More in 2024

As we near the end of the year, we take time to reflect on our journey together as the PLAID Lab and “More with Jamie Gloor” (evidence-based consulting, keynotes, and wokshops)—separate entities with overlapping interests and visions for a more inclusive world of responsible leadership. Here are some highlights:

More research and insights on leadership and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI): We were delighted to publish a new paper analyzing the advice top scholars received—and the advice they took—with an all-star lineup of scholars in a top outlet here in the field: Journal of Management. In doing so, we hoped to paint a more inclusive and responsible picture of what it takes to become and be a successful management scholar while also providing “meta advice” on how to give better advice.

Eugenia Bajet Mestre and Prof. Dr. Jamie Gloor (led by Prof. Dr. Brooke Gazdag, coauthored with Profs. Drs. Cecile Emery and Sebastian Tidemann) explored women’s representation in management research over time, analyzing ±400,000 data points from 11 top management journals over 33 years. Results revealed few women (23.7%) leading top management journals; there was also little evidence that these women directly or consistently influenced women’s representation at lower levels (i.e., "trickle-down effects"). However, the patterns revealed a particularly "leaky pipeline" in the transition from associate to editor-in-chief. For more information, see the full text here.

As editors of the upcoming special issue, Prof. Dr. Jamie Gloor (together with Profs. Drs. Fabiola Gerpott, Brett Neely, and Scott Tonidandel) published a call for papers on gender and leadership here in The Leadership Quarterly. Send your best work using diverse methods, from various disciplines, using different approaches by May 4, 2025.

Dr. Mihwa Seong also published a paper from her PhD (with Simon Parker at Ivey) on how gendered wording can affect joiners of start-ups here in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Finally, while research tends to attribute changes to team diversification to the new members (i.e., women), this overlooks the if and how of existing members’ (i.e., men) changes. “Shifting the gaze,” Profs. Drs. Corinne Post, Jamie Gloor, and Kris Byron (with stellar research assistance from Eugenia Bajet Mestre) published a new review piece here in Current Opinion in Psychology.

Huong Pham, Mihwa Seong, and Jamie Gloor at Academy of Management in Chicago (among 10,000+ other management scholars and practitioners)

More changes to our team:

After a whirlwind Academy of Management Conference in Chicago (and the PLAID Labbers except for Tamara + Prof. Dr. Isabelle Engeler surprisingly winning the prestigious “Phillips & Nadkarni Best Paper on Diversity & Cognition Award” 🏆 as shown to the left with Burac Oc and Beth Livingston from the AOM MOC leadership)…

…our 2 amazing PLAID Lab post-docs were both promoted to Assistant Professors in different countries! Dr. Mihwa Seong (second from the left below) took a post at Kings College London in England while Dr. Huong Pham (in the middle) accepted an offer at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt in Germany. The first branches of our academic family tree are strong and we we wish them well as we also look forward to continuing our collaborations on playfulness to bridge diversity, how ambiguous behaviors (e.g., humor, flirting, and compliments) shape well-being, follower responses to leader work-family conflict, and upward inclusion.

Eugenia Bajet Mestre, Mihwa Seong, Huong Pham, and Jamie Gloor in front of HSG’s Haus Washington in St.Gallen

Our external PhD candidate, Tamara Kern (first on the left), also moved from Munich to the U.S. as part of her duties at Magna but will continue working with us from abroad to finish her PhD analyzing an inclusive leadership intervention.

Eugenia Bajet Mestre (second from the right) and Prof. Dr. Jamie Gloor (first from the right) moved on up at the University of St.Gallen, joining the inspiring Institute of Responsible Innovation (IRI; most of the members shown on our recent team hiking event in Appenzell below). In addition to being 3 floors up (our offices were formerly in CCDI at FIM: thanks again for hosting us—especially the folks in the photo above and the CCDI management team), IRI is more focused on cutting-edge research under the direction of leading scholars: Profs. Drs. Charlotta Siren (front) and Vivianna He (center with Charlie the dog). Follow us on LinkedIn here or find out more information about the institute, our research, and our courses here.

Several of the IRI folks for our fall team event: a hike and a meal together in lovely (but rainy) Appenzell.

Jamie Gloor was also honored to present her research on sustainable leadership and narcissism at Oxford University (Said Business School) and actively participate in the Responsible Research in Business and Management Summit at Cambridge University.

