Barbara Wisse
Biographic Data
| ID | 207815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Wisse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Wisse |
| SIGNATURE | WISSE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1445-1799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Inspired by fish
Despite the prevalence and importance of informal hierarchies in groups, to date, our understanding of when strong or weak hierarchies form is underdeveloped. The present research focuses on understanding the antecedent conditions fostering informal hierarchy emergence and strength. Integrating insights from ethological research, social learning theory, the expectation states theory framework and shared reality theory, we propose that groups crea…
Malevolent innovation
WAOP 2023 Abstract Submission Malevolent innovation – a synthesized theoretical model and a measurement tool Yiting Wang, Eric F. Rietzschel, Barbara Wisse University of Groningen Malevolent innovation is the generation, championing, and implementation of creative ideas in the awareness that these are –or could be– harmful to individuals, organizations, and/or broader society. In organizations, malevolent innovation can take the form of, for exam…
Culture and Conflict Management Strategy
This study investigated the role of individualism and collectivism—as an individual trait—in conflict management strategies (i.e., forcing, problem-solving, avoiding, compromising, and yielding) while also considering the mediating role of instrumental concerns (e.g., self-, mutual-, and other-concerns) in conflict. A time-lagged study (ensuring temporal separation of study measures) was conducted encompassing samples from three different countri…
How to Neutralize Primary Psychopathic Leaders’ Damaging Impact
Primary psychopathy in leaders, also referred to as successful psychopathy or corporate psychopathy, has been put forward as a key determinant of corporate misconduct. In contrast to the general notion that primary psychopaths’ destructiveness cannot be controlled, we posit that psychopathic leaders’ display of self-serving and abusive behavior can be restrained by organizational contextual factors. Specifically, we hypothesize that the positive …
The Mask of Sanity? Leader Primary Psychopathy and the Effects of Leader Emotion Regulation Strategies on Followers
Individuals with psychopathic tendencies are sometimes quite capable of acquiring and maintaining leadership positions. One explanation could be that leaders with psychopathic personality profiles “hide behind the mask of sanity” by managing the public display of their emotions so that it positively affects other people's perceptions. We conducted a multisource team study (N = 306 teams) to investigate how leader primary psychopathy and emotion r…
Self-construal, face concerns and conflict management strategies
Purpose In this meta-analysis, the authors investigate the relationship between self-construal and conflict management strategies and shed light on the inconsistent findings in the literature. Moreover, they examine the mediating role of face concerns in this relationship. Importantly, the present meta-analysis is the first to test the assumptions of face-negotiation theory with the meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM), which enable…
How objectifiers are granted power in the workplace
Objectification often has profound negative consequences for its victims, yet we argue that objectification may have positive ancillary implications for the perpetrators. Drawing from system justification theory, we posit that, especially in organizations characterized by higher power distance, objectifying supervisors would be afforded more power by their subordinates because they would deem such behaviour as more typical (i.e., descriptive just…
Effects of Leaders’ Power Construal on Leader-Member Exchange
How leaders construe their power may greatly affect the quality of relationships they have with their followers. Indeed, we propose that when leader power is (perceived to be) construed as responsibility, this will positively affect the extent to which followers perceive high quality leader-follower relationships (LMX), whereas the opposite will be true when leader power is (perceived to be) construed as opportunity. Moreover, we argue that these…
Students' career exploration
Career exploration refers to the exploration of the environment and the self with the aim of gathering career-related information. On the basis of Lent and Brown's (2013) model of career self-management (CSM), the current meta-analysis examined the antecedents and outcomes of career exploration among college students (K = 109, N = 34,969 students). We found support for the applicability of the CSM model to the context of students' career explorat…
The effect of a breastfeeding support programme on breastfeeding duration and exclusivity
The BSP appears to be an effective means to delay cessation of any and exclusive breastfeeding cessation and therefore to increase breastfeeding duration and exclusivity. This is an important finding, because earlier cessation of breastfeeding than desired is a common problem in many countries. Future research into the effectiveness of the BSP could consider random assignment to conditions and test the effectiveness of the intervention in other p…
