Leadership Lab
Pro. Ronit Kark
Bar-Ilan University Psychology Dept.
Papers Presented at Scientific Confrences
1. Kark, R. (January, 1996). Gender Differences in Referent Power, Identification and Organizational Outcomes. Presented at the Annual Meeting of Leadership Researchers in Collaboration with at the Center for Leadership Studies, State University of NY, Binghamton. Center for Qualitative Leadership, Zichron Yaakov, Israel.
2. Kark, R. (July, 1996). Gender, Leadership and Identification Processes. Presented at the Center for Leadership Studies, State University of NY, Binghamton, NY, USA.
3. Kark, R. (June, 1996) Participant in a workshop Transformational and transactional leadership: Using the full range theory of leadership in leadership development processes. Prof. Bruce Avolio (Presenter/facilitator), The School for Leadership Development, I.D.F. Netanya, Israel.
4. Kark, R. (February, 1997). Women as Charismatic Leaders. Presented at the Leadership Conference in The School for Leadership, I.D.F.,
Beit-Goldmintz, Israel.
5. Kark, R. (March, 1997). The Glass Ceiling: Analysis of the Phenomenon and its Effects on Various Organizational Levels. Presented at a conference on the Glass Ceiling in the Public Sector, organized by The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC Israel), Division for Development of Human Resources. Jerusalem.
6. Kark, R., Dvir T. & Lapidot Y. (June, 1997). Organizing committee and Introductory lecture on Followership, at a conference on 'Followership'. Annual Meeting of Leadership Research Center for Qualitative Leadership, Zichron-Yaakov, Israel.
7. Kark, R. (June, 1998) Participant in a workshop, The Organization and its Leaders: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, Prof. M. F.R. Kets de Vries
(Presenter/facilitator). The International Society for Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations Jerusalem.
8. Kark, R. (August, 1998). Participant at The Academy of Management Doctoral Consortium and pre-conference workshops of the Gender and
Diversity in Organizations Division, San Diego, USA.
9. Kark, R. & Shamir, B. (August, 1998). Gender Differences in Transformational Leadership and Follower`s Identification Processes. Presented at the
24th International Congress of Applied Psychology (IAAP), San-Francisco, USA.
10. Kark, R. (June, 1999). Gendering Identification Processes: The Deconstruction of Boundaries between the Private and Public Sphere. Presented
at the 7th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women – Women’s Worlds 99, Tromso, Norway.
11. Kark, R. (March, 2000). Followers’ and Leaders’ Attachment: What can be learned from narratives on Personal Identifications. Invited presentation
at the Study Group for Narratives, Institute for research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, USA.
12. Elron, E. & Kark, R. (September, 2000). The sky is the limit? A look at women’s career motivations and aspirations. Presented at the 8th Biennial
Conference of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR), Rishon LeZion, Israel.
13. Kark, R. (September, 2000). The Feminization of Management: A study of Leadership, Identification and Gender. Organizational Behavior Faculty
and Doctoral Students Seminar, School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, USA.
14. Kark, R. (October, 2000). Invited participant in a Panel on Micro Perspectives: Theories of identity and individuals in organizations. Interdisciplinary
Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS) Seminar Series, University of Michigan, USA.
15. Kark, R. (November, 2000). Ties that Bind Transformational Leaders and Their Followers: The Relationships between Different Transformational
Leadership Behaviors and Personal and Social Identification. The International Leadership Association Second Annual Meeting, Toronto,
Canada.
16. Kark, R. (November, 2000). An Organization-Based Attempt to Shatter the Glass Ceiling. Feminist Utopias: An International Feminist Conference.
Toronto, Canada.
17. Kark, R. & Shamir, B. (April, 2001). The Acceptance of Femininity: Sex, Gender, Identification and Leadership. Social Industrial Organizational
Psychology (SIOP) Conference, San Diego, USA.
18. Kark, R. (June, 2001). Invited participant. Working with Our Differences: Chasms, Bridges, Alliances? A Center for Gender in Organizations
Conference/Workshop, SIMMONS Graduate School of Management, Boston.
