Dr Emma Heine is a Lecturer / Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, and Deputy Director of the Macquarie University Health at Work Research Centre.

Emma specialises in leadership, leader-employee relationships, and performance management. Her research program focuses on gaining a greater understanding of accumulated knowledge across disciplines and informing organisational policies that improve both organisational performance and employee health and wellbeing. Specifically, her work revolves around understanding the intricacies of performance feedback in leader-employee relationships. Her work helps leaders in organisations be more confident and successful in their performance management practices, fostering employee performance and wellbeing, and benefitting organisational stability and opportunities for growth.

Emma completed her PhD in Organisational Psychology and Management at KU Leuven, Belgium (2023), where her doctoral dissertation, *"Unraveling Feedback: A Multi-Method Exploration of the Practice and Efficacy of Performance Feedback"*, was supervised by Prof. Dr. Jeroen Stouten (KU Leuven) and Prof. Dr. Robert C. Liden (University of Illinois, Chicago). She also holds a Master of Science in Social and Organisational Psychology from Utrecht University and a Research Master in Clinical and Developmental Psychopathology from VU University Amsterdam.

As an early career researcher, Emma was granted the Early Career Researcher Support Scheme (ECRSS) award in 2024 ($10,000 and 50% teaching relief) for her research profile and proposal to investigate the bright and dark side of performance feedback. A first draft paper based on this pilot research received a Best Paper Award and Presentation at the Journal of Applied Psychology Workshop at Australian National University.

All of Emma's articles are published in journals ranked in the Q1 Quartile by SJR, ABDC A* or ABDC A and FT50, such as the *Journal of Organizational Behavior* and the *Journal of Business Ethics*. She is already cited three times as often as the Go8 and the Australian average, with a Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) and citations per publication exceeding all comparable entities within the Applied Ethics field (FoR 5001), and an overall FWCI across all publications higher than both the Australian average and the Group of Eight (Go8) average.

Based on her research, Emma has been invited to speak at workshops and institutions internationally, including Stuvo at KU Leuven (Belgium), the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly (Cork, Ireland), and the Trends Conference at Open University in the Netherlands.

As Deputy Director of the Macquarie University Health at Work Research Centre, Emma has had a significant impact on the research environment in both the centre and the University. As an executive team member, she has ensured the official recognition of the research centre by the University, securing support and funding from the Macquarie Business School. Through the centre, she involves fellow early career researchers in impactful research and creates development opportunities by organising career development and research seminars.

Emma is a member of the Academic Senate Research Committee, the ECR Representative of the Department of Management, and an active member of the ECR Advisory Committee, representing ECR needs and supporting research and career development across the University. She has been invited to join the Personnel Review Early Career Review Board and has received a Best Reviewer Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting.

Emma also contributes to PhD supervision at Macquarie University, including as associate supervisor for Bao Giang (2025–present) and previously as co-supervisor for Sutha Jayaranjani, whose thesis was awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Commendation.

Dr Heine's research interests concern the intersection of leadership, performance management, and employee wellbeing. Her areas of interest include:

• Leadership and leader-employee relationships
• Performance feedback processes and outcomes
• Performance management practices in organisations
• Pro-social and counterproductive work behaviours
• Employee health and wellbeing in the workplace
• Organisational policy development informed by cross-disciplinary evidence

External Positions

• Deputy Director, Macquarie University Health at Work Research Centre
• Member, Academic Senate Research Committee, Macquarie University
• ECR Representative, Department of Management, Macquarie University
• Member, ECR Advisory Committee, Macquarie University
• Member, Personnel Review Early Career Review Board
• Member, Academy of Management (since 2017) [2]

Prizes and Awards

• MQ ECR Enabling Scheme Travel Grant — 2026 ($2,768.25)
• Best Reviewer Award, Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management 85th Annual Meeting — 2025
• Best Paper Award and Presentation — 2024
• ECRSS (Early Career Researcher Support Scheme) Grant — 2024 ($10,000 + 50% teaching relief)
• Most Promising Research Proposal in Leadership – Doctoral Student — 2019