Professor Malcolm Higgs

Professor of Leadership and Strategy

Birmingham City Business School

Email:: Malcolm.Higgs@bcu.ac.uk

Malcolm Higgs is a Professor of Leadership and Strategy at Birmingham City University Business School and an Emeritus Professor of Organisation Behaviour at Southampton University.

He is also a visiting Professor at the Fortune Institute of International Business in Delhi, India.

Prior to joining Birmingham City University he was Professor of Organisation Behaviour at Hull University Business School. Prior to that he was the head of the Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour department in Southampton University Business School, having previously been the Head of the School.

Before joining Southampton, Malcolm held posts at Henley Business School including: Academic Dean, Director of the Leadership Group and Research Director. Before moving into academia Malcolm had a career in consulting with nine years as an international partner with Towers Perrin.

He is a chartered occupational psychologist and has developed psychometric instruments for the assessment of Emotional Intelligence and Emotionally Intelligent Leadership as well as continuing with consulting activities.

His research interests relate to many aspects of leadership, emotional intelligence, and change management as well as a range of broader organization behaviour topics relating to both leaders, followers and organizational culture.

Malcolm has published extensively in many leading academic journals as well as writing a range of books.

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Memberships

Research

Areas of Current Research

Dark Side Leadership
Change Leadership
Leader Mindfulness
Team Cohesion in Top Teams
Talent Management

Recent Books and Chapters

Lichtenstein, S., and Higgs, M.J. (2021). Strategy through Personal Values. Palgrave Macmillan, UK. ISBN 978-3-030-88268-6

O'Riordan, C., Kelliher, F., Flood, P.C., Higgs, M. 2019. Outsider Leadership: Insights and Interviews from Business Leaders. Palgrave Macmillan, UK. ISBN 978-3-319-97463-7

Clarke, N., & Higgs, M. (2019). Participation in Organisational Culture Change. In Hamin, R. & Ellinger, A. (Eds.) Evidence-Based Organisational Change Management. IAG Publishing

Clarke, N., Higgs, M.J., D’Amato, A., and Vahedi, R. (2018). Responsible Leadership in Projects. Pennsylvania, Project Management Institute

Higgs, M.J., & Dulewicz, S.V. (2016). Leading with Emotional Intelligence. London, Palgrave Macmillan

Recent Journal Papers

Kuipers, B., Higgs, M.J., and Stein, B. (2022). Change leadership and change embeddedness in public organisations: Connecting macro-level reform to micro-level implementation. Public Administration, in press (ABS 4*)

Higgs, M.J., and Rowland, D. (2022). Is Change all in the Mind? A study of Leader Mindfulness, Leader Behaviors and Change Success. Journal of General Management (ABS 2) – (in Press)

Higgs, M.J. (2022). Insomnia? Try counting leadership theories: Reflections on studying leadership. Journal of Change Management. (ABS 1) – (In Press)

Clarke, N, and Higgs, M.J. (2019). Political Skill and Role Overload as Antecedents of Innovative Work Behavior. Public Personnel Management 1–26

Sweeney, A., Clarke, N., and Higgs, M.J. (2019). Shared leadership in organisations: A systematic review of definitions, theoretical frameworks, and organisational outcomes. International Journal of Management Reviews (ABS 3)

Lichtenstein, S., Lichtenstein, G., and Higgs, M.J. (2018). Personal values at work: a mixed-methods study of executives’ strategic decision-making. Journal of General Management – (ABS 2)

Levene, F., and Higgs, M.J. (2018). Relational Leadership in Russia: A case study exploring change. Journal of General Management (ABS 2)

Hong T.M. Bui, Yolanda Zeng, Malcolm Higgs, (2017). The role of person-job fit in the relationship between transformational leadership and job engagement, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 32 Issue: 5, pp.373-386, https://doi.org/10.1108/JMP-05-2016-0144 (ABS 3)

Clarke, N. and Higgs, M.J. (2015). How strategic focus relates to the delivery of leadership training and development. Human Resource Management; DOI:10.1002/hrm.21683 (ABS 4*)

Baden, D., and Higgs, M.J. (2015). Challenging the perceived wisdom of management theories and practice. Academy of Management Learning and Education. (ABS 4)

Rejchrt, P., & Higgs, M. (2014). When in Rome: How Non-domestic Companies Listed in the UK May Not Comply with Accepted Norms and Principles of Good Corporate Governance. Does Home Market Culture Explain These Corporate Behaviours and Attitudes to Compliance?. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-29. (ABS 3)

Higgs, M.J., & Dulewicz, S.V. (2015). Antecedents of well-being: a study to examine the extent to which personality and emotional intelligence contribute to well-being. International Journal of Human Resource Management (ABS 3)

Kuipers, B.S., Higgs, M.J., Kickert, W.J.M., Tummers, L.G., Grandia, J., & Van der Voet, J. (2014) The management of change in public organisations: A literature review. Public Administration (ABS 4)