19. Kark, R. & Shamir, B. (June, 2001). The Relationships between Transformational Leadership and Followers’ Identification, Dependence And
Empowerment: A Field Study. Invited paper for the Bernard M. Bass Leadership Conference, Center for Leadership Studies, School of
Management, SUNY Binghamton, U.S.A.
20. Kark, R. (February, 2002). Women as Mentors, Women as Protégé. Invited speaker for “Women Teaching, Women Learning: Women as role-
models and mentors”. A Conference of the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports. Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
21. Kark, R. & Manor, R. (July, 2002). Unveiling the Gendered Nature of Organizational Citizenship Behavior. 8th International Interdisciplinary
Congress on Women - Women’s Worlds 2002, Kampala, Uganda.
22. Kark, R. (August, 2002). Invited participant, International Women’s Studies Summer Institute: Theories and Practices of Difference and
Commonality, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
23. Kark, R. & Shamir, B. (August, 2002). The Influence of Transformational Leadership on Followers’ Relational Versus Collective Self-Concept.
*Chosen as ‘Best Paper’ for the Organizational Behavior Division. Academy of Management Conference, Denver, U.S.A.
24. Kark, R. & Manor, R. (June, 2003). Re-reading and Re-thinking of Organizational Citizenship Behavior from a Gendered Perspective. Gender, Work
and Organization. Presented at the 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference. Keele University, England.
25. Keshet, S., Kark, R. & Pomerantz, L. (June, 2003). Gender, Power, and the use of Influence Strategies. Gender, Work and Organization. Presented
at the 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference. Keele University, England.
26. Kark, R. (June, 2003). The Transformational Leader: Who is (S)he? Applying Feminist Approaches to the Study of Gender and Transformational
Leadership. Panel on Changing the Face(s) of Leadership. Invited participant. Educating for the Future: Crossing Borders, Building Coalitions
in Graduate Women’s Studies Around the World, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
27. Kark, R. & Manor, R. (August, 2003). Organizational Citizenship Behavior: What’s Gender Got To Do With It?. A paper presented at the AOM
Annual Meeting, Seattle, U.S.A.
28. Medler-Liraz, H. & Kark, R. (June, 2005). Gender, Leadership and Emotions: A conceptual model of leaders’ influence on the emotional experience
of employees. Gender and Emotion Stream – 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference / Gender, Work and Organization. Keele University,
Staffordshire, England.
29. Medler-Liraz, H. & Kark, R. (June, 2005). Leader’s Emotional Skills as a Source of Influence on the Emotional Experience of Employees and
Customers: A Conceptual Model. Re-Thinking Leadership Conference. Lancaster University, Lancaster, England.
30. Kark, R. (July, 2005). Invited participant in a workshop on Management: Is the Feminization of Management a Female Advantage? Women’s Worlds
2005, The 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. Seoul, Korea.
31. Kark, R. & Van Dijk, D. (August , 2005). Motivation to Lead, Motivation to Follow: The Role of Self Regulatory Focus in Leadership Processes. A
paper presented at the AOM Annual Meeting, Honolulu.
32. Kark, R. (August, 2005). Feminist Perspectives and Leadership Research. A paper presented at the AOM Annual Meeting, Honolulu.
33. Kark, R. & Van Dijk, D. (November, 2005). Motivation and Leadership: The Role of Self Regulatory Focus in Leadership Processes. Presented at the International Leadership Association (ILA) Conference, Amsterdam, Holland.
34. Kark, R. (July, 2006) The Feminization of Management. Presented at the International Association of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece.
35. Kark, R. (August, 2006). Emotions and Leadership: A review of the field. A Professional Development Workshop on Leadership and Emotions, The
Academy of Management Conference, Atlanta, USA.
36. Kark, R. & Medler-Liraz, H. (August, 2006). Leading with a smile: The influence of managers’ leadership behavior and emotional skills on the
emotional experience of employees Emotions in Organizations. A paper resented at the 5th International Conference on Emotions in
Organizational Life (EMONT), Atlanta, USA.
