Professor Andreas Wihler
Associate Professor of Management
A.Wihler@exeter.ac.uk
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Overview
After graduating in psychology, he completed his dissertation at the University of Bonn with focus on Industrial- and Organizational Psychology. During that time he was also guest researcher at the Judge Business School in Cambridge, UK. Before joining the University of Exeter, he was Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
Andreas’ research falls at the intersection of organizational politics, leadership, and individual differences. Thus, his research focuses on perceptions and consequences of both positive and negative leader behaviours as well as employee proactivity. He is also interested in the effects of personality and motivation on job performance and career success. Andreas works in international research collaborations with various organizations around the globe.
Andreas has received funding for his research from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the DFG (German Research Foundation). Furthermore, he got awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for a 12-month project on the role of personal assistants in leadership interactions.
His research has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Leadership Quarterly.
Research
Research interests
- Transformational leadership
- Abusive supervision
- Organizational politics
- Individual differences
Andreas’ research fall at the intersection of organizational politics, leadership, and individual differences. Thus, his research focuses on perceptions and consequences of both positive and negative leader behaviours as well as employee proactivity. He is also interested in the effects of personality and motivation on job performance and career success. Andreas works in international research collaborations with various organizations around the globe.
Research projects
Currrently, Andreas is working on a project that investigates why employees perceive leadership in different ways and how that affects their later behaviour. In another project he is investigating the motivational effects of abusive supervision for employees based on cognitive misperceptions by employees. Finally, he is working on a study that investigates the role of employee mindfulness in monotonous jobs and potential consequences for performance.
Research grants
- 2023 The British Academy
Understanding the role of personal assistants in leadership interactions and for leadership effectiveness
Publications
Journal articles
Wihler A, Nolan RC, Zheng Y, Inceoglu I, Leroy H, Charnley F (In Press). Driving Sustainability in Organizations: Polymathic Responsible Leadership and Circular Economy. Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO)
Blickle G, Böhm F, Wihler A (In Press). Is a Little Narcissism a Good Thing in Leadership Roles? Test of an Inverted U-shaped Relationship Between Leader Grandiose Narcissism and Follower Satisfaction with Leader. Personality and Individual Differences
Wihler A, Reh S, Landay K, Kückelhaus BP, Ellen BP, Volmer J, Blickle G, Alexander KC, Mackey J, McAllister CP, et al (2023). New Insights into Toxic Traits, Organizational Context, and Employee Outcomes. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023(1).
Wihler A, Blickle G, Ewen C, Genau H, Fritze S, Völkl L, Merkl R, Missfeld T, Mützel M (2022). An integrative approach to more nuanced estimates of personality–job–performance relations. Applied Psychology, 72(2), 588-624. Abstract.
Reh S, Wihler A, Cangiano F (2022). Not all Evil Comes to harm: a Cost-Benefit Lens on the Bright Side of the Dark Triad. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1).
Sparr JL, Wihler A, Ellen BP, Inceoglu I, Li Z, Rieg J (2022). Uncovering the Social and Emotional Aspects of Leadership and Followership. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1).
Blickle G, Kranefeld I, Wihler A, Kückelhaus BP, Menges JI (2021). It Works Without Words: a Nonlinguistic Ability Test of Perceiving Emotions with Job-Related Consequences. European Journal of Psychological Assessment
Wihler A, Hülsheger UR, Reb J, Menges JI (2021). It’s so boring – or is it? Examining the role of mindfulness for work performance and attitudes in monotonous jobs. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 91(1), 131-154.
Wihler A, Bormann KC, Gansen-Ammann D (2021). Justifying the Abuse: How Abusive Supervision can Increase Supervisor-Directed Obligation. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1).
Jachimowicz JM, Wihler A, Galinsky AD (2021). My Boss’ Passion Matters as Much as My Own: the Interpersonal Dynamics of Passion are a Critical Driver of Performance Evaluations. Journal of Organizational Behavior
Tussing DV, Wihler A, Astandu TV, Menges JI (2021). Should I Stay or Should I Go? the Role of Individual Strivings in Shaping the Relationship between Envy and Avoidance Behaviors at Work. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43, 567-583.
Blickle G, Kückelhaus BP, Kranefeld I, Schütte N, Genau HA, Gansen-Ammann D-N, Wihler A (2020). Political skill camouflages Machiavellianism: Career role performance and organizational misbehavior at short and long tenure. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 118, 103401-103401.
Kückelhaus BP, Blickle G, Titze JL, Wihler A (2020). Self-discipline and protective self-monitoring in sales: a latent growth curve analysis. Personality and Individual Differences, 167, 110225-110225.
Wihler A, Frieder RE (2019). Abusive Supervision as Narcissistic Supervisors’ Ego Defense against Voice. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019(1).
