Robert Liden

Profile

Robert C. Liden (Ph.D., University of Cincinnati) is Professor of Management at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where he is also the coordinator for OB/HR Doctoral Program. He has served as a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Université Toulouse 1, France, the Université Paris-Dauphine, France, and the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Professor Liden currently has a part-time faculty position at the Leeds University Business School. His research focuses on servant leadership and leader-member exchange (LMX). He has over 125 publications, which have been cited over 80,000 times according to Google Scholar. Professor Liden is a fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

He won awards for the best article published in the Academy of Management Journal during 2001 (with Scott Seibert and Maria Kraimer); the best organizational behavior article published in any journal during 2005 (with Ray Sparrowe) by the Academy of Management; in 2017 he won the award for the best article published in the Journal of Management during 2012 (with Jim Dulebohn, Bill Bommer, Robyn Brouer, and Jerry Ferris); and the 2018 Leadership Quarterly Decennial Article Influence Award for the best article published in Leadership Quarterly during 2008 (with Sandy Wayne, Hao Zhao, and David Henderson). In 2014 he won the HR Division of the Academy of Management’s Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award and in 2024 the OB Division’s Mentoring Award for work with doctoral students. In 2015 he won the Academy of Management’s Network of Leadership Scholars “Eminent Leadership Scholar Award” and in 2016 Professor Liden was named a University of Illinois “University Scholar,” the first UIC Management professor to receive this honor since 1986. In 2024 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association.

Professor Liden is currently serving on the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Scientific Reports, and. Personnel Psychology editorial review boards. He has served as a trustee on the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership board since 2021. Professor Liden was the 1999 Program Chair and 2000-01 Division Chair for the Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior Division.

Responsibilities

• Visiting Professor
• Professor of Management at the University of Illionis Chicago (UIC)