37. Medler-Liraz, H. & Kark, R. (August, 2007). It takes three to tango: Leadership and hostility in the service encounter. A paper presented at the AOM
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA.
38. Kark, R. (September, 2007). The effect of leadership on followers' and customers' emotions in the service encounter. Invited Seminar at the
Queensland University of Technology School of Management, Australia
39. Kark, R. & Van Dijk D. (October, 2007). Invited speaker. Motivation to lead, motivation to follow: The role of self regulatory focus in leadership
processes – Theory and findings. Seminar of The Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
40. Waismel-Manor, R., & Kark, R. (2007, February). Organizational citizenship behavior: Gendering the 'good soldier syndrome' in the Israeli context.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Society, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.
41. Van Dijk, D. & Kark, R. (January, 2008). Invited speaker. Self Regulatory Focus in Leadership and Feedback Processes. Seminar of the
Organizational Behavior Faculty, Leon Recanati graduate School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University.
42. Kark, R. & Van Dijk D. (May, 2008). Invited speaker. Leadership and self and its intersection with gender and race. Roundtable on Race and
Leadership: Conversations at the Intersection. Leadership for a Changing World, Research Center for Leadership in Action NYU Wagner
School of Public Service, NY, U.S.A.
43. Kark, R. (May, 2008) Invited speaker, Promotion versus prevention: The effect of leadership on followers' self regulatory focus and outcomes. New
Directions in Leadership Research conference, Fuqua/Coach K Center of Leadership & Ethics, Duke University.
44. Kark, R. (May, 2008). Invited speaker. Race and Leadership: Conversations at the Intersection Leadership for a Changing World. Research Center
for Leadership in Action NYU Wagner School of Public Service
45. Kark, R. & Shiloch, G. (July, 2008). Now You See it Now You Don't: Feminism Disappeared in A Case Study of the Organizing of 'Women
Renewing Management'. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Amsterdam.
46. Kark, R. & Shiloch, G. (July, 2008). Now You See it Now You Don't: Feminism Disappeared in A Case Study of the Organizing of 'Women
Renewing Management'. Women's Worlds, Madrid, Spain.
47. Kark, R. & Nehari A. (August, 2008). Leadership, intimacy and thriving: Professional intimacy in leader-follower relations as a mediator of the effects
of leadership on followers' thriving and performance. A paper presented at the AOM Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, USA.
48. Van Dijk D. & Kark, R. (August, 2008). Motivation to lead: The relationship between self regulatory focus and leadership style. A paper presented at
the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting. Anaheim, California, USA
49. Kark, R. (October, 2009). It Takes Three to Tango: Leadership and hostility in the service encounter Leadership as Influencing Employees and
Customers Emotional Experience. Invited Speaker, The Business School, University College, Dublin, Ireland.
50. Kark, R. & Carmeli, A. (July, 2009). Alive and Creating: The Mediating Role of Vitality in the Relationship between Psychological Safety and
Creative Work Involvement. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Barcelona, Spain.
51. Kark, R. & Yaffe, T. (August, 2009). Leading by Example: The Case of Manager OCB. A paper presented at the AOM Annual Meeting, Chicago,
Illinois.
52. Kark, R. (August, 2009). Invited Discussant. Examining The Motivation to Lead and the Motivation to Follow. A paper presented at the AOM Annual
Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
53. Teeni M., Van Dijk D., & Kark R. (August, 2009). The Effect of Leadership Style and Regulatory Focus on Followers' Emotions. Examining The
Motivation to Lead and the Motivation to Follow. A paper presented at the AOM Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
54. Kark, R. (February, 2010). Conference Management and Organizer Authority and Recognition at Social and Economic Crossroads. Ofek and the
Tavistock Center,.Ramot, Israel.
55. Kark, R., & Shiloch, G. (May, 2010). The Disappearance Of A Feminist Narrative: A Case Study Of The Organizing Of 'Women Renewing
Management'. 10th The European Academy of Management (EURAM), Rome, Italy.