Hulsheger UR, Igic I, Lyddy CJ, Igic I, Reina C, Roche M, Walsh MM, Wihler A (2019). Benefits of Mindfulness for Leadership, Performance and Work Engagement. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019(1).
Frieder RE, Ferris GR, Perrewé PL, Wihler A, Brooks CD (2019). Extending the metatheoretical framework of social/political influence to leadership: Political skill effects on situational appraisals, responses, and evaluations by others. Personnel Psychology, 72(4), 543-569. Abstract.
Jachimowicz JM, Wihler A, Bailey ER, Galinsky AD (2019). Reply to Guo et al. and Credé: Grit-S scale measures only perseverance, not passion, and its supposed subfactors are merely artifactors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(10), 3942-3944.
Kückelhaus BP, Kranefeld I, Schuette N, Gansen-Ammann D, Wihler A, Blickle G (2019). What you See is Not What you Get: Social Skill and Impulse Control Camouflage Machiavellianism. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019(1), 14726-14726.
Kranefeld I, Blickle G, Wihler A, Momm T, Menges JI (2018). Nonlinguistic Emotion Recognition, Cognitive Intelligence, and Adaptive Performance. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018(1).
Blickle G, Schütte N, Wihler A (2018). Political will, work values, and objective career success: a novel approach – the Trait-Reputation-Identity Model. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 107, 42-56.
Wihler A, Frieder RE, Blickle G (2018). The Effects of Networking Ability and Apparent Sincerity on Voice Recognition and Capitalization. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018(1).
Jachimowicz JM, Wihler A, Bailey ER, Galinsky AD (2018). Why grit requires perseverance and passion to positively predict performance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 115(40), 9980-9985. Abstract.
Wihler A, Meurs JA, Momm TD, John J, Blickle G (2017). Conscientiousness, extraversion, and field sales performance: Combining narrow personality, social skill, emotional stability, and nonlinearity. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 291-296.
Blickle G, Meurs JA, Wihler A, Ewen C, Merkl R, Missfeld T (2017). Corrigendum to “Extraversion and job performance: How context relevance and bandwidth specificity create a non-linear, positive, and asymptotic relationship” [Journal of Vocational Behavior 87C (2015) 80–88]. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 101
Wihler A, Meurs JA, Wiesmann D, Troll L, Blickle G (2017). Extraversion and adaptive performance: Integrating trait activation and socioanalytic personality theories at work. Personality and Individual Differences, 116, 133-138.
Titze J, Blickle G, Wihler A (2017). Fearless dominance and performance in field sales: a predictive study. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 25(3), 299-310. Abstract.
Gansen-Ammann D-N, Meurs JA, Wihler A, Blickle G (2017). Political Skill and Manager Performance: Exponential and Asymptotic Relationships Due to Differing Levels of Enterprising Job Demands. Group & Organization Management, 44(4), 718-744. Abstract.
Bentley J, Ellen BP, Wihler A, Ferris GR, Perrewe P (2017). Political Skill and Political Will in Organizations: New Insights for Effects on Job Performance. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017(1).
Menges JI, Tussing DV, Wihler A, Grant AM (2017). When Job Performance is all Relative: How Family Motivation Energizes Effort and Compensates for Intrinsic Motivation. Academy of Management Journal, 60(2), 695-719.
Wihler A, Meurs JA, Gansen-Ammann D (2016). "Political Skill Dimensions, Enterprising Job Demands, and the Prediction of Leader Performance". Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016(1).
Kholin M, Meurs JA, Blickle G, Wihler A, Ewen C, Momm TD (2016). Correction to: Refining the Openness–Performance Relationship: Construct Specificity, Contextualization, Social Skill, and the Combination of Trait Self- and Other-Ratings. Journal of Personality Assessment, 98(4), 445-445.
Schütte N, Blickle G, Frieder RE, Wihler A, Schnitzler F, Heupel J, Zettler I (2016). The Role of Interpersonal Influence in Counterbalancing Psychopathic Personality Trait Facets at Work. Journal of Management, 44(4), 1338-1368.
Blickle G, Meurs JA, Wihler A, Ewen C, Merkl R, Missfeld T (2015). Extraversion and job performance: How context relevance and bandwidth specificity create a non-linear, positive, and asymptotic relationship. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 87, 80-88.
Wihler A, Meurs JA, Kramer J, Blickle G (2015). General Mental Ability and Job Stress jointly moderate the Job Tenure-Job Performance Relationship. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015(1).
Kholin M, Meurs JA, Blickle G, Wihler A, Ewen C, Momm TD (2015). Refining the Openness–Performance Relationship: Construct Specificity, Contextualization, Social Skill, and the Combination of Trait Self- and Other-Ratings. Journal of Personality Assessment, 98(3), 277-288.
