Denise Salin

Denise Salin is Professor of Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland. Previous appointments include Academy Research Fellow at the Swedish School of Social Science at University of Helsinki and Professor II at the Faculty of Psychology at University of Bergen, Norway.

Denise received her PhD in 2003. Her doctoral research was about workplace bullying among business professionals in Finland. Since then Denise has actively published on the topic of bullying. Her work includes studies on the antecedents and outcomes of workplace bullying, gendered aspects of bullying, and HR and bullying. Denise’s work on workplace bullying has been widely cited internationally and she has appr. 7000 citations in Google Scholar.

Denise’s current research focuses on well-being effects of high-performance work practices and she has also pioneered research on how high-performance work practices affect workplace bullying. Denise’s work has been published in, among other journals, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Work & Stress. Denise has recently been PI for the Academy of Finland-project “Preventing Workplace Bullying and Mitigating its Consequences: The Role of Human Resource Practices" (2017-2022) and was involved in the large-scale project “Workplace bullying: From mechanisms and moderators to problem treatment" (2018-2022), which was led by the University of Bergen and funded by the Norwegian Research Council.