56. Miller, Y., Kark, R. & Zohar, N. (August, 2010). Managerial Ethics from a Gender Perspective. A paper presented at the AOM Annual Meeting,
Montreal, Canada.
57. Kark, R. (January, 2011). Invited Workshop Speaker At the 5th bi-annual conference on Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS). Ann Arbor,
Michigan.
58. Van Dijk, D., & Kark, R. (April, 2011). Leadership Style Effect on Employees' Performance: Regulatory Focus as a Mediator. A paper presented at
the 9th International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB) Conference in Orlando, Florida. *Overall Best Paper Award from the
"International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB).
59. Kark, R. & Medler-Liraz (August, 2011). Emotional labor versus emotional authenticity: The influence of leaders' on followers' emotional display. A
paper presented at the AOM Annual Meeting. San Antonio, Texas, USA
60. Kark, R. (June, 2011). Games managers play: Play as a form of leadership development. A paper presented at the 9th Eastern Academy of
Management International (EAM-I). Bangalore, India.
61. Kark, R., & Van Dijk, D. (October, 2011). Birds of a feather flock together: The Relationship between Leader-Follower Self Regulation Congruency,
LMX, and Organizational Commitment. Presented at the 4th Annual EuroMed Academy of Business Conference in Crete, Greece.
62. Kark, R., Katz-Navon, T., & Delegach, M. (December, 2011). Leadership safety: The relationship between leadership style, self regulatory focus,
and safety outcomes. Presented at the Israel Organizational Behavior Conference (IOBC), The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business
Administration, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
63. Kark, R., Miron-Spektor, E., Gorsky R., & Kaplun, A. (December, 2011). The Effect of Learning Orientation and Behaviors on Individual Creativity.
Presented at the Israel Organizational Behavior Conference (IOBC), The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv
University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
64. Kark, R., & Van Dijk, D. (May, 2012). When Me, Myself and I Meet the Leader: The Effect of Leadership on the Interplay between the Chronic and
the Situational SRF. Presented at th conference of Personality in Israel (a joint research conference of the Institute for Advanced Studies and the
Israel Science Foundation). Jerusalem, Israel.
65. Kark ,R., Miron-Spektor, E., Gorsky R., & Kaplun, A. (July, 2012). Two roads diverge in a yellow wood: The effect of exploration and exploitation on
creativity and leadership development. A paper presented at the 28th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS). Helsinki, Finland.
66. Kark, R., & Anishman-Razin, M. (August, 2012). Doing distance: Leaders’ crafting of psychological distance as a mean to transmit meanings. A
paper presented at the AOM Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
67. Kopelman, S., Narayanan, J., Reb, J., Mor, S., Kark, R., & Gutman, G., (July, 2012). Mindfulness in Negotiations: Integrating Theory and Insights for
Practice. A paper presented 25th Annual International Association of Conflict Management Conference. Cape Town, South Africa.
68. Kark, R., Van Dijk, D., & Esformes, E. (August, 2012). Leader-follower Regulatory fit: The Relationship between Self Regulation Congruency, LMX,
and Organizational Commitment. A paper presented at the AOM Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts, USA
69. Kark, R. (August, 2012). What do we know about Creative Leadership. A paper presented at the AOM Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts,
USA
70. Mayo, M. & Kark, R. (August, 2012). Identity from a Distance: Telework, Leader-Organizational Identifications and Work-Family Conflict. A paper
presented at the AOM Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts, USA
71. Wiesel, V. & Kark, R. (May 2013). The assessment center gender paradox: How a ‘tailor made’ manager suit fits female candidates. A paper
presented at the 16th European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP). Münster, Germany.
72. Kark, R. (May 2013). Invited Keynote Speaker at the Women in Leadership: Business and Academia conference, TUS School of Management,
Munich, Germany.
73. Anisman-Razin, M. & Kark, R. (June 2013). Managers Enacting Distance: Exploring Goals, Behaviors and Outcomes of Managerial Distance. A
paper presented at EAM-I Bi-Annual Meeting. Seville, Spain.
