M. (Mayssa) Rishani MSc

Mayssa Rishani
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
ERIM PhD Candidate
Field: Organisation
PostDoc Associate ERIM
Field: Organisation
Affiliated since 2017

Mayssa Rishani is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Organisation and Personnel Management, at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Her research primarily focuses on modern teams (with a particular interest in multiple team membership), cognitive processes, creative work and their intersections. In the postdoc project, she examines the key ingredients of effective perspective integration in order to promote an inclusive academic culture. In her doctoral dissertation, she focuses on the influence and experience of multiple team membership within the context of creative/knowledge work.    

Mayssa also coordinated and taught a variety of courses and workshops to graduate and undergraduate students. Her main teachings included quantitative and qualitative research methods, psychology and business, and leading for excellence. She also supervised several master students in their thesis trajectories.   

PhD Track The effects of contemporary team arrangements on workplace creativity

Workplace creativity is a pronounced driver of organizational effectiveness, growth and innovation. However, whilst the pursuit of creativity has become pervasive, creative attainment is never guaranteed. Although a variety of contextual factors that shape employee and team creativity have been investigated in the literature, the changing ecology of teams remains largely overlooked. Nowadays, teams are more dynamic (e.g. multi-teaming), diverse, geographically dispersed and virtual. These contemporary team arrangements introduce unique challenges and opportunities to collaborative team efforts and individual performance. For instance, at the team level, the work flexibility and resources access contemporary teams provide is often coupled with temporal misalignments. Thus, in this PhD project, we address the complexity of the creative process in contemporary teams’ context while considering both individual and team levels of analysis.

Keywords
Creativity, creative process, teams, multiple team membership, diversity
Time frame
2017 -

Publications

  • Academic (3)
    • Rishani, M., Schouten, ME., & Hoever, I. (2024). Navigating Multiple Team Membership: A Review and Redirection of its Influence on Effectiveness Outcomes. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(1), Article e12899. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12899

    • Ismail, H., & Rishani, M. (2018). The relationships among performance appraisal satisfaction, career development and creative behavior. The Journal of Developing Areas, 52(3), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.1353/jda.2018.0040

    • Rishani, M., Mallah, M., Houssami, S., & Ismail, H. (2015). Lebanese perceptions of the glass ceiling. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-11-2014-0082

  • Academic (4)
    • Rishani, M., Hoever, I., van Dierendonck, D., & Anantha Ramakrishnan, P. (2023). Multiple Team Membership (MTM) and the Future of Work: How MTM Experiences Affect Knowledge Workers. In Academy of Management Proceedings https://doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2023.15410symposium

    • Rishani, M., Hoever, I., & van Dierendonck, D. (2022). Team Asynchronicity: A Costly Remedy to Facilitate Team Members’ Multi-teaming. In Academy of Management Proceedings Academy of Management. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2022.10649abstract

    • Rishani, M., Hoever, I., & van Dierendonck, D. (2020). Multi-Teaming: An Opportunity or a Threat for Team Creativity? A Temporal & Informational Exploration. In 80th Annual meeting of the Academy of Management (1 ed., Vol. 2020) https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.18137abstract

    • Ismail, H., & Rishani, M. (2018). The relationships among performance appraisal satisfaction, career development and creative behavior. In The Journal of Developing Areas (Vol. 42) https://doi.org/10.1353/jda.2018.0040


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