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., & 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