prof.dr. S.R. (Steffen) Giessner

Steffen Giessner
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Fellow ERIM
Field: Organisation
Affiliated since 2004

Steffen R. Giessner is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Change at the 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. His most recent book on Leading with Presence addresses how one can develop the non-verbal aspect of leadership impact.

Publications

Article (61)

  • Academic (50)

    • Reh, S., Van Quaquebeke, N., Tröster, C., & Giessner, S. R. (2022). When and why does status threat at work bring out the best and the worst in us? A temporal social comparison theory. Organizational Psychology Review, 12(3), 241-267. https://doi.org/10.1177/20413866221100200

    • Rutishauser, L., & Giessner, S. (2022). Dynamic perspective of leader-member exchange and empowerment-enhancing practices in organizational change. Die Unternehmung - Swiss Journal of Business Research and Practice, 76(4), 492-510. https://doi.org/10.5771/0042-059x-2022-4-492

    • Giessner, S., Dawson, J. F., Horton, K. E., & West, M. (2022). The Impact of Supportive Leadership on Employee Outcomes During Organizational Mergers: An Organizational-Level Field Study. Journal of Applied Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001042, https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001042

    • Wong, S. I., Berntzen, M., Warner-Søderholm, G., & Giessner, S. R. (2022). The negative impact of individual perceived isolation in distributed teams and its possible remedies. Human Resource Management Journal, 32(4), 906-927. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12447

    • Sahlmueller, B., Van Quaquebeke, N., Giessner, S. R., & van Knippenberg, D. (2022). Dual Leadership in the Matrix: Effects of Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) and Dual-Leader Exchange (DLX) on Role Conflict and Dual Leadership Effectiveness. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 29(3), 270-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/15480518221096547

    • Bracht, E. M., Monzani, L., Boer, D., Haslam, S. A., Kerschreiter, R., Lemoine, J. E., Steffens, N. K., Akfirat, S. A., Avanzi, L., Barghi, B., Dumont, K., Edelmann, C. M., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., Giessner, S., Gleibs, I. H., González, R., Laguía González, A., Lipponen, J., ... van Dick, R. (2022). Innovation across cultures: Connecting leadership, identification, and creative behavior in organizations. Applied Psychology, 72(1), 348-388. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12381

    • Leroy, H. L., Anisman-Razin, M., Avolio, B. J., Bresman, H., Stuart Bunderson, J., Burris, E. R., Claeys, J., Detert, J. R., Dragoni, L., Giessner, S. R., Kniffin, K. M., Kolditz, T., Petriglieri, G., Pettit, N. C., Sitkin, S. B., Van Quaquebeke, N., & Vongswasdi, P. (2022). Walking Our Evidence-Based Talk: The Case of Leadership Development in Business Schools. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 29(1), 5-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/15480518211062563

    • van Dick, R., Cordes, B. L., Lemoine, J. E., Steffens, N. K., Haslam, S. A., Akfirat, S. A., Ballada, C. J. A., Bazarov, T., Aruta, J. J. B. R., Avanzi, L., Bodla, A. A., Bunjak, A., Černe, M., Dumont, K. B., Edelmann, C. M., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., García-Ael, C., Giessner, S., ... Kerschreiter, R. (2021). Identity leadership, employee burnout and the mediating role of team identification: Evidence from the global identity leadership development project. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22), [12081]. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212081

    • Korman, B. A., Tröster, C., & Giessner, S. R. (2021). The Consequences of Incongruent Abusive Supervision: Anticipation of Social Exclusion, Shame, and Turnover Intentions. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 28(3), 306-321. https://doi.org/10.1177/15480518211005463

    • Knoll, M., Götz, M., Adriasola, A., Al-Atwi, AA., Arenas, A., Atitsogbe, KA., Barrett, S., Bhattacharjee, A., Blanco C., ND., Bogilovi?, S., Bollmann, G., Bosak, J., Bulut, C., Carter, M., Cerne, M., Chui, S., Di Marco, D., Duden, G., Elsey, V., ... Zacher, H. (2021). International Differences in Employee Silence Motives: Scale Validation, Prevalence, and Relationships with Culture Characteristics across 33 Countries. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2512

