Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus University Rotterdam

prof.dr. (Steffen) SR Giessner

Biography

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.

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

Full professor | Department of Organisation and Personnel Management
Email
sgiessner@rsm.nl
Room
T10-60
Location
Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam

More information

Work

  • Steffen Giessner & Hodar Lam (16 July 2020) - Understanding loneliness at work during COVID-19 and in the future

  • Steffen Giessner (2016) - The Leadership Quarterly (Journal)
  • Steffen Giessner (2016) - Journal of Applied Psychology (Journal)
  • Steffen Giessner (2015) - Frontiers in Psychology (Journal)
  • Steffen Giessner (2013) - Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (Journal)
  • Steffen Giessner (2010) - Organizational Psychology Review (Journal)
  • Steffen Giessner (2009) - Journal of Personnel Psychology (Journal)
  • Steffen Giessner (2008) - British Journal of Management (Journal)

EUR

Start date approval
November 2022
End date approval
November 2025
Place
ROTTERDAM
Description
CTO CIO Workshop

RSM B.V.

Start date approval
November 2022
End date approval
November 2025
Place
ROTTERDAM
Description
CR-EMBA teaching

RSM B.V.

Start date approval
November 2022
End date approval
November 2025
Place
ROTTERDAM
Description
Leading with Presence Exec Edu

RSM B.V.

Start date approval
November 2022
End date approval
November 2025
Place
ROTTERDAM
Description
Leading with Presence Exec Edu 2nd workshop

RSM B.V.

Start date approval
November 2022
End date approval
November 2025
Place
ROTTERDAM
Description
MBA elective Leading with Presence

HRM Master Thesis

Level
master
Year Level
master
Year
2023
Course Code
BMMTHRM

POC Master Thesis

Level
master
Year Level
master
Year
2023
Course Code
BMMTPOC

  • Natalia Hakimi

    Leader Empowering Behaviour: The Leader's Perspective
    • Co-promotor
    • 2005 - 2010

  • Victoria Visser

    Leader Affect and Leadership Effectiveness: How leader affective displays influence follower outcomes
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2006 - 2013
    • Daily Supervisor

  • Eliza Byington

    Exploring Coworker Relationships: Antecedents and Dimensions of Interpersonal Fit, Coworker Satisfaction, and Relational Models
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2007 - 2013

  • Suzanne van Gils

    Morality in Interactions: On the Display of Moral Behavior by Leaders and Employees
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2008 - 2012

  • Inga Hoever

    Diversity and Creativity: In search of synergy
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2008 - 2012

  • Merlijn Venus

    Demystifying Visionary Leadership: In search of the essence of effective vision communication
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2009 - 2013

  • Joost Leunissen

    All Apologies: On the willingness of perpetrators to apologize
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2009 - 2014

  • Jeanine Porck

    No Team is an Island: an Integrative View of Strategic Consensus between Groups
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2009 - 2013

  • Julija Mell

    Connecting Minds: On the Role of Metaknowledge in Knowledge Coordination
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2011 - 2015

  • Anne-Sophie Lenoir

    Are You Talking to Me? Addressing Consumers in a Globalised World
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2011 - 2015

  • Nick van der Meulen

    The Distance Dilemma; The effect of flexible working practices on performance in the digital workplace
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2011 - 2016

  • Yingjie Yuan

    The Emergence of Team Creativity: A social network perspective
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2012 - 2017

  • Burcu Subasi

    Demographic Dissimilarity, Information Access and Individual Performance
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2012 - 2017

  • Jasmien Khattab

    Make Minorities Great Again: A contribution to workplace equity by identifying and addressing constraints and privileges
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2012 - 2017

  • Jelle de Vries

    Behavioral Operations in Logistics
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2012 - 2016

  • Laura M. Giurge

    A Test of Time: A temporal and dynamic approach to power and ethics
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2012 - 2017

  • Elisa Maira

    Consumers and Producers
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2012 - 2018

