Dr Jon Gruda

    School of Business

    Lecturer
    Assistant Professor

    School of Business Building
    346
    (01) 474 7629

    Biography

    Dr. Jon Gruda is an Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour at Maynooth University. He also serves as the Academic (Post-Graduate) Placement Co-Ordinator in the School of Business. In terms of research interests, Dr. Gruda primarily focuses on relational leadership, dark leadership traits, personality, in addition to the aforementioned work on anxiety. 

    His previous appointment was at emlyon Business School (France) where he completed his Ph.D. in Management from 2012 to 2017, together with a joint Doctorate in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.) at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany). During his Ph.D., Dr. Gruda also completed an MSc in Affective Neuroscience from Maastricht University (The Netherlands) in 2018. This qualification inspired his recent interdisciplinary work with colleagues on detecting anxiety using machine learning    .

    Due to his training in econometrics and psychometrics, Dr Gruda recently was selected as one of 373 young scholars out of 20,000 applicants worldwide to attend the Lindau Nobel Prize Laureates Meeting in Economic Sciences.

    Dr Gruda also holds an MSc from emlyon in Management Research (2012-2014), as well as a triple MSc degree from City University London (Cass Business School), ESCP Europe Paris, and ESCP Europe Berlin (2010-2012). He completed his BSc in International Business and Management at the University of Groningen from 2007-2010.

    In addition to his research, Dr. Gruda also has attended and chaired several international conference sessions, including HICSS, the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, and the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium. Dr. Gruda also guest stars on podcasts where he discusses new research insights. 

    Finally, due to his interest and application of innovative methodologies such as machine learning and AI, Dr. Gruda serves as an Associate Editor of Personality and Individual Differences, Frontiers in Psychology as well as Frontiers in Blockchain, in addition to Reviewer roles in several top-tier academic journals.

    Note: Students who are interested in pursuing research in these and related topics, please feel free to reach out to Dr. Gruda to arrange a meeting.

    Research Interests

    My research includes relational leadership, dark leadership traits, anxiety at work, and personality. 

    In terms of research methods, most of my work is experimental in nature (experimental psychology), and also longitudinal using large datasets. In addition, I have been focusing on introducing data science methods, such as machine learning and AI and Big Data, into the leadership and management literature. Currently, there have only been initial attempts to introduce these methods into the applied psychology literature. For example, the interdisciplinary research work with colleagues, now allows us to accurately predict anxiety using social media data. In turn, our algorithm can now be used to track anxiety in specific samples or entire populations over time. Likewise, we have developed algorithms that can predict various personality traits, namely narcissism and Big Five personality traits, based on social media gathered on micro-blog platforms such as Twitter.

    Finally, I also have begun working with an interdisciplinary research team, in which we aim to identify and study the impact of both physiological and psycho-social phenotypes on leadership ability.

    Research Projects

      Project Role Funding Body / Program Description Start Date End Date Award (€)
    Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Award PI Irish Research Council (IRC) / Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Award 22-AUG-22 31-AUG-22
    Social Identity, Community Fit, and Pro-Environmental Behaviour Principle Investigator Maynooth University / Government State Bodies 08-MAY-22 28-OCT-22 2150
    Social emotion Perception, Relational capabilities and WellBeing: Within and cross-culture examination Principle Investigator Maynooth University / Government State Bodies 18-JUL-22 28-OCT-22 1818
    Generating actionable insights from the analysis of free-text comments from the National Care Experience Programme using Qualitative and Computational Text Analytics methods Funded Collaborator Health Research Board / HRB / Government State Bodies 01-DEC-21 30-NOV-23 301930
    Attachment Orientations in Context: The Case of Cognitive Task Performance Principle Investigator Maynooth University / Government State Bodies 01-SEP-20 31-AUG-22 3150
    Role of Attachment in the Perception of Medical Professionals Principle Investigator Maynooth University / Government State Bodies 03-OCT-19 15-JUL-21 1250
    Assessment of Attachment Orientations Using Linguistic Behavioural Residue Principle Investigator Maynooth University / Government State Bodies 01-APR-19 31-AUG-19 750
    Perceiving anxiety in tweets using machine learning Principle Investigator Maynooth University / Government State Bodies 01-NOV-17 31-AUG-18 500

