S.R. (Steffen) Giessner

Steffen R. Giessner is an Associate Professor at the Department of Organisation and Personnel Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).

He holds an MSc in Psychology from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, and a PhD in Psychology from the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany. His research is located at the intersection of organizational psychology and management. His primary research topics are employee support during organizational merger, follower’s perceptions of leadership, antecedents of leader behavior, and non-verbal communication of power. He has authored and co-authored papers in the areas of organizational behavior, management, and psychology. His research received media coverage in outlets like the New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Manager and Wall Street Journal.

He is currently the Academic Director of the MSc program in Human Resource Management.

• Key publications (5)
  • van Quaquebeke, N. & Giessner, S.R. (2010). How embodied cognitions affect judgments: Height-related attribution bias in football foul calls. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 32(1), 3-22.
  • Giessner, S.R., van Knippenberg, D. & Sleebos, E (2009). License to fail? How leader group prototypicality moderates the effects of leader performance on perceptions of leadership effectiveness. The Leadership Quarterly, 20(3), 434-451.
  • Giessner, S.R. & van Knippenberg, D. (2008). "License to fail": Goal definition, leader group prototypicality, and perceptions of leadership effectiveness after leader failure. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 105(1), 14-35.
  • Giessner, S.R. & Schubert, T.W. (2007). High in the Hierarchy: How Vertical Location and Judgments of Leaders' Power are Interrelated. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 104(1), 30-44.
  • Giessner, S.R., Viki, G.T., Otten, S., Terry, D.J. & Täuber, S. (2006). The challenge of merging: Merger patterns, pre-merger status and merger support. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32(3), 339-352.

• Articles (20)
  • Giessner, S.R., van Knippenberg, D.L., van Ginkel, W.P. & Sleebos, E (2013). Team-oriented leadership: The Interactive Effects of Leader Group Prototypicality, Accountability, and Team Identification. Journal of Applied Psychology, in press.
  • Gleibs, I. H., Täuber, S., Viki, G. T. & Giessner, S.R. (2013). When what we get is not what we want - The role of implemented versus desired merger patterns in support for mergers. Social Psychology, in press.
  • Kollée, J.A.J.M., Giessner, S.R. & van Knippenberg, D. (2013). Leader evaluations after performance feedback: The role of follower mood. The Leadership Quarterly, 24(1), 203-214.
  • Rast, D.E., Hogg, M.A. & Giessner, S.R. (2013). Self-uncertainty and support for autocratic leadership. Self and Identity, in press.
  • Eisenbeiβ, S.A. & Giessner, S.R. (2012). The Emergence and Maintenance of Ethical Leadership in Organizations: A Question of Embeddedness? Journal of Personnel Psychology, 11(1), 7-19.
  • Zanolie, K., Van Dantzig, S., Boot, I., Wijnen, J.., Schubert, T.W., Giessner, S.R. & Pecher, D. (2012). Mighty metaphors: Behavioral and ERP evidence that power shifts attention on a vertical dimension. Brain & Cognition, 78(1), 50-58.
  • Giessner, S.R. (2011). Is the merger necessary? The interactive effect of perceived necessity and sense of continuity on post-merger identification. Human Relations, 64(8), 1079-1098.
  • Giessner, S.R., Ullrich, J. & van Dick, R. (2011). Social Identity and Corporate Mergers. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5(6), 333-345.
  • Giessner, S.R., Ullrich, J. & van Dick, R. (2011). Teaching & Learning Guide for: Social Identity and Corporate Mergers. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5(7), 500-504.
  • Giessner, S.R., Ryan, M.K., Schubert, T.W. & van Quaquebeke, N. (2011). The power of pictures: Vertical picture angles in power pictures. Media Psychology, 14(4), 441-463.
  • Giessner, S.R. & van Quaquebeke, N. (2010). Using a relational models perspective to understand normatively appropriate conduct in ethical leadership. Journal of Business Ethics, 95(supplement 1), 43-55.
  • Hakimi, N.A., van Knippenberg, D. & Giessner, S.R. (2010). Leader Empowering Behaviour: The Leader's Perspective. British Journal of Management, 21(3), 701-716.
  • van Quaquebeke, N. & Giessner, S.R. (2010). How embodied cognitions affect judgments: Height-related attribution bias in football foul calls. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 32(1), 3-22.
  • Giessner, S.R., van Knippenberg, D. & Sleebos, E (2009). License to fail? How leader group prototypicality moderates the effects of leader performance on perceptions of leadership effectiveness. The Leadership Quarterly, 20(3), 434-451.
  • Schubert, T.W., Waldzus, S. & Giessner, S.R. (2009). Control over the Association of Power and Size. Social Cognition, 27(1), 1-19.
  • Giessner, S.R. & van Knippenberg, D. (2008). "License to fail": Goal definition, leader group prototypicality, and perceptions of leadership effectiveness after leader failure. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 105(1), 14-35.
  • Giessner, S.R. & Mummendey, A. (2008). United we win, divided we fail? Effects of cognitive representations and performance feedbacks on merging groups. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38(3), 412-435.
  • van Quaquebeke, N., Witte, E. H., Giessner, S.R. & Eckloff, T. (2008). Macht: Energie der sozialen Welt? 360° Journal, 4(-), 17-26.
  • Giessner, S.R. & Schubert, T.W. (2007). High in the Hierarchy: How Vertical Location and Judgments of Leaders' Power are Interrelated. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 104(1), 30-44.
  • Giessner, S.R., Viki, G.T., Otten, S., Terry, D.J. & Täuber, S. (2006). The challenge of merging: Merger patterns, pre-merger status and merger support. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32(3), 339-352.

