prof.dr. (Steffen) SR Giessner

Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Change

Full Professor RSM - Rotterdam School of Management Department of Organisation and Personnel Management

Location: Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
Room: T10-29
Telephone: 0104081572
Email: sgiessner@rsm.nl

Profile

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…

Steffen R. Giessner is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Change at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).

- - - M. Folkert, S.R. Giessner & M. Caldas (2020). Leadership: why many heads are better than one. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 2 (2020), 16-18.
    - R. de Jong & S.R. Giessner (2020). Responsible leadership: creating shared value. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 2 (2020), 9-11.
    - H.W. Lam, S.R. Giessner & M. Shemla (2020). Tips: Loneliness and working from home during the COVID-19 crisis. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge. [go to publisher's site]
    - S.I. Wong, S.R. Giessner, C. van Ballen & V. Roufanis (2017). Using new ways of working to attract millennials. Communication for Leaders, 24-25.
    - S.R. Giessner & S.I. Wong (2016). The fine line between hands-on and hands-off leadership. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 25 (1), 11-13. [go to publisher's site]
    - S.I.W. Humborstad, S.R. Giessner & E. Solberg (2015). Key to Success in Mergers & Acquisitions. Communication for Leaders, 2015 (2), 8-9.
    - M.H. van Dijke, S.R. Giessner, R. Van Tulder & R.I. Gilbert (2014). What value ethical leadership? RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 18 (2), 8-11.
    - S.R. Giessner (2011). Identity management key to successful mergers. RSM Insight, 6 (2), 7-9.
    - N. van Quaquebeke, T. Eckloff, S. Zenker & S.R. Giessner (2009). Leadership in the Eye of the Beholder: Cognitive Construction, Recognition, and Interpretation of Leadership. Personalfuhrung, 1, 34-41.
  - - N. Keck, S.R. Giessner, N. van Quaquebeke & E. Kruijff (2020). When do followers perceive their leaders as ethical? A relational models perspective of normatively appropriate conduct. Journal of Business Ethics, 164, 477-493. doi: 10.1007/s10551-018-4055-3
    - C.R. Ebersole, M.B. Mathur, E. Baranski, D. Bart-Plange, N.R. Buttrick, C.R. Chartier, K.S. Corker, M. Corley, J.K. Hartshorne, H. IJzerman, L.B. Lazarevic, H. Rabagliati, I. Ropovik, B. Aczel, L.F. Aeschbach, L. Andrighetto, J.D. Arnal, H. Arrow, P. Babincak, B.E. Bakos, G. Baník, E. Baskin, R. Belopavlović, M.H. Bernstein, M. Białek, N.G. Bloxsom, B. Bodroža, D.B.V. Bonfiglio, L. Boucher, F. Brühlmann, C. Brumbaugh, E. Casini, Y. Chen, C. Chiorri, W.J. Chopik, O. Christ, A.M. Ciunci, H.M. Claypool, S. Coary, M.V. Čolić, W.M. Collins, P.G. Curran, C.R. Day, B. Dering, A. Dreber, J.E. Edlund, F. Falcão, A. Fedor, L. Feinberg, I.R. Ferguson, M. Ford, M.C. Frank, E. Fryberger, A. Garinther, K. Gawryluk, K. Gerken, M. Giacomantonio, S.R. Giessner & ,. 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, in press.
    - C.R. Chartier, J.D. Arnal, H. Arrow, N. Bloxom, D.B. Bongiflio, C.C. Brumbaugh, C.R. Ebersole, A. Garinther, S.R. Giessner & ,. et al. (2020). Many Labs 5: Registered Replication Report of Albarracín et al. (2008), Study 5. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, in press.
    - M. Rosa, S.R. Giessner, R. Guerra, S. Waldzus, A.M. Kersting, K. Veličković & E.C. Collins (2020). They (don’t) need us: Functionality impacts perceptions of representativeness and commitment when lower-status groups go through intergroup change. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02772
    - E. Sleebos, D.L. van Knippenberg, S.R. Giessner & W.P. van Ginkel (2020). A motivated information processing perspective on the antecedents of empowering leadership. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, in press. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12718
    - C.E. Connelly, M. Černe, C. Fieseler, S.R. Giessner & S.I. Wong (2020). Working in the digitized economy: HRM theory & practice. Human Resource Management Review, in press. doi: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2020.100762
    - F. Belschak, G. Jacobs, S.R. Giessner, K.E. Horton & P.S. Bayerl (2020). When the Going Gets Tough: Employee Reactions to Large-Scale Organizational Change and the Role of Employee Machiavellianism. Journal of Organizational Behavior, in press. doi: 10.1002/job.2478
