Floor Rink Editor

Niklas K. (Nik) Steffens is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Business and Organisational Psychology in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland. His research focuses on leadership and followership, group processes and teamwork, and health and well-being in applied contexts – research he has conducted in collaboration with over 100 researchers across the globe. He collaborates with and consults to organisations, community groups, and industry to use theory and evidence to solve applied problems and improve group and organisational functioning. Floor Rink is Full Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands. In her work, she explains organizational and economic phenomena through psychology theory. Her main lines of research centre around work situations that involve intra- and intergroup identity dynamics, such as responses to diversity, ethical decision making (including governance structures) and status differentiation. Michelle K. Ryan is the inaugural Director of the Global Institute of Women’s Leadership at The Australian National University where she is a Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology. She also holds a (part-time) position at the University of Groningen where she is a Professor of Diversity. She recently led a European Research Council Consolidator Grant examining the way in which context and identity shape and constrain women′s career choices. With Alex Haslam, she uncovered the phenomenon of the glass cliff, whereby women are more likely than men to occupy leadership positions in times of crisis. The New York Times named the glass cliff as one of the Top 100 ideas that shaped 2008.