Team Leadership

As assistant professor human resource management at RSM, Anne Burmeister focuses on aging and age-diverse workforces in her research on knowledge transfer processes and social interactions at work. It contributes to the more effective management of knowledge and diversity in organisations. She obtained her PhD in work and organizational psychology from Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany) and spent two years as a postdoc researchers in work and organisational psychology at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Before her PhD, she worked as a strategy consultant for Boston Consulting Group, where she built her expertise in strategy, people and organisation topics in various industries.

Rebecca Hewett is an associate professor of human resource management at RSM. Her research focuses on individuals’ experiences of people management at work, examining how people management can best be implemented to enhance performance and well-being. She teaches courses to executives and students at all levels and helps organisations to apply research to practice. She completed her PhD on the relationship between workplace rewards and motivation at Royal Holloway, University of London. Before that she worked as an HR professional for 10 years, most recently as head of HR operations for the UK’s communications regulator, where she gained wide experience as a team leader.

Inga Hoever is an assistant professor in RSM’s department of organisation and personnel management. She specialises in studying workplace creativity, team excellence, and their intersection. Put simply, she is interested in explaining how teams can bring out the best in each other – and why they so often do not. Her research addresses questions of individual and team creativity, diversity, perspective taking, and communication in teams. She teaches on a variety of issues regarding organisational behaviour, human resource management, and team management to students and executives.

Julija Mell, assistant professor of organisational behaviour at RSM, is academic director of the Cologne-Rotterdam Executive MBA. Her research focuses on collaboration across boundaries; bridging cognitive, geographical and cultural boundaries within diverse teams, and bridging structural boundaries within complex social systems and networks. Her award-winning work has been published in leading academic journals. Julija teaches topics around organisational behaviour, teams, leadership, and social networks at all levels at RSM. Her PhD in organizational behavior is from Erasmus University Rotterdam and her diploma in psychology is from the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

Sofya Isaakyan is an assistant professor of organisational behaviour at RSM. Her research focuses on understanding employees' upward expression of ideas and concerns about work-related issues such as voice behaviour, and the corresponding reactions by managers and team members. In her work, she also explores factors affecting leadership development and leader identity. Sofya is actively involved in MBA teaching, and also delivers customised executive development programmes. She received her PhD in organizational behaviour from Maastricht University in 2018. Before entering academia, Sofya worked in human resource management and in consulting.

Tina Davidson is an assistant professor in the department of organisation and personnel management at RSM. She is interested in how organisations, leaders, and employees can build a level playing field to better benefit from the full spectrum of diversity at work. In particular, her work focuses on the dynamics of upward constructive voice, leadership and followership, and leadership development in culturally diverse contexts. Before she joined RSM, she was active in research at Vlerick Business School and a visiting scholar at Michigan State University. She earned her PhD from Ghent University, and speaks English, French and Chinese.