Professor Tina Kiefer
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Research Interests
Daily experience of ongoing change and innovation, positive and negative emotional processes at work, justice processes, cultural implicit leadership theories, leadership behaviours in change, toxic and harmful work experiences' implications of budget cuts for public sector employees.
Teaching in 2020-2021
Evening Executive MBA (London)
- IB700N: Organisational Behaviour
Executive MBA (London)
- IB700L: Organisational Behaviour
MSc Business
- IB92A0: People and Organisations
Postgraduate Research Business and Management
- IB9K30: Developing Management Research
Undergraduate
- IB2390: Changing Organisations
- IB0070: Problem-Solving in Organisations
Applied & Organisational Psychology Research Network, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Industrial Relations Research Unit, Organisation & HRM, Organising Healthcare Research Network
Email: Tina.Kiefer@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 22308 / Room: 3.138
Biography
Is an organizational psychologist by background and received her MSc in Psychology and her PhD from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
Previously worked at Birkbeck College, University of London, as a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada) and as lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).
Publications
Journal Articles
- Schyns, B., Kiefer, T. and Foti, R. (2020) "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", Journal of Vocational Behavior, 103477
- Burgess, N., Richmond, J. G. and Kiefer, T. (2020) "Psychological contracting making obligations explicit to support a transformative change partnership", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020, 1, 10233
- Barclay, L. J. and Kiefer, T. (2019) "In the aftermath of unfair events : understanding the differential effects of anxiety and anger", Journal of Management, 45, 5, 1802-1829
- Currie, G., Spyridonidis, D. and Kiefer, T. (2019) "From what we know to what we do : enhancing absorptive capacity in translational health research", BMJ Leader
- Currie, G., Croft, C., Chen, Y., Kiefer, T., Staniszewska, S. and Lilford, R. (2018) "The capacity of health service commissioners to use evidence: a case study", Health Services and Delivery Research, 6, 12
- Rofcanin, Y., Kiefer, T. and Strauss, K. (2017) "What seals the I-deal? Exploring the role of employees' behaviours and managers' emotions", Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology , 90, 2, 203-224
- Kiefer, T., Hartley, J., Conway, N. and Briner, R. B. (2015) "Feeling the squeeze : public employees' experiences of cutback- and innovation-related organizational changes following a national announcement of budget reductions", Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 25, 4, 1279-1305
- Barclay, L. J. and Kiefer, T. (2014) "Approach or avoid? Exploring overall justice and the differential effects of positive and negative emotions", Journal of Management, Volume 40, Number 7, 1857-1898
- Conway, N., Kiefer, T., Hartley, J. and Briner, R. B. (2014) "Doing more with less? Employee reactions to psychological contract breach via target similarity or spillover during public sector organizational change", British Journal of Management, Volume 25, Number 4, 737-754
- Conway, N., Kiefer, T., Hartley, J. and Briner, R. B. (2014) "Doing more with less ? Employee reactions to psychological contract breach via target similarity or spillover during public sector organizational change", British Journal of Management, 25, 4, 737-754
- Schyns, B., Tymon, A., Kiefer, T. and Kerschreiter, R. (2013) "New ways to leadership development : a picture paints a thousand words", Management Learning, Volume 44, Number 1, 11-24
- Kiefer, T. and Barclay, L. J. (2012) "Understanding the mediating role of toxic emotional experiences in the relationship between negative emotions and adverse outcomes", Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology , Volume 85, Number 4, 600-625
- Schyns, B., Kiefer, T., Kerschreiter, R. and Tymon, A. (2011) "Teaching implicit leadership theories to develop leaders and leadership : how and why it can make a difference", Academy of Management Learning and Education, 10, 3, 397-408
- Poppleton, S., Briner, R. B. and Kiefer, T. (2010) "The roles of context and everyday experience in understanding work-non-work relationships : a qualitative diary study of white- and blue-collar workers", Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology , Vol.81, No.3, 481-502
- Briner, R. B. and Kiefer, T. (2009) "Whither psychological research into emotion at work? Feeling for the future", International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, Vol.3, No.2, 161-173
Book Item
- Kiefer, T. and Antoni, A. (2019) "Putting emotion first - an emotion-centred approach to understanding the psychological contract", 80-100, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK
Report
- Briner, R. B., Poppleton, S., Owens, S. and Kiefer, T. (2008) "The nature, causes and consequences of harm in emotionally-demanding occupations", Research Reports 610
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