    Book Chapters

      Year Publication
    2023 'Attachment in leader-follower interaction: In more than one way and on more than one level'
    Kafetsios K., Gruda D. (2023) 'Attachment in leader-follower interaction: In more than one way and on more than one level' In: Epitropaki, O., Martin R (eds). Beyond Exchange: Revisiting Leadership as a Relationship. Charlotte, NC: IAP. [Details]

    Peer Reviewed Journals

      Year Publication
    2023 'Why We Follow Narcissistic Leaders'
    Gruda D., Hanges P. (2023) 'Why We Follow Narcissistic Leaders'. Harvard Business Review, [Details]
    2023 'Cause we are living in a Machiavellian world, and I am a Machiavellian major: Machiavellianism and academic major choice'
    Gruda D.;McCleskey J.;Khoury I. (2023) 'Cause we are living in a Machiavellian world, and I am a Machiavellian major: Machiavellianism and academic major choice'. PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 205 [DOI] [Details]
    2023 'Tweet You Right Back: Follower Anxiety predicts Leader Anxiety in Social Media Interactions during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic'
    Psychogios A., Gruda D., Ojo A. (2023) 'Tweet You Right Back: Follower Anxiety predicts Leader Anxiety in Social Media Interactions during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic'. PLoS ONE, [Details]
    2022 'How to avoid others and influence people: Attachment orientations predict leader prototypicality in ad hoc teams'
    Gruda D.;McCleskey J. (2022) 'How to avoid others and influence people: Attachment orientations predict leader prototypicality in ad hoc teams'. Acta Psychologica, 230 [DOI] [Details]
    2022 'Is it too late now to say we're sorry? Examining anxiety contagion and crisis communication strategies using machine learning'
    Gruda D.;Ojo A. (2022) 'Is it too late now to say we're sorry? Examining anxiety contagion and crisis communication strategies using machine learning'. PLoS ONE, 17 (9) [DOI] [Details]
    2022 'Time After Time: Attachment Orientations and Impression Formation in Initial and Longer-Term Team Interactions'
    Gruda D.;Berrios R.A.;Kafetsios K.G.;McCleskey J.A. (2022) 'Time After Time: Attachment Orientations and Impression Formation in Initial and Longer-Term Team Interactions'. Frontiers in Psychology, 13 [DOI] [Details]
    2022 'Don't Go Chasing Narcissists: A Relational-Based and Multiverse Perspective on Leader Narcissism and Follower Engagement Using a Machine Learning Approach'
    Gruda, D;Karanatsiou, D;Hanges, P;Golbeck, J;Vakali, A (2022) 'Don't Go Chasing Narcissists: A Relational-Based and Multiverse Perspective on Leader Narcissism and Follower Engagement Using a Machine Learning Approach'. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, [DOI] [Details]
    2022 'From Ideal to Real: Attachment Orientations Guide Preference for an Autonomous Leadership Style'
    Gruda D.;Kafetsios K. (2022) 'From Ideal to Real: Attachment Orientations Guide Preference for an Autonomous Leadership Style'. Frontiers in Psychology, 13 [DOI] [Details]
    2022 'My Tweets Bring All the Traits to the Yard: Predicting Personality and Relational Traits in Online Social Networks'
    Karanatsiou D.;Sermpezis P.;Gruda D.;Kafetsios K.;Dimitriadis I.;Vakali A. (2022) 'My Tweets Bring All the Traits to the Yard: Predicting Personality and Relational Traits in Online Social Networks'. ACM Transactions on the Web, 16 (2) [DOI] [Details]
    2022 'Don't you tweet me badly: Anxiety contagion between leaders and followers in computer-mediated communication during COVID-19'
    Gruda D.;Ojo A.;Psychogios A. (2022) 'Don't you tweet me badly: Anxiety contagion between leaders and followers in computer-mediated communication during COVID-19'. PLoS ONE, 17 (3) [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2022 'All about that trait: Examining extraversion and state anxiety during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic using a machine learning approach'
    Gruda D.;Ojo A. (2022) 'All about that trait: Examining extraversion and state anxiety during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic using a machine learning approach'. PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 188 [DOI] [Details]
    2021 'Risk-taking, resilience, and state anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: A coming of (old) age story'
    McCleskey, J;Gruda, D (2021) 'Risk-taking, resilience, and state anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: A coming of (old) age story'. PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 170 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2021 'I Alone Can Fix It: Examining interactions between narcissistic leaders and anxious followers on Twitter using a machine learning approach'
    Gruda D.;Karanatsiou D.;Mendhekar K.;Golbeck J.;Vakali A. (2021) 'I Alone Can Fix It: Examining interactions between narcissistic leaders and anxious followers on Twitter using a machine learning approach'. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, [DOI] [Details]
    2021 'I'm simply the best, better than all the rest: Narcissistic leaders and corporate fundraising success'
    Gruda, D;McCleskey, J;Karanatsiou, D;Vakali, A (2021) 'I'm simply the best, better than all the rest: Narcissistic leaders and corporate fundraising success'. PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 168 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2021 'I need a doctor, call me a doctor: Attachment and the evaluation of general practitioners before and during the covid‐19 pandemic'
    Gruda D.;Kafetsios K. (2021) 'I need a doctor, call me a doctor: Attachment and the evaluation of general practitioners before and during the covid‐19 pandemic'. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (15) [DOI] [Details]
    2020 'Attachment Orientations Guide the Transfer of Leadership Judgments: Culture Matters'
    Gruda, D, Kafetsios, K (2020) 'Attachment Orientations Guide the Transfer of Leadership Judgments: Culture Matters'. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2019 'Feeling anxious? Perceiving anxiety in tweets using machine learning'
    Gruda D.;Hasan S. (2019) 'Feeling anxious? Perceiving anxiety in tweets using machine learning'. Computers in Human Behavior, 98 :245-255 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2018 'Interdependent followers prefer avoidant leaders: Followers’ cultural orientation moderates leaders’ avoidance relationships with followers’ work outcomes'
    Kafetsios K.G.;Gruda D. (2018) 'Interdependent followers prefer avoidant leaders: Followers’ cultural orientation moderates leaders’ avoidance relationships with followers’ work outcomes'. Frontiers In Communication, 3 [DOI] [Details]
    2017 'Seems Fair to Me: Dyadic Leader Consensus Mediates Fairness and Group Performance'
    Gruda D., McCleskey J., Berrios R. (2017) 'Seems Fair to Me: Dyadic Leader Consensus Mediates Fairness and Group Performance'. Small Group Research, :1-31 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]

