Sovereign Institute for Strategic Leadership

Experts and Research

Robin Abramson

Abramson advises both senior and emerging leaders in organizations such as Citigroup, TD AMERITRADE, Capital One, Merrill Lynch, Royal Bank of Canada, Deloitte, The Women's Bond Club, Merck Germany, McDonald's, State Farm, and the United States Olympic Committee.

Abramson is particularly interested in how her clients' leadership styles affect their relationships, reputations, and results. She is often asked to advise leaders who are trying to navigate the political landscape of an organization; leaders who are looking for credible ways to communicate; leaders who seek unique ways to develop and motivate the people around them; or leaders who need to handle difficult conversations more strategically. She is recognized by many senior Wall Street executives for providing practical and insightful counsel to help them communicate leadership credibility, and create the support needed to achieve goals.

Before joining CRA, Robin received a first hand look at how leaders negotiate relationships and power in Washington, D.C., working at Hill & Knowlton Communication & Public Affairs. She was also part of Andersen Business Consulting in Philadelphia, Pa.

Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Ph.D.

Jeffrey H. Greenhaus is the William A. Mackie Professor in the Department of Management. His research, which focuses on work-family relationships and career dynamics, has been published in many of the field's leading journals. In addition, Dr. Greenhaus is co-author of Career Management, now in its third edition, and Work and Family–Allies or Enemies, and is co-editor of Integrating Work and Family: Challenges and Choices for a Changing World and the Encyclopedia of Career Development. He serves on the editorial review boards of Human Relations, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Managerial Issues, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology.

Research

"Sex, gender, and the family?work interface: A decision-making perspective" with Gary Powell

"Relationships of work involvement, work overload, and absence of young children with work hours for men and women business professionals" with Ann Peng and Tammy Allen<

"When family-supportive supervision matters: Relationships between multiple sources of support and work-family balance" with Jonathan Ziegert and Tammy Allen

"Job search and voluntary turnover in a boundary-less world: A control theory perspective" with Marco DiRenzo

"The relationship between job level and the work-family interface" with Marco DiRenzo and Christy Weer

"Commitment to nonwork roles and job performance: An examination of enrichment and conflict perspectives" with Christy Weer

"A meta-analysis of the antecedents of the positive interdependencies between work and family roles" with Michael Kwan, Marco DiRenzo, Tyra Shao, and Chan Park

Robert W. Keidel, Ph.D.

Robert W. Keidel is a visiting associate professor of Management. He also is principal of Robert Keidel Associates, a consulting firm based in Philadelphia. A former corporate manager and Naval officer (Vietnam veteran), he was a Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and a program consultant at the National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life.

Keidel's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Management Science, and several other academic and practitioner-oriented journals. He is the author Game Plans: Sports Strategies for Business; Corporate Players; Designs for Working and Winning Together; and Seeing Organizational Patterns: A New Theory and Language of Organizational Design, which was nominated for the Academy of Management's 1996 George R. Terry Book Award. His fourth book, The Geometry of Strategy: Concepts for Strategic Management, will be published by Routledge in 2010.

Frank Linnehan, Ph.D.

Dr. Frank Linnehan is an Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and a Professor of Management. Dr. Linnehan's research interests include school-to-work transitions for high school and college students, adult-youth mentoring, Affirmative Action, Equal Employment and workforce diversity initiatives. He has published articles in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management Journal and Academy of Management Journal.

Prior to joining Drexel, Dr. Linnehan worked for 17 years in line and Human Resource positions in the financial services industry.

Research

"High school guidance counselor recommendations: The role of student race, socioeconomic status and academic performance" with Weer, C. and Stonely, P., Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

"Is ignorance bliss? Race and awareness of racial harassment at work" with Chrobot-Mason, D., Ragins, B.R. Accepted for presentation at National Academy of Management conference, Chicago, 2009.

