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Overview

Birgit Schyns is affiliated with NEOMA Business School in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Business, Management, and Accounting, with significant contributions in Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Clinical Psychology. Their work also touches on Sociology and Political Science as well as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's main research topics include Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Personality Traits and Psychology, Emotional Intelligence and Performance, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, Management and Organizational Studies, and Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression.

Notable recent publications by Birgit Schyns include:

  • Does thinking of myself as leader make me want to lead? The role of congruence in self-theories and implicit leadership theories in motivation to lead, 2020, Journal of Vocational Behavior
  • A Multi-Level Approach to Direct and Indirect Relationships between Organizational Voice Climate, Team Manager Openness, Implicit Voice Theories, and Silence, 2020, Applied Psychology
  • The Dark Side of Leader Narcissism: The Relationship Between Leaders' Narcissistic Rivalry and Abusive Supervision, 2022, Journal of Business Ethics
  • When Your Leader Just Does Not Make Any Sense: Conceptualizing Inconsistent Leadership, 2022, Journal of Business Ethics
  • Trapped at Work: The Barriers Model of Abusive Supervision, 2021, Academy of Management Perspectives

Birgit Schyns frequently publishes in a select group of academic journals. These venues include:

  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Zeitschrift für Psychologie
  • The Leadership Quarterly
  • European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • Academy of Management Proceedings

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, indicating ongoing research partnerships. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Susanne Braun
  • Iris K. Gauglitz
  • Karolina W. Nieberle
  • Pedro Neves
  • Jan Schilling

Best Publications

  • How bad are the effects of bad leaders? A meta-analysis of destructive leadership and its outcomes

    Birgit Schyns;Jan Schilling

  • A Short Version of the Occupational Self-Efficacy Scale: Structural and Construct Validity Across Five Countries

    Thomas Rigotti;Birgit Schyns;Gisela Mohr

  • A new occupational self-efficacy scale and its relation to personality constructs and organizational variables

    Birgit Schyns;Gernot von Collani

  • Daily work contexts and resistance to organisational change : the role of leader-member exchange, development climate, and change process characteristics.

    Karen Van Dam;Shaul Oreg;Birgit Schyns

  • Career competencies for career success

    Marinka A. C. T. Kuijpers;Birgit Schyns;Birgit Schyns;Jaap Scheerens

  • Gender Stereotypes and the Attribution of Leadership Traits: A Cross-Cultural Comparison.

    Sabine Sczesny;Janine Bosak;Daniel Neff;Birgit Schyns

  • Self-initiated expatriation: implications for HRM

    Liza Howe-Walsh;Birgit Schyns

  • Work satisfaction, organizational commitment and withdrawal behaviours.

    Karin Falkenburg;Birgit Schyns

  • Leadership and individual differences: At the cusp of a renaissance

    John Antonakis;David V. Day;Birgit Schyns

  • Teaching implicit leadership theories to develop leaders and leadership : how and why it can make a difference

    Birgit Schyns;Tina Kiefer;Rudolf Kerschreiter;Alex Tymon

  • Turnover intention and preparedness for change: exploring leader-member exchange and occupational self-efficacy as antecedents of two employability predictors

    Birgit Schyns;Nicole Torka;Tobias Gössling

  • Leader-member exchange theory and research : accomplishments and future challenges

    van W Breukelen;B Schyns;Le Pm Pascale Blanc

  • Critique and review of leader–member exchange theory: Issues of agreement, consensus, and excellence

    Birgit Schyns;David Day

  • Personality and the perception of transformational leadership : the impact of extraversion, neuroticism, personal need for structure, and occupational self efficacy.

    Jörg Felfe;Birgit Schyns

  • Implicit Leadership Theories: Think Leader, Think Effective?:

    Birgit Schyns;Jan Schilling

  • Does the Form of Employment Make a Difference?--Commitment of Traditional, Temporary, and Self-Employed Workers.

    Jörg Felfe;Renate Schmook;Birgit Schyns;Bernd Six

  • Comparing antecedents and consequences of leader – member exchange in a German working context to findings in the US

    Birgit Schyns;Tina Paul;Gisela Mohr;Hartmut Blank

  • Followers’ personality and the perception of transformational leadership : further evidence for the similarity hypothesis.

    Jörg Felfe;Birgit Schyns

  • Is Similarity in Leadership Related to Organizational Outcomes? The Case of Transformational Leadership

    Jörg Felfe;Birgit Schyns

  • Implicit leadership theories : Essays and explorations

    B. Schyns;J.R. Meindle

  • Entrepreneurship-Specific Education and Entrepreneurial Intention: Do Female Students Benefit?

    Marina Solesvik;Paul Westhead;Birgit Schyns

Frequent Co-Authors

Karin Sanders
Karin Sanders University of New South Wales
David V. Day
David V. Day Claremont McKenna College
John Antonakis
John Antonakis University of Lausanne
Barbara Wisse
Barbara Wisse University of Groningen
Robert G. Lord
Robert G. Lord Durham University
Sabine Sczesny
Sabine Sczesny University of Bern
Thomas Rigotti
Thomas Rigotti Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research
Beatrice van der Heijden
Beatrice van der Heijden Radboud University
Ronald E. Riggio
Ronald E. Riggio Claremont McKenna College
Jaap Scheerens
Jaap Scheerens University of Twente

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