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Business and Management

D-Index
57
Citations
25925
World Ranking
636
National Ranking
278

Psychology

D-Index
58
Citations
26010
World Ranking
3779
National Ranking
2115

Overview

Henry P. Sims is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on education and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their recent publications include:

  • Quality and Impact at Scale (2025), published in the Journal of Student Affairs Inquiry Improvement and Impact
  • Assessing the Impact of Drawing in Biology Lecture Classes on Student Learning (2025), published in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

The scientist collaborates frequently with colleagues including Samara Reynolds, Stephanie L. Madison, Sarah Layne, Chris Wilkinson, and Khoa Pham. Their work appears predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • Journal of Student Affairs Inquiry Improvement and Impact
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

Henry P. Sims's work addresses various main topics, notably in higher education and employability, reflective practices in education, higher education learning practices, innovative teaching methods, science education and pedagogy, and visual and cognitive learning processes.

  • Higher Education and Employability
  • Reflective Practices in Education
  • Higher Education Learning Practices
  • Innovative Teaching Methods
  • Science Education and Pedagogy
  • Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

Their research often intersects the fields of education and psychology, with particular attention to teaching methods and learning processes within higher education contexts. This interdisciplinary approach brings together aspects of cognitive psychology and pedagogical innovation.

Best Publications

  • Top Management Team Demography and Process: The Role of Social Integration and Communication

    Ken G. Smith;Ken A. Smith;Judy D. Olian;Henry P. Sims

  • Leading Workers to Lead Themselves: The External Leadership of Self-Managing Work Teams.

    Charles C. Manz;Henry P. Sims

  • Vertical versus shared leadership as predictors of the effectiveness of change management teams: An examination of aversive, directive, transactional, transformational, and empowering leader behaviors.

    Craig L. Pearce;Henry P. Sims

  • Top management team diversity, group process, and strategic consensus

    Don Knight;Craig L. Pearce;Ken G. Smith;Judy D. Olian

  • Self-Management as a Substitute for Leadership: A Social Learning Theory Perspective

    Charles C. Manz;Henry P. Sims

  • The Measurement of Job Characteristics

    Henry P. Sims;Andrew D. Szilagyi;Robert T. Keller

  • SuperLeadership: Beyond the myth of heroic leadership

    Charles C. Manz;Henry P. Sims

  • Some Determinants of Unethical Decision Behavior: An Experiment

    W. Harvey Hegarty;Henry P. Sims

  • The New Superleadership: Leading Others to Lead Themselves

    Charles C. Manz;Henry P. Sims

  • Behind the Mask: The Politics of Employee Appraisal

    Clinton O. Longenecker;Henry P. Sims;Dennis A. Gioia

  • Business Without Bosses: How Self-Managing Teams Are Building High- Performing Companies

    Charles C. Manz;Henry P. Sims

  • The thinking organization

    Henry P. Sims;Dennis A. Gioia

  • The New Leadership Paradigm: Social Learning and Cognition in Organizations

    Henry P. Sims Jr.;Peter Lorenzi

  • Examining the Differential Longitudinal Performance of Directive versus Empowering Leadership in Teams

    Natalia M. Lorinkova;Matthew J. Pearsall;Henry P. Sims

  • Organizational philosophy, policies, and objectives related to unethical decision behavior: A laboratory experiment.

    W. Harvey Hegarty;Henry P. Sims

  • Vicarious Learning: The Influence of Modeling on Organizational Behavior

    Charles C. Manz;Henry P. Sims

  • Just and Unjust Punishment: Influences on Subordinate Performance and Citizenship

    Gail A. Ball;Linda Klebe Trevino;Henry P. Sims

  • Transactors, Transformers and Beyond. A Multi-Method Development of a Theoretical Typology of Leadership.

    Craig L. Pearce;Henry P. Sims;Jonathan F. Cox;Gail Ball

  • Shared Leadership: Toward a Multi-Level Theory of Leadership

    Craig L. Pearce;Henry P. Sims

  • The forgotten follower: a contingency model of leadership and follower self‐leadership

    Seokhwa Yun;Jonathan Cox;Henry P. Sims

  • Empowered Selling Teams: How Shared Leadership Can Contribute to Selling Team Outcomes

    Monica L. Perry;Craig L. Pearce;Henry P. Sims

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles C. Manz
Charles C. Manz University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dennis A. Gioia
Dennis A. Gioia Pennsylvania State University
Craig L. Pearce
Craig L. Pearce Pennsylvania State University
Ken G. Smith
Ken G. Smith University of Maryland, College Park
Linda Klebe Treviño
Linda Klebe Treviño Pennsylvania State University
Samer Faraj
Samer Faraj McGill University
Riki Takeuchi
Riki Takeuchi The University of Texas at Dallas
David P. Lepak
David P. Lepak University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paul E. Tesluk
Paul E. Tesluk University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Miriam Erez
Miriam Erez Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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