Lecturers Page Dr. Gil Bozer

Dr. Gil Bozer

ד"ר גיל בוצר הוא חוקר של אימון בארגונים, מרצה בכיר, יועץ ומנחה סדנאות. גיל קיבל את הדוקטורט שלו בניהול מאוניברסיטת מונאש שבמלבורן, אוסטרליה. גיל חבר סגל בכיר במחלקה לניהול המשאב האנושי בספיר שם הוא מלמד קורסים בתחום ניהול ומנהיגות בתכנית לתואר ראשון.

Dr. Gil Bozer is a senior lecturer at Sapir College, Israel, where he teaches executive coaching, management, and leadership for graduate and undergraduate students. He received his Ph.D. in Management from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Gil's expertise includes workplace coaching, leadership and talent development, and succession planning. He has published research papers in such journals as Applied Psychology: An International Review, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Development Review, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Personnel Review, European Journal of International Management, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, & Governance, and Journal of Management Development. Gil has also published numerous book chapters and teaching case studies on leadership and coaching. 

Gil served as a Guest Editor of special issues dedicated to advancing workplace coaching science in top-tier journals and is a board member of Leadership & Organization Development Journal and Development and Learning in Organization: An International Journal. 

Gil has presented at many international academic conferences. He frequently contributes to practitioners' magazines such as Harvard Business Review Italy, Chief Executive, Training Magazine, Nonprofit World, and Coaching Perspectives.

 

Areas of interest and Teaching

Areas of interest

  • Workplace coaching
  • Leadership development
  • Talent development
  • Human Resource Development

Teaching

Hebrew lective year: תשפה

Research

My research interests lie in examining workplace coaching effectiveness, leadership development, and succession planning. I am passionate about evidence-based practice and teaching and incorporate my research into my teaching and consulting practices. This also entails producing practical tools for those involved in these issues such as case studies, scales and models.

Despite the increasing evidence of the potential benefits of applying coaching in the workplace and growing investment in coaching in the corporate world, little is known about the key determinants, methods, and processes of coaching effectiveness and their relationships with coaching outcomes. Moreover, the ways clients and practitioners can effectively evaluate workplace coaching remains unresolved. My coaching research on workplace coaching theory and practice has two major goals: 1) to examine critically the theoretical constructs operationalized in past coaching research to provide a deeper understanding of why these factors are important in understanding what determines coaching effectiveness, and 2) to identify and discuss fundamental questions to be answered, and appropriate research methodologies that can advance workplace coaching research and practice.

My secondary field of research focuses on promoting innovative research in succession planning issues. Although much research has been dedicated to investigate and analyze the pressures and disruptions associated with nonprofit organizations that are ill-prepared for executive succession, it has been predominantly conducted in North America. My current research activity on succession planning responds to the call for more research to discuss nonprofit executive succession challenges in non-North American countries. Therefore, I am currently involved in a large-scale international research team that examines executive succession planning and transition in a dozen countries. Specifically, this research focuses on: 1) insider-outsider selection, 2) characteristics, experiences and knowledge of a successor, 3) succession selection risks, and 4) outcomes of the succession.

Awards

2020 Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Reviewer: Leadership & Organization Development Journal.


2018 Emerald Literati Award for Highly Commented Paper: “Succession in family business: Multisource perspectives” (Bozer, G., Levin, L., & Santora, J. C.)  


2015 Best Paper Award, Clute Institute International Business & Education Conference, June 7-11, London: “Succession issues in a religious association” (Santora, J. C., James, M., & Bozer, G.)


