Entry requirements
Only open to master’s students Psychology. Recommended bachelor course Social and Organisational Psychology.
Description
This course focuses on how to manage people, with special attention to the roles of leaders and managers. Performance of groups and organizations is dependent on the fit between the needs, motives, values and skills of people and the structural and operational characteristics of groups and organisations. Leaders use their bases of power and select influence tactics to get things done by their followers or subordinates.
Students will review classical studies and they will acquire cutting-edge knowledge of advances in theories about motivation, power, and leadership. Moreover, they will learn how to manage task performance in teams and improve satisfaction and commitment of individual members of these teams and organisations.
Using recent theoretical and empirical developments, we will discuss what kind of leadership behaviours are beneficial in particular situations.
Course objectives
Upon completion of this course, students:
have specialised knowledge of social and organisational psychological theories regarding motivation, power and leadership;
can (at basic level) make use of theories about motivation, power and leadership that are common in social and organisational psychology; and
have the skill to use theories about motivation, power and leadership and research findings to manage people in real-life situations.
Timetable
For the timetable of this course please refer to MyTimetable
Registration
Education
Students must register themselves for all course components (lectures, tutorials and practicals) they wish to follow. You can register up to 5 days prior to the start of the course.
Exams
You must register for each exam in My Studymap at least 10 days before the exam date. You cannot take an exam without a valid registration in My Studymap. Carefully read all information about the procedures and deadlines for registering for courses and exams.
If applicable, exchange students will be informed by the education administration about the current registration procedure.
Mode of instruction
7 lectures. Attendance is not mandatory but essential for thorough understanding.
Assessment method
The exam is in English and needs to be answered in English. There will be an opportunity to look at the exam in the weeks after the publication of the final grades.
This opportunity will be published via Brightspace.
Multiple-choice and open questions (respectively 70% and 30% of final grade). The exam covers all literature as mentioned in the yearly-updated reading list on Brightspace, as well as everything that is discussed during the lectures.
The Institute of Psychology follows the policy of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences to systematically check student papers for plagiarism with the help of software. All students are required to take and pass the Scientific Integrity Test with a score of 100% in order to learn about the practice of integrity in scientific writing. Students are given access to the quiz via a module on Brightspace. Disciplinary measures will be taken when fraud is detected. Students are expected to be familiar with and understand these regulations and the implications of this fraud policy.
Reading list
Exemplary reading list below. This list is updated regularly and the final reading list will appear on Brightspace.
Lecture 1: Motivation
Gagne, M, & Deci, E. (2005). Self-determination theory and work motivation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(4), 331-362
Parks, C. D., Joireman, J., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2013). Cooperation, trust, and antagonism: How public goods are promoted. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(3), 119-165. doi: 10.1177/1529100612474436
Jin, S., Columbus, S., van Lange, P. A., & Balliet, D. (2024). Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 111, 104566.
Edelson, M. G., Polania, R., Ruff, C. C., Fehr, E., & Hare, T. A. (2018). Computational and neurobiological foundations of leadership decisions. Science, 361(6401), eaat0036. doi: 10.1126/science.aat0036
Lecture 2: Leadership:
Chemers, M. M. (2000). Leadership research and theory: A functional integration. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 4, 27- 43.
Hogg, M.A., Van Knippenberg, D. & Rast, D.E. III (2012) The social identity theory of leadership: Theoretical origins, research findings, and conceptual developments, European Review of Social Psychology, 23:1, 258-304, DOI: 10.1080/10463283.2012.741134
Judge, T. A., & Piccolo, R. F. (2004). Transformational and Transactional Leadership: A Meta-Analytic Test of Their Relative Validity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89(5), 755–768. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.89.5.755
Mooijman, M. (2023). Power dynamics and the reciprocation of trust and distrust. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125, 779–802.
Lecture 3: Power
Keltner, D, Gruenfeld, D.H., Anderson, C. (2003). Power, approach, and inhibition. Psychological Review, 110, 265-284.
