The Department has organized its activities in three faculty groups: organizational change and development, organizational psychology and project management. The Department delivers teaching at all levels in BI鈥檚 education portfolio, conducts a number of management and manager development programmes for public and private enterprises and has a substantial and effective doctoral community.
The Department has a strong focus on the interaction between research and teaching, and for the employees of the Department this means publishing in top academic journals as well as being able to communicate this in their teaching. The Department has a significant annual research production, with more than 50 academic articles in international journals, and a number of academic book chapters and monographs.
A few selected publications from 2016
- Kuvaas, B氓rd; Buch, Robert; Dysvik, Anders. Constructive Supervisor Feedback is Not Sufficient: Immediacy and Frequency is Essential. Human Resource Management 2016.
- Kuvaas, B氓rd; Buch, Robert; Dysvik, Anders. Performance Management: Perceiving Goals as Invariable and Implications for Perceived Job Autonomy and Work Performance. Human Resource Management 2016;Volume 55.(3) pp. 401-412.
- Solberg, E., & Wong, S. I. (2016). Crafting one's job to take charge of role overload: When proactivity requires adaptivity across levels. The Leadership Quarterly, 27(5), 713-725.
- Dysvik, A., Kuvaas, B., & Buch, R. (2016). Perceived investment in employee development and taking charge. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 31(1), 50-60.
- Martinsen, 脴. L., & Furnham, A. (2016). The Assimilator鈥揈xplorer styles and creativity. Personality and Individual Differences, 98, 297-299.
- Martinsen, 脴. L., Furnham, A., & H忙rem, T. (2016). An integrated perspective on insight. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(10), 1319.
- Nielsen, M. B., Skogstad, A., Matthiesen, S. B., & Einarsen, S. (2016). The importance of a multidimensional and temporal design in research on leadership and workplace safety. The Leadership Quarterly, 27(1), 142-155.
- M眉ller, R., Zhai, L., Wang, A., & Shao, J. (2016). A framework for governance of projects: Governmentality, governance structure and projectification. International Journal of Project Management, 34(6), 957-969.
- Wong, Sut I; 艩kerlavaj, Miha; 膶erne, Matej. Build coalitions for job crafting: Leader-subordinate autonomy expectation (in)congruence and subordinate perceived competence mobilization. Human Resource Management 2016.
Awards
- Professor B氓rd Kuvaas, BI 黑料专区 Business School鈥檚 research award for excellent research. The award is only given every three years.
- Professor Emeritus Erling S. Andersen, PMI Scholar-Practitioner Award. Award was given for 鈥渆xcellence in academic research and commitment to the integration of research knowledge into practice鈥.
- Associate Professor 脴yvind Kvalnes, Hjernekraftsprisen 2016 for the contribution 鈥淔ilosofi for ingeni酶rer鈥 <Philosophy for engineers>, 黑料专区 Association of Researchers.
The Department publishes the BI Leadership Magazine every year, a magazine aimed at practitioners with current research-based knowledge.