Goal pursuit during the three stages of the migration process
The different paths to post‐merger identification for employees from high and low status pre‐merger organizations
A well‐known downside of organizational mergers is that employees fail to identify with the newly formed organization. We argue that developing an understanding of factors that affect post‐merger identification requires taking the pre‐merger status of the merger partners relative to each other into account. This is because relative pre‐merger status determines employees' susceptibility to different aspects of the merger process. Specifically, for…
Humor in leader-follower relationships
The present study focuses on how humor may affect the quality of the relationship between leader and follower (LMX). More specifically, we examined the impact of follower self-reported humor style and leader self-reported humor style on the extent to which followers perceived their relationship with their leader to be of high quality (in terms of affect, loyalty, contribution and professional respect). We also investigated the role of congruence …
On the perceived effectiveness of transformational–transactional leadership
The present research sought to examine when and why transformational and transactional leadership are perceived by followers to be effective. A series of five studies revealed that perceived effectiveness of transformational and transactional leadership is influenced by the fit between leadership style‐driven encouraged strategies and followers' preferred strategies. Specifically, we found that transformational leadership primarily encourages pro…
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Followers feel valued — When leaders' regulatory focus makes leaders exhibit behavior that fits followers' regulatory focus
Interactive affective sharing versus non-interactive affective sharing in work groups
This study explores whether the dynamic path to group affect, which is characterized by interactive affective sharing processes, yields different effects on task performance and group dynamics than the static path to group affect, which arises from non-interactive affective sharing. The results of our experiment with 70 three-person work groups show that groups performed better on creative tasks than on analytical tasks when they were in a positi…
Leader power and leader self-serving behavior
The role of regulatory fit in visionary leadership
It is generally argued that leader visions motivate followers by focusing on reaching desirable end‐states. However, it has also been suggested that visions may motivate followers by focusing on avoiding undesirable situations. In this paper we investigate the effects of appeals that focus on preventing an undesirable situation (i.e., prevention‐appeals) as well as appeals that focus on promoting a desirable situation (i.e., promotion‐appeals). W…
Leader power and leader self-serving behavior
The role of regulatory fit in visionary leadership
It is generally argued that leader visions motivate followers by focusing on reaching desirable end‐states. However, it has also been suggested that visions may motivate followers by focusing on avoiding undesirable situations. In this paper we investigate the effects of appeals that focus on preventing an undesirable situation (i.e., prevention‐appeals) as well as appeals that focus on promoting a desirable situation (i.e., promotion‐appeals). W…
Followers feel valued — When leaders' regulatory focus makes leaders exhibit behavior that fits followers' regulatory focus
Humor in leader-follower relationships
The present study focuses on how humor may affect the quality of the relationship between leader and follower (LMX). More specifically, we examined the impact of follower self-reported humor style and leader self-reported humor style on the extent to which followers perceived their relationship with their leader to be of high quality (in terms of affect, loyalty, contribution and professional respect). We also investigated the role of congruence …
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The Mask of Sanity? Leader Primary Psychopathy and the Effects of Leader Emotion Regulation Strategies on Followers
Individuals with psychopathic tendencies are sometimes quite capable of acquiring and maintaining leadership positions. One explanation could be that leaders with psychopathic personality profiles “hide behind the mask of sanity” by managing the public display of their emotions so that it positively affects other people's perceptions. We conducted a multisource team study (N = 306 teams) to investigate how leader primary psychopathy and emotion r…
Self-construal, face concerns and conflict management strategies
Purpose In this meta-analysis, the authors investigate the relationship between self-construal and conflict management strategies and shed light on the inconsistent findings in the literature. Moreover, they examine the mediating role of face concerns in this relationship. Importantly, the present meta-analysis is the first to test the assumptions of face-negotiation theory with the meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM), which enable…