    • Connelly, CE., ?erne, M., Fieseler, C., Giessner, S., & Wong, SI. (2021). Working in the digitized economy: HRM theory & practice. Human Resource Management Review, 31(1), 1-7. [100762]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2020.100762

    • Knippenberg, D., Giessner, S., Sleebos, E., & Ginkel, W. (2021). A motivated information processing perspective on the antecedents of empowering leadership. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 51(2), 79-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12718

    • Chartier, C. R., Arnal, J. D., Arrow, H., Bloxsom, N. G., Bonfiglio, D. B. V., Brumbaugh, C. C., Corker, K. S., Ebersole, C. R., Garinther, A., Giessner, S. R., Hughes, S., Inzlicht, M., Lin, H., Mercier, B., Metzger, M., Rangel, D., Saunders, B., Schmidt, K., Storage, D., & Tocco, C. (2020). Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Albarracín et al. (2008), Experiment 5. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(3), 332-339. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920945963, https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920945963

    • Belschak, F., Jacobs, G., Giessner, S., Horton, K., & Bayerl, S. (2020). When the going gets tough: employee reactions to large-scale organizational change and the role of employee machiavellianism. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 41(9), 830-850. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2478

    • Rosa, M., Giessner, S., Guerra, R., Waldzus, S., Kersting, A-M., Veličković, K., & Collins, E. C. (2020). They (Don't) Need Us: Functional Indispensability Impacts Perceptions of Representativeness and Commitment When Lower-Status Groups Go Through an Intergroup Merger. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2772. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02772, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02772

    • Giessner, S., Stam, D., Kerschreiter, R., Verboon, D., & Salama, I. (2020). Goal-setting reloaded: The influence of minimal and maximal goal standards on task satisfaction and goal striving after performance feedback. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 228-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.08.004

    • Ebersole, CR., Mathur, MB., Baranski, E., Bart-Plange, D., Buttrick, NR., Chartier, CR., Corker, KS., Corley, M., Hartshorne, JK., IJzerman, H., Lazarevic, LB., Rabagliati, H., Ropovik, I., Aczel, B., Aeschbach, LF., Andrighetto, L., Arnal, JD., Arrow, H., Babincak, P., ... et al., . (2020). Many Labs 5: Testing pre-data collection peer review as an intervention to increase replicability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(3), 309-331. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920958687

    • Monzani, L., Knoll, V., Giessner, S., van Dick, R., & Peiró, J. M. (2019). Between a rock and hard place: Combined effects of authentic leadership, organizational identification, and team prototypicality on managerial prohibitive voice. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 22(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2019.1

    • Giessner, S., & Schubert, TW. (2019). Power and vertical positions in an organization chart: A pre-registered replication report of Study 3a and a modification of Study 1a, Giessner & Schubert (2007). Collabra: Psychology, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.216

    • Keck, N., Giessner, S., Quaquebeke, N., & Kruijff, E. (2018). When do followers perceive their leaders as ethical? A relational models perspective of normatively appropriate conduct. Journal of Business Ethics, 164, 477-493. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-4055-3

    • Wong, SI., & Giessner, S. (2018). The thin line between empowering and laissez-faire leadership: An expectancy match perspective. Journal of Management, 44(2), 757-783. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206315574597

    • Toscano, H., Schubert, TW., & Giessner, S. (2018). Eye Gaze and Head Posture Jointly Influence Judgments of Dominance, Physical Strength, and Anger. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 42(3), 285-309. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-018-0276-5

    • Klein, R. A., Vianello, M., Hasselman, F., Adams, B. G., Adams, R. B., Alper, S., Aveyard, M., Axt, J. R., Babalola, M. T., Bahník, Š., Batra, R., Berkics, M., Bernstein, M. J., Berry, D. R., Bialobrzeska, O., Binan, E. D., Bocian, K., Brandt, M. J., Busching, R., ... Nosek, B. A. (2018). Many labs 2: Investigating variation in replicability across samples and settings. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(4), 443-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918810225

    • van Dick, R., Lemoine, JE., Steffens, N. K., Kerschreiter, R., Akfarit, SA., Avanzi, L., Dumont, K., Epitropaki, O., Giessner, S., & et al., . (2018). Identity Leadership Going Global: Validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) across 20 Countries. Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology, 91(4), 697-728. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12223

