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
- sgiessner@rsm.nl
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Work
- Dijana Aleksic, Rebecca Hewett & Steffen Giessner (2025) - On GenAI and channeling employee creativity - [link]
- Benjamin A. Korman, Christian Tröster & Steffen R. Giessner (2024) - LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance - Journal of Management Studies, 61 (6), 2662-2693 - doi: 10.1111/joms.12983 - [link]
- Hodar Lam, Steffen R. Giessner, Meir Shemla & Mirjam D. Werner (2024) - Leader and leadership loneliness: A review-based critique and path to future research - Leadership Quarterly, 35 (3) - doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101780 - [link]
- Lucas Monzani, Kira Bibic, S. Alexander Haslam, Rudolf Kerschreiter, JĂ©rĂ©my E. Wilson Lemoine, Niklas K. Steffens, Serap Arslan Akfirat, Christine Joy A. Ballada, Tahir Bazarov, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Lorenzo Avanzi, Aldijana Bunjak, Matej ÄŚerne, Charlotte M. Edelmann, Olga Epitropaki, Katrien Fransen, Cristina GarcĂa-Ael, Steffen Giessner, Ilka Gleibs, Dorota Godlewska-Werner, Ronit Kark, Ana Laguia Gonzalez, Hodar Lam, Anna Lupina-Wegener, Yannis Markovits, Mazlan Maskor, Fernando Jorge Molero Alonso, Juan Antonio Moriano Leon, Pedro Neves, Daniela Pauknerová, Sylwiusz Retowski, Christine Roland-LĂ©vy, Adil Samekin, Tomoki Sekiguchi, Joana Story, Jeroen Stouten, Lilia Sultanova, Srinivasan Tatachari, Lisanne van Bunderen, Dina Van Dijk, Sut I. Wong & Rolf van Dick (2024) - Political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior: The mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality - Political Psychology, 45 (6), 979-1011 - doi: 10.1111/pops.12952 - [link]
- Steffen Giessner, Jeremy F. Dawson, Kate E. Horton & Michael West (2023) - The Impact of Supportive Leadership on Employee Outcomes During Organizational Mergers: An Organizational-Level Field Study - Journal of Applied Psychology, 108 (4), 686-697 - doi: 10.1037/apl0001042 - [link]
- Steffen Giessner & Kate Horton (2023) - Change Leadership: A Social Identity Perspective - doi: 10.1017/9781009086721.017
- Folkert Mulder & Steffen Giessner (2022) - The Road to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2021 (A-D) - [link]
- Ben Sahlmuller, Daan van Knippenberg, Niels van Quaquebeke & Steffen Giessner (2022) - Two in the lead: The importance of relationships when there are two bosses - [link]
- Susan Reh, Niels Van Quaquebeke, Christian Tröster & Steffen R. Giessner (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 - doi: 10.1177/20413866221100200 - [link]
- Ben Sahlmueller, Niels Van Quaquebeke, Steffen R. Giessner & Daan van Knippenberg (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 - doi: 10.1177/15480518221096547 - [link]
- Steffen Giessner & Hodar Lam (16 July 2020) - Understanding loneliness at work during COVID-19 and in the future
- Steffen Giessner & Meir Shemla (22 May 2020) - Mental Health Awareness Week: How to combat the loneliness during lockdown
- Steffen Giessner & Meir Shemla (12 May 2020) - Preventing Loneliness
- Steffen Giessner & Meir Shemla (12 May 2020) - How to combat the loneliness caused by the COVID-19 crisis
- Steffen Giessner (2016) - The Leadership Quarterly (Journal) (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Steffen Giessner (2016) - Journal of Applied Psychology (Journal) (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Steffen Giessner (2015) - Frontiers in Psychology (Journal) (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Steffen Giessner (2013) - Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (Journal) (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Steffen Giessner (2010) - Organizational Psychology Review (Journal) (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Steffen Giessner (2009) - Journal of Personnel Psychology (Journal) (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Steffen Giessner (2008) - British Journal of Management (Journal) (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic
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
POC Master Thesis
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BMMTPOC
Leading Organisational Change
- Year Level
- master, IM/CEMS, Exchange, ERIM
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM04POC