How objectifiers are granted power in the workplace
Objectification often has profound negative consequences for its victims, yet we argue that objectification may have positive ancillary implications for the perpetrators. Drawing from system justification theory, we posit that, especially in organizations characterized by higher power distance, objectifying supervisors would be afforded more power by their subordinates because they would deem such behaviour as more typical (i.e., descriptive just…
Effects of Leaders’ Power Construal on Leader-Member Exchange
How leaders construe their power may greatly affect the quality of relationships they have with their followers. Indeed, we propose that when leader power is (perceived to be) construed as responsibility, this will positively affect the extent to which followers perceive high quality leader-follower relationships (LMX), whereas the opposite will be true when leader power is (perceived to be) construed as opportunity. Moreover, we argue that these…
Goal pursuit during the three stages of the migration process
The different paths to post‐merger identification for employees from high and low status pre‐merger organizations
A well‐known downside of organizational mergers is that employees fail to identify with the newly formed organization. We argue that developing an understanding of factors that affect post‐merger identification requires taking the pre‐merger status of the merger partners relative to each other into account. This is because relative pre‐merger status determines employees' susceptibility to different aspects of the merger process. Specifically, for…
On the perceived effectiveness of transformational–transactional leadership
The present research sought to examine when and why transformational and transactional leadership are perceived by followers to be effective. A series of five studies revealed that perceived effectiveness of transformational and transactional leadership is influenced by the fit between leadership style‐driven encouraged strategies and followers' preferred strategies. Specifically, we found that transformational leadership primarily encourages pro…
The role of regulatory fit in visionary leadership
It is generally argued that leader visions motivate followers by focusing on reaching desirable end‐states. However, it has also been suggested that visions may motivate followers by focusing on avoiding undesirable situations. In this paper we investigate the effects of appeals that focus on preventing an undesirable situation (i.e., prevention‐appeals) as well as appeals that focus on promoting a desirable situation (i.e., promotion‐appeals). W…
Leader power and leader self-serving behavior
Interactive affective sharing versus non-interactive affective sharing in work groups
This study explores whether the dynamic path to group affect, which is characterized by interactive affective sharing processes, yields different effects on task performance and group dynamics than the static path to group affect, which arises from non-interactive affective sharing. The results of our experiment with 70 three-person work groups show that groups performed better on creative tasks than on analytical tasks when they were in a positi…
Like or dislike
Followers feel valued — When leaders' regulatory focus makes leaders exhibit behavior that fits followers' regulatory focus
Humor in leader-follower relationships
The present study focuses on how humor may affect the quality of the relationship between leader and follower (LMX). More specifically, we examined the impact of follower self-reported humor style and leader self-reported humor style on the extent to which followers perceived their relationship with their leader to be of high quality (in terms of affect, loyalty, contribution and professional respect). We also investigated the role of congruence …
On the perceived effectiveness of transformational–transactional leadership
The present research sought to examine when and why transformational and transactional leadership are perceived by followers to be effective. A series of five studies revealed that perceived effectiveness of transformational and transactional leadership is influenced by the fit between leadership style‐driven encouraged strategies and followers' preferred strategies. Specifically, we found that transformational leadership primarily encourages pro…
The different paths to post‐merger identification for employees from high and low status pre‐merger organizations
A well‐known downside of organizational mergers is that employees fail to identify with the newly formed organization. We argue that developing an understanding of factors that affect post‐merger identification requires taking the pre‐merger status of the merger partners relative to each other into account. This is because relative pre‐merger status determines employees' susceptibility to different aspects of the merger process. Specifically, for…
The effect of a breastfeeding support programme on breastfeeding duration and exclusivity
