Rate My Professor Emma Heine

Dr Emma Heine is a Lecturer in the Department of Management at Macquarie University Business School. She serves as Deputy Director of the Macquarie University Health at Work Research Centre and is an executive team member of the centre. Additionally, she is the Early Career Researcher (ECR) representative for the Department of Management, a member of the university's Academic Senate Research Committee, an active member of the ECR Advisory Committee, and a member of the Personnel Review Early Career Review Board. Her research specializations include leadership, leader-employee relationships, performance management, pro-social and counterproductive work behaviours, performance feedback in leader-employee relationships, and organizational policies improving organisational performance and employee health and wellbeing.

As an Early Career Researcher, Emma Heine received the Early Career Researcher Support Scheme award in 2024 for her research profile and proposal investigating the bright and dark sides of performance feedback, along with a Best Paper Award and Best Paper Presentation for a first draft paper from pilot research. She also earned the Most Promising Research Proposal in Leadership - Doctoral Student award in 2019 and a Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Conference. Her publications are in top journals ranked Q1 by SJR, ABDC A* or A, and FT50, such as Journal of Organizational Behavior and Journal of Business Ethics. Key publications include "Performance feedback: A critical systematic review" (Heine, Stouten & Liden, 2026, Journal of Organizational Behavior, 47(2), 312-361); "Providing service during a merger: the role of organizational goal clarity and servant leadership" (Heine, Stouten & Liden, 2023, Journal of Business Ethics, 184(3), 627-647); "Modernizing relationship therapy through social thermoregulation theory: evidence, hypotheses, and explorations" (Ijzerman et al., 2017, Frontiers in Psychology); and "The association between cognitive functioning and health-related quality of life in low-grade glioma patients" (Boele et al., 2014, Neuro-Oncology Practice). Her research has a Field-Weighted Citation Impact exceeding Australian and Group of Eight averages, with citations three times the Go8 benchmark. She has presented invited talks at Stuvo, KU Leuven (Belgium), Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati (USA), and the Trends Conference, Open University (Netherlands).