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How to mitigate destructive leadership – Human resources-practices that mitigate Dark Triad leaders’ destructive tendencies (2022)
Book Chapter
Schyns, B., Gauglitz, I. K., Wisse, B., & Schütz, A. (2022). How to mitigate destructive leadership – Human resources-practices that mitigate Dark Triad leaders’ destructive tendencies. In D. Lusk, & T. L. Hayes (Eds.), Overcoming Bad Leadership in Organizations (251-276). Oxford University Press

Leaders with Dark Triad traits (Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism) are notorious for their display of destructive behaviour in interacting with their subordinates. It may be argued that organisations have the obligation to protect the org... Read More about How to mitigate destructive leadership – Human resources-practices that mitigate Dark Triad leaders’ destructive tendencies.

Implicit Leadership Theory (2017)
Book Chapter
Alabdulhadi, A., Schyns, B., & Staudigl, L. (2017). Implicit Leadership Theory. In E. Curtis, & J. Cullen (Eds.), Leadership and change for the health professional (20-36). Open University Press

For over a hundred years, leadership has been an interesting topic for scholars and practitioners who try to understand what makes a good leader and effective leadership. Even today, the word "leadership" appears in the media almost every day and see... Read More about Implicit Leadership Theory.

Implicit Leadership Theories (2016)
Book Chapter
Schyns, B., & Riggio, R. (2016). Implicit Leadership Theories. In A. Farazmand (Ed.), Global encyclopedia of public administration, public policy, and governance (1-7). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2186-1

While leadership is often seen as what leaders do, more recent work in this area acknowledges that leadership is a process of interaction between different actors (i.e., leaders and followers) and the environment. This notion of a process of interact... Read More about Implicit Leadership Theories.

Führung. (2011)
Book Chapter
Kerschreiter, R., Schyns, B., & Frey, D. (2011). Führung. In D. Frey, & H. Bierhoff (Eds.), Sozialpsychologie – Interaktion und Gruppe (Band 22). Hogrefe

Implicit theory of leadership (2006)
Book Chapter
Schyns, B. (2006). Implicit theory of leadership. In S. Rogelberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of industrial and organizational psychology (334-335). SAGE Publications

Der Einfluß von impliziten Führungstheorien und Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen auf die Wahrnehmung und Akzeptanz transformationaler Führung (The influence of implicit leadership theories and personality on the perception and acceptance of transformational leadership). (2004)
Book Chapter
Felfe, J., & Schyns, B. (2004). Der Einfluß von impliziten Führungstheorien und Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen auf die Wahrnehmung und Akzeptanz transformationaler Führung (The influence of implicit leadership theories and personality on the perception and acceptance of transformational leadership). In W. Bungard, B. Koop, & C. Liebig (Eds.), Psychologie und Wirtschaft leben. Aktuelle Themen der Wirtschaftspsychologie in Forschung und Praxis. Hampp