Publications

Latest Articles in Refereed Journals (see CV for complete publication list):

Bozer, G., Delegach, M., & Kotte, S. (2022). The influence of organizational coaching context on pre-coaching motivation and the role of regulatory focus: An experimental study. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 33(4), 383-403. doi: 10.1002/hrdq.21462

Bozer, G., & Jones, R. J. (2021). Introduction to the special issue on advances in the psychology of workplace coaching. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 70(2). 411-419. doi: 10.1111/apps.12305

Joo, B.-K., Bozer, G., & Ready K. J. (2019). A dimensional analysis of psychological empowerment on engagement. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People & Performance, 6(3), 186-203. doi: JOEPP-09-2018-0069

Bozer, G., & Delegach, M. (2019). Bringing context to workplace coaching: A theoretical framework based on uncertainty avoidance and regulatory focus. Human Resource Development Review, 18(3), 376-402. doi: 10.1177/1534484319853098

Posthumus, J., Bozer G., & Santora, J. C. (2019). The use of market analytics in the recruitment of high potentials in the pharmaceutical industry. European Journal of International Management, 13(4), 496-514. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1504/EJIM.2018.10014150

Santora, J.C., Bozer, G., & Kooskora, M. (2019). Views of Estonian nonprofit executives on succession: Lessons from the field. Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, 33(3), 5-8. doi: 10.1108/DLO-08-2018-0098

Bozer, G., & Jones, R. J. (2018). Understanding the factors that determine workplace coaching effectiveness: A systematic literature review. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 27(3), 342-361. doi: 10.1080/1359432X.2018.1446946

Bozer, G., Levin, L., & Santora, J. C. (2017). Succession in family business: Multi-source perspectives. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 24(4), 753-774. doi: 10.1108/JSBED-10-2016-0163

Latest Book Chapter:

Kotte, S. C., & Bozer, G. (2021). Workplace coaching research: Charted and uncharted territories. In S. Greif, H. Moller, W. School, J. Passmore, & F. Muller (Eds.), International Handbook of Evidence-Based Coaching – Theory, Research and Practice. Berlin: Springer. 

Zylicz, O., & Bozer G. (2021). The effectiveness of workplace coaching. In M. Sidor-Rządkowska (Ed.), Coaching: Theory, practice, case studies (2nd ed,, pp. 136-154). Wolter Kluwer.

Bozer, G., & Zylicz, O., (2021). Should I stay or should I go?. In SAGE Business Cases. SAGE Publications. doi: 10.4135/9781529744057   

Santora, J. C., & Bozer, G. (2017). Leadership and planning. J. Marques & S. Dhiman (Eds.), Leadership today: Practices for personal and professional performance (1rst ed., pp. 401-413). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-31036-7

Recent Practitioner Journals and Popular Press:

Santora, J. C., & Bozer, G. (2019). Social entrepreneurs need coaches, too. Coaching Perspectives, 22, 18-19.

Santora, J. C., Bozer, G., & Posthumus, J. (2019). Let’s coach high-potential employees (HIPOs) for success. Coaching Perspectives, 20, 22-24.

Santora, J. C., & Bozer, G. (2018). Avoid the selfish factor: Plan for succession with four simple rules. Nonprofit World, 36(2), 30-31.

Santora, J. C., Bozer, G., & Kooskora, M. (2017). Coaching news from Estonia's nonprofit sector: Some preliminary findings from the field. Coaching Perspectives, 14, 43-44.

Presentations

Latest Presentations in Conferences (see CV for complete presentations list):

Bozer, G., & Delegach, M., Kotte, S. C. (2021). Coaching context, coachee regulatory focus and pre-coaching motivation: An experimental study. Paper presented at the 81th Academy of Management Annual Meeting. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2021.11537abstract

Bozer G. (2021). Workplace Coaching Research - Charted and Uncharted Territories. Keynote presentation at the 17th Annual Coaching and Mentoring Research Conference. Oxford Brooks, UK.

Bozer, G., & Delegach, M. (2019). A theoretical framework of culturally and-context-sensitive workplace coaching. Paper presented at the 79th Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2019.12020symposium

Bozer G. (2019). The "bright" and "shadow" aspects of in extremis leadership. Paper presented at the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Failed Leadership.

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