Lena Knappert

Lena Knappert
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | VU ·  Department of Management & Organization Studies

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September 2014 - present
Özyeğin University
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
Description
  • Teaching undergrad, MSc, MBA, and EMBA courses on Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, and Business Ethics
September 2014 - present
Özyeğin University
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
Description
  • Workplace diversity and inclusion, international human resource management, performance management, expatriates and host country nationals, cross-cultural research methods, and evaluations
February 2014 - June 2014
Grenoble Ecole de Management
Position
  • Visiting faculty
Description
  • Teaching 'International Recruitment' in the MSc Program 'International Human Resource Management'
Education
June 2009 - June 2013
ESCP Business School
Field of study
  • International Human Resource Management
September 2001 - July 2007
Universität Potsdam
Field of study
  • Psychology

Publications

Publications (37)
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When implementing performance management (PM) on a global level, MNEs face the challenge of balancing global standardization and local adaptation. Many MNEs favor standardization, since it promises similar worldwide approaches and smoother cooperation. As an orientation for standardization efforts, the literature provides so-called ‘best practices’...
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This study investigates gender-specific preferences in one important human resource management (HRM) practice—namely, global performance management (GPM). GPM has major consequences for the career advancement of women and can therefore also represent a barrier if it is rooted in traditional male corporate cultures. As prior research suggests that t...
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The vast majority of the literature on performance management (PM) chooses a contextual perspective, focusing on the cross-country comparison of single elements of the PM system. Simultaneously, a conceptual basis and an encompassing comprehension of country-specific peculiarities are lacking. Based on a suggested conceptualization of the elements...
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Coworking is a rapidly growing worldwide phenomenon. While the coworking movement emphasises equality and emancipation, there is little known about the extent to which coworking spaces as new forms of organising live up to this ideal. This study examines inequality in coworking spaces in the Netherlands, employing Acker’s framework of inequality re...
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Despite the central role of employment for integration, refugees are particularly vulnerable to under- and unemployment, and are more likely to find themselves in precarious working conditions compared to host country residents. Frequently discussed reasons for this are, for example, legal restrictions, health issues, and non-recognition of qualifi...
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Leader behavior is essential for creating inclusive organizations. The disruptive context of the COVID‐19 pandemic forced many people to work remotely and leaders to cope with the disruption of their teams' workflows and work arrangements. However, fixed sets of leader behavior as well as stable and shared physical contexts are implicit assumptions...
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In this paper, we explore how institutional actors push or resist equality, diversity and inclusion in light of power relations in their respective country contexts. We conducted interviews with a range of institutional actors, including governmental organizations, employer representatives, unions, professional associations, and civil society organ...
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The purpose of this systematic review of 107 papers is to address the conceptual confusion about what inclusive leadership (IL) behavior entails and understand the theoretical development of IL. Synthesizing the divergent conceptualizations of inclusive leader behaviors, we propose a multi-level (i.e., employee, team, organizational) model of IL be...
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This study draws on institutional theory to investigate why and how staffing effectiveness varies across countries. Utilising data from multiple sources (Cranfield Network on Comparative Human Resource Management [CRANET], Global Leadership and Organisational Behaviour Effectiveness [GLOBE], World Economic Forum [WEF], Transparency International, T...
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Politicians are influential both in directing policies about refugees and in framing public discourse about them. However, unlike other host country residents, politicians' attitudes towards refugees and integration are remarkably understudied. We therefore examine similarities and differences between politicians' attitudes towards refugee integrat...
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This study investigates organizational diversity discourses in Turkey – a non-Western, politically relevant, yet underrepresented context. Using a Foucauldian perspective on power and discourse, we scrutinize how power relations in the Turkish context are (re)produced. Based on our analysis of company websites and semi-structured interviews with va...
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In light of failing integration policies and practices, we provide a qualitative evaluation of a social innovation that aims to facilitate integration by providing refugees an opportunity to reside temporarily with locals. Our analysis of the experiences shared by refugee guests and local hosts provides insight on the theory and practice of refugee...
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In recent years, scholars and practitioners have increasingly recognized that human resource management (HRM) has paid insufficient attention to the impact of context. While research has been devoted to examining the impact of national context on HRM systems, this literature has been largely separate from that focused on other levels of context aff...
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This chapter reviews the literature on the intersection of culture and human resource management. More specifically, the chapter discusses why and how culture accounts for variance in human resource management practices and their outcomes between organizations operating in diverse cultural contexts. To that end, the chapter first provides a summary...
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In recent years, scholars and practitioners have increasingly recognized that human resource management (HRM) has paid insufficient attention to the impact of context. While research has been devoted to examining the impact of national context on HRM systems, this literature has been largely separate from that focused on other levels of context aff...
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The goal of this study is to investigate discourses of diversity and inclusion in the setting of coworking spaces. Coworking is rapidly becoming a well-established solution for freelancers, small companies, and remote workers to share office space. Managers of coworking spaces often encourage their members to socialize and exchange knowledge throug...
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Purpose Refugees’ inclusion at work is critical for the individual, for employers and for the receiving societies. Yet, refugees are often disadvantaged in working life or are being excluded from the labor market altogether. The purpose of this paper is to examine barriers and facilitators to refugees’ inclusion at work at the individual, organizat...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to further restore diversity and equality to its national contexts by presenting new and so far less visible perspectives from under-researched countries. Design/methodology/approach This special issue consists of five articles representing four countries and one country-cluster: Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegov...
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Today, about three million Syrian refugees are living in Turkey. This study investigates one key driver of refugees' societal integration, their inclusion or exclusion at work, with a particular focus on the intersection of refugee status and gender. To that end, we conducted and analyzed 20 semistructured interviews with male and female refugees,...
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This symposium is dedicated to finding and developing new ways to open organizations for the inclusion of diverse employees, by directing attention to the role of human resource management (HRM). Despite the large body of diversity literature, HRM’s part in the interplay between diversity policies, employees’ perceptions, and policy outcomes remain...
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While multinational enterprises (MNEs) need to balance the global and local requirements of their global performance management (GPM) practices, GPM research lacks conceptual and encompassing comprehension of country‐specific peculiarities. First, this article suggests a conceptualization of the elements of GPM (criteria, actors, methods, purposes,...
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The study reports a group-randomized trial of a theatre-based intervention to prevent sexual abuse targeting first and second grade primary school children in Germany. A sample of 148 first and second graders saw a live performance of a play designed to promote skills in dealing with abuse-prone interactions with adults, watched a recording of the...

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