Dr. Bernadeta Goštautaitė
Bernadeta Goštautaitė is a Professor of Management at ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania. Her research spans various areas related to the integration of age-diverse workers, organizational and national-level policies for successful aging at work, adaptation to new technologies, and diversity in organizations. Her research has been published in esteemed academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and the International Journal of Human Resources Management. It has also garnered extensive media coverage. Serving as a Principal or Co-Investigator, Bernadeta has secured over €1,120,000 EUR for her research through competitive grants and industry funding. Bernadeta is an active member of the 5C group (The Cross-Cultural Collaboration on Contemporary Careers), the AWM Network (Age in the Workplace Meeting), and ENOP (European Network of Organizational Psychologists). She has served as a visiting researcher at the University of Florida (USA) and Curtin University, Future of Work Institute (Australia). Before entering academia, she gained valuable experience as an HR practitioner in international companies in Germany, Latvia, and Lithuania. Over the years, Bernadeta has collaborated with more than 30 organizations across various industries, including banking, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, manufacturing, media, among others.
Awards
- Best Publication Award 2021, ISM University of Management and Economics
- Research communicator of the Year 2020, ISM University of Management and Economics (2021)
- Early Career Visiting Award provided by the Future of Work Institute (2020) at Curtin University (Australia)
- Scholar of the Year 2019, ISM University of Management and Economics (2020)
- Visiting Scholar Award by the Research Council of Lithuania (2019) for a research stay at WU Vienna (Austria)
- ISM Award for Research excellence (2018)
- Young Scholar Award by the Lithuanian Academy of Science (2017)
- Best Publication Award 2015, ISM University of Management and Economics
- Research Excellence PhD Scholarship by the Research Council of Lithuania (2012)
Research areas
- Organizational behavior
- Aging human resources
Projects
- RCL Postdoctoral Fellowships: Successful aging at work: An international comparison (2020-2022; 107 186,91 Eur), Principal Investigator.
- RCL Researchers Groups Projects: The role of professional socialization process and country’s socio-economic context in proactive behaviors at work at later career stages (2020-2022; 149 405 Eur), Principal Investigator.
- RCL World Class R&D Projects: Sustainable Human Resource Management in the Context of Emerging Technologies (2018-2021; 599 287 Eur), Investigator.
- RCL National Programme „Welfare society”: Motivation, performance and migration intentions of healthcare professionals across the lifespan: the role of work design and organizational factors (2017-2018; 109 733 Eur), Investigator.
Publications
Goštautaitė, B. (2015). Age, Work Engagement and Individual Work Performance: The Influence of Work Design [Doctoral dissertation]. ISM University of Management and Economics
Goštautaitė, B., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2015). Work engagement during life-span: the role of interaction outside the organization and task significance. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 89, 109-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2015.05.001
Goštautaitė, B., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2015). The role of work characteristics in enhancing older staffs’ performance: evidence from a post-Soviet country. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26(6), 757-782. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.949820
Goštautaitė, B., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2017). Calling over the live-course of health care professionals: career-related outcomes and mediating mechanisms. . In Mini-conference related to the special issue in the journal of vocational behavior on “calling and careers: new insights and future directions, October 13-14, 2017 (pp. 1-5). Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Goštautaitė, B., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2017). Seeking for a sustainable management of healthcare institutions: The role of HRM practices in the reduction of self-initiated expatriation. In 10th International conference of the Dutch HRM network, Nijmegen, November 9-10 (pp. 1-28). Nijmegen.
