Rate My Professor Sean McCallaghan

McCallaghan's academic interests center on diversity climate, leadership styles—including servant, transformational, destructive, and creative leadership—and their effects on employee attitudes, work engagement, burnout, turnover intentions, psychological safety, organisational citizenship behaviour, and microaggressions. Affiliated with the OPTENTIA Research Focus Area at NWU, part of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, he has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. Key works include 'The role of supervisor support and basic psychological needs in predicting work engagement, burnout and turnover intentions in a medical contract research service setting' (2022, Journal of Psychology in Africa, with M.M. Heyns and E.H. de Wet); 'Servant leadership, diversity climate, and organisational citizenship behaviour at a selection of South African companies' (2020, Journal of Psychology in Africa, with L.T.B. Jackson and M.M. Heyns); 'Exploring organisational diversity climate with associated antecedents and employee outcomes' (2019, SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, with L. Jackson and M. Heyns); 'Examining the mediating effect of diversity climate on the relationship between destructive leadership and employee attitudes' (2019, Journal of Psychology in Africa); and 'Transformational leadership, diversity climate, and job satisfaction in selected South African companies' (2019, Journal of Psychology in Africa). His research, primarily in South African organisational contexts, has garnered over 330 citations and advanced insights into workplace diversity dynamics and leadership impacts.