74. Kark, R. (June 2013). Breaking with the crisis: Innovation, creativity and a playful mindset. Invited Key Note Speaker Session at the 13th European
Academy of Management (EURAM). Annual Meeting. Istanbul, Turkey.
75. Anishman-Razin, M. & Kark, R. (August 2013). ‘What you see from here, you do not see from there’: Leaders enactment of distance and closeness
and its’ effect on followers. A paper presented at the AOM Annual Meeting. Orlando, Florida, USA. Symposium Organizers.
76. Lin, B., Kark, R. & Mainemelis, C. (August 2013). Leaders' Responses to Creative Deviance: Differential Effects on Subsequent Creative Deviance
and Creative Performance. AOM Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts, USA
77. Mayo, M. & Kark, R. (August 2013). The Psychological Construction of Leadership Identity: A Life-Story Approach. A paper presented at the AOM
Annual Meeting. Orlando, Florida, USA
78. Kark, R., (August 2013). Invited speaker. Roundtable on Brief Comments on Journal Impact. Organizational Behavior Doctoral Consortium at the
AOM Annual Meeting. Orlando, Florida, USA
79. Van Dijk, D., Kark, R. & Fishman, E. (February, 2014). The effect of leadership style on team creativity: The mediating role of collective regulatory
focus. Israel Organizational Behavior Conference IOCB. Tel Aviv, Israel. *A member of the Organizing committee for the conference.
80. Kark, R. (February, 2014). Member of Organizing Committee. Israel Organizational Behavior Conference IOCB, Tel Aviv, Israel.
81. Wiesel, V. & Kark, R. (February, 2014) Assessment Center's Paradox: Manager Suit, Made for Male Candidates, Fits Female Candidates. Israel
Organizational Behavior Conference IOCB. Tel Aviv, Israel.
82. Kark, R, & Anisman-Razin, M.* (February, 2014). Leaders’ doing distance. Invited Speaker, Department of Management, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong. Hong Kong.
83. Kark, R. & Anisman-Razin, M.* (May, 2014). Zoom in Zoom out: Exploring Goals, Behaviors and Outcomes of Managerial Distance and Closeness.
Invited Speaker for The Simmons Special Speakers Series. Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO), Simmons School of Management, Boston.
84. Kark, R, (May, 2014). Crossing Boarders and Boundaries: Building International Research Networks. Invited workshop with PhD students.
Management and Organization Department, Boston College, Boston.
85. Kark, R. (June, 2014). Leader-Follower Distance: An Identity Perspective. Invited Speaker. Organizational Psychology Seminar Series, The
Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
86. Kark, R. (April, 2015). Invited Participant, Logics in tension: Bridging the individual and collective dimensions of leadership. NYU Leadership
Initiative. 2nd Collective Leadership Research Worshop, NYU Wagner School of Social Policy, New York City.
87. Kark, R, Mainemalis, B, & Epitropaki O, (May, 2015). ‘Follow the Leader(?)’: Creative Leadership at Play in Multiple Contexts. 10th Organization
Studies Workshop on Organizational creativity, Play and Entrepreneurship, Crete, Greece.
88. Kark, R. Karazi-Presler, T. & Tubi, S. (July, 2015). Left, right, left, right, forward march: Leadership paradoxes in times of transition in the military
context. In Subtrack: Paradoxes and Unreason: Provoking Greater Examination into Organizational Life. Athens, Greece.
89. Kark, R. (2015, July), Invited Keynote, Leadership between Intimacy and Charisma. ESMT OB-Mini Conference, European School of Management
and Technology, Berlin, Germany.
90. Kark, R. (2015, August). Playful leaders: walking the rope between Creative Deviance and Conformity. Academy of Management (AOM) Annual
Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
91. Kark, R., (August 2015). Invited speaker. Roundtable on Where and How to Publish. Organizational Behavior Doctoral Consortium at the AOM
Annual Meeting. Vancouver, Canada. USA.