    Conference Publications

      Year Publication
    2023 Pre-Competition Anxiety and Athletic Performance in the NBA – A Machine Learning Approach (withdrawn)
    Gruda D., Ojo A. (2023) Pre-Competition Anxiety and Athletic Performance in the NBA – A Machine Learning Approach (withdrawn) Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences [Details]
    2021 Inferring the relationship between anxiety and extraversion from tweets during covid-19 - A linguistic analytics approach
    Gruda D.;Ojo A. (2021) Inferring the relationship between anxiety and extraversion from tweets during covid-19 - A linguistic analytics approach Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , pp.2689-2698 [full-text] [Details]

    Conference Contributions

      Year Publication
    2022 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
    Gruda D., Game A., Kavanagh A., Karanatsiou D., Vakali A. (2022) Academy of Management Annual Meeting. [Oral Presentation], Stay with Me: The Roles of Leader Attachment Orientations and Tenure in Employee Retention, Seattle, WA , 05-AUG-22 - 09-AUG-22 [Details]
    2022 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
    Gruda D., McCleskey J., Psychogios A., Ojo A., Karanatsiou D., Vakali A. (2022) Academy of Management Annual Meeting. [Oral Presentation], New Leaders On the Block--Narcissistic Servant Leaders, Follower Anxiety and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Seattle, WA , 05-AUG-22 - 09-AUG-22 [Details]
    2022 Regional Cultural Differences Conference.
    Kafetsios K., Gruda D., Manuoglu E., Seitl M. (2022) Regional Cultural Differences Conference. [Oral Presentation], Culture level attachment and cultural orientations predict life expectancy, Barcelona, Spain , 18-JUL-22 - 21-JUL-22 [Details]
    2022 8th CERE Conference Granada.
    Kafetsios K., Alonso-Arbiol, Campbell, Chen, Gruda et al. (2022) 8th CERE Conference Granada. [Oral Presentation], Social class is associated with higher emotion decoding accuracy across cultures, Granada, Spain , 10-JUN-22 - 11-JUN-22 [Details]
    2022 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium.
    Gruda D., Karanatsiou D., Hanges P., Vakali A. (2022) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium. [Oral Presentation], Into the Multiverse: Examining the Followers of Narcissistic Leaders using a Machine Learning Approach, Greece [Details]
    2022 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium.
    Psychogios A., Nyfoudi M., Gruda D. (2022) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium. [Oral Presentation], In Spite of these Complexities: Exploring Leader-Follower relationships and the cascading effect of stress in complex contexts, Greece [Details]
    2022 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium.
    Gruda D., Hanges P. (2022) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium. [Oral Presentation], Attachment Orientations in Context: The Case of Cognitive Task Performance, Greece [Details]
    2021 Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021.
    Gruda D., Ojo A., Psychogios A. (2021) Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021. [Oral Presentation], Examining Anxiety Contagion in Computer-Mediated Communication using Machine Learning, Virtual Experience [Details]
    2021 Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021.
    Gruda D., Karanatsiou D., Hanges P., Golbeck J., Vakali A. (2021) Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021. [Oral Presentation], Leader Narcissism and Follower Engagement-A Machine Learning Approach, Virtual Experience [Details]
    2020 Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2020.
    Psychogios A., Prouska R., Szamosi L., Gruda D. (2020) Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2020. [Oral Presentation], Can we trust them again? A Framework for Repairing Trust in SMEs in an Economic Crisis Context, Vancouver , 07-AUG-20 - 11-AUG-20 [Details]
    2020 International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life XII EMONET XII 2020.
    McCleskey J., Berrios R., Gruda D. (2020) International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life XII EMONET XII 2020. [Oral Presentation], Revisiting Joseph and Newman: Specifying the role of Emotional Labor in the Cascading Model of Emotional Intelligence, Online , 08-JUL-20 - 09-JUL-20 [Details]
    2019 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium.
    Gruda D., Psychogios A., Melnyk Y. (2019) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium. [Oral Presentation], The Power of Temperament: Exploring the Biological Foundations of Leadership Perceptions, Corfu, Greece [Details]
    2019 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium.
