Dr. Ursula Glunk

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Postal Address

Maastricht University

School of Business and Economics

Dept. of Organization and Strategy

P.O. Box 616

6200 MD Maastricht

The Netherlands

 

Visiting Address

Tongersestraat 53

Room A211

6211 LM Maastricht

 

Tel.:     ++31 43 3883794

Fax:     ++31 43 3884893

Email:  U.Glunk@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Ursula Glunk is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University (see www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/sbe). In this function, she works as a leadership development coordinator, researcher, lecturer, trainer, facilitator, and personal coach. Next to her work at Maastricht University, she also belongs to the training faculty of CTI, a large international coach-training institute (see: http://www.thecoaches.com/coach-training/).

Fields of expertise: leadership development, team dynamics, creating from polarities.

Ursula holds an MSc in Psychology from Mannheim University (Germany), a PhD in Organization Studies from Tilburg University (The Netherlands), and is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC). She has more than fifteen years of teaching and research experience in the field of Organizational Behaviour. From 2004 to 2007 she served as programme director of the Master of Science Programme in International Business at Maastricht University. From 2005 to 2006 she was programme director of a Management Development Programme for non-academic staff of Maastricht University. Together with colleagues, she introduced a Personal Development Trajectory in a Master of Science programme and a Leadership Development Trajectory  in an executive MBA programme. As a leadership development expert, facilitator and coach, she has been working with professional teams and executives from large multinational corporations, United Nations organizations, NGOs, educational institutions, and public organizations.

Current activities: Developing, coordinating and teaching courses for International Business students (Management of Organizations, Communications and Leadership Skills); supervising Master and PhD theses; conducting research on interface dynamics and leadership paradoxes faced by top and middle managers; providing leadership development trainings for executives; coaching students, executives and professional teams; facilitating group dialogue (peer learning, world café, open space); coordinating the MBA Leadership Development Trajectory; serving in various university commissions; writing papers on the future of Management Education and implementing these ideas; co-leading training workshops for coaches in the UK, France, Germany, and the Netherlands based on principles of co-activity.

 

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

 

Raes, A., Heijltjes, M., Glunk, U., & Roe, R. (2011, in press). The interface of top management team and middle managers: A process model. Academy of Management Review, 36.

Glunk, U. & van Gils, A (forthcoming). Social entrepreneurship education: A holistic learning initiative. International Review of Entrepreneurship.

 

Glunk, U. & Follini, B. (forthcoming). Polarities in executive coaching. Journal of Management Development.

Glunk, U. & Smits, M. (forthcoming). Awakening world-changing leadership through Management Education. Journal of Corporate Citizenship Behavior, 39.

2009  Raes, A., Heijltjes, M., Glunk, U., & Roe, R. Exploring temporal patterns of conflict and trust in teams. In: R. Roe, M. Waller, and S.R. Clegg (Eds.), Time in Organizational Research. London: Routledge, 127-148.

2008  Berends, P., Glunk, U., & Wüster, J. Personal mastery in Management Education. A case description of a personal development trajectory in graduate education. In: N.P. Barsky, M. Clements, J. Ravn and K. Smith (Eds.), Advances in Business Education. Berlin: Springer, 117-129.

2008  Schwieren, Ch. & Glunk, U. Mechanisms underlying nationality-based discrimination in teams: A field experiment testing predictions from social psychology and microeconomics. Small Group Research, 39, 643-672.

2008  Raes, A., Heijltjes, M., Glunk, U., & Roe, R. The interface of top management team and middle managers: A process model. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

2007 Raes, A., Glunk, U., Heijltjes, M., & Roe, R. Top management team and middle managers: Making sense of leadership. Small Group Research, 37, 360-386. 

2007  Glunk, U. Organizational performance. In: S. Clegg (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. London: Sage, 1149-1153.

2007  Glunk, U., Raes, A., Heijltjes, M., & Roe, R. Middle managers’ views on top management team performance. The crucial role of moral leadership. Paper presented at the 67th Academy of Management Meeting: Doing Well by Doing Good. Philadelphia, USA.

2007 Glunk, U. & Berends, P. Developing moral awareness in Management Education: The neglect of courage and authenticity. Paper presented at the 14th EDINEB Conference: Preparing Business Professionals for the Changing Global Workplace. Vienna, Austria.