Sergio López Bohle
Académico del Departamento de Administración · FAE · USACH
Doctor en Psicología, mención Organizaciones, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Organizational Emotions · Interpersonal Relationships · Work Teams · Diversity · Organizational Psychology
Perfil académico
Comprender el trabajo en contextos de incertidumbre y transformación
Sergio López Bohle es académico e investigador del Departamento de Administración de la Facultad de Administración y Economía de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
Su trayectoria se ha desarrollado principalmente en gestión de personas y comportamiento organizacional, con especial énfasis en los efectos que generan la incertidumbre, los cambios organizacionales y las nuevas condiciones de empleo sobre las personas trabajadoras.
Su investigación se centra en inseguridad laboral, liderazgo, bienestar, desempeño y compromiso organizacional.
Sus trabajos analizan cómo la percepción de inseguridad puede afectar la salud mental, la innovación, la disposición a expresar ideas y la relación con supervisores, así como el papel que cumplen el liderazgo transformacional, el apoyo de las jefaturas y las prácticas de gestión de personas en la construcción de entornos laborales más saludables y participativos.
Línea de investigación
Teoría de la Administración
Sus investigaciones permiten comprender cómo las estructuras laborales, los cambios organizacionales, la relación con las jefaturas y las percepciones de seguridad configuran:
El compromiso; la confianza; la participación; el desempeño; y el bienestar de los trabajadores.
Áreas de investigación
Inseguridad laboral
Gestión de personas
Comportamiento organizacional
Liderazgo
Bienestar y salud laboral
Publicaciones
López Bohle, S., van Beurden, J., Muñoz Medina, F. & Peters, S. E. 2026. We need more voices, not less! Promoting employee voice through transformational leadership: The mediating role of organization-based self-esteem. Economic and Industrial Democracy 47(2): 459–477.
Jiang, L., Debus, M. E., Xu, X., Hu, X., López Bohle, S., Petitta, L., Roll, L. C., Stander, M. & Wang, H. J. 2025. Preparing for a rainy day: A regulatory focus perspective on job insecurity and proactive career behaviors. Applied Psychology 74(2): e70004. DOI
Junça Silva, A. & López Bohle, S. 2025. Who came first, the egg or the chicken? What comes first, psychological contract breach or perceived job insecurity?. International Journal of Manpower 46(2): 197–217. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
Pap, Z., Vîrgă, D., Ștefan, A. D., López Bohle, S. & Muñoz Medina, F. 2025. Is Emotion the Engine? Positive Affect as the Mediator Between Employee Mindset and Performance in a Three-Wave Study. The Journal of Psychology 159(8): 659–678. Tandfonline
de Oliveira, C., Jamieson, M. & López Bohle, S. 2025. Mental Health as a Determinant of Work: A Scoping Review on the Impact of Mental Health on Precarious Employment. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. Meeting Abstract. Facultad de Administración y Economía
Junça Silva, A. & López Bohle, S. 2025. Invisible at work, but visible at home: the indirect effect of ostracism on mental health and the buffering-role of human–animal interactions. Personnel Review. ORCID
López Bohle, S., Chambel, M. J., Griep, Y., Muñoz Medina, F. & Zúñiga Quijada, H. 2024. Are Both I-Deals? The Mediating Role of I-Task and I-Incentive in the Relationship between Supervisor Support and Employees’ Silence and Voice. SAGE Open 14(2). Sage Journals
Xu, X., Jiang, L., López Bohle, S., Muñoz Medina, F. & Gu, M. 2024. Why and when transformational leadership influences followers’ qualitative job insecurity: A three-wave moderated mediation study. Applied Psychology 73(4): 2107–2128.