92. Kark, R. (September, 2015). Invited Speaker. Playful leaders. University of Queensland School of Management. Brisbane, Australia.
93. Kark, R. (September, 2015). Invited Speaker. There is Still Hope for the Non-Charimatic Leaders. University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
94. Kark, R. (September, 2015). Invited Speaker. Intimacy in leader-Follower Relationship. Practitioner-Academics Conference. University of
Queensland School of Psychology, Brisbane, Australia.
95. Kark, R, (November, 2015). Member of Organizing Committee. Leadership Now: A conference to Honor Boas Shamir. The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem., Israel. Israel Organizational Behavior Conference IOBC, Tel Aviv, Israel.
96. Kark, R. (January, 2016). Member of Organizing Committee. Israel Organizational Behavior Conference IOBC, Tel Aviv, Israel. Heading the
Doctoral Consortium and the session to Honor Boas Shamir.
97. Katz-Navon, T., Kark, R., & Delgatch, M. (January, 2016). The Curvilinear Relationship Between Leadership and Safety: The Moderating Role of
Group Safety Commitment. Israeli Organizational Behavior Conference 2016 (IOBC). Tel Aviv, Israel.
98. Anisman-Razin, M. & Kark, R. (January, 2016). ‘Doing’ Distance as Identity Work: An Inductive Examination of Managers’ Enactment of
Psychological Distance. Israeli Organizational Behavior Conference (IOBC). Tel Aviv, Israel.
99. Kark, R., Vashdi, D., & Vinder, L. (January 2016). There is Still Hope for the Non-Charismatic: The Role of Leader-Follower Intimacy in Employee’s
Performance. Israeli Organizational Behavior Conference (IOBC). Tel Aviv, Israel.
100. Miron-Spektor, E., Kark, R., & Mishaan, T. (January 2016). Playing In-Hide-Out of the Box: The Role of Setting in the Relationship Between Play
and Creativity. Israeli Organizational Behavior Conference (IOBC). Tel Aviv, Israel.
101. Waismel-Manor, R., & Kark, R. (June, 2016)). Work redesign paradoxes: A case study of military redesigning work intervention. Paper presented
at the biennial Work and Family Researchers Network, Washington, DC.
102. Kark, R. & Vashdi, D. (Accepted; April, 2016). Intimacy instead of Charisma? What is happening to the public leader? 20th International Research
Society on Public Management Conference 2016. Hong Kong.
103. Epitropaki, O. Kark, R., & Mainemelis, B.(Accepted, July, 2016). Professional Development Workshop on Creative Leadership, EGOS, Napoli,
Italy.
104. Waismel-Manor, R. & Kark, R. (Accepted; June, 2016). Work redesign Paradoxes: A Case Study of Military Redesigning Work Intervention. Work
and Family Researchers Network Conference (WFRN). Washington, D.C.
105. Katz-Navon, T., Kark, R., & Delgatch, M. (Accepted; July, 2016) What team commitment has to do with keeping safety: The Curvilinear
relationship between transformational and transactional leadership and work accidents. 31st International Congress of Psychology 2016
(ICP2016). Yokohama, Japan.
106. Epitropaki, O., Kark, R. Mainemelis, C. & Lord, R.G. (Accepted; December 2016). Leadership, followership and identity: A multilevel review.
Identities at Work: Self-Concept in Organizational Settings. Society of Organizational Psychology (SIOP 2017).
107. Van Dijk, D., Kark, R. (Accepted; December 2016). Leadership and Innovation: New Theoretical and Empirical Developments. Identities at Work:
Self-Concept in Organizational Settings. Society of Organizational Psychology (SIOP 2017).
Conference Organizing Committee
Kark, R. (May, 2017). Member of Organizing Committee. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium, Mykonos, Greece.
Kark, R. (2018). Member of Organizing Committee. Creativity and Innovation in Organizations and Organizational Science. Israel Organizational Behavior Conference IOBC, Tel Aviv, Israel.