    - S.R. Giessner, D.A. Stam, R. Kerschreiter, D. Verboon & I. Salama (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. doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.08.004
    - S.R. Giessner & T.W. Schubert (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). doi: 10.1525/collabra.216 [go to publisher's site]
    - L. Monzani, V. Knoll, S.R. Giessner, R. van Dick & J.M. Peiró (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. doi: 10.1017/sjp.2019.1
    - R.A. Klein, M. Vianello, F. Hasselman, B.G. Adams, R.B. Adams, S. Alper, M. Aveyard, J.R. Axt, S. Bahnik, R. Batra, M. Berkics, M.J. Bernstein, D. Berry, O. Bialobrzeska, E. Binan, K. Bocian, M.J. Brandt, R. Busching, A.C. Redei, H. Cai, F. Cambier, K. Cantarero, C.L. Carmichael, F. Ceric, D.C. Cicero, J. Chandler, A. Chatard, E.E. Chen, J.H. Chang, W. Cheong, S. Coen, J.A. Coleman, B. Collisson, M.A. Conway, K.S. Corker, P.G. Curran, F. Cushman, Z.K. Dagon, I. Dalgar, A. Dalla Rosa, W.E. Davis, M. Bruijn, de, L. De Schutter, T. Devos, C. Dogulu, N. Dozo, K.N. Dukes, Y. Dunham, K. Durrheim, C.R. Ebersole, J.E. Edlund, A.S. English, A. Eller, C. Finck, N. Frankowska, M.A. Freyre, M. Friedman, E.M. Galliani, J.C. Gandi, T. Ghoshal & S.R. Giessner (2018). Many labs 2: Investigating variation in replicability across sample and setting. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1 (4), 443-490. doi: 10.1177/2515245918810225
    - N. Keck, S.R. Giessner, N. van Quaquebeke & E. Kruijff (2018). When do followers perceive their leaders as ethical? A relational models perspective of normatively appropriate conduct. Journal of Business Ethics. doi: 10.1007/s10551-018-4055-3
    - R. van Dick, J.E. Lemoine, N.K. Steffens, R. Kerschreiter, S.A. Akfarit, L. Avanzi, K. Dumont, O. Epitropaki, S.R. Giessner & ,. 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. doi: 10.1111/joop.12223
    - S.I. Wong & S.R. Giessner (2018). The thin line between empowering and laissez-faire leadership: An expectancy match perspective. Journal of Management, 44 (2), 757-783. doi: 10.1177/0149206315574597
    - H. Toscano, T.W. Schubert & S.R. Giessner (2018). Eye Gaze and Head Posture Jointly Influence Judgments of Dominance, Physical Strength, and Anger. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 42 (3), 285-309. doi: 10.1007/s10919-018-0276-5
    - S. Reh, N. van Quaquebeke & S.R. Giessner (2017). The aura of charisma: A review on the embodiment perspective as signaling. The Leadership Quarterly, 28 (4), 486-507. doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2017.01.001
    - G.G. van Houwelingen, D.A. Stam & S.R. Giessner (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. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12469
    - M. Rosa, E. Kavanagh, P. Kounov, S. Jarosz, S. Waldzus, E. Collins & S.R. Giessner (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. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12189
    - D.E. Rast, M.A. Hogg & S.R. Giessner (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. doi: 10.1037/gdn0000053
    - S.R. Giessner, K.E. Horton & S.I.W. Humborstad (2016). Identity management during organizational mergers: Empirical insights and practical advice. Social Issues and Policy Review, 10 (1), 47-81. doi: 10.1111/sipr.12018
    - S.R. Giessner, N. van Quaquebeke, S. van Gils, D. van Knippenberg & J.A.J.M. Kollée (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. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01126
    - I.H. Gleibs, S. Täuber, G.T. Viki & S.R. Giessner (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. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000102
    - D.E. Rast, M.A. Hogg & S.R. Giessner (2013). Self-uncertainty and support for autocratic leadership. Self and Identity, 12 (6), 635-649. doi: 10.1080/15298868.2012.718864
    - J.A.J.M. Kollée, S.R. Giessner & D. van Knippenberg (2013). Leader evaluations after performance feedback: The role of follower mood. The Leadership Quarterly, 24 (1), 203-214. doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2012.10.007
    - S.R. Giessner, D. van Knippenberg, W.P. van Ginkel & E. Sleebos (2013). Team-oriented leadership: The Interactive Effects of Leader Group Prototypicality, Accountability, and Team Identification. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98 (4), 658-667. doi: 10.1037/a0032445