More challenges to doing the work of DEI: Some loud voices might want you to think that diversity, equity, and inclusion are “dead”—they are unnecessary, unfair, and without value in modern organizations or leadership. Yet now more than ever do we need to band together, because diversity is already a given while equity and inclusion are the pathways to recruiting and retaining talent and leveraging the value of our ever-increasing employee diversity. See here for a short talk Jamie Gloor gave on the topic for the St.Galler Diversity & Inclusion Day in September.

Curious for more? See here for a longer (47min.) talk on the “Science of DEI” Prof. Dr. Jamie Gloor gave this fall at the EAWAG Aquatic Research Institute.

More exchange with practice: In their service as active University of St.Gallen employees, Eugenia Bajet Mestre and Jamie Gloor offered talks and workshops on topics such as allyship and “breaking the ice on microaggressions” together with the WASH student group. Jamie Gloor and coauthors also published a practical compliment to their piece which is also now published in print in the Journal of Management on how bystanders can act as allies to reduce subtle, interpersonal discrimination toward women at work here in the Harvard Business Review.

Thanks to photographer Raphael Schnell.

In addition, as part of her activities with “More with Jamie Gloor", Jamie Gloor keynoted on (male) allyship for international pharmaceutical companies in Luzern and Visp, discussed how smart leaders are funny leaders (for Smart Government Day at Google Zurich), talked about the nexus between humor and DEI (e.g., for FernUni Schweiz), and—you guessed it—more!

Eugenia Bajet Mestre spoke for Hello 50:50 world advocating for more women in STEM, while Tamara Kern and Dr. Huong Pham also contributed “Inclusive Leadership: A Dynamic Dialogue on DE&I Resistance Between Research & Practice” here (also below) at the St.Galler Diversity & Inclusion Week.

More teaching today’s (and tomorrow’s) talents: Together with Prof. Dr. Anna Elsner, Prof. Dr. Jamie Gloor developed and delivered a new course called, “Time is Money?” for bachelors students. Starting in Kunsthaus Zurich and including field trips to St.Gallen Hospice and up the Climate Stairs, they critically explored the idiom from interdisciplinary perspectives and what it means for them as they begin their academic and professional careers. Eugenia Bajet Mestre also guest lectured on diversity for a sustainability course at the University of St.Gallen while new Asst. Profs. Seong and Pham launched their teaching at their new unis—off to a running start!

For executives and leaders, Jamie Gloor also offered a custom, on-site program on inclusive leadership for an international refractory products/servies supplier in Vienna, as well as impluse keynotes in St.Gallen on hot topics for SMEs such as humor and Artificial Intelligence.

Jamie Gloor was also lucky to coach several outstanding thesis students, including Emily Cognet Fante (on humor and well-being, with valuable assistance from Dr. Mihwa Seong), Romyna Wirth (on humor and leadership), and Leandra Schulin (on “maybe baby” bias).

Finally, Jamie Gloor discussed how children should stand up for each other in tough times to prevent bullying at school, including guest speaker and FC St.Gallen player Franziska Gauss, while Eugenia Bajet Mestre and Judith Scholtz (both of IRI-HSG) helped with crowd (and paper airplane) control. ;-) Hoping to have inspired some of these to “be the light” in the darkness to curb bullying and its negative effects, because as Franziska underlined, we need all kinds of people to be successful.

More community and bridge building: Academia can be lonely with days spent reading, writing, and reviewing: just you and your laptop. But "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives" (Annie Dillard)--and we were so incredibly lucky to spend 3 days of our lives together with stellar scholars in an awe-inspiring, 838-year-old Swiss monastery! We pomodoroed, science slammed, caught up, and critically discussed our research and careers. Amazing women traveled from the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and beyond to join us and support our dual mission of rigorous, responsible management research and fostering more encouraging, inclusive research communities. Thanks to the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF for Jamie Gloor’s scientific exchange grant that made all of this possible.

From left to right in the main photo (above) are some of our participants: Jamie Gloor, Kris Byron, Mary Hausfeld, Enrica Ruggs, Anna Jasinenko, Laura Giurge, AK Ward, Lauren Howe, and Laura Little. In the photos below, you can also find Deanne Den Hartog, Corinne Post, Vivianne He, Charlotta Siren, Silvia Strohe, Samira Nazar, and Ivona Hideg.

More still to come: We have several more exciting developments, invited revisions, upcoming events, as well as innovative projects in the works. Stay tuned!

Last but not least, more gratitude, too: Thank *YOU* for being a part of our journey! Thanks to the HSG SOM dean’s office for putting in the admin muscle, to HSG HR with all of our personnel changes, as well as to Thomas Remplfer and Felix Germann for their invaluable help from HSG finance with our accounting and reporting admin.

