Staff profile

Biography:

Karolina is Assistant Professor in Social and Organisational Psychology. She received her PhD from Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Germany (November 2019), and held posts at the LMU Center for Leadership and People Managament and the International Center for Leadership and Followership at Durham University Business School.

Karolina is passionate about leadership and followership, and her research has important implications on how to build, support and sustain successful leadership processes in teams and organisations. Karolina applies a predominantly social-cognitive perspective to leadership and followership, focusing on topics such as identity and cognition (e.g., leader identity development and change), as well as more dynamic perspecitves on leading and following (e.g., proactive followership, shared leadership). Beyond her academic role, Karolina collaborates as a workshop trainer with organizations in Germany and the UK on topics that span leadership and well-being.

Mini-Biography:

Karolina is Assistant Professor in Social and Organisational Psychology. Prior to joining the Department of Psychology, she was Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Leadership and Followership at Durham University Business School (2020-2022), and a Research Associate at the Center for Leadership and People Management at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Germany (2015-2019).

Student Supervision

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• Leader and follower identity dynamics
• Followership
• Shared leadership
• Employee voice behaviour

• Leadership and Followership
• Management & Marketing Department

Chapter in book

• Epitropaki, O., Acton, B. & Nieberle, K. (2023). Implicit Leadership and Followership Theories: From the leader/follower within and between to leaders/followers in plural and in flux. In The SAGE Handbook of Leadership. Schedlitzki, D. Larsson, M., Carroll, B., Bligh, M.C & Epitropaki, O. SAGE Publications.
• Nieberle, K. W. & Frey, D. (2021). Innovationen in der Hochschullehre: Wie können Lehrende begeistern und überzeugen? In Innovative Lehre an der Hochschule. Konzepte, Praxisbeispiele und Lernerfahrungen aus COVID-19. Frey, D. & Uemminghaus, M. Springer.
• Nieberle, K. W. (2020). Exkurs: Die Kommission überzeugen – gewusst wie! In Mit Erfolg zur Professur oder Dozentur: Ein Karriereratgeber mit über 180 Fragen und Antworten. Frey, D., Jauch, K.-W. & Stockkamp, M. Springer. 145-154.
• Pachler, D., Nieberle, K.W. & Frey, D. (2019). Studierende motivieren: Leistung mit Wertschätzung verbinden. Erkenntnisse aus Forschung und Praxis. In Methoden in der Hochschullehre: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus der Praxis. Noller, J., Beitz-Radzio, C., Kugelmann, D., Sontheimer, S. & Westerholz, S. Munich: Springer VS.

Journal Article

• Zheng, Xiaotong (Janey), Nieberle, Karolina W., Braun, Susanne & Schyns, Birgit (2023). Is Someone Looking Over My Shoulder? An Investigation into Supervisor Monitoring Variability, Subordinates’ Daily Felt Trust, and Well-being. Journal of Organizational Behavior
• Kuonath, A. Nossek, J., Nieberle, K. W., Kreitmeir, D. & Frey, D. (2021). Servant Leadership: How Daily and General Behaviors Interact. Journal of Personnel Psychology 20(4): 187-197.
• Kugler, S. & Nieberle, K. W. (2021). Mentale Gesundheit: Alles andere als nur gestresst am Arbeitsplatz. Personal in Hochschule und Wissenschaft entwickeln
• Nieberle, K. W., Acton, B. P., Braun, S. & Lord, Robert G. (2021). Modeling Identities in Context: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Leader-Follower Identities. Academy of Management Proceedings 2021(1): 13413.
• Nieberle, K. W. (2019). Innovationen herbei führen? Gemeinsam statt einsam! Shared Leadership für die (Hochschul-) Praxis. Personal in Hochschule und Wissenschaft entwickeln 5: 89-103.
• Braun, S. & Nieberle, K. W. (2017). Authentic leadership extends beyond work: A multilevel model of work-family conflict and enrichment. The Leadership Quarterly 28(6): 780-797.
• Haas, K., Fladerer, M. P. & Nieberle, K. (2017). Authentische Führung – Ein Überblick und aktuelle Entwicklungen. Wirtschaftspsychologie 19(1): 5-13.