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

    Title Role Description Start date End date Amount
    Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Award PI 22/08/2022 31/08/2022
    Social Identity, Community Fit, and Pro-Environmental Behaviour Principle Investigator 08/05/2022 28/10/2022 2150
    Social emotion Perception, Relational capabilities and WellBeing: Within and cross-culture examination Principle Investigator 18/07/2022 28/10/2022 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 I am a funded collaborator on this research project, conducted in collaboration with the National Care Experience Programme, Health Service Executive, Department of Health, and Public and Patient and Carer involvement representatives. This project is spearheaded by Dr. Adegboyega Ojo, and the full research project award is 301,930 EUR. 01/12/2021 30/11/2023 301930
    Attachment Orientations in Context: The Case of Cognitive Task Performance Principle Investigator Departmental research grant (seed funding) The proposed research aims to better understand how attachment orientations, in particular, relationship-specific attachment orientations, can impact cognitive task performance and perceptions of leadership. Specifically, we examine individual differences in how group members respond to unethical and immoral leader behaviors. 01/09/2020 31/08/2022 3150
    Role of Attachment in the Perception of Medical Professionals Principle Investigator School of Business Donnellan 2019 Funding Scheme Selecting a medical professional or general practitioner (GP) can be a difficult task, especially during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Oftentimes, individuals rely on others’ feedback and recommendations to select a GP for themselves and their families. When doing so, individuals in particular rely on information and recommendations found online. The research objectives of this study is to examinethe impact of individual differences, such as attachment orientations,on cognitive and affective attribution of trait inferences. Paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18157914 03/10/2019 15/07/2021 1250
    Assessment of Attachment Orientations Using Linguistic Behavioural Residue Principle Investigator Departmental research grant (seed funding) The aim of this research project is to develop a machine-learning algorithm to accurately assess attachment orientations as an individual difference using naturally occurring social media data on the Twitter platform. 01/04/2019 31/08/2019 750
    Perceiving anxiety in tweets using machine learning Principle Investigator Departmental research grant (seed funding) The aim of this research project is to develop a machine-learning algorithm to accurately assess state- and trait anxiety in using naturally occurring social media data on the Twitter platform. Paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.04.020 01/11/2017 31/08/2018 500

    Book Chapter

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

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2023 Gruda D., Psychogios A., Ojo A. (2023) 'Don’t Let Your Anxiety Stress Out Your Team'. Harvard Business Review, . [Link] [Full-Text]
    2023 Gruda D., Hanges P. (2023) 'Why We Follow Narcissistic Leaders'. Harvard Business Review, . [Link] [Full-Text]
    2023 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] [Full-Text]
    2023 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, . [Full-Text]
    2022 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] [Full-Text]
    2022 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] [Full-Text]
    2022 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] [Full-Text]
    2022 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] [Full-Text]
    2022 Gruda D.; Kafetsios K. (2022) 'From Ideal to Real: Attachment Orientations Guide Preference for an Autonomous Leadership Style'. Frontiers in Psychology, 13 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2022 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] [Full-Text]
    2022 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]
    2022 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] [Full-Text]
    2021 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]
    2021 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] [Full-Text]
    2021 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]
    2021 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]
    2020 Gruda, D, Kafetsios, K (2020) 'Attachment Orientations Guide the Transfer of Leadership Judgments: Culture Matters'. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, . https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167219865514 [Full-Text]
    2019 Gruda D.; Hasan S. (2019) 'Feeling anxious? Perceiving anxiety in tweets using machine learning'. Computers in Human Behavior, 98 :245-255. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2018 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] [Full-Text]
    2017 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]