    - S.A. Eisenbeiβ & S.R. Giessner (2012). The Emergence and Maintenance of Ethical Leadership in Organizations: A Question of Embeddedness? Journal of Personnel Psychology, 11 (1), 7-19. doi: 10.1027/1866-5888/a000055
    - K. Zanolie, S. Van Dantzig, I. Boot, J.. Wijnen, T.W. Schubert, S.R. Giessner & D. Pecher (2012). Mighty metaphors: Behavioral and ERP evidence that power shifts attention on a vertical dimension. Brain and Cognition, 78 (1), 50-58. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.10.006
    - S.R. Giessner, J. Ullrich & R. van Dick (2011). Social Identity and Corporate Mergers. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5 (6), 333-345. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00357.x
    - S.R. Giessner (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. doi: 10.1177/0018726711406979
    - S.R. Giessner, M.K. Ryan, T.W. Schubert & N. van Quaquebeke (2011). The power of pictures: Vertical picture angles in power pictures. Media Psychology, 14 (4), 441-463. doi: 10.1080/15213269.2011.620541
    - S.R. Giessner, J. Ullrich & R. van Dick (2011). Teaching & Learning Guide for: Social Identity and Corporate Mergers. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5 (7), 500-504. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00359.x
    - N. van Quaquebeke & S.R. Giessner (2010). How embodied cognitions affect judgments: Height-related attribution bias in football foul calls. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 32 (1), 3-22. doi: 10.1123/jsep.32.1.3
    - N.A. Hakimi, D. van Knippenberg & S.R. Giessner (2010). Leader Empowering Behaviour: The Leader's Perspective. British Journal of Management, 21 (3), 701-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2010.00703.x
    - S.R. Giessner & N. van Quaquebeke (2010). Using a relational models perspective to understand normatively appropriate conduct in ethical leadership. Journal of Business Ethics, 95 (supplement 1), 43-55. doi: 10.1007/s10551-011-0790-4
    - S.R. Giessner, D. van Knippenberg & E. Sleebos (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. doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.03.012
    - T.W. Schubert, S. Waldzus & S.R. Giessner (2009). Control over the Association of Power and Size. Social Cognition, 27 (1), 1-19. doi: 10.1521/soco.2009.27.1.1 [go to publisher's site]
    - T.W. Schubert & S.R. Giessner (2008). The naked power: Understanding nonverbal communication of power. In-Mind Magazin, 2 (6).
    - S.R. Giessner & A. Mummendey (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. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.439
    - S.R. Giessner & D. van Knippenberg (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. doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.04.002
    - S.R. Giessner & T.W. Schubert (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. doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.10.001
    - S.R. Giessner, G.T. Viki, S. Otten, D.J. Terry & S. Täuber (2006). The challenge of merging: Merger patterns, pre-merger status and merger support. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32 (3), 339-352. doi: 10.1177/0146167205282151 [go to publisher's site]
  - - N. van Quaquebeke, E.H. Witte, S.R. Giessner & T. Eckloff (2008). Macht: Energie der sozialen Welt? 360° Journal, 4 (-), 17-26.
- - H.W. Lam, S.R. Giessner & M. Shemla (2020, mei 8). Four Simple Ways To Combat The Loneliness Caused By COVID-19. Forbes [go to publisher's site]
- - S.I.W. Wong, E. Solberg, P. Junni & S.R. Giessner (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). New York: Routledge
  - S.R. Giessner & G. Jacobs (2014). Identität und Prototypikalität. In J. Felfe (Ed.), Trends der psychologischen Führungsforschung – Neue Konzepte, Methoden und Erkenntnisse (pp. 117-128). Hogrefe
  - G. Jacobs & S.R. Giessner (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
  - S.R. Giessner, J. Ullrich & R. van Dick (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 doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199601462.001.0001
  - S.R. Giessner (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
  - D. van Knippenberg, B. van Knippenberg & S.R. Giessner (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
  - S.R. Giessner (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
- - S.R. Giessner (2016). Organisational mergers. A Behavioural perspective on identity management. (2016, april 1). Rotterdam: Erasmus Research Institute of Management
