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Name
Mary Uhl-Bien
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Firstname
Mary
Lastname
Uhl-Bien
Office Phone
817-257-7153
Email
m.uhl-bien@tcu.edu
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Vitae
Position:
Professor of Management
Department:
Management, Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Office:
TOCA 210
Professorship / Chair:
BNSF Endowed Professor of Leadership
Role:
Faculty
Education
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
M.B.A., University of Cincinnati
B.B.A., University of Cincinnati
Areas of Expertise / Research
Complexity Leadership
Relational Leadership
Followership
Leader-Follower Relationships
Courses Taught
Organizational Behavior
Business Ethics
Leading in a Complex World (undergrad and EMBA)
Executive Education Leadership
Key Publications
Uhl-Bien, M. & Arena, M. (2018). Leadership for organizational adaptability: A theoretical synthesis and integrative framework. The Leadership Quarterly, 29(1), 89-104.
Uhl-Bien, M. & Arena, M. (2017). Complexity leadership: Enabling people and organizations for adaptability. Organization Dynamics, 46, 9-20.
Arena, M., Cross, R., Sims, J., & Uhl-Bien, M. (2017). How to catalyze innovation in your organization. MIT Sloan Management Review, 58(4), 39-47.
Uhl-Bien, M., Piccolo, R., & Schermerhorn, J. (2016). Organizational Behavior, 1E. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Havermans, L., den Hartog, D., Keegan, A., & Uhl-Bien, M. (2015). Exploring the role of leadership in enabling contextual ambidexterity. Human Resource Management, 54, S179-S200.
Uhl-Bien, M., Riggio, R., Lowe, K., & Carsten, M. (2014). Followership theory: A review and research agenda. The Leadership Quarterly, 25(1), 83-104.
Ciulla, J., Uhl-Bien, M., & Werhane, P. (Eds.) (2013). Leadership Ethics. London: Sage.
Fairhurst, G., & Uhl-Bien, M. (2012). Organizational Discourse Analysis (ODA): Examining leadership as a relational process. The Leadership Quarterly, 23(6), 1043-1062. (Finalist for 2012 LQ Best Paper Award)
Uhl-Bien, M., & Ospina, S. (Eds.) (2012). Advancing Relational Leadership Research: A Dialogue Among Perspectives. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishers.
Bryman, A., Collinson, D., Grint, K., Jackson, B., & Uhl-Bien, M. (Eds.). (2011). The Sage Handbook of Leadership. London: Sage.
Carsten, M., Uhl-Bien, M., West, B., Patera, J., & McGregor, R. (2010). Exploring social constructions of followership: A qualitative study. The Leadership Quarterly, 21(3), 543-562.
Hannah, S., Uhl-Bien, M., Avolio, B., & Cavaretta, F. (2009). A framework for examining leadership in extreme contexts. The Leadership Quarterly, 20(6), 897-919.
Uhl-Bien, M., Marion, R., & McKelvey, B. (2007). Complexity Leadership Theory: Shifting leadership from the industrial age to the knowledge era. The Leadership Quarterly, 18(4), 298-318. (Elsevier Most Cited Paper Recognition 2007-2012)
Uhl-Bien, M., & Carsten, M. (2007). Being ethical when the boss is not. Organizational Dynamics, 36(2), 187-201. (In Top 50 Most Downloaded Articles from January 2000 to March 2012)
Uhl-Bien, M. (2006). Relational Leadership Theory: Exploring the social processes of leadership and organizing. The Leadership Quarterly, 17(6), 654-676.
Marion, R., & Uhl-Bien, M. (2003). Complexity theory and Al Qaeda: Examining complex leadership. Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management, 5(1), 54-76.
Uhl-Bien, M., & Maslyn, J. (2003). Reciprocity in manager-subordinate relationships: Components, configurations, and outcomes. Journal of Management, 29(4), 511-532.
Marion, R., & Uhl-Bien, M. (2001). Leadership in complex organizations. The Leadership Quarterly, 12(4), 389-418. (Center for Creative Leadership/Leadership Quarterly Best Paper Award for 2001)
Uhl-Bien, M., & Graen, G.B. (1998). Individual self-management: Analysis of professionals’ self-managing activities in functional and cross-functional work teams. Academy of Management Journal, 41(3), 340-350.
Graen, G., & Uhl-Bien, M. (1995). Relationship-based approach to leadership: Development of leader-member exchange (LMX) theory of leadership over 25 years: Applying a multi-level multi-domain perspective. The Leadership Quarterly, 6(2), 219-247. (Most cited article in first two decades of LQ)
Awards / Recognition
2018 International Leadership Association (ILA) Fellow
2017 Decennial Influential Article Award (Complexity Leadership paper, LQ, 2007)
2017 Decennial Influential Article Award (LMX paper, LQ 1995) (retroactive)
2017 HRPS Walker Prize (Complexity Leadership paper, People + Strategy, 2016)
2017 Emerald Citations of Excellence, (Followership paper, LQ, 2014)
2016 SMA Best Overall Doctoral Student Paper Award
2016 SMA Best Doctoral Student Paper OB Track Award
2015 SMA Best Paper ENT/INNOV Track Award
2014 European Group and Org Studies (EGOS) Max Boisot Paper Award
2013 SMA Best Conference Paper Award; SMA OB Best Track Paper Award
2013 Outstanding Leadership Book Award Finalist, University of San Diego/ILA
2013 Mortar Board’s Professor of the Month Award
2013 Nominated by Students for CBA Teaching Award
2013 UNL CBA Summer Research Award
2012 LQ Best Paper Award Finalist
2012 Nominated by Students for CBA Teaching Award
2012 Elsevier Most Cited Paper Recognition (2007-2012)
2012 UNL CBA Summer Research Award
2011 Nominated by Students for CBA Teaching Award
2011 UNL CBA Summer Research Award
2009 SMA OB Best Track Paper Award
2008 UNL Parents Association Certificate of Recognition for Contribution to Students
2007 UNL Parents Association Certificate of Recognition for Contribution to Students
2007 UNL Seacrest Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching, Research and Outreach
2007 LQ Best Reviewer Award (The “Bernie”)
2003 UCF Carl H. Galloway Faculty Performance Incentive Award for Undergraduate Teaching
2001 LQ Best Paper Award
2001 UCF Research Incentive Award
2001 UCF Teaching Incentive Award
2000 UCF College of Business Performance Incentive Award
1998 UCF Carl H. Galloway Faculty Performance Incentive Award for Exemplary Research
1997 UCF Carl H. Galloway Faculty Performance Incentive Award
1994 UAA School of Business Outstanding Research Award
1995 UAA Nominated by students for Teacher of the Year Award
International Experience
Visiting Scholar, School of Management, QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology, 2012-2016
Visiting Scholar, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011
Visiting Scholar, Lund University, Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Lund, Sweden, 2009-2011
Visiting Scholar, Pablo de Olavide University, Department of Economics and Business Seville, Spain, 2002
Keynote Talks in South Africa, China, England, Germany, Israel, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands
Consulting
State Farm
Walt Disney World
West Pharmaceutical
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services
British Petroleum
Florida Department of Corrections
Sears
Florida College of Emergency Physicians and Emergence Medicine Foundation
Central Florida Postal Workers' Credit Union
Hobbies / Interests
Outdoors
Reading
Travel