Tanachia Ashikali
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. T.S. Ashikali
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9500
- t.s.ashikali@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3553-5497
Tanachia Ashikali's research focuses on leadership, diversity management, inclusiveness, and teamwork in public organizations. She actively engages with practitioners through invited talks, workshops, and research collaborations on leadership and inclusiveness in various (semi-) public institutions.
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Research on diversity management, leadership and inclusion awarded with best article 2015
Tanachia Ashikali's research focuses on leadership, diversity management, inclusiveness, and teamwork in public organizations. She actively engages with practitioners through invited talks, workshops, and research collaborations on leadership and inclusiveness in various (semi-) public institutions. She teaches courses on leadership and public management and supervises master theses on these and related topics.
Ashikali received her PhD in Public Administration from Leiden University in 2018. The dissertation combines mainstream management and public management literature and studies how diversity management and leadership relate to inclusiveness in public organizations and individual employee and team outcomes. She examined quantitative survey data on both the individual and team level and shows that inclusiveness is about team members feeling they belong to the group, while they can have their own authentic identities. Inclusive leadership stimulates this by encouraging diverse team members to value, exchange, discuss and learn from their different backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas. Inclusiveness in turn contributes to employees’ organizational commitment and involvement. This is particularly required in a changing society demanding of public organizations to be adaptive and responsive.
Grants and Awards
In 2019, Tanachia received a LUF grant to study determinants of inclusive leadership in public organizations. For her article, on diversity management, transformational leadership, inclusiveness, and employees’ affective commitment co-authored with prof. Sandra Groeneveld, she was granted the best article published in 2015 award by the journal Review of Public Personnel Administration.
Assistant professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Instituut Bestuurskunde
- Fontein F., Bernards B. & Ashikali T. (2023), Factsheet: politisering & inclusief leiderschap. Leiden: Leiden University.
- Ashikali T.S. (2023), Unraveling determinants of inclusive leadership in public organizations, Public Personnel Management : .
- Ashikali T.S., Groeneveld S.M. & Ritz A. (2021), Managing a diverse workforce. In: Leisink P., Andersen L.B., Brewer G.A., Jacobsen C.B., Knies E. & Vandenabeele W. (Eds.), Managing for Public Service Performance: How People and Values Make a Difference: Oxford University Press.
- Ashikali T.S., Groeneveld S.M. & Kuipers B.S. (2021), The role of inclusive leadership in supporting an inclusive climate in diverse public sector teams, Review of Public Personnel Administration 41(3): 497-519.
- Ashikali T. (2020), Van diversiteit naar een inclusief werkklimaat: de rol van leiderschap, Holland Management Review : .
- Schmidt J.E.T., Kuipers B.S., Groeneveld S.M., Fraussen B., Ashikali T., Laterveer H. & Slooff A. (2019), Publiek leiderschap en maatschappelijke meerwaarde. The Hague: Leiden Leadership Centre.
- Ashikali T.S. (2019), Leading towards inclusiveness: developing a measurement instrument for inclusive leadership. Academy of Management Meeting. Boston, USA.
- Ashikali T.S. (20 November 2018), Leadership and inclusiveness in public organizations (Dissertatie. Institute of Public Administration, Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Groeneveld S.M., Kuipers B.S.
- Ashikali T.S. & Groeneveld S.M. (2018), Management van diversiteit. In: Noort W. van, Groeneveld S., Hoek M. van der, Schalk J. & Voet J. van der (Eds.), Publiek management. Bussum: Coutinho. 211-226.
- Kuipers B.S., Ashikali A., Fraussen B. & Groeneveld S.M. (2018), Verder met publiek leiderschap. Onderzoeks- en ontwikkelagenda. The Hague: Leiden Leadership Centre.
- Ashikali T., Groeneveld S. & Kuipers B. (2017), The role of transformational leadership in creating inclusion in diverse teams. Public Management Research Conference 8 June 2017 - 10 June 2017.
- Ashikali T.S. & Groeneveld S.M. (2015), Diversity Management for All? An Empirical Analysis of Diversity Management Outcomes Across Groups, Personnel Review 44(5): 757-780.
- Ashikali T.S. & Groeneveld S.M. (2015), Diversity management in public organizations and its effect on employees' affective commitment. The role of transformational leadership and the inclusiveness of the organizational culture, Review of Public Personnel Administration 35(2): 146-168.
- Groeneveld S.M., Tummers L., Bronkhorst B., Ashikali T.S. & Thiel S. van (2015), Quantitative Methods in Public Administration: Their Use and Development Through Time, International Public Management Journal 18(1): 61-86.
- Celik S., Ashikali T.S. & Groeneveld S.M. (2013), Diversiteitsinterventies en de binding van werknemers in de publieke sector. De rol van een inclusieve organisatiecultuur, Gedrag & Organisatie 26(3): 329-352.
- Kuipers B.S., Groeneveld S.M., Ashikali T.S. & Bronkhorst B. (2013), High Performing Teams in de publieke sector. Een onderzoek naar context, processen en uitkomsten. Den Haag: ICTU/Internetspiegel.
- Ashikali T.S., Erradouani F. & Groeneveld S.M. (2013), De meerwaarde van diversiteit in de publieke sector. De rol van diversiteitsbeleid, HRM en leiderschap. Rotterdam; Den Haag: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties.
- Celik S., Ashikali T.S. & Groeneveld S.M. (2011), De invloed van diversiteitsmanagement op de binding van werknemers in de publieke sector. De rol van transformationeel leiderschap, Tijdschrift voor HRM 14(4): 32-57.