David M. Sluss
Professor, Leadership & Organizational Behavior
ESSEC Business School
david.sluss@essec.edu
Related Research Interests
David M. Sluss, Ph.D. is a Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School. He educates high potential executives on how to become agile, adaptive, & analytical leaders – to influence others for high growth and organizational transformation (see LinkedIn). He has published research in Harvard Business Review as well as leading academic journals (see google scholar). He works with high-growth organizations throughout Europe, the U.S., Asia, and Latin America. His scholarly research (see google scholar) focuses on creating personalized and productive relationships – particularly between leaders and newcomers as well as leaders and more tenured employees. He explores these processes across different contexts: telemarketing newcomers, technical professionals, contingent workers, and nomadic professionals. He has published research in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Organization Science. He is currently serving on the editorial boards for Organizational Psychology Review, Journal of Business & Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Management.
Related Publications
- Sluss, D.M, Thompson, B.S., & Fan, F. (2024). A relational identification theory of leadership: Interdependence, belonging and the amplifying power of personalization. In R. Kark & O. Epitropaki, Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Identity, forthcoming.
- Zhong, Y.*, Sluss, D.M., & Badura, K. (2024). Subordinate-to-supervisor relational identification: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Applied Psychology, in press
- Sluss D.M., Cooper D., Morrell D.L., Thompson B.S. (2022). It’s not all just tit-for-tat: the impact of relational identification on subordinate’s attitudes and interpersonal citizenship behavior. Journal of Management & Organization, 1–25.
- Sluss, D.M. (2020). Becoming a more patient leader. Harvard Business Review, September 2, 2020 (https://hbr.org/2020/09/
becoming-a-more-patient-leader ). - Sluss, D.M. (2020). Stepping into a leadership role? Be ready to tell your story. Harvard Business Review, April 16, 2020 (www.hbr.org/2020/04/stepping-
into-a-leadership-role-be- ready-to-tell-your-story). - Heaphy, E.D., Byron, K., Ballinger, G.A. Gittell, J.H., Leana, C., Sluss, D.M. (2018). The changing nature of work relationships. Academy of Management Review, 43: 1-12.
- Leavitt, K., & Sluss, D.M. (2015). Lying for who we are: An identity-based model of workplace dishonesty. Academy of Management Review, 40: 587-610.
- Sluss, D.M., Ployhart, R.E., Cobb, M.G., & Ashforth, B.E. (2012). Generalizing newcomer’s relational and collective identifications: Processes and prototypicality. Academy of Management Journal, 55: 949-975.
- Sluss, D.M., & Thompson, B.S.* (2012). Socializing the newcomer: The role of leader-member exchange. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 119: 114-125.
- Sluss, D.M., van Dick, R., & Thompson, B.S. (2011). Role theory in organizations: A relational perspective. In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology, Vol. 1: Building and helping the organization: 505-534. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
