Head of department Øyvind Marthinsen
The Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour conducts research and teaching within organizational change and development, leadership development, organizational psychology, Human Resource Management and project management.
The Department has divided its activities into three sections: Organizational change and development, organizational psychology and project management. The Department delivers teaching at all levels in BI’s education portfolio, conducts externally-financed research assignment and has a large and well-functioning doctoral environment.
The Department is concerned with the interaction between research and teaching. For the Department’s faculty, this means publishing articles in internationally recognised journals, while also communicating the research through teaching. The Department has a significant annual research production, with more than 50 scientific articles published in international journals, as well as a number of scientific book chapters and monographs.
Some of the publications from 2015
- Buch, R., Dysvik, A., Kuvaas, B., & Nerstad, C. G. L. “It takes three to tango—Exploring the interplay between training intensity, job autonomy, and supervisor support in predicting knowledge sharing.” (Human Resource Management)
- Buch, R., Nerstad, C. G. L., & Säfvenbom, R. “The interactive roles of mastery climate and performance climate in predicting intrinsic motivation.” (Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports)
- Gottschalk, P., & Smith, R. “Gender and white-collar crime: examining representations of women in media?” (Journal of Gender Studies)
- He, W., Li-Rong, L., & Kuvaas, B. “Workgroup Salary Dispersion and Turnover Intention in China: A Contingent Examination of Individual Differences and the Dual Deprivation Path Explanation.” (Human Resource Management)
- Hofeditz, M., Nienaber, A.-M., Dysvik, A., & Schewe, G. “"Want to" versus "have to": Intrinsic and extrinsic motivators as predictors of compliance behavior intention.” (Human Resource Management)
- Sankowska, A., & Søderlund, J. “Trust, reflexivity and knowledge integration: Toward a conceptual framework concerning mobile engineers.” (Human Relations)
Prizes
- Professor Cathrine Filstad’s article in Journal Workplace Learning was awarded “the Award of Outstanding Paper of 2014”.
- Associate professors Geir Thompson (in cooperation with Lars Glasø) and Hallvard Føllesdal were both nominated for the “Best Scientist Presentation Award» at the EAWOP conference.
- Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL and BI) was nominated among the 10 most influential thinkers in this decade by HR Magazine, 2015.
- Professor Ralf Müller received “the PMI Research Achievement Reward” for 2015.
- Professors Petter Gottschalk and Erling Andersen received the award for best article at “The International Conference on Organization and Management” in Abu Dhabi.
- Professor Hans Georg Gemünden received “the IPMA Research Achievement Award 2015”.
In 2015, the Department helped organize the annual "European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology" (EAWOP) conference, through participation in the programme committee. The EAWOP conference took place over the course of four days in May and was host to more than 1565 participants.
Each year, the Department issues the BI Leadership Magazine, a practitioner-oriented magazine containing current research-based knowledge.
Professor Astrid Richardsen left her role as Head of the Department last summer after two terms in this role. Professor Øyvind L. Martinsen became the new Head of the Department. The Department has made excellent research and teaching contributions over the years and will continue to build upon this foundation and further strengthen the focus on good research and teaching processes.