Biography
Dr. Meir Shemla is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Academic Director of the MBA programme at Rotterdam School of Management. He received his PhD in Work & Organizational Psychology in 2011.
His work focuses on the impact of team composition on team performance, and he has particular interest in how diversity in teams can be leveraged to increase innovation and performance. In his work he also explores the (unintended) consequences of diversity policies on organizational performance and talent acquisition. Other research topics he is exploring include the role of followers in successful leadership and the effect of emotions in teams.His work appeard in outlets such as Academy of Management Annals, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Human Relations.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- shemla@rsm.nl
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Work
- Hodar Lam, Steffen R. Giessner, Meir Shemla & Mirjam D. Werner (2024) - Leader and leadership loneliness: A review-based critique and path to future research - Leadership Quarterly, 35 (3) - doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101780 - [link]
- Claudia Heese, Julia Maria Grgic, Inga Hoever, Meir Shemla, Claudia Buengeler & Hannes Leroy (2023) - Wie Führungskräfte effektiv Inklusion und Kreativität in diversen Teams fördern können - [link]
- Pisitta Vongswasdi, Hannes Leroy, Meir Shemla, Inga Hoever & Jasmien Khattab (2023) - Influencing diversity beliefs through a personal testimonial, promotion-focused approach - Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44 (1), 1-18 - doi: 10.1002/job.2664 - [link]
- Hannes Leroy, Claudia Buengeler, Marlies Veestraeten, Meir Shemla & Inga J. Hoever (2022) - Fostering Team Creativity Through Team-Focused Inclusion: The Role of Leader Harvesting the Benefits of Diversity and Cultivating Value-In-Diversity Beliefs - Group and Organization Management, 47 (4), 798-839 - doi: 10.1177/10596011211009683 - [link]
- Viktoria Gochmann, Daan Stam & Meir Shemla (2022) - The boundaries of vision communication—The effects of vision-task goal-alignment on leaders' effectiveness - Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52 (5), 263-276 - doi: 10.1111/jasp.12855 - [link]
- Inga Hoever, Hannes Leroy & Meir Shemla (2021) - Walking the tightrope of inclusion versus exclusion in the workplace: A leadership lens - RSM Discovery - [link]
- J Li, Meir Shemla & J Wegge (2021) - The Preventative Benefit of Group Diversification on Group Performance Decline: An Investigation with Latent Growth Models - Journal of Organizational Behavior - doi: 10.1002/job.2498 - [link]
- Hodar Lam, Steffen Giessner & Meir Shemla (2020) - Four Simple Ways To Combat The Loneliness Caused By COVID-19 - Forbes - [link]
- Meir Shemla (2020) - The Diversity Myth - Unknown - [link]
- Hodar Lam, Steffen Giessner & Meir Shemla (2020) - Tips: Loneliness and working from home during the COVID-19 crisis - RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge - [link]
- Meir Shemla (22 October 2020) - IamExpat Webinar: How to lead diverse teams effectively
- Steffen Giessner & Meir Shemla (22 May 2020) - Mental Health Awareness Week: How to combat the loneliness during lockdown
- Steffen Giessner & Meir Shemla (12 May 2020) - Preventing Loneliness
- Steffen Giessner & Meir Shemla (12 May 2020) - How to combat the loneliness caused by the COVID-19 crisis
POC Master Thesis
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BMMTPOC
