Ginkel, Dr. W. P. van

Dr. Wendy van Ginkel


Room T8-11
Tel. +31 (0) 10 4081946
+31 (0) 10 4081979
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E-mail wginkel@rsm.nl


Wendy van Ginkel is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior in the department of Organization and Personnel Management. She received her M.A. (cum laude) in the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam in 2002. In 2007 she received her PhD (cum laude) at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Her research interests include team functioning, team leadership, team decision making, shared cognition, and diversity. She currently teaches “Research Challenges” and “Managerial and Group Decision Making” in the HRM Master and “People in Organizations” in the HRM Minor.

Papers

  • van Ginkel, W. P., & van Knippenberg, D. (in press). Knowledge about the distribution of information and group decision making: When and why does it work? Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
  • Van Knippenberg, D., Kooij-de Bode, H. J. M., & van Ginkel, W. P. (in press). The interactive effects of mood and trait negative affect in group decision making. Organization Science.
  • van Ginkel, W. P., Tindale, R. S., & van Knippenberg, D. (in press). Team reflexivity, development of shared task representations, and the use of distributed information in group decision making. Group Dynamics.
  • De Pater, I. E., Van Vianen, A. E. M., Fischer, A. H., Van Ginkel, W. P. (2009). Challenging experiences: Gender differences in task choice. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 24, 4 – 28.
  • van Ginkel, W. P., & van Knippenberg, D. (2008). Group information elaboration and group decision making: The role of shared task representations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 105, 82-97.
  • Kooij-de Bode, H. J. M., van Knippenberg, D., & van Ginkel, W. P. (2008). Demographic diversity and distributed information in group decision making: The importance of information elaboration. Group Dynamics, 12, 307-320.


Conference Presentations

  • Leading to find value in diversity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Organizational and Industrial Psychology, San Francisco 2008.
  • Distributed information in group decision making: The effect of group leaders. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Stockholm 2007.
  • The Use of Distributed Information in Group Decision Making: The Role of Shared Task Representations. Paper presented at annual meeting of the Society of Organizational and Industrial Psychology, New York 2007.
  • The effect of group leaders’ task representations on information processing in groups with distributed information. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta 2006.
  • Reflexivity, development of shared task representations, and group decision-making. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Society of Organizational and Industrial Psychology, Dallas 2006.
  • Het effect van reflexiviteit op gedeelde taak representaties en informatie verwerking in besluitvormingsgroepen. Paper presented at the WAOP conference, Rotterdam School of Management 2005.
  • Group-level information processing and group decision making: The role of shared task representations for informational diversity. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Istanbul 2005.
  • Knowledge of informational diversity and group-decision making: The role of shared task representations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Society of Organizational and Industrial Psychology, Los Angeles 2005
  • Shared mental models and group decision making in informationally diverse groups. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, New Orleans 2004
  • De rol van het hebben van een shared mental model voor informationeel diverse besluitvormingsgroepen. Paper presented at the WAOP conference, University of Eindhoven 2003.
  • Shared mental model and group decision making. Paper presented at EAESP Small Group Meeting on Motivation and Cognition in Decision-Making, University of Amsterdam 2003.


Research Interests

  • Group decision making
  • Group processes and performance
  • Group leadership
  • Shared cognition
  • (Informational) Diversity


Teaching

Research Challenges in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior Group and Managerial Decision Making