Thank *YOU* for being a collaborator or reader of our work, a fellow scholar, a participant in our studies, an ally, a leader putting in the work for more DEI at work, an organizational partner inviting us for exchange or to share the science about evidence-based DEI and leadership, and/or supporter more broadly.

It takes a village—thanks for being part of our village! ❤️

Reconnect, refocus, and re-search to close the year

This week, we all met in the scenic and serene Kloster Kappel for a writing retreat.

We set goals and shared our values, enjoyed several productive pomodoro sessions, hosted a research presentation by YeJin Park (NYU), cruised the Christmas market in Zug, meditated, stretched, and enjoyed several healthy meals and conversations.

Feeling very grateful for this group and this opportunity.

Swiss Summit on Leadership, Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity (2023) in Zurich

Thanks again to the 52 folks from universities (e.g., University of St.Gallen, University of Zurich, University of Geneva, London Business School, DCU Business School, Purdue University, Copenhagen Business School, ETH Zürich, University of Lausanne - UNIL, University of Konstanz, etc.) and practice (e.g., PwC, Femmes Juristes Suisse - Juristinnen Schweiz, & Adecco) who joined our inaugural, interdisciplinary summit on leadership, diversity, and inclusion last week in Zurich! 🙌

We explored questions related to emotional diversity, work-family, women's charisma, going beyond the gender binary, virtual inclusive leadership, mature workers, humor/well-being in flat hierarchies, sexual harassment, maternity & "maybe baby" bias, interventions for more equity at work, (male) allyship, authenticity (when, why, & for whom?), sustainable leadership, new methods (e.g., avatars and prospective meta-analyses), and more! 🤓

Our aim was to share knowledge and foster connections--especially for our early career scholars--within and beyond 🇨🇭, within and beyond academia 💡. Check out this amazing video summary of the event from the talented Sophie Moser’s perspective (PhD student at the University of Konstanz).

Thanks again to all who joined--especially our super bright PhD students and post-docs 🌟 (all here with their talk titles and affiliations: https://lnkd.in/e7ghkEV3), experienced moderator and expert panelists (e.g., Gudrun Sander, Prof. Dr., Franciska Krings, Liana Melchenko, Joséphine Marmy, Christiane Löwe, & Jacques Berent, PhD), stellar keynotes by Janine Bosak, Thekla Morgenroth (+ special shout-out to Florence Villesèche)--and last, but not least, my ever-engaged and talented co-organizers: Lauren Howe & Clara Kulich. 🙏 (2 of us shown here, since Lauren was unfortunately sick.)

Gratitude for all involved, especially our funding from SNSF Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Zurich, Geneva School of Economics and Management - UNIGE, Competence Centre for Diversity & Inclusion (CCDI-FIM) - University of St.Gallen (HSG), assistance from UZH Digital Society Initiative, & Brice Olivier Mbigna Mbakop. 🙏 While every one did a stellar job, I was particularly proud of my team’s stellar representation from the PLAID lab at CCDI (FIM-HSG; see below).

On the far left, you also see our new post-doc: Huong Pham. She finished her dissertation at LMU and brings methods expertise and interests in leader-follower granting processes. Dr. Pham will lead a paper on leader signalling via sports in our Swiss National Science Foundation Project. Welcome to the team, Huong!

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Award-Winning Research

Our research on work-family conflict and shocks/set-backs seems to have resonated with reviewers at the Academy of Management 2020.

“Help when dads need somebody? Follower reactions to leader work-family conflict” has won “Best Paper” from the Organizational Behavior (OB) division. This work was authored by Jamie Gloor (University of Exeter & University of Zurich), Susanne Braun (Durham University), Jenny Hoobler (University of Pretoria), and Claudia Peus (Technical University of Munich).*

“Critical events at a critical time: Setbacks and shocks in early academic career stages” has won “Best Symposium” from the Management Education and Development (MED) division. This work was organized by Stephanie Rehbock (Technical University of Munich) and Jamie Gloor (University of Exeter & University of Zurich); it also included a paper, “Men and Women’s Identity Work in response to Private- and Work-Shocks Over Time” (also coauthored by Stephanie Rehbock, Jamie Gloor, & Ronit Kark - Bar Ilan University).*

*Unfortunately, the latter two could not be listed in the formal program due to AOM’s rule-of-three.

overworked and under-familied to advance "overworked & under-familied"

It seems ironic that I was just working long hours away from my family to finish up a paper titled, “Overworked and under-familied?”