Galinsky, A. D., Gruenfeld, D. H., & Magee, J. C. (2003). From power to action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 453-466.
http://sfx.leidenuniv.nl:9003/sfx_local?volume=85&spage=453&issn=0022-3514&year=2003&issue=3Cislak, A., Cichocka, A., Wojcik, A. D., & Frankowska, N. (2018). Power Corrupts, but Control Does Not: What Stands Behind the Effects of Holding High Positions. Personality & social psychology bulletin, 44(6), 944–957. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218757456
De Wit, F. R.C., Scheepers, D., Ellemers, N. , Sassenberg, K., and Scholl, A. (2017). Whether power holders construe their power as responsibility or opportunity influences their tendency to take advice from others. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38, 923-49.
Lecture 4: Punishment and Reward
Chen, X.-P., Pillutla, M. M., & Yao, X. (2009). Unintended consequences of cooperation inducing and maintaining mechanisms in public goods dilemmas: Sanctions and moral appeals. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 12(2), 241-255. doi: 10.1177/1368430208098783
Mooijman, M., Van Dijk, W. W., Ellemers, N., & van Dijk, E. (2015). Why leaders punish: A power perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109, 75-89. doi:10.1037/pspi0000021
Molenmaker, W. E., de Kwaadsteniet, E. W., & van Dijk, E. (2016). The impact of personal responsibility on the (un)willingness to punish non-cooperation and reward cooperation. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 134, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.02.004
Molenmaker W.E., Gross J., Kwaadsteniet E.W. de, Dijk E. van & Dreu C.K.W. de (2023), Discriminatory punishment undermines the enforcement of group cooperation, Nature Scientific Reports 13: 6061.
Lecture 5: Leaders are only human: Emotions
Wang, L., Restubog, S., Shao, B., Lu, V., & Van Kleef, G. A. (2018). Does anger expression help or harm leader effectiveness? The role of competence-based versus integrity-based violations and abusive supervision. Academy of Management Journal, 61(3), 1050–1072. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2015.0460
Fast, N.J. & Chen, S. (2009). When the boss feels inadequate. Power, incompetence and aggression. Psychological Science, 20, 1406 – 1413.
http://sfx.leidenuniv.nl:9003/sfx_local?volume=20&spage=1406&issn=0956-7976&year=2009&issue=11Van Kleef, G, Homan, A, Beersma, B, et al. (2009). Searing sentiment or cold calculation? The effects of leader emotional displays on team performance depend on follower epistemic motivation. Academy of Management Journal, 52(3), 562-580.
http://sfx.leidenuniv.nl:9003/sfx_local?volume=52&spage=562&issn=0001-4273&year=2009&issue=3Lelieveld, G. J., Van Dijk, E., Van Beest, I., & Van Kleef, G. A. (2012). Why anger and disappointment affect other's bargaining behavior differently: the moderating role of power and the mediating role of reciprocal and complementary emotions. Personality & social psychology bulletin, 38(9), 1209–1221. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167212446938
Lecture 6: Diversity and Hierarchy
Homan, A., Hollenbeck, J.R., Humphrey, S.E., Van Knippenberg, D., Ilgen, D.R., & Van Kleef, G. (2008). Facing differences with an open mind: Openness to experience, salience of intragroup differences, and performance of diverse work groups. Academy of Management Journal, 51, 1204-1222.
http://sfx.leidenuniv.nl:9003/sfx_local?volume=51&spage=1204&issn=0001-4273&year=2008&issue=6Homan, A. C., Gündemir, S., Buengeler, C., & van Kleef, G. A. (2020). Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000482
De Kwaadsteniet E.W. & Van Dijk E. (2010), Social status as a cue for tacit coordination, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 46: 515-524.
Greer, L. L., de Jong, B. A., Schouten, M. E., & Dannals, J. E. (2018). Why and when hierarchy impacts team effectiveness: A meta-analytic integration. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(6), 591-613.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000291
Contact information
Dr. Erik de Kwaadsteniet kwaadsteniet@fsw.leidenuniv.nl