• Book contributions (4)
  • Giessner, S.R., Ullrich, J. & van Dick, R. (2012). A Social Identity Analysis of Mergers & Acquisitions. In D. Faulkner, S. Teerikangas & R. Joseph (Eds.), Handbook of Mergers & Acquisitions (pp. 474-495). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Giessner, S.R. (2009). Diskriminierung und Toleranz bei Unternehmensfusionen. In Andreas Beelman & Kai Jonas (Eds.), Diskriminierung und Toleranz: Psychologische Grundlagen und Anwendungsperspektiven (pp. 399-418). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
  • van Knippenberg, D., Knippenberg, B. van & Giessner, S.R. (2007). Extending the follow-centered perspective: Leadership as an outcome of shared social identity. In B Shamir, R. Pillai, M.C. Bligh & M. Uhl-Bien (Eds.), Follower-centered perspective on leadership: A tribute to the memory of James R. Meindl (pp. 51-70). Greenwich: Information Age Publishing.
  • Giessner, S.R. (2003). Eine Intergruppenperspektive auf Unternehmensfusionen [An intergroup perspective on organizational mergers]. In J. Straehle (Ed.), Interkulturelle Mergers & Acquisitions. Eine interdisziplinare Perspektive [Intercultural merger and acquisitions. An interdisciplinary perspective] (pp. 168-194). Berlin: Sternenfels.

• Professional publications (2)
  • Giessner, S.R. (2011). Identity management key to successful mergers. RSM Insight, 6, 7-9.
  • van Quaquebeke, N., Eckloff, T., Zenker, S. & Giessner, S.R. (2009). Leadership in the Eye of the Beholder: Cognitive Construction, Recognition, and Interpretation of Leadership. Personalfuhrung, 1, 34-41.

• Doctoral thesis
  • Giessner, S.R.. United we run, divided we fail? Effects of cognitive representations and performance feedbacks on merging groups. University of Jena, Germany (133 pag.) ( Digitale Bibliothek Thueringen). Prom./coprom.: A. Mummendey & Prof. Dr. R.J. Brown.

• Editorial position (4)

  Journal	Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
  Role	Editorial Board
  Start date	01-01-2013
  Journal	Organizational Psychology Review
  Role	Editorial Board
  Start date	01-10-2010
  Journal	Journal of Personnel Psychology
  Role	Editorial Board
  Start date	01-01-2009
  Journal	British Journal of Management
  Role	Editorial Board
  Start date	01-01-2008

• Organisation membership (1)

  Organisation	Academy of Management
  Role	Member
  URL	http://www.aomonline.org/

• ERIM Awards (1)

  Name	Fellowship - ERIM postdoc programme
  Year	2004
  Website