Jachimowicz JM, Menges JI, Wihler A, Mryseth KOR (2015). Workplace distractions: Do they affect employees for the better or the worse?. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015(1).
Momm T, Blickle G, Liu Y, Wihler A, Kholin M, Menges JI (2014). It pays to have an eye for emotions: Emotion recognition ability indirectly predicts annual income. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 36(1), 147-163. Abstract.
Ewen C, Wihler A, Frieder RE, Blickle G, Hogan R, Ferris GR (2014). Leader Advancement Motive, Political Skill, Leader Behavior, and Effectiveness: a Moderated Mediation Extension of Socioanalytic Theory. Human Performance, 27(5), 373-392.
Blickle G, Meurs JA, Wihler A, Ewen C, Peiseler AK (2014). Leader Inquisitiveness, Political Skill, and Follower Attributions of Leader Charisma and Effectiveness: Test of a moderated mediation model. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 22(3), 272-285. Abstract.
Wihler A, Momm T, Menges JI, Blickle G (2014). Linking Emotion Recognition and Income: an Examination of the Interpersonal Mechanisms. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014(1), 13314-13314.
Wihler A, Blickle G, Ellen BP, Hochwarter WA, Ferris GR (2014). Personal Initiative and Job Performance Evaluations: Role of Political Skill in Opportunity Recognition and Capitalization. Journal of Management, 43(5), 1388-1420.
Ewen C, Wihler A, Blickle G, Oerder K, Ellen BP, Douglas C, Ferris GR (2013). Further specification of the leader political skill–leadership effectiveness relationships: Transformational and transactional leader behavior as mediators. The Leadership Quarterly, 24(4), 516-533.
Blickle G, Kane-Frieder RE, Oerder K, Wihler A, von Below A, Schütte N, Matanovic A, Mudlagk D, Kokudeva T, Ferris GR, et al (2013). Leader Behaviors as Mediators of the Leader Characteristics - Follower Satisfaction Relationship. Group & Organization Management, 38(5), 601-629. Abstract.
Wihler A, Hochwarter WA, Ferris GR (2012). Political Skill Moderates the Personal Initiative-Supervisor Job Performance Ratings Relationship. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012(1).
Blickle G, Wihler A, Ewen C, Meurs JA (2012). The Conscientiousness - Task Performance Link Moderated by Learning Approach and Political Skill. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012(1).
Blickle G, Meurs JA, Wihler A, Ewen C, Plies A, Günther S (2012). The interactive effects of conscientiousness, openness to experience, and political skill on job performance in complex jobs: the importance of context. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 34(8), 1145-1164. Abstract.
Chapters
Wihler A, Frieder R, Blickle G (2022). The Effects of Networking Ability and Apparent Sincerity on Voice Recognition and Capitalization. In Akande A (Ed) Globalization, Human Rights and Populism: Reimagining People, Power and Places, Springer Nature.
Wihler A, Meurs JA, Kramer J, Blickle G (2021). Does job tenure increase human capital? How general mental ability and low job stress jointly augment the job tenure-job performance relationship. In Akande A, Perrewé PL, Ferris GR (Eds.) Organizational Science: a Global Perspective, Nova Science Publishers.
Jordan S, Wihler A, Hochwarter W, Ferris G (2019). The roles of grit in human resources theory and research. In Buckley MR, Wheeler AR, Baur JE, Halbesleben JRB (Eds.) Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Emerald Group Publishing, 53-88.
Wihler A (2018). Mentoring von Erwerbstätigen in Organisationen. In (Ed) Handbuch Karriere und Laufbahnmanagement, Springer Nature, 785-810.
Wihler A, Blickle G (2018). Wie politische Fertigkeiten den Laufbahnerfolg steigern. In (Ed) Handbuch Karriere und Laufbahnmanagement, Springer Nature, 391-406.
Wihler A (2017). Mentoring von Erwerbstätigen in Organisationen. In (Ed) Handbuch Karriere und Laufbahnmanagement, Springer Nature, 1-26.
Wihler A, Blickle G (2017). Wie politische Fertigkeiten den Laufbahnerfolg steigern. In (Ed) Handbuch Karriere und Laufbahnmanagement, Springer Nature, 1-16.
Wihler A, Frieder R, Blickle G, Oerder K, Schütte N (2016). Chapter 3: Political skill, leadership and performance: the role of vision identification and articulation. In (Ed) Handbook of Organizational Politics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 59-94.
Wihler A, Frieder R, Blickle G, Oerder K, Schütte N (2016). Political Skill, Leadership, and Performance: the Role of Vision
Identification and Articulation. In Vigoda-Gadot E, Drory A (Eds.) Handbook of Organizational Politics: Looking Back and to the Future, Edward Elgar Publishing, 59-94.