    Gruda D., Berrios R., McCleskey J. (2019) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium. [Oral Presentation], Anxious Attachment and the Deceiving Nature of Good First Impressions, Corfu, Greece [Details]
    2018 Institute of Work Psychology International Conference 2018.
    Gruda D. (2018) Institute of Work Psychology International Conference 2018. [Oral Presentation], The Self, The Other, and In-between: Attachment Orientations and Leader Preference, Sheffield, UK , 19-JUN-18 - 21-JUN-18 [Details]
    2018 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium.
    Gruda D., Kafetsios K. (2018) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium. [Oral Presentation], Causing (or Inhibiting) Emotional Exhaustion at Work: Regulatory Matching between Leaders’ Attachment Orientations and Followers’ Emotion Labor Strategies, Crete, Greece , 09-MAY-18 - 12-MAY-18 [Details]
    2018 Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018.
    Gruda D., Hasan S. (2018) Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018. [Oral Presentation], You're Anxious and I know it! A Machine Learning Approach to perceiving Anxiety in Micro-Blog Data, Chicago, IL [Details]
    2017 Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2017.
    Gruda D. (2017) Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2017. [Oral Presentation], I Know a Leader When I See One: Implicit Leadership Theories and Attachment Styles, Atlanta, GA [Details]
    2017 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium.
    Gruda, D., Kafetsios, K. (2017) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium. [Oral Presentation], Case of Mistaken Identity – Attachment as a Predictor of Leader Transference, Mykonos, Greece , 04-MAY-17 - 06-MAY-17 [Details]
    2017 European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress.
    Gruda, D. (2017) European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress. [Oral Presentation], You Are What I Say You Are: Leader Transference and Attachment Theory, Dublin, Ireland , 17-MAY-17 - 20-MAY-17 [Details]
    2017 European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress.
    Berrios R., Gruda D., McCleskey J. (2017) European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress. [Oral Presentation], Emotions in groups as a function of dyadic member exchanges over time, Dublin, Ireland , 17-MAY-17 - 20-MAY-17 [Details]
    2016 EAWOP Summer School.
    Gruda D. (2016) EAWOP Summer School. [Poster Presentation], We have so much in common! Leader Transference and Attachment Theory, Birmingham , 12-SEP-16 - 16-SEP-16 [Details]
    2016 Southwest Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2016.
    McCleskey J., Gruda D., Tumel F. (2016) Southwest Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2016. [Oral Presentation], New Directions in Leadership: Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Emergence and Perceived Organizational Justice, Oklahoma City, OK , 09-MAR-16 - 11-MAR-16 [Details]
    2016 International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life X EMONET.
    McCleskey J., Berrios R., Gruda D. (2016) International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life X EMONET. [Oral Presentation], Embracing Emotional Labor Context: An Investigation of Ability Model Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Effectiveness, Rome, Italy , 04-JUL-16 - 05-JUL-16 [Details]
    2016 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium.
    Gruda D., Berrios R., McCleskey J. (2016) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium. [Oral Presentation], Who Says You’re Not Perfect: Influence of Attachment Styles on the Perception and Evaluation of Others' Leadership Abilities, Rhodes, Greece , 05-MAY-16 - 07-MAY-16 [Details]
    2015 European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress.
    Gruda D. (2015) European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress. [Oral Presentation], Conform or Perish: A ‘Familiar’ Look at Group Conformity – Attachment Style and Team Dynamics, Oslo, Norway , 20-MAY-15 - 23-MAY-15 [Details]
    2014 International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life EMONET IX.
    Gruda D., Rohrmann S. (2014) International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life EMONET IX. [Oral Presentation], Increasing Employees’ Performance through Negative Affective Feedback, Philadelphia, PA , 28-JUL-14 - 29-JUL-14 [Details]
    2013 BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference.
    Gruda D. (2013) BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], Harnessing the Power of Psychopathic Behavior, Exeter, UK , 28-AUG-13 - 30-AUG-13 [Details]

