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Staff Profile

Prof Birgit Schyns, Diplom, PhD

Professor in Organisational Behaviour/PhD Programme Director
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 45173
Fax: +44 (0) 191 33 45201
Room number: 203 Ushaw College

Contact Prof Birgit Schyns (email at birgit.schyns@durham.ac.uk)

Research profile/biography

Birgit is Professor in Organisational Behaviour at Durham University, UK. She received her PhD from the University of Leipzig, Germany in 2001. Before moving to the UK in 2006 as a Reader in OB at the University of Portsmouth, she lived and worked in the Netherlands from 2002 to 2006. Her research topics include leadership and career development. She has published widely on topics including Leader-Member Exchange, transformational leadership, implicit leadership theories, followers' perception of leadership as well as employability. Birgit has edited several special issues and two books. She is an associate editor for European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and British Journal of Management and serves on several editorial boards.

Awards and Prizes

  • CCL and European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology best paper 2005 award for Schyns, B., Paul, T., Mohr, G. & Blank, H. (2005). Comparing Antecedents and Consequences of Leader-Member Exchange in a German Working Context to Findings in the US. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 14, 1-22.
  • Emerald Literati Network Highly Commended Award 2006 for Schyns, B. (2006). The role of implicit leadership theories in the performance appraisals and promotion recommendations of leaders. Equal Opportunities International, 25, 188-199.
  • Best paper award in the Leadership Track at the British Academy of Management (2007) for Kiefer, T. & Schyns, B. (2007). Linking Leadership and Emotions: An Overview of Theory and Research. Paper presented at the Conference of the British Academy of Management (Warwick, 11th to 13th of September, 2007).
  • Emerald Literati Network Highly Commended Award 2007 for Falkenburg, K. & Schyns, B. (2007). Work Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Withdrawal Behaviours. Management Research News, 30, 708-723.

Potential areas of supervision

  • Leadership
  • Career Pyschology

 

Research Groups

Research Interests

  • Leadership
  • Implicit leadership theories
  • Leader-Member Exchange
  • Perception biases
  • Self-efficacy
  • Career Psychology

Teaching Groups

  • Executive MBA
  • MSc Management

Publications

Books: edited

  • Schyns, B. & Hansbrough, T. (2010). When leadership goes wrong: Destructive leadership, mistakes and ethical failures. Greenwich, CT, USA: Information Age Publishing.
  • Schyns, B. & Meindl, J.R. (2005). Implicit Leadership Theories: Essays and Explorations. Leadership Horizons. Greenwich, CT, USA: Information Age Publishing.

Books: sections

  • Kerschreiter, R., Schyns, B. & Frey, D. (2011). Führung. In Sozialpsychologie – Interaktion und Gruppe (Band 22). Frey, D. & Bierhoff, H.-W. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
  • Schyns, B. & Blank, H. (2010). The limits of interactional leadership: the relationship between Leader-Member Exchange and span of control. In Gesund mit und ohne Arbeit. T. Rigotti, Korek, S. & Otto, K. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers. 305–314.
  • Schyns, B. & Felfe, J. (2008). Challenges of Implicit Leadership Theories for Management. In 21st Century Management - A Reference Handbook. C. Wankel Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Schyns, B. & Meindl, J.R. (2006). Emotionalizing leadership in a cross-cultural context. In Advances in Global Leadership. Weldon, E. & Mobley, W.H. Greenwich, CT: JAI press. 4: 39-58.
  • Schyns, B. (2006). Implicit theory of leadership. In Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Rogelberg, S.G. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 334-335.
  • Schyns, B., Kroon, B. & Sanders, K. (2006). Leader-Member Exchange and solidarity behaviour – A study of reciprocity. In Sharing Network Leadership, LMX Leadership: The Series. Graen, G.B. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing. 4.
  • Schyns, B. & Paul, T. (2005). Dyadic Leadership and Organizational Outcomes – Different Results of Different Instruments? In Global Organizing Designs, LMX Leadership: The Series. Graen, G.B. & Graen, J.A. Greenwich, CT.: Information Age Publishing. 3: 173-203.
  • Felfe, J. & Schyns, B. (2004). Der Einfluß von impliziten Führungstheorien und Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen auf die Wahrnehmung und Akzeptanz transformationaler Führung (The influence of implicit leadership theories and personality on the perception and acceptance of transformational leadership). In Psychologie und Wirtschaft leben. Aktuelle Themen der Wirtschaftspsychologie in Forschung und Praxis. Bungard, W., Koop, B. & Liebig, C. München, Germany: Hampp.
  • Schyns, B. & Paul, T. (2004). Entwicklung einer Aufgabenanalyse für Führungskräfte. (Development of a task analysis for supervisors). In Psychologie und Wirtschaft leben. Aktuelle Themen der Wirtschaftspsychologie in Forschung und Praxis. W. Bungard, B. Koop & C. Liebig München, Germany: Hampp.
  • Schyns, B. (2004). LMX in Germany -Theoretical and empirical reception of a dyadic leadership approach. In New frontiers of Leadership, LMX Leadership: The Series. Graen, G.B. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing. 2: 139-165.

Journal papers: academic

Supervises