Prof. Dr. Barbara Sieben

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Currently by phone or video conference by appointment by email.

Prof. Dr. Barbara Sieben is head of the chair of Human Resource Management at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg. With studies of Business Economics, Spanish and Pedagogy at Freie Universität Berlin, she qualified for the teaching profession. She received her doctorate at the School of Business and Economics, where she worked as research assistant and lecturer at the Chair of Human Resouce Management and as assistant professor (Juniorprofessorin) of Human Resource Management focused on Diversity. She did further teaching at University of Innsbruck and, as a TEA(ching Equality) Guest Professor, at University of Tübingen. Her main research interests include context-specific analyses of equality, diversity and inclusion in organizations, personnel practices in their relation to gender, diversity and intersectionality as well as critical analyses of research and practice discourses such as on emotions and management. Theoretically and empirically, she has a multiparadigmatic research approach informed by critical management studies. Her work has been published in leading international journals such as British Journal of Management, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Group & Organization Management, Human Relations, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Organization Studies and Scandinavian Journal of Management. She is member of the editorial advisory board of Emotions and Society and co-editor of Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management. 

Curriculum Vitae

Academic career

Since 2013 Chair of Human Resource Management, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Helmut Schmidt University – University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg

2013 TEA(ching Equality) Guest Professor, School of Business and Economics, University of Tübingen

2007–2013 Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management focused on Diversity, Department of Management, Freie Universität Berlin

2012 Visiting scholar, College of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston

2009–2011 Guest Lecturer, Department of Organization and Learning, University of Innsbruck

2006–2007 Guest Lecturer, School of Business & Economics, Freie Universität Berlin

2001–2006 Research Assistant and Lecturer, Department of Management – Human Resource Management, School of Business & Economics, Freie Universität Berlin

1998–2001 Student Tutor of Managerial Accounting, School of Business & Economics, Freie Universität Berlin

Academic education

2006 PhD („Dr. rer. pol.“), degree summa cum laude, School of Business & Economics, Freie Universität Berlin                                                           

Dissertation topic: Emotions as a management topic (publication: Sieben 2007) Advisors: Prof. Dr. G. Krell, Prof. Dr. J. Sydow Disputation topic: “Culture” in diversity research and practice

2001 First State Examination for the office of a Secondary Teacher for Business Administration and Economics [Erste Staatsprüfung für das Amt der Studienrätin mit beruflicher Fachrichtung Wirtschaftswissenschaft]

Undergraduate and graduate courses in Business Administration and Economics, esp. Human Resource Management, Spanish and Pedagogy, Freie Universität Berlin,1992–2000         

Graduate courses in Human Resource Management, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, 1995–1996

Occupational history

1997–1998 Tutor in a training restaurant for socially disadvantaged adolescents, Berlin

1994–1997 Secretary in several professional education projects for immigrant women, Berlin

1987–1997 Hotel reception desk clerk in Munich, Münster, Luxemburg and Berlin

1992 State Certificate in Hospitality Management (Staatlich geprüfte Betriebswirtin für das Hotel- und Gaststättengewerbe) Advanced vocational studies, Hotelfachschule Berlin – Berlin Hotel Management School, 1990–1992

1987 Management Assistant in Hotel & Hospitality (Hotelfachfrau) Dual apprenticeship in the hotel business, DOHM-Hotel, Herford & Kollegschule Minden, 1985–1987

1984 University-entrance diploma (Abitur) Friedrichsgymnasium Herford, 1975–1984

Main research interests and publications

“Main research interests”

Human resource strategies, esp. related to the employment of persons with a migration background retention of specialists and executives

Gender, diversity and equal opportunities in organizations

Emotions in organizations

Management of service work

Multiparadigmatic approaches, informed by critical management studies

Selected publications

(A complete list of publications and presentations can be found here)

Kornau, A., Knappert, L., Tatli, A., & Sieben, B. (2023). Contested fields of equality, diversity and inclusion at work: An institutional work lens on power relations and actors’ strategies in Germany and Turkey. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 34 (12), 2481-2515. https://doi.org/10.108/09585192.2022.2086014

Bernauer, V. S., Sieben, B., & Haunschild, A. (2023). “You can call me Susan!” Doing gendered-class work in luxury service encounters. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 42(4), 494-511. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-10-2021-0272

Kornau, A., Frerichs, I. M., & Sieben, B. (2020). An empirical analysis of research paradigms within international human resource management: The need for more diversity. German Journal of Human Resource Management, 34(2), 148-177. https://doi.org/10.1177/2397002220908035 

Klarsfeld, A., Knappert, L., Kornau, A., Ngunjiri, F. W., & Sieben, B. (Eds.) (2019). Special Issue: Diversity in under-researched countries: New empirical fields challenging old theories? Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 38(7).

