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Karoline Strauss

Karoline Strauss is Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School. Her research focuses on employee motivation, performance, leadership, careers, and well-being. She is particularly interested in how people shape their own future at work, and the future of their organization, for example by taking initiative or contributing to innovation. Her work has been published in journals including Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organization Science. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Management, and Personnel Psychology. Her research helps organizations better understand how to support employee development, engagement, and proactive behavior.

THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS

Leadership

The Proactivity Paradox: Is Your Drive Boosting or Busting Employee Morale?

by Karoline Strauss

Entrepreneurs are innovative, creative, go-getters, proactive… but do they make good bosses?

Innovation

In a world where the future holds endless possibilities, how do you envision your tomorrow?

by Karoline Strauss

What if there's a way to think about your future career that doesn't involve the question, "Where do you see yourself in five years?"

Society

Death by a thousand paper cuts: how subtle workplace discrimination can undermine our sense of self

by Karoline Strauss

What happens when our sense of self is threatened at work?

Society

Karoline Strauss receives the CY Alliance Prize for the Dissemination of Scientific Culture

by ESSEC Knowledge Editor-in-chief

Congratulations to Dr. Karoline Strauss, who was recently awarded the Mediation and Dissemination of Scientific Culture Prize by CY Alliance!

Leadership

How being proactive can help you find meaning at work

by Karoline Strauss

Today's workers want to feel like their job has meaning: being proactive can be one way to get there.

Society

All that glitters is not a gold medal: Putting athletes’ mental health in the spotlight

by Karoline Strauss

Athletes’ mental health has been in the spotlight lately. As prominent athletes speak out about their struggles with stress, anxiety, depression, and even burnout, public awareness of the importance of mental health in professional sport is perhaps higher than ever before.

Leadership

Get a hobby! How leisure activities can help you at work

by Karoline Strauss

We know that work-life balance is important. Less known is the fact that it’s also important what you do with your life outside of work: in their recent paper, Professor Karoline Strauss and her colleagues show that spending more time on a hobby can help you feel more effective at work - and identify the specific conditions under which you can get this boost.

Sustainability

Sustainability in Fifty Shades of Green

by Jan Lepoutre

Karoline Strauss and Jan Lepoutre, Professors of Management at ESSEC Business School, together with Geoffrey Wood, Essex Business School, University of Essex, argue that sustainability requires unique change in organizations and explain how employees across different levels of the organization can support it.

Leadership

Does being proactive increase stress? Depends on what motivates you…

by Karoline Strauss

Karoline Strauss, Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School and expert on proactivity shares research undertaken with Sharon Parker and Deirdre O'Shea to determine if and when showing initiative might drain employees’ resources and lead to stress.

Society

Does going to business school turn you into a more selfish person?

by Karoline Strauss

Does studying economics make people more selfish? And if so, what role do business schools have to play in shaping the values of our future leaders? Karoline Strauss, Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School, shares her research on how and when business education can produce greater levels of selfishness – or not.

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