Gary Schwarz

Professor Gary Schwarz is the Head of the School of Finance and Management and a Professor in Public Policy and Management. He has held academic appointments at Harvard University, London Business School, Copenhagen Business School, and the University of Nottingham’s campus in China, where he served as Faculty Director of Teaching Development and the Director of the largest executive education programme. Previously, he was the Serviceline Leader Performance Management at Deloitte.

His research focuses on how organizations and individuals can improve their performance, innovation, and the role of various leadership approaches (e.g., transformational, participative, servant, ethical, entrepreneurial, etc.) in the strategy process. His articles have been published in top academic journals, such as Public Administration Review, Public Administration, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management, and Journal of Business Ethics. Prof Schwarz is a member of the Editorial Board of Public Administration Review, the world-leading journal of public administration research, theory, and practice. Prof Schwarz also co-edited and co-authored the book Outsourcing, which reached the top-5 of the Financial Times list for German books.

Prof Schwarz taught and supervised students at all levels, including undergraduate, postgraduate, executive education, and doctoral. He obtained a Dean’s Award for Excellence in teaching at Harvard University and became the first faculty member from the China campus to win the highest teaching prize at the University of Nottingham, the Lord Dearing Award for outstanding achievements in enhancing the student learning experience. At London Business School and SOAS University of London he obtained perfect evaluations, with all of the participants awarding the highest possible score for his teaching. Prof Schwarz completed training in the case teaching method at Harvard University and is a Fellow at the British Higher Education Academy.

Prof Schwarz has engaged with policy makers from China, the United Kingdom, and the United States, among other countries. He has provided advisory services and management development for numerous public and private organizations, including Airbus, ArcelorMittal, China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation, Chinese Ministry of Finance, Danaher, Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, European Union, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guangzhou Municipality, Harvard University, Henry Schein, IBM, Invest Northern Ireland, Japanese External Trade Organization, Jordan Prime Ministry, Jordan Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, Lufthansa, Ningbo Municipal Government, Oracle, Petro-Canada, Shanghai Municipal Government, Terex Mining, and Volkswagen Group.

Publications

Journal articles

• Schwarz, G., Newman, A., Yu, J., & Michaels, V. (2021).
  Psychological Entitlement and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Roles of Employee Involvement Climate and Affective Organizational Commitment. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, forthcoming.

• Miao, Q., Schwarz, S., & Schwarz, G. (2021).
  Responding to COVID-19: Community Volunteerism and Coproduction in China. World Development, 137, 105128.

• Bavik, Y. L., Shao, B., Newman, A., & Schwarz, G. (2021).
  Crisis leadership: A review and future research agenda

• Weng, S., Schwarz, G., Schwarz, S., & Hardy, B. (2021).
  A Framework for Government Response to Social Media Participation in Public Policy Making: Evidence from China. International Journal of Public Administration

• Schwarz, G., Eva, N., & Newman, A. (2020).
  Can Public Leadership Increase Public Service Motivation and Job Performance? Public Administration Review, 80(4), 543–554.

• Lapointe, É., Vandenberghe, C, Ayed, A., Schwarz, G., Temblay, M., & Chenevert, D. (2020).
  Social Comparisons, Self-Conceptions, and Attributions: Assessing the Self-Related Contingencies in Leader-Member Exchange Relationships. Journal of Business and Psychology, 35(3), 381–402.

• Miao, Q., Eva, N., Newman, A., & Schwarz, G. (2019).
  Public Service Motivation and Performance: The Role of Organizational Identification. Public Money & Management, 39(2), 77–85.

• Lee, A., Schwarz, G., Newman, A., & Legood, A. (2019).
  Investigating When and Why Psychological Entitlement Predicts Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior. Journal of Business Ethics, 154(1), 109–126.

• Eva, N., Meacham, H., Newman, A., Schwarz, G., & Tham, T. L. (2019).
  Is Co-Worker Feedback More Important than Supervisor Feedback for Increasing Innovative Behavior? Human Resource Management, 58(4), 383–396.

• Lapointe, É., Vandenberghe, C., Mignonac, K., Panaccio, A., Schwarz, G., Richebé, N., & Roussel, P. (2019).
  Development and Validation of a Commitment to Organizational Career Scale: At the Crossroads of Organizational Needs and Individuals’ Career Aspirations. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 92(4), 897–930.

• Lee, A., Gerbasi, A., Schwarz, G., & Newman, A. (2019).
  Leader-Member Exchange Social Comparisons and Follower Outcomes: The Roles of Felt Obligation and Psychological Entitlement. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 92(3), 593–617.

• Legood, A., Lee, A., Schwarz, G., & Newman, A. (2018).
  From Self-Defeating to Other-Defeating: Examining the Effects of Leader Procrastination on Follower Work Outcomes. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 91(2), 430–439.

• Miao, Q., Newman, A., Schwarz, G., & B. Cooper. (2018).
  How Leadership and Public Service Motivation Enhance Innovative Behavior. Public Administration Review, 78(1), 71–81.

• Newman, A., Tse, H. M., Schwarz, G. & Nielsen, I. (2018).
  The Effects of Employees’ Creative Self-Efficacy on Innovative Behavior: The Role of Entrepreneurial Leadership, Journal of Business Research, 89, 1–9.

• Newman, A., Schwarz, G., Cooper, B., & Sendjaya, S. (2017).
  How Servant Leadership Influences Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Roles of LMX, Empowerment and Proactive Personality. Journal of Business Ethics, 145(1), 45–62.

• Schwarz, G., Newman, A., Cooper, B., & Eva, N. (2016).
  Servant Leadership and Follower Job Performance: The Mediating Effect of Public Service Motivation. Public Administration, 94(4), 1025–1041.

• Miao, Q., Newman, A., Schwarz, G., & Xu, L. (2014).
  Servant Leadership, Trust, and Organizational Commitment of Public Sector Employees in China. Public Administration, 92(3), 727–743.

• Miao, Q., Newman, A., Schwarz, G., & Xu, L. (2013).
  Participative Leadership and the Organizational Commitment of Civil Servants in China: The Mediating Effects of Trust in Supervisor. British Journal of Management, 24, S76–S92.

Books

• Schwarz, G. (2014).
  Public Shared Service Centers: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of US Public Sector Organizations. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.

• Hermes, H., & Schwarz, G. (eds.). (2005).
  Outsourcing. München: Haufe.

Book chapters

• Schwarz, G. (2019).
  The Cost and Quality Effects of Public Shared Service Centers. In M. Holzer, ‎M. Zhang, ‎and W. Hu (eds.), Administrative System Innovation and Building a Public Service-Oriented Government. Newcastle: CSP, 108–136.

• Schwarz, G. (2017).
  Transformational Leadership and Job Performance: The Role of Organizational Identification. In N. Muenjohn and A. McMurray (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Leadership in Transforming Asia. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 519–539.