Denise Salin (PhD) holds an Associate Professorship in management and organization at Hanken School of Economics. Her previous work experience includes several acting professorships in management and organisation at Hanken. She is also affiliated with Helsinki University, where she holds an Adjunct Professorship in social psychology. In 2005 to 2008 she was funded by the Academy of Finland to do a research project on organizational measures against workplace bullying.
Denise Salin
Hanken School of Economics
Teaching
Denise Salin’s main teaching areas are organisational behaviour and leadership, but she has taught a broad range of courses at Hanken ranging from strategy to research methods. She has supervised numerous Bachelor and Master’s theses and acted as co-supervisor for PhD theses.
Denise Salin has given guest lectures at several courses on different levels (Master, MBA and PhD), both at Hanken and abroad. Denise Salin also teaches 'Work and Organizational Psychology' at Helsinki University and has given a course on 'Conflict Management' at Åbo Akademi University.
Denise Salin has participated in the renowned International Teachers Programme (ITP) at IMD and taken a course in Adult Education at Helsinki University. She was appointed teacher of the year at Hanken in 2002 and was awarded first prize in a case writing competition at Hanken in 2005.
Research Interest
Denise Salin wrote her PhD dissertation on 'Workplace bullying among Business Professionals: Prevalence, Organizational Antecedents and Gender Differences'.
Her current research interests include workplace bullying and mistreatment, organizational justice and gender. Please see list of publications below.
Her research has been widely cited (over 900 citations in Google Scholar, December 2011). Please see Google Scholar Profile (including citations): http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-ztsNpAAAAAJ
Selected publications
Articles in international refereed journals
Escartin, J., Salin, D. & Rodriguez-Caballeira, A. (2011). Conceptualizations of workplace bullying: gendered rather than gender-neutral. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 10 (4), 157-165.
Salin, D. (2011) The significance of gender for third parties’ perceptions of negative interpersonal behaviour: labelling and explaining negative acts. Gender, Work, and Organization, 18 (6), 571-591.
Parzefall, M. & Salin, D. (2010) Perceptions of and reactions to workplace bullying: a social exchange perspective. Human Relations, 63 (6), 761-780.
Salin, D. (2009). Organisational responses to workplace harassment: an exploratory study. Personnel Review, 38 (1), 26-44
Moreno-Jiménez, B., Rodríguez A., Salin, D and Morante Benadero, M (2008): Workplace bullying in southern Europe: Prevalence, forms and risk groups in a Spanish sample. International Journal of Organizational Behaviour, 13 (2), 95-109. http://www.usq.edu.au/resources/paper6morenojiminez.pdf
Salin, D. (2008). The prevention of workplace bullying as a question of human resource management issue: measures adopted and underlying organizational factors. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 24 (3), 221-231. http://hdl.handle.net/10227/279
Salin (2006). Se preocupan las organizaciones por el acoso psicológico en el trabajo? Percepciones de los trabajadores sobre las medidas organizacionales contra el acoso psicológico. Revista de psicología del trabajo y de las organizaciones, 22 (3), 413-432
Salin, D. (2005). Workplace Bullying among Business Professionals: Prevalence, Gender Differences and the Role of Organizational Politics (Harcèlement au travail chez les professionnels du milieu des affaires. Prévalence, différences selon le genre et rôle de la culture organisationnelle). Perspectives interdisciplinaires sur le travail et la santé (PISTES), 7 (3), http://www.pistes.uqam.ca/
Salin, D. (2003). Ways of explaining workplace bullying: a review of enabling, motivating and precipitating structures and processes in the work environment. Human Relations, 56 (10), 1213-1232. http://hdl.handle.net/10227/283
Salin, D. (2003). The significance of gender in the prevalence, forms, and perceptions of workplace bullying. Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier, 5 (3), 30-50. http://hdl.handle.net/10227/290
Salin, D. (2003). Bullying and organisational politics in competitive and rapidly changing work environments. International Journal of Management and Decision-Making, 4 (1), 35-46. http://hdl.handle.net/10227/281
Salin, D. (2001). Prevalence and forms of bullying among business professionals: a comparison of two different strategies for measuring bullying. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 10 (4), 425-441. http://hdl.handle.net/10227/282
Articles in international academic books
Salin, D. (in press). Bullying and well-being. In Giacalone, R. & Promislo, M. (Eds). Unethical Work Behavior and Organizational Well-Being: A Handbook. M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Salin, D & Hoel, H (2011) Organisational causes of workplace bullying. In Einarsen, S;, Hoel, H, Zapf, D & Cooper, C (Eds). Workplace Bullying: Development in Theory, Research and Practice. London. Taylor & Francis, 227-243.
Salin. D (2010) Twenty years of research on workplace bullying: Attitudes and perceptions of personnel managers in Finland today. In Österman, K. (ed) Indirect and direct aggression. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 291-305.
Hoel, H. & Salin, D. (2003). Organisational antecedents of workplace bullying. In Einarsen, S.; Hoel, H.; Zapf, D. & Cooper, C. (Eds): Bullying and emotional abuse in the workplace: International perspectives in research and practice. London: Taylor & Francis, 203-218.
Scientific monograph
Salin, D. (2003). Workplace Bullying among Business Professionals: Prevalence, Organisational Antecedents and Gender Differences. Doctoral dissertation. Research Reports, Serie A, no 117. Helsinki: Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:951-555-787-9
Other scientific publications (university series + conference proceedings)
Salin, D (2006). Organizational measures taken against workplace bullying: the case of Finnish municipalities. Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, series C, no 521. Helsinki: Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:951-555-933-2
Salin, D. (2002). Bullying and organisational politics in competitive and rapidly changing work environments. In Sheehan, M.; Poropat A.; Lewis, D. & Brooks, S. (Eds): 20th Anniversary Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism: Proceedings of the Symposium "Voices in Communities of Rapid and Discontinuous Change". Pontypridd: Glamorgan University.
Salin, D. (2000). Workplace bullying among professionals: prevalence, risk groups, and gender differences. In Cox, T., Dewe, P., Nielsen, K. and Cox, R. (Eds.): European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Conference Proceedings. Occupational Health Psychology: Europe 2000. Nottingham: I-WHO Publications.
Salin, D. (1999). Explaining workplace bullying: a review of enabling, motivating and triggering factors in the work environment. Working Paper no. 406. Helsinki: Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration.
Salin, D. (1998): Parent company influence on subsidiary human resource management: the case of Finnish subsidiaries in Poland. Working Paper no. 376. Helsinki: Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration.
Other publications
Salin, D. (2007). Den framgångsrika ledaren som mobbare? [The successful leader as a bully?] Forum för ekonomi och teknik, no 5, p. 47
Salin, D. (2005). Viktigt att ledare motarbetar mobbning. [Important for leaders to combat bullying] Hanken: tidskrift från Svenska handelshögskolan, No 4, p. 11.
Salin, D. (2004). Workplace Bullying among business professionals: prevalence, gender differences, and organisational politics. Occupational Health Psychologist, 1 (1), 5.
Salin, D. (2000). Mobbning på arbetsplatsen: hinder för personlig och organisatorisk utveckling. [Workplace bullying: an obstacle for personal and organisational development] Forum för ekonomi och teknik. No 4, p. 36.
