Dr. Steffen Giessner
| Room |
T8-44 |
| Tel. |
+31 (0) 10 4081572 |
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+31 (0) 10 4081979 |
| Fax |
+31 (0) 10 4089015 |
| E-mail |
sgiessner@rsm.nl
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Field of Interest
My main research interests are in the areas of leadership, power, and mergers and acquisitions. More precisely, I am interested in social psychological processes involved in the perception of leadership and power, in leadership behavior, and in employees' support of mergers and acquisitions.
Short CV
| 2009 - present |
Associate professor at RSM Erasmus, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 2007 - 2009 |
Assistant professor RSM Erasmus, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 2004 - 2007 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, RSM Erasmus, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 2004 |
Assistant Researcher, University of Jena |
| 2001 - 2004 |
PhD Student, International Graduate College: University of Jena, Germany & University of Canterbury, UK & University of Louvain, Belgium, PhD 2004 |
| 1999 - 2000 |
Psychology Student, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, MSc 2001 |
| 1996 - 2001 |
Psychology Student, University of Jena, Germany, Diplom 2001 |
| 1994 - 1996 |
Banker, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany |
Publications
International Peer-Reviewed Articles
Hakimi, N.A., van Knippenberg, D.L. & Giessner, S.R. (in press). Leader Empowering Behaviour: The Leader’s Perspective.
British Journal of Management.
van Quaquebeke, N., & Giessner, S.R. (2010). How embodied cognitions affect judgments: Height-related attribution bias in football foul calls.
Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 32(1), 3-22.
Giessner, S. R., 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, 45, 434-451.
Schubert, T. W., Waldzus, S., & Giessner, S. R. (2009). Control over the Association of Power and Size.
Social Cognition, 27, 1-19.
Schubert, T. W., & Giessner, S. (2008).
The naked power: Understanding nonverbal communications of power.
In-Mind Magazine, 5.
Giessner, S.R., & 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, 14-35.
Giessner, S.R., & 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, 412-435.
Giessner, S.R., & Schubert, T.W. (2007). High in the hierarchy: How vertical location and judgments of leaders' power are interrelated.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 104, 30-44.
Giessner, S.R., Viki, G.T., Otten, S., Terry, D.J., & Täuber, S. (2006). The challenge of merging: Merger patterns, pre-merger status and merger support.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 32, 339-352
Book Chapters
Giessner (2009). Diskriminierung und Toleranz bei Unternehmensfusionen. In Andreas Beelman & Kai Jonas (Eds.),
Diskriminierung und Toleranz: Psychologische Grundlagen und Anwendungsperspektiven. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
van Knippenberg, D., van Knippenberg, B., & Giessner, S.R. (2007). Extending the Follower-Centered Perspective on Leadership: A Social Identity Analysis of Followers’ Role in Leadership Effectiveness. In B. Shamir, R. Pillai, M. Bligh, & M. Uhl-Bien (Eds.).
Follower-Centered Perspectives on Leadership: A Tribute to the Memory of James R. Meindl.
Giessner, S.R. (2003). Eine Intergruppenperspektive auf Unternehmensfusionen [An intergroup perspective on organizational mergers]. In J.Strähle (Eds.), Interkulturelle Mergers & Acquisitions.
Eine interdisziplinäre Perspektive [Intercultural merger and acquisitions. An interdisciplinary perspective]. Berlin: Sternenfels.
Other
Giessner, S.R., & van Knippenberg, D. (2010). When do subordinates tolerate leaders’ ethical failures? Some lessons learned from research on followers’ treatment of leader failure.
Behavioral Ethics Bulletin, 2.
van Quaquebeke, N., Eckloff, T., Zenker, S. & Giessner, S.R. (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. R., & Eckloff, T. (2008). Macht: Energie der sozialen Welt? [Power: Energy of the social world?], 360° Journal, 4, 16-26.
Conference presentations
Giessner, S.R. (2009). Is the merger necessary? Antecedents of post-merger identification. Paper presented at the 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, U.S., August 7 - 11.
Giessner, S. R., & van Knippenberg (2009). When does a leader show fair behavior? Influences of group prototypicality and the social context. Erasmus Leadership Conference, Rotterdam, June 17 -19.
Giessner, S. R., & van Knippenberg (2009). License to fail: Do followers let the leader “live” or “die” after performance feedback? Paper presented at the 14th European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, May 13-16.
Giessner, S.R., Ryan, M.K., & Schubert (2008). The power of pictures: Vertical picture angles and power perceptions. Paper presented at the 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, U.S., August 8 - 13.
Giessner, S.R (2007). When Does a Leader Show Fair or Unfair Behavior? Influences of Accountability and Group Prototypicality on the Leader’s Distributive Decisions. Paper presented at the XIIIth European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden, May 9-12, 2007.
Giessner, S.R. (2007). Leading FOR the team: Situational determinants of team-oriented leader behavior. Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York, U.S., April 26 - 29.
Giessner, S.R. (2006). “Licence to fail”: Influences on perceptions of leadership effectiveness after leader failure. Paper presented at the 2006 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, U.S., August 11-16.
Giessner, S.R., & Schubert, T. W. (2006). Context information on a vertical dimension in and power perceptions of leaders. Paper presented at the 2006 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, U.S., August 11-16.
Giessner, S.R., van Knippenberg, D., & Sleebos, E. (2005). License to fail? Leader evaluations after performance feedbacks. Paper presented at the KNAW Colloquium ‘Social Identity in Organizations’, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 8-10.
Giessner, S.R., & Mummendey, A. (2005). United we run, divided we fail? Effects of cognitive merger representations and performance feedbacks on merging groups. Paper presented at the 7th European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey, May 12-15.
Giessner, S.R., Viki, G.T., Otten, S., Terry, D., & Taueber, S. (2003). The challenge of merging: Merger patterns, pre-merger status and merger support. Paper presented at the 14th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychologists, Wuerzburg, Germany, July 19-23.
Giessner, S.R., Sleebos, E., van Knippenberg, D. (2003). License to fail? Leader Prototypicality, Leader Performance, and Leadership Endorsement. Paper presented at the EAESP Small Group Meeting ‘New Directions in Leadership Research'. Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 18-21.
Giessner, S.R., Viki, G.T., Otten, S., Terry, D., & Randsley de Moura, G. (2003). Merger acculturation patterns – Different views on integration strategies by high and low status groups. Paper presented at the 11th European Congress on Work and Organizational Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal, May 14-17.
Giessner, S.R., & Mummendey, A. (2002). Group merger: failure, success and consequences. Poster presented at the 13th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychologists, San Sebastian, Spain, June 26-29.
