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New Knowledge Club donderdag 4 maart  Football and management: The association of size and power!
What do football and management decisions have in common? The association of size and power!
Due to evolution and socialization, we argue that size is associated with concepts such as power, aggression and dominance: The taller people are, the more dominant, the more powerful, and the more aggressive they are assumed to be. Importantly, this association functions subconsciously and automatic and, therefore, has implications to areas where the evolutionary logic should not play a role.
In this New Knowledge Club presentation, we start in a first part to look at the consequences of such association in the context of football where we find across 7 European Champions League seasons, 7 German Bundesliga seasons, the last 3 Soccer World Cups (altogether 123,857 fouls), and two perceptual experiments that taller players are consistently more often assumed to be the foul perpetrators. In a second part, we then turn to the implications of the same association for management practice, its basic underlying mechanisms and the possibilities to relearn this association. In both parts, we seek to make science more tangible for "real life" and hope for an active discussion with the audience.
Be welcome on Thursday 4 februari 2010 at the New Knowledge Club at the presentation and discussion of Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke en Dr. Steffen Giessner. Please subscribe at www.newknowledgeclub.nl.
The meeting of the New Knowledge Club is at the Faculty Club (17e etage hoogbouw EUR Woudestein, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam). The meeting starts at 19.30 and will finish around 22.30.
Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke holds a postdoctoral ERIM research fellowship at the Rotterdam School of Management. He is a member of the Personnel and Organization Management Department and the Erasmus Centre for Leadership Studies. Likewise, he functions as the director of the interdisciplinary RespectResearchGroup. Niels specializes in leadership research with a particular focus on values and respect. More specifically, he investigates the logic by which respect functions as a lubricant for social systems. He was awarded repeated scholarships by the German National Academic Foundation as well as an award by the German government for the innovative approach of his research group.
Dr. Steffen Giessner is an Associate Professor and the current Academic Director of the MScBA in Human Resource Management at the Rotterdam School of Management. His main research interests are in the areas of leadership, power, and mergers and acquisitions. More precisely, he is interested in social psychological processes involved in the perception of leadership and power, in leadership behavior, and in employees' support of mergers and acquisitions.
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2. Het Erasmus Podium Wetenschap is dichtbij, hier en nu, voor iedereen merkbaar. Kennis komt voort uit onderzoek dat aan strenge regels moet voldoen: onderzoek in allerlei vorm (van bibliotheek tot laboratorium en veldstudie) en met zeer uiteenlopende technieken. Onderzoeksresultaten verschijnen in wetenschappelijke tijdschriften en worden tijdens congressen – wereldwijd – becommentarieerd en bekritiseerd door collega-wetenschappers.
Erasmus Podium laat u 'kennis' maken met de fascinatie van wetenschapsbeoefening, wil discussiëren over de (mogelijke) gevolgen van deze kennis, wil laten zien hoe de wetenschap kan bijdragen aan de oplossing van problemen: van ziekte tot inflatie, van bestuurscrisis tot armoede, van milieu- tot filevraagstukken. Van die dialoog wordt niet alleen u maar ook de wetenschapper wijzer. Logisch dat in Rotterdam vaak de grootstedelijke vraagstukken op de agenda van Erasmus Podium staan.
Kijk voor het actuele programma op www.erasmuspodium.nl
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