"A moderated, mediation model of e-mentoring" with DiRenzo, M., Shao, T & Rosenberg, W. Accepted for presentation at National Academy of Management conference, Chicago, 2009.

Christian J. Resick, Ph.D.

Dr. Christian Resick is an Assistant Professor of Management. His research examines the psychological mechanisms linking people and environments, with a particular focus on leadership processes and influence. More specifically, Dr. Resick's research focuses on: the impact of executive leaders' personality and leadership styles on the culture and effectiveness of the organizations they lead; the meaning, endorsement, and enactment of ethics-based leadership across cultures, the roles of team leadership and composition in the emergence of effective teamwork cognitions and behaviors; and the fit between people and the organizations they work for, and the implications for employee attraction, retention, and motivation.

Research

"The bright-side and the dark-side of CEO personality: Examining core self-evaluations, narcissism, transformational leadership, and strategic influence" with Whitman, D. S., Weingarden, S. M., and Hiller, N.J. To appear in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

"Culture, corruption, and the endorsement of ethical leadership" with Mitchelson, J. K., Dickson, M. W., and Hanges, P. J. To appear in Advances in Global Leadership (Vol. V)

"Leadership and organizational culture: Linking CEO characteristics to cultural values" with Giberson, T.R., Dickson, M.W., Mitchelson, J.K., Randall, K.K., and Clark, M.A. To appear in the Journal of Business and Psychology.

"Ethical leadership across cultures: A comparative analysis of German and U.S. perspectives" with Martin, G. S., Keating, M. A., and Dickson, M. W. Business Ethics: A European Review, 18(2), 127-144.

"Seeking explanations in people not in the results of their behavior: Twenty-plus years of the Attraction-Selection-Attrition Model" with Dickson, M. W., and Goldstein, H. W. The People Make the Place: Exploring Dynamic Linkages Between Individuals and Organizations (pp 5-36). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Jonathan Ziegert, Ph.D.

Dr. Jonathan Ziegert is an Assistant Professor of Management. His research primarily focuses on leadership and group processes with secondary emphasis on the areas of attraction to organizations and stereotypes and biases. Within the area of leadership and group processes, he assesses how leaders influence teams and organizations. In particular, Dr. Ziegert examines how leadership is shared within a unit and the resulting impact on processes and ultimate performance. He has published research focusing on these issues in the Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Human Performance.

Research

"Adaptation of team communication patterns: Exploring the effects of leadership at a distance, task urgency, and shared team experience" with Xiao, Y.; Seagull, F. J.; Mackenzie, C. F.; and Klein, K. J. (2007) In S. P. Weisband (Ed.), Leadership at a Distance (pp. 71-93). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

"Dynamic delegation: Shared, hierarchical, and deindividualized leadership in extreme action teams" with Klein, K. J., Knight, A. P., and Xiao, Y. (2006) Administrative Science Quarterly, 51, 590-621.

"Why are individuals attracted to organizations?" with Ehrhart, K. H. (2005) Journal of Management, 31, 901-919.

"Employment discrimination: The role of implicit attitudes, motivation, and a climate for racial bias" with Hanges, P. J. (2005) Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, 553 – 562.

"Leader development and change over time: A conceptual integration and exploration of research challenges" with Klein, K. J. (2004). In D. Day, S. J. Zaccaro, & S. M. Halpin (Eds.), Leader development for transforming organizations: Growing leaders for tomorrow (pp. 359 – 382). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

"Understanding racial differences on cognitive ability tests in selection contexts: An integration of stereotype threat and applicant reactions research" with Ployhart, R. E. and McFarland, L. A. (2003) Human Performance, 16, 231 – 259.

"The human side of strategy: Employee experiences of strategic alignment in a service organization" with Schneider, B.; Godfrey, E. G.; Hayes, S. C.; Huang, M.; Lim, B.C.; Nishii, L. H.; and Raver, J. L. (2003) Organizational Dynamics, 32, 122 – 141.