The BSP appears to be an effective means to delay cessation of any and exclusive breastfeeding cessation and therefore to increase breastfeeding duration and exclusivity. This is an important finding, because earlier cessation of breastfeeding than desired is a common problem in many countries. Future research into the effectiveness of the BSP could consider random assignment to conditions and test the effectiveness of the intervention in other p…
Goal pursuit during the three stages of the migration process
Students' career exploration
Career exploration refers to the exploration of the environment and the self with the aim of gathering career-related information. On the basis of Lent and Brown's (2013) model of career self-management (CSM), the current meta-analysis examined the antecedents and outcomes of career exploration among college students (K = 109, N = 34,969 students). We found support for the applicability of the CSM model to the context of students' career explorat…
Effects of Leaders’ Power Construal on Leader-Member Exchange
How leaders construe their power may greatly affect the quality of relationships they have with their followers. Indeed, we propose that when leader power is (perceived to be) construed as responsibility, this will positively affect the extent to which followers perceive high quality leader-follower relationships (LMX), whereas the opposite will be true when leader power is (perceived to be) construed as opportunity. Moreover, we argue that these…
Self-construal, face concerns and conflict management strategies
Purpose In this meta-analysis, the authors investigate the relationship between self-construal and conflict management strategies and shed light on the inconsistent findings in the literature. Moreover, they examine the mediating role of face concerns in this relationship. Importantly, the present meta-analysis is the first to test the assumptions of face-negotiation theory with the meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM), which enable…
How objectifiers are granted power in the workplace
Objectification often has profound negative consequences for its victims, yet we argue that objectification may have positive ancillary implications for the perpetrators. Drawing from system justification theory, we posit that, especially in organizations characterized by higher power distance, objectifying supervisors would be afforded more power by their subordinates because they would deem such behaviour as more typical (i.e., descriptive just…
How to Neutralize Primary Psychopathic Leaders’ Damaging Impact
Primary psychopathy in leaders, also referred to as successful psychopathy or corporate psychopathy, has been put forward as a key determinant of corporate misconduct. In contrast to the general notion that primary psychopaths’ destructiveness cannot be controlled, we posit that psychopathic leaders’ display of self-serving and abusive behavior can be restrained by organizational contextual factors. Specifically, we hypothesize that the positive …
The Mask of Sanity? Leader Primary Psychopathy and the Effects of Leader Emotion Regulation Strategies on Followers
Individuals with psychopathic tendencies are sometimes quite capable of acquiring and maintaining leadership positions. One explanation could be that leaders with psychopathic personality profiles “hide behind the mask of sanity” by managing the public display of their emotions so that it positively affects other people's perceptions. We conducted a multisource team study (N = 306 teams) to investigate how leader primary psychopathy and emotion r…
Malevolent innovation
WAOP 2023 Abstract Submission Malevolent innovation – a synthesized theoretical model and a measurement tool Yiting Wang, Eric F. Rietzschel, Barbara Wisse University of Groningen Malevolent innovation is the generation, championing, and implementation of creative ideas in the awareness that these are –or could be– harmful to individuals, organizations, and/or broader society. In organizations, malevolent innovation can take the form of, for exam…
Culture and Conflict Management Strategy
This study investigated the role of individualism and collectivism—as an individual trait—in conflict management strategies (i.e., forcing, problem-solving, avoiding, compromising, and yielding) while also considering the mediating role of instrumental concerns (e.g., self-, mutual-, and other-concerns) in conflict. A time-lagged study (ensuring temporal separation of study measures) was conducted encompassing samples from three different countri…
Inspired by fish
Despite the prevalence and importance of informal hierarchies in groups, to date, our understanding of when strong or weak hierarchies form is underdeveloped. The present research focuses on understanding the antecedent conditions fostering informal hierarchy emergence and strength. Integrating insights from ethological research, social learning theory, the expectation states theory framework and shared reality theory, we propose that groups crea…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (7 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Affect (linguistics (4 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Regulatory focus theory (4 works)