Research
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Latest papers
Character and Trust in Crisis Leadership: Probing the Relationships Among Character, Identification-Based Trust, and Perceptions of Effectiveness in Political Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The Journal of applied behavioral science · 2023 · first author
Does Leader Character Have a Gender?
Journal of business ethics : JBE · 2022
The myriad ways in which COVID-19 revealed character.
Organizational dynamics · 2021 · first author
Latest funding
- $114,380
Developing and Embedding Leader Character in Organizations for Sustained Excellence
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $37,632
Developing and Embedding Leader Character in Organizations for Sustained Excellence
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $55,755
Leader Disciplinary Behavior and Individual and Group Performance: The Mediating Role of Learning from Mistakes
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
3 publications.
Character and Trust in Crisis Leadership: Probing the Relationships Among Character, Identification-Based Trust, and Perceptions of Effectiveness in Political Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Seijts G, de Clercy C, Miller R
Does Leader Character Have a Gender?
Mohan G, Seijts G, Miller R
The myriad ways in which COVID-19 revealed character.
Seijts G, Milani KY
Developing and Embedding Leader Character in Organizations for Sustained Excellence
Principal investigators: Crossan, Mary M.
Keywords: leadership; character; sustained excellence; character development; societal good; well-being
Developing and Embedding Leader Character in Organizations for Sustained Excellence
Principal investigators: Crossan, Mary M.
Keywords: leadership; character; sustained excellence; character development; societal good; well-being
Leader Disciplinary Behavior and Individual and Group Performance: The Mediating Role of Learning from Mistakes
Principal investigators: Peng, Ann
Keywords: (1) leader disciplinary behavior; (2) learning from mistakes; (3) individual performance; (4) group performance; (5) vicarious learning; (6) group task reflexivity; (7) social network; (8) network density; (9) network centrality
Leader character study
Principal investigators: Crossan, Mary
Keywords: key character strengths for business leadership; requisite motivations; capacities; personality traits; conduct; and performance levels; and; character development priorities; formative influences; and promising educational interventions
Goal orientation: an organizational, team, and individual-level perspective
Principal investigators: Seijts, Gerard
Keywords: goal setting; goal orientation; motivation; learning; team processes; organizational context; self- and collective-efficacy; and task performance
Mitigating negative reactions to employment equity policies
Principal investigators: Seijts, Gerard H.P.
Keywords: staffing; discrimination; selection interviews; employment equity; perceived job qualifications; fairness perceptions; source characteristics
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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