- - S.R. Giessner & H.W. Lam (Hosts) (2020, jul 16). Understanding loneliness at work during COVID-19 and in the future. [webcast]. In RSM Alumni Live Lecture. https://www.rsm.nl/alumni/events/recordings/understanding-loneliness-at-work-during-covid-19-and-in-the-future/
- - S.R. Giessner. 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.
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Theories Change, Differences & Behaviour
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Theories Change, Differences & Behaviour
Year
2020
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(master)
HRM Master Thesis
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HRM Master Thesis
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2020
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OCC Master Thesis
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OCC Master Thesis
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2020
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- Jingtao Zhu
  PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management
  2018 -
- Ho Wa (Hodar) Lam
  The Emergence and Experience of Leader Loneliness
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- Jorrit Alkema
  (Substitutes for) Leadership: A Followers's Perspective
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- Jing Wu
  A Configural Approach to Understanding Voice Behavior in Teams
  2014 -
- Fan Jia
  The Value of Happiness in Entrepreneurship
  2014 - 2019
- Lisanne van Bunderen
  Tug-of-War: Why and when teams get embroiled in power struggles
  2013 - 2018
- Christina Wessels
  Flexible Working Practices: How Employees Can Reap the Benefits for Engagement and Performance
  2013 - 2017
- Tobias Dennerlein
  Empowering Leadership and Employees’ Achievement Motivations: The Role of Self-Efficacy and Goal Orientations in the Empowering Leadership Process
  2013 - 2017
- Elisa Maira
  Consumers and Producers
  2012 - 2018
- Yingjie Yuan
  The Emergence of Team Creativity: A social network perspective
  2012 - 2017
- Burcu Subasi
  Demographic Dissimilarity, Information Access and Individual Performance
  2012 - 2017
- Jasmien Khattab
  Make Minorities Great Again: A contribution to workplace equity by identifying and addressing constraints and privileges
  2012 - 2017
- Laura M. Giurge
  A Test of Time: A temporal and dynamic approach to power and ethics
  2012 - 2017
- Jelle de Vries
  Behavioral Operations in Logistics
  2012 - 2016
- Franziska Zuber
  Looking at the Others. Studies on (un)ethical behavior and social relationships in organizations
  2012 - 2016
- Nick van der Meulen
  The Distance Dilemma; The effect of flexible working practices on performance in the digital workplace
  2011 - 2016
- Julija Mell
  Connecting Minds: On the Role of Metaknowledge in Knowledge Coordination
  2011 - 2015
- Anne-Sophie Lenoir
  Are You Talking to Me? Addressing Consumers in a Globalised World
  2011 - 2015
- Milton Jorge Correia de Sousa
  Servant Leadership to the test: new perspectives and insights
  2010 - 2014
- Joost Leunissen
  All Apologies: On the willingness of perpetrators to apologize
  2009 - 2014
- Merlijn Venus
  Demystifying Visionary Leadership: In search of the essence of effective vision communication
  2009 - 2013
- Jeanine Porck
  No Team is an Island: an Integrative View of Strategic Consensus between Groups
  2009 - 2013
- Suzanne van Gils
  Morality in Interactions: On the Display of Moral Behavior by Leaders and Employees
  2008 - 2012
- Inga Hoever
  Diversity and Creativity: In search of synergy
  2008 - 2012
- Eliza Byington
  Exploring Coworker Relationships: Antecedents and Dimensions of Interpersonal Fit, Coworker Satisfaction, and Relational Models
  2007 - 2013
- Victoria Visser
  Leader Affect and Leadership Effectiveness: How leader affective displays influence follower outcomes
  2006 - 2013
- Natalia Hakimi
  Leader Empowering Behaviour: The Leader's Perspective
  2005 - 2010
- Björn Atterstam
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- Folkert Mulder
  Project Folkert Mulder
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- Susan Reh
  A Temporal Perspective on Social Comparisons in Organizations
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Erasmus University Rotterdam
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RSM - Rotterdam School of Management
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