    • Houwelingen, G., Stam, D., & Giessner, S. (2017). So close and yet so far away: A psychological distance account of the effectiveness of leader appeals. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47(12), 665-676. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12469

    • Rosa, M., Kavanagh, E., Kounov, P., Jarosz, S., Waldzus, S., Collins, E., & Giessner, S. (2017). Change commitment in low status merger partners: The role of information processing, relative ingroup prototypicality and merger patterns. The British Journal of Social Psychology, 56(3), 618-630. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12189

    • Reh, S., van Quaquebeke, N., & Giessner, S. (2017). The aura of charisma: A review on the embodiment perspective as signaling. The Leadership Quarterly, 28(4), 486-507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2017.01.001

    • Rast, DE., Hogg, MA., & Giessner, S. (2016). Who trusts charismatic leaders who champion change? The role of group identification, membership centrality and self-uncertainty. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, 20(4), 259-275. https://doi.org/10.1037/gdn0000053

    • Giessner, S., Horton, K., & Humborstad, SIW. (2016). Identity management during organizational mergers: Empirical insights and practical advice. Social Issues and Policy Review, 10(1), 47-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/sipr.12018

    • Giessner, S., van Quaquebeke, N., van Gils, S., van Knippenberg, D., & Kollee, JAJM. (2015). In the moral eye of the beholder: The interactive effects of leader and follower moral identity on perceptions of ethical leadership and LMX quality. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1126. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01126

    • Giessner, S., van Knippenberg, D., Ginkel, W., & Sleebos, E. (2013). Team-oriented leadership: The Interactive Effects of Leader Group Prototypicality, Accountability, and Team Identification. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98(4), 658-667. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032445

    • Kollee, JAJM., Giessner, S., & van Knippenberg, D. (2013). Leader evaluations after performance feedback: The role of follower mood. The Leadership Quarterly, 24(1), 203-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2012.10.007

    • Gleibs, I. H., Täuber, S., Viki, G. T., & Giessner, S. (2013). When what we get is not what we want - The role of implemented versus desired merger patterns in support for mergers. Social Psychology, 44(3), 177-190. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000102

    • Rast, DE., Hogg, MA., & Giessner, S. (2012). Self-uncertainty and support for autocratic leadership. Self and Identity, 12(6), 635-649. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2012.718864

    • Zanolie, CKK., Van Dantzig, S., Boot, I., Wijnen, J., Schubert, TW., Giessner, S., & Pecher, D. (2012). Mighty metaphors: Behavioral and ERP evidence that power shifts attention on a vertical dimension. Brain and Cognition, 78(1), 50-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2011.10.006

    • Eisenbei?, SA., & Giessner, S. (2012). The Emergence and Maintenance of Ethical Leadership in Organizations: A Question of Embeddedness? Journal of Personnel Psychology, 11(1), 7-19. https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000055

    • Giessner, S., Ullrich, J., & van Dick, R. (2011). Social Identity and Corporate Mergers. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5(6), 333-345. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00357.x

    • Giessner, S. (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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726711406979

    • Giessner, S., Ullrich, J., & van Dick, R. (2011). Teaching & Learning Guide for: Social Identity and Corporate Mergers. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5(7), 500-504. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00359.x

    • Giessner, S., Ryan, MK., Schubert, TW., & van Quaquebeke, N. (2011). The power of pictures: Vertical picture angles in power pictures. Media Psychology, 14(4), 441-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2011.620541

    • Giessner, S., & 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-0790-4

    • Hakimi, NA., van Knippenberg, D., & Giessner, S. (2010). Leader Empowering Behaviour: The Leader's Perspective. British Journal of Management, 21(3), 701-716. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2010.00703.x

    • van Quaquebeke, N., & Giessner, S. (2010). How embodied cognitions affect judgments: Height-related attribution bias in football foul calls. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 32(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.32.1.3

    • Giessner, S., 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.03.012

    • Schubert, TW., Waldzus, S., & Giessner, S. (2009). Control over the Association of Power and Size. Social Cognition, 27(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2009.27.1.1

    • Giessner, S., & 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.439

    • Giessner, S., & 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.04.002

    • Schubert, TW., & Giessner, S. (2008). The naked power: Understanding nonverbal communication of power. In-Mind Magazin, 2(6).

