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Faculty Profile

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Burak OC

Full-time Faculty
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business LKCSB

Education

2014 Ph.D. in Economics, Finance and Management
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Current Appointment(s)

2023 - Now Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2020 - 2023 Associate Professor 
Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne
2018 - 2020 Assistant Professor 
Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne
2016 - 2018 Senior Lecturer
University of Western Australia Business School
2014 - 2016
Assistant Professor 
Bocconi University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • Excellence in Teaching Award - Early Career Researcher, University of Western Australia, 2016 - 2017
  • Dean’s Teaching Honor List, Singapore Management University, 2013 - 2014

Research Interests

  • Leadership
  • Power
  • Organisational Justice

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

  • Oc, B. & Chintakananda, K. (2024). Well-being of formal leaders: A critical and interdisciplinary review of predictors shaping leader well-being. The Leadership Quarterly, 36(1), 1-20.
  • Oc, B., & Kouchaki, M. (2023). The More the Merrier: How Psychological Standing and Work Group Size Explain Managers’ Willingness to Communicate about Unethical Conduct in their Work Group. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-12.
  • †Oc, B., †Chintakananda, K., Bashshur, M. R., & Day, D. V. (2023). The study of followers in leadership research: A systematic and critical review. The Leadership Quarterly, 34(1), 101674.
  • Carpini, J. A., & Oc, B. (2022). Contextualizing the organizational mindset. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 15(3), 403-407.
  • Oc, B., Netchaeva, E., & Kouchaki, M. (2021). It’s a man’s world! The role of political ideology, gender role attitudes, and threat in the early stages of leader recruitment. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 162, 24-41.
  • Oc, B., Daniels, M. A., Diefendorff, J. M., Bashshur, M. R., & Greguras, G. J. (2020). Humility breeds authenticity: How leader authentic humility shapes follower vulnerability and authenticity. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 158, 112-125.
  • Oc, B., Bashshur, M. R., & Moore, C. (2019). Head above the parapet: How minority subordinates influence group outcomes and the consequences they face for doing so. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(7), 929-945.
  • Oc. B., Moore, C., & Bashshur, M. R. (2018). When the tables are turned: The effects of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election on in-group favoritism and out-group hostility. PloS One, 13(5), e0197848.
  • Oc, B. (2018). Contextual leadership: A systematic review of how contextual factors shape leadership and its outcomes. The Leadership Quarterly, 29(1), 218-235.
  • Oc, B., Bashshur, M. R., & Moore, C. (2015). Speaking truth to power: The effect of candid feedback on how individuals with power allocate resources. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(2), 450-463.
  • †Bashshur, M. R., & †Oc, B. (2015). When voice matters: A multi-level review of the impact of voice in organizations. Journal of Management, 41(5), 1530-1554.
  • Oc, B., Bashshur, M. R., Daniels, M. A., Greguras, G. J., & Diefendorff, J. M. (2015). Leader humility in Singapore. The Leadership Quarterly, 26(1), 68-80.
  • Oc, B., & Bashshur, M. R. (2013). Followership, leadership, and social influence. The Leadership Quarterly, 24(6), 919-934.

† equal contribution

 

Research Advisor / Co-Research Advisor To

  • XIE Shoucai (shoucai.xie.2021@dba.smu.edu.sg), DBA
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Curriculum Vitae

Research Areas and Areas of Expertise

Strategic Priorities

Highlights
6
Publications
12
H-Index (All Time)
2712
Citations (All Time)
Burak Oc is an internationally recognized scholar in organizational behavior and leadership, specializing in the dynamics of leader-follower interactions, humility, authenticity, and ethical conduct in organizations.

Bridges theoretical innovation with practical relevance, advancing understanding of leader humility, authenticity, and ethical behavior; recognized for rigorous empirical research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and contributions to leadership theory and practice; influential in shaping organizational justice and ethical climates.

Focused research areas include Examines the interplay between leaders and followers, the role of humility and authenticity in leadership, ethical decision-making, justice climate formation, and contextual influences on leadership effectiveness and group outcomes.
Areas of Expertise
Organizational behaviorleadership and followershipleader humilityauthenticityethical conductjustice climatevoice and social influencecontextual factors in leadershippolitical ideology and gender in leader recruitment.
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Education

2014 Ph.D. in Economics, Finance and Management
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Current Appointment(s)

2023 - Now Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2020 - 2023 Associate Professor 
Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne
2018 - 2020 Assistant Professor 
Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne
2016 - 2018 Senior Lecturer
University of Western Australia Business School
2014 - 2016
Assistant Professor 
Bocconi University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • Excellence in Teaching Award - Early Career Researcher, University of Western Australia, 2016 - 2017
  • Dean’s Teaching Honor List, Singapore Management University, 2013 - 2014

Research Interests

  • Leadership
  • Power
  • Organisational Justice

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

  • Oc, B. & Chintakananda, K. (2024). Well-being of formal leaders: A critical and interdisciplinary review of predictors shaping leader well-being. The Leadership Quarterly, 36(1), 1-20.
  • Oc, B., & Kouchaki, M. (2023). The More the Merrier: How Psychological Standing and Work Group Size Explain Managers’ Willingness to Communicate about Unethical Conduct in their Work Group. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-12.
  • †Oc, B., †Chintakananda, K., Bashshur, M. R., & Day, D. V. (2023). The study of followers in leadership research: A systematic and critical review. The Leadership Quarterly, 34(1), 101674.
  • Carpini, J. A., & Oc, B. (2022). Contextualizing the organizational mindset. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 15(3), 403-407.
  • Oc, B., Netchaeva, E., & Kouchaki, M. (2021). It’s a man’s world! The role of political ideology, gender role attitudes, and threat in the early stages of leader recruitment. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 162, 24-41.
  • Oc, B., Daniels, M. A., Diefendorff, J. M., Bashshur, M. R., & Greguras, G. J. (2020). Humility breeds authenticity: How leader authentic humility shapes follower vulnerability and authenticity. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 158, 112-125.
  • Oc, B., Bashshur, M. R., & Moore, C. (2019). Head above the parapet: How minority subordinates influence group outcomes and the consequences they face for doing so. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(7), 929-945.
  • Oc. B., Moore, C., & Bashshur, M. R. (2018). When the tables are turned: The effects of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election on in-group favoritism and out-group hostility. PloS One, 13(5), e0197848.
  • Oc, B. (2018). Contextual leadership: A systematic review of how contextual factors shape leadership and its outcomes. The Leadership Quarterly, 29(1), 218-235.
  • Oc, B., Bashshur, M. R., & Moore, C. (2015). Speaking truth to power: The effect of candid feedback on how individuals with power allocate resources. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(2), 450-463.
  • †Bashshur, M. R., & †Oc, B. (2015). When voice matters: A multi-level review of the impact of voice in organizations. Journal of Management, 41(5), 1530-1554.
  • Oc, B., Bashshur, M. R., Daniels, M. A., Greguras, G. J., & Diefendorff, J. M. (2015). Leader humility in Singapore. The Leadership Quarterly, 26(1), 68-80.
  • Oc, B., & Bashshur, M. R. (2013). Followership, leadership, and social influence. The Leadership Quarterly, 24(6), 919-934.

† equal contribution

 

Research Advisor / Co-Research Advisor To

  • XIE Shoucai (shoucai.xie.2021@dba.smu.edu.sg), DBA