Faculty Profile

BLEDOW Ronald

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources

LKCSBFull-time Faculty

Email
rbledow@smu.edu.sg

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Areas

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Lee Kong Chian School of Business
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
- - Leadership
  - Organisational Creativity and Innovation
  - Positive Organisation (Mindfulness, Humility, Proactivity)

Strategic Priorities

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Digital Transformation

Education

2010	Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology (with Highest Honors) University of Giessen

Current Appointment(s)

2021 - Now	Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2013 - 2021	Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

DYNAVITY: Joint Singapore-German Research Project with Jana Kühnel, Ulm University funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and Singapore Management University, 2014.

Self-Regulation and Creativity: Research grant from the Ministry of Education, Singapore, 2013.

Dissertation Award for the Best Dissertation in Organizational Psychology in 2009-2010 by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie [German Society for Psychology], 2011.

Outstanding Reviewer Award by the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management, 2011.

Research grant by the German Academic Exchange Service for a short term research visit at Amsterdam Business School, 2008.

Main author of a research grant on innovation management from Volkswagen Foundation, 2007.

Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service for graduate studies at Michigan State University, 2003.

Research Interests

Affect and Self-Regulation

Creativity and Innovation

Leadership and Teams

Multilevel Theory and Research

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

Bledow, R., Kühnel, J., & Kuhl, J. (2024). Personality dynamics turn positive and negative mood into creativity. Journal of Personality.

Bader, B., Gielnik, M. M., & Bledow, R. (2023). How transformational leadership transforms followers’ affect and work engagement. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 32(3), 360-372.

Kühnel, J., Bledow R., & Kuonath, A. (2023). Overcoming Procrastination: Time Pressure and Positive Affect as Compensatory Routes to Action. Journal of Business and Psychology, 38, 803-819.

Kühnel, J., Bledow, R., & Kiefer, M. (2022). There is a time to be creative: The alignment between chronotype and time of day. Academy of Management Journal, 65, 218-247

Bledow, R., Kühnel, J., Jin, M., & Kuhl, J. (2022). Breaking the chains: The inverted-u-shaped relationship between action-state orientation and creativity under low job autonomy. Journal of Management, 48, 905-935.

Gerpott, F., Bledow, R., & Kühnel, J. (2022). Inspire but don’t interfere: Managerial influence as a double-edged sword for innovation project success. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 71, 359–379.

*Gielnik, M., *Bledow, R., & Stark, M. (2020). A dynamic account of self-efficacy in entrepreneurship. Journal of Applied Psychology, 5, 487–505. *Shared first authorship

Lievens, F., Lang, J. W., De Fruyt, F., Corstjens, J., Vandevijver, M., & Bledow, R. (2018). The predictive power of people's intra‐individual variability across situations: Implementing whole trait theory in assessment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103, 753‐771.

Rosing, K., Bledow, R., Frese, M., Baytalskaya, N., Johnson Lascano, J., & Farr, J. (2018). The temporal pattern of creativity and implementation in teams. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 91, 798‐822

Kuehnel, J., Sonnentag, S., Bledow, R., & Melchers, C. (2017). The relevance of sleep and circadian misalignment for procrastination among shift workers. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 91, 110‐133.

Kühnel, J., Zacher, H., De Bloom, J., & Bledow, R. (2017). Take a Break! Benefits of Sleep and Short Breaks for Daily Work Engagement. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26, 481‐491.

Bledow, R., Carette, B., Kühnel, J., & Pittig., D. (2017). Learning from others’ failures: The effectiveness of failure stories for managerial learning. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 16, 39‐53.

Kühnel, J., Bledow, R., & Feuerhahn, N. (2016). When do you procrastinate? Sleep quality and social lag jointly predict self‐regulatory failure at work. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 37, 983-1002.

Bledow, R. (2013). Demand-perception and self-motivation as opponent processes: A response to Bandura and Vancouver. Journal of Management, 39, 14-26.

Bledow, R., Rosing K., & Frese, M. (2013). A dynamic perspective on affect and creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 56, 432-450.

Kühnel, J., Sonnentag, S., & Bledow, R. (2012). Resources and time pressure as day-level antecedents of work engagement. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 85, 181-198.

Bledow, R., Schmitt, A., Frese, M., & Kühnel, J. (2011). The affective shift model of work engagement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96, 1246-1257.

Bledow, R., & Frese, M. (2009). A situational judgment test of personal initiative and its relationship with performance. Personnel Psychology, 62, 229-258.

Bledow, R., Frese, M., Erez, M., Anderson, N., & Farr, J., (2009). A dialectic perspective on innovation: Conflicting demands, multiple pathways, and ambidexterity. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 2, 305-337.

Bledow, R., Frese, M., Erez, M., Anderson, N., & Farr, J., (2009): Extending and refining the dialectic perspective on innovation: There is nothing a practical as a good theory; nothing as theoretical as a good practice. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 2, 363-373.

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