errors, Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(5), 1200-1209. This paper was highlighted in the Monitor on Psychology (American Psychological
    Asssocation), Jan 2010, 41 (1), p.53.


    Stern, Z., Katz-Navon, T., Levtzion-Korach, O., Naveh, E. (2009). Resident physicians' level of fatigue and medical errors: the role of standardization. International Journal of Behavioural
    and Healthcare Research
    , 1(3), 223-233.


    Katz-Navon, T., & Goldschmidt, H. (2009). Goal Orientations in Negotiations: The Influence of Goal Orientations on Fixed-Pie Perceptions and Bargaining Outcomes.
    International Journal of Psychology
    , 44(1), 60-70.


    Stern, Z., Katz-Navon, T., & Naveh, E. (2008). The Influence of Situational Learning Orientation, Autonomy, and Voice on Error Making: The Case of Resident Physicians.
    Management Science,
    54, 1553-1564.


    Timmor, Y., & Katz-Navon, T. (2008). Being the Same and Different: A Model Explaining
    New Product Adoption. Journal of Consumer Behavior, 7, 249-262.


    Katz-Navon, T. Naveh, E., & Stern, Z. (2007). Safety self-efficacy and safety performance: Potential antecedents and the moderation effect of standardization.
    International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
    , 20(7), 572-584.


    Katz-Navon, T., Naveh, E., & Stern, Z. (2007). The Moderate Success of Quality of Care Improvement Efforts: Three Observations on the Situation.
    International Journal for Quality in Health Care,
    19, 4-7.


    Naveh, E., Katz-Navon, T., & Stern, Z. (2006). Readiness to report medical treatment errors: The effects of safety procedures, safety information, and priority of safety.
    Medical Care,
    44, 117-123.


    Naveh, E., Katz-Navon, T., & Stern, Z. (2005). Patient treatment errors: A safety climate
    approach. Management Science, 51, 948-960.


    Katz-Navon, T., Naveh, E., Stern, Z. (2005). Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations: A Multidimensional Approach, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 48, pp. 1075-1089. This paper was highlighted in the section of the ASQ (American Society for Quality) Health Division Newsletter of the magazine Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, January/February
    2006.


    Katz-Navon, T., & Erez, M. (2005). When Collective- and Self-Efficacy Affect Team
    Performance: The Role of Task Interdependence. Small Group Research, 36, 437-465.


    Chen, Y., Brockner, J., & Katz, T. (1998). Toward an explanation of cultural differences in ingroup favoritism: The role of individual- vs. collective-primacy.
    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
    75 (6), 1490-1502.


    Stern, Z., Naveh, E. & Katz-Navon, T. Beyond fatigue: Organizational factors that influence medical errors of resident physicians. In Y. Dunchin & D. Gopher (Eds.). Safety in Healthcare Systems
    (Hebrew).


    Katz, T., & Block, C.J. (2000). Process and outcome goal orientation in conflict situations: The importance of framing. In M. Deutsch, & P. Coleman (Eds.) The Handbook of Conflict
    Resolution, Theory and Practice
    , Pp. 279-288. San-Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.


    Ph.d. Dissertation: Katz, T. Self-construal as a moderator of the effects of task and reward
    interdependence on group performance
    . 1999.