    Published Reports

      Year Publication
    2022 Generating actionable insights from free-text care experience survey data using qualitative and computational text analysis: A study protocol.
    Rohde D., Mashinchi M., Rizun N. Gruda D., Foley C., Flynn R., Ojo A. (2022) Generating actionable insights from free-text care experience survey data using qualitative and computational text analysis: A study protocol. HRB Open Research, F1000Research. [DOI] [Details]

    Newspaper Articles

      Year Publication
    2022 Anxious leaders can influence their followers’ anxiety even when communicating online, study finds.
    Gruda D., Psychogios A., Ojo A. (2022) Anxious leaders can influence their followers’ anxiety even when communicating online, study finds. Newspaper Articles [Details]
    2022 Has the pandemic impacted more on introverts or extroverts?.
    Gruda D., Ojo A. (2022) Has the pandemic impacted more on introverts or extroverts?. Newspaper Articles [Details]
    2022 Are narcissistic bosses good at raising cash?.
    Gruda D., McCleskey J. (2022) Are narcissistic bosses good at raising cash?. Newspaper Articles [Details]
    2019 Can artificial intelligence reduce anxiety in the workplace?.
    Hasan S., Gruda D. (2019) Can artificial intelligence reduce anxiety in the workplace?. Newspaper Articles [Details]

    Honours and Awards

      Year Title Awarding Body
    2020 7th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting on Economic Sciences Lindau Nobel Laureates Foundation
    2020 Benedictine University Award for Outstanding Paper on Ethical Issues in Consulting Academy of Management
    2020 Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting Online Sciathon Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Foundation
    2020 Wharton Global Faculty Development Program Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania

    Education

      Year Institution Qualification Subject
    2018 Maastricht University MSc Affective Neuroscience
    2017 EMLYON Business School PhD Management
    2017 Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Dr. rer. nat. Psychology
    2014 EMLYON Business School MPhil Management Research
    2012 ESCP Europe Paris/Berlin MSc, Diplome Grande Ecole Management
    2012 City University London MSc Management
    2010 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen BSc International Business & Management

    Languages

      Language Reading Writing Speaking
    English Fluent Fluent Fluent
    German Fluent Fluent Fluent
    French Functional Functional Functional
    Dutch Functional Basic Basic

    Reviews

      Journal Role
    Academy Of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings Reviewer
    Frontiers In Psychology Reviewer

    Internal Collaborators

      Name Institute Country
    Adegboyega Ojo IRELAND
    Joseph Coughlan IRELAND
    Marian Crowley-Henry IRELAND

    External Collaborators

      Name Role / Description Country
    University of Maryland U.S.A.