    Conference Publication

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

    Conference Contribution

    Year Publication
    2022 Gruda D., Game A., Kavanagh A., Karanatsiou D., Vakali A. (2022) Stay with Me: The Roles of Leader Attachment Orientations and Tenure in Employee Retention Academy of Management Annual Meeting Seattle, WA, 05/08/2022-09/08/2022.
    2022 Gruda D., McCleskey J., Psychogios A., Ojo A., Karanatsiou D., Vakali A. (2022) New Leaders On the Block--Narcissistic Servant Leaders, Follower Anxiety and the COVID-19 Pandemic Academy of Management Annual Meeting Seattle, WA, 05/08/2022-09/08/2022.
    2022 Kafetsios K., Gruda D., Manuoglu E., Seitl M. (2022) Culture level attachment and cultural orientations predict life expectancy Regional Cultural Differences Conference Barcelona, Spain, 18/07/2022-21/07/2022.
    2022 Kafetsios K., Alonso-Arbiol, Campbell, Chen, Gruda et al. (2022) Social class is associated with higher emotion decoding accuracy across cultures 8th CERE Conference Granada Granada, Spain, 10/06/2022-11/06/2022.
    2022 Gruda D., Karanatsiou D., Hanges P., Vakali A. (2022) Into the Multiverse: Examining the Followers of Narcissistic Leaders using a Machine Learning Approach Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium Greece, .
    2022 Psychogios A., Nyfoudi M., Gruda D. (2022) In Spite of these Complexities: Exploring Leader-Follower relationships and the cascading effect of stress in complex contexts Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium Greece, .
    2022 Gruda D., Hanges P. (2022) Attachment Orientations in Context: The Case of Cognitive Task Performance Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium Greece, .
    2021 Gruda D., Ojo A., Psychogios A. (2021) Examining Anxiety Contagion in Computer-Mediated Communication using Machine Learning Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021 Virtual Experience, .
    2021 Gruda D., Karanatsiou D., Hanges P., Golbeck J., Vakali A. (2021) Leader Narcissism and Follower Engagement-A Machine Learning Approach Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021 Virtual Experience, .
    2020 Psychogios A., Prouska R., Szamosi L., Gruda D. (2020) Can we trust them again? A Framework for Repairing Trust in SMEs in an Economic Crisis Context Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2020 Vancouver, 07/08/2020-11/08/2020.
    2020 McCleskey J., Berrios R., Gruda D. (2020) Revisiting Joseph and Newman: Specifying the role of Emotional Labor in the Cascading Model of Emotional Intelligence International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life XII EMONET XII 2020 Online, 08/07/2020-09/07/2020.
    2019 Gruda D., Psychogios A., Melnyk Y. (2019) The Power of Temperament: Exploring the Biological Foundations of Leadership Perceptions Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium Corfu, Greece, .
    2019 Gruda D., Berrios R., McCleskey J. (2019) Anxious Attachment and the Deceiving Nature of Good First Impressions Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium Corfu, Greece, .
    2018 Gruda D. (2018) The Self, The Other, and In-between: Attachment Orientations and Leader Preference Institute of Work Psychology International Conference 2018 Sheffield, UK, 19/06/2018-21/06/2018.
    2018 Gruda D., Kafetsios K. (2018) Causing (or Inhibiting) Emotional Exhaustion at Work: Regulatory Matching between Leaders’ Attachment Orientations and Followers’ Emotion Labor Strategies Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium Crete, Greece, 09/05/2018-12/05/2018.
    2018 Gruda D., Hasan S. (2018) You're Anxious and I know it! A Machine Learning Approach to perceiving Anxiety in Micro-Blog Data Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018 Chicago, IL, .
    2017 Gruda D. (2017) I Know a Leader When I See One: Implicit Leadership Theories and Attachment Styles Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2017 Atlanta, GA, .
    2017 Gruda, D., Kafetsios, K. (2017) Case of Mistaken Identity – Attachment as a Predictor of Leader Transference Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium Mykonos, Greece, 04/05/2017-06/05/2017.
    2017 Gruda, D. (2017) You Are What I Say You Are: Leader Transference and Attachment Theory European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress Dublin, Ireland, 17/05/2017-20/05/2017.
    2017 Berrios R., Gruda D., McCleskey J. (2017) Emotions in groups as a function of dyadic member exchanges over time European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress Dublin, Ireland, 17/05/2017-20/05/2017.
    2016 Gruda D. (2016) We have so much in common! Leader Transference and Attachment Theory EAWOP Summer School Birmingham, 12/09/2016-16/09/2016.
    2016 McCleskey J., Gruda D., Tumel F. (2016) New Directions in Leadership: Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Emergence and Perceived Organizational Justice Southwest Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2016 Oklahoma City, OK, 09/03/2016-11/03/2016.
    2016 McCleskey J., Berrios R., Gruda D. (2016) Embracing Emotional Labor Context: An Investigation of Ability Model Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Effectiveness International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life X EMONET Rome, Italy, 04/07/2016-05/07/2016.
    2016 Gruda D., Berrios R., McCleskey J. (2016) Who Says You’re Not Perfect: Influence of Attachment Styles on the Perception and Evaluation of Others' Leadership Abilities Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium Rhodes, Greece, 05/05/2016-07/05/2016.
    2015 Gruda D. (2015) Conform or Perish: A ‘Familiar’ Look at Group Conformity – Attachment Style and Team Dynamics European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress Oslo, Norway, 20/05/2015-23/05/2015.
    2014 Gruda D., Rohrmann S. (2014) Increasing Employees’ Performance through Negative Affective Feedback International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life EMONET IX Philadelphia, PA, 28/07/2014-29/07/2014.
    2013 Gruda D. (2013) Harnessing the Power of Psychopathic Behavior BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference Exeter, UK, 28/08/2013-30/08/2013.

    Published Report

    Year Publication
    2022 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, . https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13606.1

    Newspaper Articles

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

    Date Title Awarding Body
    01/06/2020 7th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting on Economic Sciences Lindau Nobel Laureates Foundation
    01/08/2020 Benedictine University Award for Outstanding Paper on Ethical Issues in Consulting Academy of Management
    01/06/2020 Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting Online Sciathon Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Foundation
    01/08/2020 Wharton Global Faculty Development Program Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania

    Education

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

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