NewsIf your organisation wants more women at the top, you will not succeed just by appointing a few women to top-level positions, claim Leiden researchers. You would be better off changing the sexist organisational culture, because this creates ‘queen bee’ behaviour, where women fight for their own position rather than for their gender.
Professor Christine Mummery has been appointed Board Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Professor Naomi Ellemers will become a member of KNAW.
On Monday 27 September 2010 Spinoza prize winners Naomi Ellemers, Ineke Sluiter, Marijn Franx (Leiden) and Piet Gros (Utrecht) announced their plans for their €2.5 million prize money. This was during the official ceremony in The Hague, at which the outgoing Secretary of State for Education, Culture and Science, Marja van Bijsterveldt, presented them with their prizes.
Naomi Ellemers, Professor of Social Psychology of Organisations, is one of the four winners of the Spinoza Prize for 2010. ‘This is absolutely fantastic – something that as a researcher you hardly dare to dream of !’
Naomi Ellemers studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Groningen, where she completed her PhD on ‘identity management strategies’ in 1991. She was assistant professor and associate professor in social psychology at the Free University in Amsterdam until 1999, when she was appointed full professor of social and organizational psychology at the University of Leiden.
Due to ethnic diversity and globalization, conflicts between individuals are increasingly characterized by differences in core values between parties with different socio-cultural identities. Value conflicts can create interpersonal and intergroup tension at different levels of society. Fieke Harinck recently received an NWO conflict and safety grant, and with this grant she is planning to investigate how value conflict develop, when they escalate, and how they can be resolved
Naomi Ellemers, Professor of Social Psychology of the Organisation, is to receive the first KNAW Merian award for women in science in recognition of her excellent scientific research and her active commitment to equal opportunities for women in academia.
During this year's Dies celebrations, Professor Susan Fiske has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by her honorary supervisor, Professor Naomi Ellemers. The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences has organised a symposium focusing on the work of psychologist Professor Fiske.
Special guest: Professor Susan T. Fiske, Department of Psychology of Princeton University, and Honorary Doctor of Leiden University since the Dies Natalis 2009.
Wednesday 22 September 2010, Prof.dr. Craig Parks, Washington State University, USA: Individual-level Influences on Cooperative Behavior.
Symposium 'Pride, Respect, and Work Motivation'. Key note speaker is Professor Tom Tyler, New York University, on 'Identity and intragroup dynamics'. Everyone is welcome!
Volunteers play a key role in many organisations. Yet, little is known about their recruitment and motivation. Emphasising the success of a volunteer organisation is often counter-productive as it can give the impression that there is no need for new volunteers, Edwin Boezeman has established from his doctoral research.
Tuesday 16 December, Dr. Marieke de Vries of Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Medical Decision Making, on: 'Mood Matters in Judgment and Decision Making. Tuning in to Deliberation and Intuition.'
Monday 10 November 2008, Dr. Gwenda Simons (University of Oxford) on 'The choices we make: 'The impact of other people’s affective communications on our decisions.'
Prof.dr. Naomi Ellemers, Social and Organisational Psychology was awarded the Kurt Lewin Award.
'Women suffer more as a result of subtle sexism than as a result of blatant gender discrimination. The subtle forms of discrimination affect one's self-image, which lowers performance. Victims can come to think that they have been justifiably rejected,' states social-psychologist Sezgin Cihangir.
‘Too one-sided and too negative.' Social and organisational psychologist Elianne van Steenbergen rejects the common assumption that work and private roles conflict with one another. 'The two roles can actually be mutually beneficial.'
What do you do when your own interests clash with those of the group to which you belong? Social psychologist Erik de Kwaadsteniet has been researching the choices people make in this kind of social dilemma. He has defended his dissertation on 9 October 2007.