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In nature I trust: Everyone else has to present data Welcome
to my home page! For information on the courses I am teaching see: Leadership Development
(MSc), Comportement Organisationnel
(BSc), and Structural
Equation Modelling (Ph.D). My
primary area of research is leadership--its antecedents and
consequences--studied from an applied psychology and management perspective.
Specific areas that interest me include leadership measurement and
development, social cognition (information processing as applied to ratings
of leaders), individual differences predictors of leadership and performance,
and research methods. I like to primarily use quantitative experimental and
cross-sectional methods and place a lot of emphasis on the use of
theoretically-driven quantitative empirical research. Why the
focus on leadership? Leadership is one of the social sciences most studied
phenomena. Unfortunately, too many popular works--not grounded in empirical
scientific findings--have been written about leadership, having either
created overly pessimistic or optimistic expectations about the utility of
leadership. Furthermore, too much money is wasted on programs or
models--propagated by unscrupulous consultants--that have not been
scientifically tested or don't work. Nowadays, the term is so cliché-laden
that many are rightly quite skeptical whether leadership really makes a
difference to organizational effectiveness, whether leadership potential can
be developed, or whether we can reliably assess personality traits associated
with effective leadership. However, after more than a century of research,
scholars have a good understanding of what constitutes good leadership, how
to measure it, and most importantly, are beginning to focus on how to develop
it. Furthermore, we are certain that leadership makes a difference--a big
difference to organizational effectiveness and the satisfaction of those with
whom leaders work. See my
latest podcast on “Endogeneity:
An inconvenient truth (yes, it is I with a shaved head!)” Take a
look at our book The Nature of Leadership--here is podcast about the book.
For a preview of the book’s contents see: Chapter 1
and Chapter
8 (on Transformational and Charismatic leadership). Check out the book on
Amazon John
Antonakis, Ph.D. Professor
of Organizational Behavior Department
of Organizational Behavior, University of Lausanne |
Some interesting stuff on my publications Potential master/doctoral students My citations on Google Scholar
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