But other than the computer system failure in Dusseldorf airport on my way over, my recent 25-hour visit with my coauthor, Professor Susanne Braun, at Durham University Business School was a very efficient, productive, and fun time! Durham has several renowned leadership scholars such as Bob Lord and Olga Epitropaki, as well as several super OCB and proactivity folks–just what our paper needed. The town itself is also an idyllic English vision–complete with a castle, cathedral, and several pubs where you can accidentally stumble upon quiz night…

Now I’m looking forward to seeing some of these scholars again in Korfu for our upcoming Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium (where I met many of them last year), as well as finishing up and submitting this paper. Thanks again, Susanne and Durham Business School!

She travelled 13,000KM, so I travelled 300.

Prof. Jenny Hoobler, renowned researcher of gender, leadership, and work-family intersections, recently travelled 13,000KM from Pretoria, South Africa to visit Prof. Brooke Gazdag at LMU in Munich. As a long-time admirer of Jenny’s work as well as a coauthor and friend of Brooke’s, I also made the 300KM trip to discuss ideas and experiences (over beers–it was in Munich, after all), and enjoy her presentation of her recent Journal of Management paper for the Institute for Leadership and Organization.

Per usual, it was an absolute delight to see everyone (including catching up with many members of my awesome former TUM team), and I left with more energy, enthusiasm, and insights for my research and its implications. Dankie/danke, Jenny and Brooke, and the whole LMU crew!

AMJ Paper & Idea Workshop in Paris

On September 21, I presented “Laugh it up? Interpersonal and career effects of humor” in the selective Academy of Management Journal Paper & Idea Development Workshop at ESSEC Business School in Paris La Défense.

AMJ editor-in-chief Jason Shaw, deputy editor Marc Gruber (also from Switzerland!), and 6 other Associate Editors (e.g., Brian L. Connelly, Pursey Heugens, Sucheta Nadkarni, Anthony J. Nyberg, Zeki Simsek, and Balagopal (Bala) Vissa) convened from across the world to provide feedback on 24 international scholars' research.

It was an intense but inspiring and fun experience. Now to get to work incorporating feedback on my (eventual) AMJ submission…

"Improving Lives" @AOM 2018 in Chicago

78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

The 5-day Academy of Management (AOM) Conference just concluded in Chicago, USA. With more than 11,000 experts from around the world, I joined 6 of my Munich team members and my UZH team member to actively engage in scholarly conversations about ways that leaders and organizations can improve employee well-being as well as our society as a whole.

Together with Claudia Peus (TUM), I organized a symposium on early career (female) leaders and fit, drawing from leading international scholars from China, Colombia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, and the USA. Together with Xinxin Li and Sandy Lim (NUS), I presented a new experimental study on gender, parenthood, and selective incivility at work. Finally, through the OB early career faculty workshop, the leadership research incubator and the GDO early career faculty paper workshop, I received invaluable advice on other papers, including my new humor project with Agnes Baeker (UZH).

It was fantastic to reconnect with colleagues and coauthors, make new connections over shared curiosities, start some new projects, and see a little bit of Chicago. However, 5 days of packed schedules with 11,000+ conference-goers and a 7-hour time change is enough to make even this extreme extrovert a bit tired...

Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

I attended the the 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management held August 7-11, 2015 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The program theme was Opening Governance. The 2015 theme invites members to consider opportunities to improve the effectiveness and creativity of organizations by restructuring systems at the highest organizational levels, and to try to answer the many questions organizational governance faces in today's digital and informational climate.

Together with colleagues from Germany (Aline Hernandez Bark, Goethe), Switzerland (Levke Henningsen, UZH psychology), and the United States (Avina Gupta, NYU), we also presented a symposium on gender and leadership with our stellar discussant from Yale Business School, Professor Victoria Brescoll (see below). I also presented a paper coauthored with Tyler Okimoto, Anja Feierabend, and Bruno Staffelbach on Young women are risky business? The “Maybe Baby” effect in employment decisions. 

Pictured left to right: Dr. Alina Hernandez Bark (Goethe Institute), Jamie Gloor, Professor Tori Brescoll (Yale University), Levke Henningsen (UZH) and Dr. Avina Gupta (Deloitte Consulting).

The Stigma of Disease and Disability

A chapter featuring Rebecca Puhl (Yale) and my obesity stigma research was just published In Corrigan's edited issue The Stigma of Disease and Disability published by the American Psychological Association.