    • Giessner, S., & Schubert, TW. (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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.10.001

    • Giessner, S., Viki, GT., Otten, S., Terry, DJ., & Täuber, S. (2006). The challenge of merging: Merger patterns, pre-merger status and merger support. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32(3), 339-352. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167205282151

  • Professional (11)

    • Lam, H., Giessner, S., & Shemla, M. (2020). Four Simple Ways To Combat The Loneliness Caused By COVID-19. Forbes. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/126805

    • Mulder, F., Giessner, S., & Caldas, M. (2020). Leadership: why many heads are better than one. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 2(2020).

    • de Jong, R., & Giessner, S. (2020). Responsible leadership: creating shared value. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 2(2020).

    • Lam, H., Giessner, S., & Shemla, M. (2020). Tips: Loneliness and working from home during the COVID-19 crisis. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/125754

    • Wong, SI., Giessner, S., van Ballen, C., & Roufanis, V. (2017). Using new ways of working to attract millennials. Communication for Leaders, (1), 24-25. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/100773

    • Giessner, S., & Wong, SI. (2016). The fine line between hands-on and hands-off leadership. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 25(1), 11-13. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/93039

    • Humborstad, SIW., Giessner, S., & Solberg, E. (2015). Key to Success in Mergers & Acquisitions. Communication for Leaders, 2015(2), 8-9. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/79157

    • van Dijke, M., Giessner, S., van Tulder, R., & Gilbert, R. (2014). What value ethical leadership? RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 18(2), 8-11. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/77104

    • Giessner, S. (2011). Identity management key to successful mergers. RSM Insight, 6(2), 7-9. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/40072

    • van Quaquebeke, N., Eckloff, T., Zenker, S., & Giessner, S. (2009). Leadership in the Eye of the Beholder: Cognitive Construction, Recognition, and Interpretation of Leadership. Personalfuhrung, 1, 34-41.

    • van Quaquebeke, N., Witte, E. H., Giessner, S., & Eckloff, T. (2008). Macht: Energie der sozialen Welt? 360° Journal, 4, 17-26.

Book (1)

  • Professional (1)

    • Knoppers, A., Obdeijn, M., & Giessner, SR. (2021). Leading with presence: Fundamental tools and insights for impactful, engaging leadership. Emerald Group Publishing.

Chapter (8)

  • Academic (8)

    • Wong, SIW., Solberg, E., Junni, P., & Giessner, S. (2016). The role of human resource management practices in mergers & acquisitions. In C. L. Cooper, S. Y. Tarba, R. M. Sarala, & M. F. Ahammad (Eds.), Mergers and acquisitions in practice (pp. 138-161). Routledge.

    • Giessner, S., & Jacobs, G. (2014). Identität und Prototypikalität. In J. Felfe (Ed.), Trends der psychologischen Führungsforschung – Neue Konzepte, Methoden und Erkenntnisse (pp. 117-128). Hogrefe.

    • Jacobs, G., & Giessner, S. (2014). Führung von Veränderungsprozessen: Die Bedeutung von Identität und der Umgang mit Widerstand. In J. Felfe (Ed.), Trends der psychologischen Führungsforschung – Neue Konzepte, Methoden und Erkenntnisse (pp. 491-500). Hogrefe.

    • Giessner, S. R., Ullrich, J., & van Dick, R. (2012). A Social Identity Analysis of Mergers and Acquisitions. In The Handbook of Mergers and Acquisitions Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199601462.003.0019

    • Giessner, S., 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 University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199601462.001.0001

    • Giessner, S. (2009). Diskriminierung und Toleranz bei Unternehmensfusionen. In Andreas Beelman, & Kai Jonas (Eds.), Diskriminierung und Toleranz: Psychologische Grundlagen und Anwendungsperspektiven (pp. 399-418). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

    • van Knippenberg, D., Wisse, BM., & Giessner, S. (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). Information Age Publishing.

    • Giessner, S. (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). Sternenfels.

