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Dr. Birgit Schyns, PhD, Dipl. Psych.

Birgit Schyns is Reader in Organisational Behaviour at Portsmouth Business School. Her research interest focuses mainly on leadership, especially interactional theories such as Leader-Member Exchange, as well as the perception of leadership and implicit leadership theories. Also, she is interested in career psychology.

Birgit holds a masters (Diplom) degree from the Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn and a PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Leipzig, both Germany. In the four years prior to moving to the UK in 2006, Birgit has been an assistant professor at Tilburg University and the University of Twente, both in The Netherlands.

Her work has been published, among others, in Journal of Vocational Behavior, Leadership, Applied Psychology: An International Review. She has co-edited several special issues and a book on implicit leadership theories. Currently, she is editing a book on negative leadership.

Birgit is an associate editor for the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and British Journal of Management. and is a member of several editorial boards.

Recent publications

Special Issue "On the Romance of Leadership - In Memory of James R. Meindl" in Applied Psychology: An International Review (2007) (together with Michelle Bligh, Claremont Graduate University, USA).

Felfe, J. & Schyns, B. (in press). Followers' personality and the perception of transformational leadership: Further evidence for the similarity hypothesis. British Journal of Management.

Schyns, B. & Hansbrough, T. (2008). Why the brewery ran out of beer - The attribution of mistakes in a leadership context. Social Psychology, 39, 197-203.

Rigotti, T., Schyns, B. & Mohr, G. (2008). A short version of the Occupational self-efficacy scale. Structural and construct validity across five countries. Journal of Career Assessment, 16, 238-255.

Schyns, B., Meindl, J.R. and Croon, M.A. (2007). The Romance of Leadership Scale - Cross-cultural testing and refinement. Leadership, 3, 29-46.

Schyns, B., Paul, T., Mohr, G. and Blank, H. (2005). Comparing Antecedents and Conequences of Leader-Member Exchange in a German Working Context to Findings in the US. European Journal of Work and Organisational Psychology, 14, 1-22.

Schyns, B. and Meindl, J.R. (2005). Implicit Leadership Theories: Essays and Explorations. A volume in the Leadership Horizons series, Information Age Publishing. Greenwich, CT, USA.