Dr. Ursula Glunk

Room: A2.11
Tel.: +31 43-3883794;
Fax.: +31 43-3884893;
Email: U.Glunk@maastrichtuniversity.nl

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 the Personal Development Trajectory in the Master of Science programme and the Leadership Development Trajectory in the 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.

Position: Senior Lecturer

Specialization: Leadership development, team dynamics, values-driven organizations. 

 
PhD: Tilburg University (CentER), 1999, Realizing High Performance on Multiple Stakeholder Domains: A Resource-based Analysis of Professional Service Firms in the Netherlands and Germany.

Courses: Management of Organizations (EBC2008), Communication and Leadership Skills (5032T), Leadership development Trajectory (Executive education, International modular MBA).

Selected publications:

• 2011 Raes, A., Heijltjes, M., Glunk, U., & Roe, R. The interface of top management team and middle managers: A process model. Academy of Management Review, 36, 102-126.
• 2011 Glunk, U. & Follini, B. Polarities in Executive Coaching. Journal of Management Development, 30 (3).
• 2011 Glunk, U. & Smits, M.  Awakening World-changing Leadership through Management Education. Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 39.
• 2010 Glunk, U. & van Gils, A. Social entrepreneurship education: A holistic learning initiative. International Review of Entrepreneurship. 8(2).
• 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.
• 2009 Glunk, U. & Heijltjes, M.  A flying team: On the value of studying temporal aspects of team processes and performance strategies. In: F.R.H. Zijlstra, A. van Iterson & L.A. ten Horn (Eds.), Time Changes Work. Liber Amicorum for Robert A. Roe. Maastricht: University Press, 158-166.
• 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.