Organisational Psychology

Niklas K. (Nik) Steffens is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Business and Organisational Psychology in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland. His research focuses on leadership and followership, group processes and teamwork, and health and well-being in applied contexts - research he has conducted in collaboration with over 100 researchers across the globe. He collaborates with and consults to organisations, community groups, and industry to use theory and evidence to solve applied problems and improve group and organisational functioning. He recently co-edited Organizational Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies (with Michelle Ryan and Floor Rink, 2022). In 2018 he was awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) by the Australian Research Council. For his work on leadership development around the 5R program (particularly with Alex Haslam, Kim Peters, and Blake McMillan), he received the Australian Psychology Society's Workplace Excellence Award for Leadership Development in 2017 and was finalist of the 2023 Academy of Management's MED evidence-based leadership development program award. Floor Rink is Full Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands. In her work, she explains organizational and economic phenomena through psychology theory. Her main lines of research centre around work situations that involve intra- and intergroup identity dynamics, such as responses to diversity, ethical decision making (including governance structures) and status differentiation. Michelle K. Ryan is the inaugural Director of the Global Institute of Women's Leadership at The Australian National University where she is a Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology. She also holds a (part-time) position at the University of Groningen where she is a Professor of Diversity. She recently led a European Research Council Consolidator Grant examining the way in which context and identity shape and constrain women's career choices. With Alex Haslam, she uncovered the phenomenon of the glass cliff, whereby women are more likely than men to occupy leadership positions in times of crisis. The New York Times named the glass cliff as one of the Top 100 ideas that shaped 2008.

Part 1: Organising the Workplace Chapter 1: Work Design: Revisiting Lilian Gilbreth's Fatigue Studies - Giverny De Boeck & Sharon K. Parker Chapter 2: Engaging with Groups at Work: Revisiting Mayo's Hawthorne Studies - S. Alexander Haslam & Niklas K. Steffens Chapter 3: Goal Setting: Revisiting Locke and Latham's Goal Setting Studies - Jeffrey B. Vancouver, Timothy Ballard & Andrew Neal Part 2: Motivation, Cooperation, and Health Chapter 4: Motivation: Revisiting Deci's Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation Studies - Marylene Gagne Chapter 5: Organisational Identification: Revisiting Mael & Ashforth's 'Alumni and their Alma Mater' Study - Naomi Ellemers & Dick de Gilder Chapter 6: Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Revisiting Smith, Organ and Near's Studies and Lessons Learned in Persistence, Determination, and Citizenship - Steven W. Whiting, Mark G. Ehrhart & Philip P. Podsakoff Chapter 7: Job Stress: Revisiting Karasek's Job Demand-Job Control Studies - Sabine Sonnentag Part 3: Leadership and Followership Chapter 8: The Bases of Social Hierarchy: Revisiting French and Raven's Bases of Power (and Status) - Derek D. Rucker, Adam D. Galinsky & Joe Magee Chapter 9: Leadership Styles: Revisiting Lewin, Lippitt and White's Leadership in Boys Club Studies - Peter D. Harms Chapter 10: Leadership Behaviour: Revisiting the Ohio State Studies - Niels Van Quaquebeke & Catharina Vogt Chapter 11: Followership: Revisiting Hollander and Webb's Leadership, Followership and Friendship Study - Mary Uhl-Bien & Melissa Carsten Part 4: Justice, Equality, and Diversity Chapter 12: Organisational Justice: Revisiting Greenberg's Pay Inequity Study - Russell S. Cropanzano, Nicole Strah, Deborah E. Rupp & Jessie A. Cannon Chapter 13: Gender at Work: Revisiting Schein's Think Manager-Think Male Study - Madeline E. Heilman & Francesca Manzi Chapter 14: Diversity: Revisiting Ancona and Caldwell's Demography and Design Study - C. Y. Edwina Wong, Floor Rink, & Michelle K. Ryan

Taken together, these studies inspire the next generation of researchers to ask the big questions and answer them in meaningful and creative ways. This book is a must read for students of psychology and business who want to do work that makes a difference in organizations and society. -- Virginia E. Schein, Ph.D. Organisational psychology is now a dynamic and sprawling field of study. Each chapter in this well-crafted volume deftly revisits a classic of the past to mine insights that help us understand where we are in the present and where we may be going in the future. -- Blake E. Ashforth, Ph.D This book captures the main ideas and contributions of some of the classic Organizational Psychology studies, while showing their trajectory into the future. It is a major contribution to the history of the field and our understanding of our research roots and where they have taken us. -- Deborah L. Ancona, Ph.D