Ortlieb, R., & Sieben, B. (2019). Balls, barbecues and boxing: Contesting gender regimes at organizational social events. Organization Studies, 40(1), 115-133. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840617736941

Krell, G., Ortlieb, R., & Sieben, B. (2018). Gender und Diversity in Organisationen: Grundlegendes zur Chancengleichheit durch Personalpolitik [Gender and diversity in organizations. Basics of equal opportunities via human resource management]. Gabler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20554-6

Sieben, B., & Rastetter, D. (2017). Management research on gender and diversity in German-speaking countries: A stock-taking. Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und-management, 2(2), 8-23. https://doi.org/10.3224/zdfm.v2i2.02

Collien, I., Sieben, B., & Müller-Camen, M. (2016). Age work in organizations: Maintaining and disrupting institutionalized understandings of higher age. British Journal of Management, 27, 778-795. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12198  

Sieben, B., Braun, T., & Ferreira, A. (2016). Reproduction of ‘typical’ gender roles in temporary organizations—No surprise for whom? The case of cooperative behaviors and their acknowledgement. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 32(1), 52-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2015.12.001

Ortlieb, R., & Sieben, B. (2014). The making of inclusion as structuration: Empirical evidence of a multinational company. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 33(3), 235-248. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-06-2012-0052

Ortlieb, R., Sieben, B., & Sichtmann, C. (2014). Assigning migrants to customer contact jobs: A context-specific exploration of the business case for diversity. Review of Managerial Science, 8, 249-273. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-013-0106-4

Ortlieb, R., & Sieben, B. (2013). Diversity strategies and business logic: Why do companies employ ethnic minorities? Group & Organization Management, 38(4), 480-511. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601113497094

Ortlieb, R., & Sieben, B. (2012). How to safeguard critical resources of professional and managerial staff: Exploration of a taxonomy of resource retention strategies. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23(8), 1688-1704. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2011.61034

Krell, G., Ortlieb, R., & Sieben, B. (Hrsg.) (2011). Chancengleichheit durch Personalpolitik. Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern in Unternehmen und Verwaltungen. Rechtliche Regelungen – Problemanalysen – Lösungen. [Equality via human resource management. Equal opportunities of women and men in private and public organizations. Legal regulations – problem analyses – practice recommendations] 6. Aufl. Gabler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-9560-5_45

Sieben, B., & Wettergren, Å. (Eds.) (2010). Emotionalizing organizations and organizing emotions. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289895

Krell, G., Riedmüller, B., Sieben, B., & Vinz, D. (Hrsg.) (2007). Diversity Studies. Grundlagen und disziplinäre Ansätze. [Diversity studies. Basics and disciplinary approaches]. Campus.

Sieben, B. (2007). Doing research on emotion and virtual work: A compass to assist orientation. Human Relations, 60(4), 561-580. https://doi.org/10.1177/2F0018726707078347

Sieben, B. (2007). Management und Emotionen. Analyse einer ambivalenten Verknüpfung. [Management and emotions. Analysis of an ambivalent alliance; dissertation]. Campus.

Services to the scientific community

Expertise activities

Review and evaluation of research proposals (Topics: gender and diversity management, quality of service work): Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); German Research Foundation (DFG); Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); Scientific Commission of Lower Saxony (WKN)

Ad-hoc reviewer: Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, German Journal of Human Resource Management (ZfP), Human Relations, International Journal of Conflict Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Work Organization and Emotion, Journal of Business Ethics, Managementforschung, Management Revue, Organization Studies, Research Policy, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Sections Personnel Management and Organization

Participation in academic advisory boards

Advisory board “Cultural Diversity and Equal Opportunities in Federal Administration ”, research project of the Federal Institute of Population Research (BiB), funded and co-conducted by the Federal Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration, since 2018

Invited expert at the forum “Gender equality issues in human resource management”, Expert Commission Second Gender Equality Report of the German Government, April 2016

Advisory board “Women on co-determined supervisory boards: A theoretical and empirical analysis of faultlines”, research project funded by Hans Böckler Foundation, 2014–2017

Expert advisory group of the BMBF project ServProf (Learning and living professionalism in service), 2009–2013

Advisory council of the idm – International Society for Diversity Management e.V., since 2007

Collaboration in university committees

at Helmut Schmidt University

Senate committee for the promotion of equal opportunities (SenAChance), member since 10/2022, chairperson (with deputy Prof. Dr. Tanja Klenk) since 2023

Center of Gender & Diversity (ZGD), deputy representative of the HSU (with Lisa M. Rosen, Lara Nehrke, Eleonora Ardissone) in the Joint Commission, the inter-university governing body of the ZGD, since 2021

Advanced master’s programme “Leading Diversity” (M-LeaD): conception and accreditation process support 2015–2017; academic director since 2018; examination board, member and chairperson since 2018

Advisory board of the Centre for Postgraduate Education (ZWW), deputy chairperson, 2016–2019

Dean of studies Education Science, 2017–2018; deputy dean 2019

Senate committee on teaching and study, 2017–2018

Faculty council Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017–2018

Senate committee on research and young researchers, 2015–2018

Internship committee, 2015–2016

at Freie Universität Berlin

Department Council WE 1 (Business Administration), School of Business & Economics, deputy director, 2009–2011

Continuing education master program “Gender and Diversity Competence”: Joint Committee of the Departments of Political and Social Sciences, Law and Business & Economics, member 2007-2013, chairperson 2011-2013; managing committee and examination board, member 2009-2013, chairperson 2011-2013

Women’s council, 2008-2011

Affiliations

AOM – Academy of Management; Divisions: GDO (Gender and Diversity in Organizations), HRM (Human Resource Management), CMS (Critical Management Studies)

efas – economy feminism and science

EGOS – European Group of Organization Studies

ESA – Sociology of Emotions Research Network

idm – international society for diversity management

Network Gender Studies, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

VHB – German Academic Association for Business Research, Sections Personnel (PERS), Organization (ORG), Philosophy of Science and Ethics in Economics (WEW)

HSU

Letzte Änderung: 5. February 2024