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Doctoral Thesis (1)

  • Internally prepared (1)

    • Giessner, S. (2004). United we run, divided we fail? Effects of cognitive representations and performance feedbacks on merging groups. [Doctoral Thesis, Friedrich Schiller University Jena]. University of Jena.

Inaugural speech (1)

  • Popular (1)

    • Giessner, S. (2016). Organisational mergers. A Behavioural perspective on identity management. Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). Inaugural Adresses http://hdl.handle.net/1765/79983

Paper (1)

  • Academic (1)

    • Korman, B. A., Tröster, C., & Giessner, S. R. (2020). LMXSC and paradoxical coworker-directed behaviors: A dual-path mediation model involving pride. Paper presented at 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AoM 2020, Virtual, Online. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.75

Teaching case (2)

  • Academic (2)

    • Mulder, F., & Giessner, S., (2021). The Road to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2021: Why Many Heads Are Better than One, No. 421-0094-8, 12 p., RSM Case Development Centre https://www.thecasecentre.org/products/view?id=180114

    • Giessner, S., (2011). The promotion, No. 411-061-1, 3 p.

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Additional activities (4)

  • The Leadership Quarterly (Journal)

    Editorial work (Academic)

  • Journal of Applied Psychology (Journal)

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  • Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (Journal)

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  • Organizational Psychology Review (Journal)

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PhD Tracks (31)

Leader Empowering Behaviour: The Leader's Perspective
  • Role: Co-promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Natalia Hakimi
  • Time frame: 2005 - 2010
Leader Affect and Leadership Effectiveness: How leader affective displays influence follower outcomes
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Victoria Visser
  • Time frame: 2006 - 2013
Exploring Coworker Relationships: Antecedents and Dimensions of Interpersonal Fit, Coworker Satisfaction, and Relational Models
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Eliza Byington
  • Time frame: 2007 - 2013
Morality in Interactions: On the Display of Moral Behavior by Leaders and Employees
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Suzanne van Gils
  • Time frame: 2008 - 2012
Diversity and Creativity: In search of synergy
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Inga Hoever
  • Time frame: 2008 - 2012
Demystifying Visionary Leadership: In search of the essence of effective vision communication
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Merlijn Venus
  • Time frame: 2009 - 2013
All Apologies: On the willingness of perpetrators to apologize
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Joost Leunissen
  • Time frame: 2009 - 2014
No Team is an Island: an Integrative View of Strategic Consensus between Groups
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Jeanine Porck
  • Time frame: 2009 - 2013
Connecting Minds: On the Role of Metaknowledge in Knowledge Coordination
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Julija Mell
  • Time frame: 2011 - 2015
Are You Talking to Me? Addressing Consumers in a Globalised World
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Anne-Sophie Lenoir
  • Time frame: 2011 - 2015
The Distance Dilemma; The effect of flexible working practices on performance in the digital workplace
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Nick van der Meulen
  • Time frame: 2011 - 2016
The Emergence of Team Creativity: A social network perspective
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Yingjie Yuan
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2017
Demographic Dissimilarity, Information Access and Individual Performance
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Burcu Subasi
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2017
Make Minorities Great Again: A contribution to workplace equity by identifying and addressing constraints and privileges
Make Minorities Great Again: A contribution to workplace equity by identifying and addressing constraints and privileges
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Jasmien Khattab
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2017
Behavioral Operations in Logistics
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Jelle de Vries
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2016
A Test of Time: A temporal and dynamic approach to power and ethics
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Laura M. Giurge
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2017
Consumers and Producers
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Elisa Maira
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2018
Flexible Working Practices: How Employees Can Reap the Benefits for Engagement and Performance
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Christina Wessels
  • Time frame: 2013 - 2017
Empowering Leadership and Employees’ Achievement Motivations: The Role of Self-Efficacy and Goal Orientations in the Empowering Leadership Process
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Tobias Dennerlein
  • Time frame: 2013 - 2017
A Configural Approach to Understanding Voice Behavior in Teams
  • Role: Daily Supervisor
  • PhD Candidate: Jing Wu
  • Time frame: 2014 - 2020
READY, SET, GO(AL)! New Directions in Goal-Setting Research
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Jorrit Alkema
  • Time frame: 2015 - 2022
The Emergence and Experience of Leader Loneliness
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Ho Wa (Hodar) Lam
  • Time frame: 2016 -
Tug-of-War: Why and when teams get embroiled in power struggles
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Lisanne van Bunderen
  • Time frame: 2013 - 2018
PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Jingtao Zhu
  • Time frame: 2018 -
The Value of Happiness in Entrepreneurship
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Fan Jia
  • Time frame: 2014 - 2019
Accelerating Leadership Development: An evidence-based perspective
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Pisitta Vongswasdi
  • Time frame: 2016 - 2020
Coordination & Control in Contemporary Organizations
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Jun Xiao
  • Time frame: 2015 - 2021
PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Rowan Moelijker
  • Time frame: 2021 -
Co-creating Safety and Security: Essays on bridging disparate needs and requirements to foster safety and security
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Mark van der Giessen
  • Time frame: 2015 - 2022
Leading for Performance in Adversity Managing Failure, Negative Emotions, and Self-Threats
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Erik Waltré
  • Time frame: 2015 - 2022
PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Claudia Heese
  • Time frame: 2023 -