  • Christina Wessels

    Flexible Working Practices: How Employees Can Reap the Benefits for Engagement and Performance
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2013 - 2017

  • Tobias Dennerlein

    Empowering Leadership and Employees’ Achievement Motivations: The Role of Self-Efficacy and Goal Orientations in the Empowering Leadership Process
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2013 - 2017

  • Jing Wu

    A Configural Approach to Understanding Voice Behavior in Teams
    • Daily Supervisor
    • 2014 - 2020

  • Milton Jorge Correia de Sousa

    Servant Leadership to the test: new perspectives and insights
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2010 - 2014

  • Jorrit Alkema

    READY, SET, GO(AL)! New Directions in Goal-Setting Research
    • Promotor
    • 2015 - 2022

  • Ho Wa (Hodar) Lam

    Lonely-ship: The Emergence and Experience of Leader Loneliness
    • Promotor
    • 2016 - 2023

  • Franziska Zuber

    Looking at the Others. Studies on (un)ethical behavior and social relationships in organizations
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2012 - 2016

  • Björn Atterstam

    Project Björn Atterstam
    • Promotor

  • Folkert Mulder

    Project Folkert Mulder
    • Promotor

  • Lisanne van Bunderen

    Tug-of-War: Why and when teams get embroiled in power struggles
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2013 - 2018

  • Jingtao Zhu

    PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management
    • Promotor
    • 2018

  • Susan Reh

    A Temporal Perspective on Social Comparisons in Organizations
    • Promotor

  • Fan Jia

    The Value of Happiness in Entrepreneurship
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2014 - 2019

  • Pisitta Vongswasdi

    Accelerating Leadership Development: An evidence-based perspective
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2016 - 2020

  • Jun Xiao

    Coordination & Control in Contemporary Organizations
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2015 - 2021

  • Rowan Moelijker

    PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management
    • Promotor
    • 2021

  • Mark van der Giessen

    Co-creating Safety and Security: Essays on bridging disparate needs and requirements to foster safety and security
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2015 - 2022

  • Erik Waltré

    Leading for Performance in Adversity Managing Failure, Negative Emotions, and Self-Threats
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2015 - 2022

  • Ronald Boers

    Parttime PhD programme
    • Promotor
    • 2022

  • Elliot Reed

    Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration, Resilience, and Innovation in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
    • Promotor
    • 2022

  • Anna Matthewes

    “Follower Resistance to Remote Work Expectations”
    • Promotor
    • 2022

  • Thilanka Silva

    The double bind dilemma of female leaders: role incongruity and its effects on leadership authenticity and effectiveness amongst female leaders.
    • Promotor
    • 2021

  • Dijana Aleksic

    (A)I (Heart icon as "LOVE") what I do: Employing AI and chatbot technology for sustained employee motivation
    • Promotor
    • 2019

  • Anna Tillmann

    “How do organizational responses to the fourth industrial revolution – reflected in workforce measures and HR practices – impact the organizational work relationship and the nature of work?”
    • Promotor
    • 2019

  • Aleksandra Wrobel

    Leadershift: Leadership virtues for a pursuit of positive purpose and how do we teach and learn them?
    • Promotor
    • 2019

  • Katrina Simon-Agolory

    Context and Culture: The Search for Indigenous Project Management Knowledge in Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Promotor
    • 2018

  • Folkert Mulder

    New Forms of Leadership
    • Promotor
    • 2017

  • Björn Atterstam

    Adaptive leadership as taking and granting leadership
    • Promotor
    • 2015

  • Marian Plasschaert

    Parttime PhD programme
    • Promotor
    • 2023

  • Miheer Prafulla Agnihotri

    PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management
    • Promotor
    • 2023

  • Qi Zhang

    Making sense of sensitivity in the workplace: Coping with contextual information in innovation and social networks
    • Member Doctoral Committee
    • 2017 - 2023

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