Professor Karen Niven
BSc, MSc, PhD
Management School
Head of Work Psychology Subject Group
Professor of Organisational Psychology
+44 114 222 0987
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Management School
B038
91Ö±²¥ University Management School
Conduit Road
91Ö±²¥
S10 1FL
- Profile
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I am a Professor of Organisational Psychology. I joined 91Ö±²¥ University Management School in March 2022. Prior to this, I was a Professor and Head of the Organisational Psychology Group at Alliance Manchester Business School.
My research focuses on social relationships in the workplace, particularly how people influence the emotions of those around them and the 'darker' side of relationships (e.g. bullying, aggression). I have published in a range of organisational psychology, management and social psychology journals and co-edited two popular science books.
I currently hold an Associate Editor role at Organizational Psychology Review and serve on the Editorial Review Boards of Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Human Relations, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Outside of work, my time is mainly spent parenting two small children, baking, and helping to renovate the dilapidated wreck my family and I like to call home!
- Qualifications
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PhD Psychology - University of 91Ö±²¥
MSc Work Psychology - University of 91Ö±²¥
BSc Psychology - University of Leeds
- Research interests
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My research focuses on social relationships in the workplace. I have two key research areas:
- Interpersonal emotion regulation
- Workplace mistreatment
My research on interpersonal emotion regulation focuses on understanding how and why we try to manage other people's emotions. Current projects include studying how the effects of interpersonal emotion regulation 'spill over' between work and home and 'cross over' between partners, and exploring the role of factors like personality and age in shaping people's ability to manage others' feelings.
In the area of mistreatment, my current research focuses on understanding how bystanders behave when they witness acts of mistreatment and exploring the role of targets' coping strategies in shaping ongoing mistreatment processes such as bullying.
I use a variety of methods, including diary studies, social network analysis, longitudinal and dyadic surveys, experimental designs and interventions.
My research has been funded by the ESRC, UKRI, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and the Richard Benjamin Trust. I collaborate with colleagues in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Chile, Canada, USA and Australia.
- Publications
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Books
- Workplace moods and emotions: A review of research. CreateSpace.
- Should I Strap a Battery to My Head? (And Other Questions 91Ö±²¥ Emotion). CreateSpace.
Edited books
Journal articles
- . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(4).
- . Work & Stress.
- . Applied Psychology.
- . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(16).
- . Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 27(1), 119-135.
- . Work and Stress.
- . Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(9), 1168-1185.
- . Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 26(5), 374-392.
- . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(14).
- . Human Resource Management Review.
- . Journal of Personnel Psychology, 19(2), 97-101.
- . Emotion, 20(1), 63-67.
- . Human Relations, 73(12), 1718-1746.
- . European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 28(6), 820-830.
- . Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 92(4), 787-805.
- . Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 92(4), 1020-1026.
- . Journal of Vocational Behavior, 110, 286-302.
- . Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 3(2), 85-96.
- . Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 24(2), 286-296.
- . European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 27(5), 642-656.
- . Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(9), 1129-1141.
- . Journal of Vocational Behavior, 107, 71-85.
- . Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 89-93.
- . Journal of Organizational Behavior, 37(8), 1150-1177.
- . Emotion, 16(6), 798-802.
- . Work, Employment and Society, 30(5), 783-801.
- . Organizational Psychology Review, 6(4), 305-323.
- . Emotion, 16(4), 449-458.
- . Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(5), 673-686.
- . Journal of Business Ethics, 137(1), 115-127.
- . Information and Organization, 25(4), 222-232.
- . European Journal of Personality, 29(1), 72-82.
- . Journal of Business and Psychology, 30(4), 733-745.
- . Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 45(3), 132-138.
- . Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28(2), 274-278.
- . Cognition & Emotion, 27(1), 133-140.
- . European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 22(1), 88-106.
- . Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 86(1), 67-84.
- . Journal of Business Ethics, 115(3), 617-634.
- . Work & Stress, 26(2), 112-129.
- . Human Relations, 65(6), 777-805.
- . The Journal of Social Psychology, 152(2), 246-260.
- . Current Psychology, 30(1), 53-73.
- Our emotional neighbourhoods. Psychologist, 23(6), 474-477.
- Changing moods and influencing people: The use and effects of emotional influence behaviours at HMP Grendon. Prison Service Journal, 173, 39-45.
- A Dual-Process Model of the Effects of Segmentation on Work-Nonwork Conflict. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
- . Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
- . European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1-14.
- . Frontiers in Psychology, 6.
- . International Journal of Stress Management, 22(2), 207-221.
- . Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8.
- . Frontiers in Psychology, 3.
- . Emotion, 9(4), 498-509.
Chapters
- The bystanders of workplace bullying In Einarsen S, Hoel H, Zapf D & Cooper CL (Ed.), Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace Theory, Research and Practice CRC Press
- Emotional labor at the unit-level In Grandey A, Diefendorff J & Rupp DE (Ed.), Emotional Labor in the 21st Century: Diverse Perspectives on Emotion Regulation at Work Routledge Academic
- , A Day in the Life of a Happy Worker (pp. 158-177). Psychology Press
- Emotional influence and empathy in prison-based therapeutic communities In Shuker R & Sullivan E (Ed.), Grendon and the Emergence of Forensic Therapeutic Communities (pp. 233-246). Wiley
- Affect regulation and well-being in the workplace: An international perspective In Antoniou A-SG (Ed.), Handbook of Managerial Behavior and Occupational Health (pp. 218-228). Edward Elgar Publishing
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