López Bohle, S., Bal, P. M., Probst, T. M., Rofcanin, Y. & Muñoz Medina, F. 2024. What do job insecure people do? Examining employee behaviors and their implications for well-being at a weekly basis. Journal of Management & Organization 30(5): 1304–1323. Facultad de Administración y Economía
Karapinar, P. B., Ekmekci, O. T., Camgoz, S. M., López Bohle, S. & Aydin, E. M. 2024. Et tu Brute? The Roles of Subordinate–Supervisor Similarities on the Relationship between Abusive Supervision and Employee Silence Behavior: A Study from the Subordinates’ Perspectives. Behavioral Sciences 14(7): 582. MDPI
Muñoz Medina, F., López Bohle, S., van Beurden, J., Chambel, M. J. & Ugarte, S. M. 2023. The relationship between job insecurity and employee performance: a systematic literature review and research agenda. Career Development International 28(6/7): 589–632. ScienceDirect
Muñoz Medina, F., López Bohle, S., Jiang, L., Chambel, M. J. & Ugarte, S. M. 2023. Qualitative job insecurity and voice behavior: Evaluation of the mediating effect of affective organizational commitment. Economic and Industrial Democracy 44(4): 986–1006.
Muñoz Medina, F., López Bohle, S., Ugarte, S. M., Chambel, M. J. & Wall, E. 2022. Employees Perceptions of Job Insecurity and Performance: A Qualitative Approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(24): 16665. PubMed
Griep, Y., Lukic, A., Kraak, J. M., López Bohle, S., Jiang, L., Vander Elst, T. & De Witte, H. 2021. The chicken or the egg: The reciprocal relationship between job insecurity and mental health complaints. Journal of Business Research 126: 170–186. ScienceDirect
López Bohle, S., Chambel, M. J. & Diaz-Valdes Iriarte, A. 2021. Job insecurity, procedural justice and downsizing survivor affects. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 32(3): 596–615. Universidade de Lisboa
Probst, T. M., Bazzoli, A., Jenkins, M. R., Jiang, L. & López Bohle, S. 2021. Coping With Job Insecurity: Employees With Grit Create I-Deals. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 26(5): 437–447. PubMed
Breevaart, K., López Bohle, S., Pletzer, J. L. & Muñoz Medina, F. 2020. Voice and silence as immediate consequences of job insecurity. Career Development International 25(2): 204–220. ScienceDirect
Probst, T. M., Jiang, L. & López Bohle, S. 2020. Job insecurity and impression management: Which is the horse and which is the cart when it comes to job performance? Career Development International.
Jiang, L., Hu, S., Näswall, K., López Bohle, S. & Wang, H. J. 2020. Why and when cognitive job insecurity relates to affective job insecurity? A three-study exploration of negative rumination and the tendency to negative gossip. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology 29(5): 678–692. Tandfonline
Jiang, L., López Bohle, S. & Roche, M. 2019. Contingent Reward Transactional Leaders as “Good Parents”: Examining the Mediation Role of Attachment Insecurity and the Moderation Role of Meaningful Work. Journal of Business and Psychology 34(4): 519–537. OpenURL EBSCO
López Bohle, S., Chambel, M. J., Muñoz Medina, F. & Silva da Cunha, B. 2018. The Role of Perceived Organizational Support in Job Insecurity and Performance. Revista de Administração de Empresas 58(4): 393–404. Redalyc
López Bohle, S. & Mladinic Alonso, A. R. 2017. The effect of procedural fairness and supervisor support in the relationship between job insecurity and organizational citizenship behavior. Review of Business Management 19(65): 337–357. Revisión de Gestión Empresarial
Probst, T. M., Gailey, N. J., Jiang, L. & López Bohle, S. 2017. Psychological capital: Buffering the longitudinal curvilinear effects of job insecurity on performance. Safety Science 100: 74–82. ScienceDirect
López Bohle, S., Bal, P. M., Jansen, P. G. W., Leiva, P. I. & Mladinic Alonso, A. 2017. How mass layoffs are related to lower job performance and OCB among surviving employees in Chile: an investigation of the essential role of psychological contract. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 28(20): 2837–2860. Tandfonline
Munyon, T. P., Jacobs, J. D., Carnes, A. M. et al. 2016. Pay-for-Politics: Considering the Variable Compensation–Organizational Politics Relationship. In Handbook of Organizational Politics: Second Edition: Looking Back and to the Future.
Publicaciones recientes
Workplace Diversity in Female-Dominated Industries and Intraindividual Identity Conflict
Workplace Diversity and Intraindividual Identity Conflict: Implications for Stress in Non-Profit Organizations
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