PhD Vacancy (1)

PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management

ERIM’s research group in Organizational Behaviour (OB) and Human Resource Management (HRM) is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to contribute to its research program and activities. The core tenet of this program is that people—and how they lead, collaborate, and organize— are the greatest asset in today’s organizations. Indeed, in order to be able to deliver complex, innovative products or services it is crucial that employees proactively contribute their knowledge, expertise, and creativity in collaborative team efforts. With growing diversity and reliance on cross-national collaborations, employees also increasingly need to be able to bridge differences in perspectives and expertise to achieve this type of effective collaboration and synergy. Furthermore, global scale events (e.g., Covid-19, global warming, international conflicts) underscore the continued need to reconsider and reinvent the workplace and how people work (e.g., virtual work, work safety, job loss, work-nonwork interface). In the light of these organizational realities and challenges, ERIM’s OB/HRM research group aims to contribute to society by answering the essential question of how to foster motivation, collaboration, and performance in today’s workplace, with a focus on the role of leadership, teamwork, HR practices, and well-being in individuals and teams. As a PhD candidate you will be able to determine the focus of your PhD endeavour in collaboration with the supervising faculty, yet the expectation is that the focus would be aligned with the core expertise of the supervisory team and relate broadly to one or more of the department’s research foci (i.e., leadership; human resource management, performance and well-being outcomes; diversity; creativity and innovation; teamwork; social relations and social networks; empowerment; motivation; proactive and extra-role behaviour).

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Events (10)

2016
April
01
Organisational mergers: A behavioural perspective on identity management
Inaugural Address
As: Speaker
2014
June
10
A New Method to Analyse Types and Patterns in Management Research (CANCELLED)
Research Seminar
As: Contact, Coordinator
2014
February
27
Mutual Effects of Relational Models and Social Motives
Research Seminar
As: Contact, Coordinator
2013
December
05
Building Coalitions for Job Crafting: Leader-subordinate Autonomy Expectation (In)congruence
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2013
October
10
Virtuous Violence: Moral Motivations for Harm and Homicide
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2013
March
21
They Should Work Like Us! The Ingroup Projection Model in Organisations: Antecedents, Consequences and Interventions
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
October
11
Metarelational Models: Morally Motivated Configurations of Social Relationships
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2010
May
27
New Directions in Leadership Research Conference
ERIM Conference
As: Coordinator
2009
June
17
Erasmus Leadership Conference
Conference
As: Coordinator
2009
April
15
Doing the Time Warp: Self-Regulation and Time Orientation
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator

Award (1)

  • Fellowship - ERIM postdoc programme (2004)

Address

Visiting address

Office: Mandeville Building T10-60
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

Research Initiatives

Latest publication

Web publication/site

Sahlmuller, B. (Author), van Knippenberg, D. (Author), van Quaquebeke, N. (Author), & Giessner, S. (Author). (2022). Two in the lead: The importance of relationships when there are two bosses. Web publication/site, California Management Review Insights. https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2022/09/two-in-the-lead-the-importance-of-relationships-when-there-are-two-bosses/