Biography
Michaéla Schippers is Professor of Behaviour and Performance Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She holds a PhD from the Psychology Department at the Free University in Amsterdam. Prof. Schippers research interest covers goalsetting, team reflexivity, team performance, academic performance as well as ikigai (i.e. purpose in life), and life goals. She coined the term “life crafting” as a way to optimize performance and happiness. Other research interests include diversity, new ways of working, and social exclusion/inclusion. Her work was published in several leading academic journals, such as Annual Review of Psychology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Organizational Behavior, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology and Human Relations. Her work was picked up by the media on several occasions. She did interviews with among others CNN, New York Magazine, Oprah Magazine, Eindbazen podcast and NTR radio. A short video of her 2017 inaugural speech can be found here. The full video is available via click here. Dr. Schippers was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School. She is also an active member of the EER research database. Dr. Schippers is scientific director of the Erasmus Center of Study and Career Success (E=CS2) and Comenius Senior Fellow.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- mschippers@rsm.nl
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Work
- Michaéla C. Schippers, John P.A. Ioannidis & Matthias W.J. Luijks (2024) - Is society caught up in a Death Spiral? Modeling societal demise and its reversal - doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1194597 - [link]
- Job Hudig, Ad Scheepers, Michaéla Schippers & Guus Smeets (2023) - Goalsetting is mindsetting: Guided reflection on life goals taps into the plasticity of motivational mindsets - doi: 10.1177/00332941231180813
- Izaak Dekker, Michaéla Schippers & Erik Van Schooten (2023) - Reflective Goal-setting Improves Academic Performance in Teacher and Business Education: A Large-scale Field Experiment - doi: 10.1080/19345747.2023.2231440 - [link]
- Michaéla C. Schippers, John P.A. Ioannidis & Ari R. Joffe (2022) - Aggressive measures, rising inequalities, and mass formation during the COVID-19 crisis: An overview and proposed way forward - doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.950965 - [link]
- Job Hudig, Ad Scheepers, Michaéla Schippers & Guus Smeets (2022) - Motivational mindsets, mindset churn and academic performance: The role of a goal-setting intervention and purpose in life - doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-03462-8 - [link]
- Job Hudig, Ad W.A. Scheepers, Michaéla C. Schippers & Guus Smeets (2021) - Motives for studying and student wellbeing: Validation of the motivational mindset model - doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.753987 - [link]
- SA (Sebastian) Freyhofer Alarcon, Niklas Ziegler, Elisabeth M. de Jong & Michaéla C. Schippers (2021) - Depression and Anxiety in Times of COVID-19: How Coping Strategies and Loneliness Relate to Mental Health Outcomes and Academic Performance - doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682684 - [link]
- Catherine Gabelica, Sven De Maeyer & Michaéla C. Schippers (2021) - Taking a Free Ride: How Team Learning Affects Social Loafing - doi: 10.1037/edu0000713 - [link]
- Pepijn van Neerijnen, Patrick Figge, Michiel P. Tempelaar & Michaéla Schippers (2021) - Ambidexterity: Size matters! Reflexive climate and organizational TMS’s influence and the contingent effect of size - doi: 10.1080/00472778.2021.1981917 - [link]
- Michaéla C. Schippers & Diana C. Rus (2021) - Optimizing Decision-Making Processes in Times of COVID-19: Using Reflexivity to Counteract Information-Processing Failures - doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650525 - [link]
- Michaéla Schippers, K. L. Scott, T. J. Zagenczyk & R. L. Purvis (2013) - Best Paper Award - Coworker exclusion and employee outcomes : The moderating role of perceived organizational and social support
Geen
- Start date approval
- July 2022
- End date approval
- July 2025
- Place
- NEDERLAND
- Description
- Onderzoek uitdragen om de wereld beter te maken
Ikigaitv.nl website Positieve Psychologie
- Start date approval
- July 2022
- End date approval
- July 2025
- Place
- NEDERLAND
- Description
- PP interventies op website aanbieden
Follow the Science
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- July 2025
- Place
- MONIKKENDAM
- Description
- Podcast: "Follow the Science". Interviews
Michaela Schippers
- Start date approval
- September 2023
- End date approval
- September 2026
- Place
- MONNICKENDAM
- Description
- Verbinden mensen - "Make the world a better place"
afgestemd met Willem Koolhaas, per lezing/optreden
- Start date approval
- November 2023
- End date approval
- November 2026
- Place
- NEDERLAND
- Description
- veel lezingen, filmpjes en workshops
Great Happiness Project
- Start date approval
- March 2024
- End date approval
- March 2027
- Place
- NEDERLAND
- Description
- connectie maken met ikigaitv.nl
POC Master Thesis
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BMMTPOC
Positive Psychology for Career Success
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- B3EL118