Goštautaitė, B., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2017). Using the self-determination theory to understand the impact of HR practices on work engagement and patient orientation. In 3rd EGOS Paper development workshop, November 2-4, 2017 (pp. 1- 1). Brasov: Transilvania University of Braşov
Goštautaitė, B., & Putnaitė, V. (2023). To retire or not to retire? Teachers’ motivation to work in post-retirement in Lithuania: Stories and Sourcebook. In J. Briscoe, M. Dickmann, D. Hall, W. Mayrhofer & E. Parry (Eds.), Understanding Careers Around the Globe (pp. 183-191). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035308415
Goštautaitė, B., & Shao, Y. (2020). Reducing older workers’ sickness absence: The moderating role of perceived fairness. Work, Aging and Retirement, 6(2), 130-136. https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/waz022
Goštautaitė, B., Bučiūnienė, I., & Milašauskienė, Ž. (2018). The effect of high-performance work systems on work outcomes of healthcare professionals. In Academy of Management Proceedings (2018, 1, pp. 1-1). Briarcliff Manor, NY: Academy of Management
Bučiūnienė, I., & Goštautaitė, B. (2022). Sustainable HRM and staff well-being in the context of technological change. In XII International Workshop on Human Resource Management, 20-21 October (pp. 1-4). Cádiz: Int Workshop on HRM
Bučiūnienė, I., & Goštautaitė, B. (2023). Coping with radical changes in the nature of work: the role of sustainable HRM: Academy of Management Symposium „Lessons from recent developments in careers: Clues to the new normal?“. In Academy of Management Proceedings (2023, 1, pp. 1-1). Academy of Management. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.10543symposium
Bučiūnienė, I., Goštautaitė, B., & Milašauskienė, Ž. (2017). HRM-patient orientation and teamwork climate linkage in health care institutions: the role of calling and prosocial motivation. In D. Vrontis, Y. Weber, & E. Tsoukatos (Eds.), Global and national business theories and practice: bridging the past with the future (pp. 2044-2047). EuroMed Press.
Bučiūnienė, I., Goštautaitė, B., & Moniz, A. (2022). HRM and staff well-being: the case of industrial robot adoption. In 8th e-HRM International Conference, 1-3 June (pp. 1-20). Aarhus: e-HRM International Conference
Bučiūnienė, I., Goštautaitė, B., Milašauskienė, Ž., & Granskas, J. (2018). Žmogiškųjų išteklių valdymas asmens sveikatos priežiūros įstaigose: monografija. Vilnius: ISM Vadybos ir ekonomikos universiteto leidykla.
Bučiūnienė, I., Goštautaitė, B., Moniz, A., Stankevičiūtė, Ž., Liubertė, I., & Reay, P. (2019). The role of sustainable HRM in the context of emerging technologies: The case of industrial robots. In 12th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business (12, pp. 1582-1584). Thessaloniki: EuroMed Press.
Darškuvienė, V., Goštautaitė, B., Kundelis, E., Misiūnas, D., & Ščerbina-Dalibagienė, S. (2022). Firm liquidity during the COVID-19 crisis: Chapter 18. In S. Boubaker, & D. K. Nguyen (Eds.), Financial Transformations Beyond the COVID-19 Health Crisis (pp. 535–554). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9781800610781_0018
Dwertmann, D. J. G., Goštautaitė, B., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2020). Customer reactions to staffs with disabilities: Opportunity for increased corporate reputation? In D. Baldridge, M. Kulkarni, S. Bruyere, & L. Schur (Eds.), Broadening our Sight: New Directions in Disability Research, Symposia. Academy of Management Proceedings..
Dwertmann, D., Goštautaitė, B., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2023). Receiving service from a person with a disability: Stereotypes, perceptions of corporate social responsibility, and the opportunity for increased corporate reputation. Academy of Management Journal, 66(1), 133-163. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2020.0084
Flynn, M., Goštautaitė, B., Kilroy, S., Kooij, D., & Schröder, H. (2017). Proactive career behaviours in later work life: a cross-cultural perspective on the roles of institutional context and human resource management. In A cross-cultural perspective on proactive work behaviors, ESSEC business school, 15 – 16 May (pp. 1-8)
Goštautaitė, B., Kazlauskaitė, R. & Bučiūnienė, I. (2018). Customer reactions to service staffs with disability: A field quasi-experiment. In S. Taneja (Ed.), Proceedings of the 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Chicago, IL, United States.
Goštautaitė, B., Bučiūnienė, I., & Milašauskienė, Ž. (2019). HRM and work outcomes: the role of basic need satisfaction and age. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 33(2), 169-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2019.1683049
Goštautaitė, B., Bučiūnienė, I., & Milašauskienė, Ž. (2022). HRM and work outcomes: the role of basic need satisfaction and age. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 33(2), 169-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2019.1683049
Goštautaitė, B., Bučiūnienė, I., Dalla Rosa, A., Duffy, R., & Kim, H. J. (2020). Healthcare professionals with calling are less likely to be burned out: the role of social worth and career stage. Career Development International, 25(6), 649-670. https://doi.org/10.1108/CDI-10-2018-0255
Goštautaitė, B., Bučiūnienė, I., Duffy, R. D., & Kim, H. (2019). Calling and burnout across the life span of healthcare professionals: the role of social worth. In 19th Eawop Congress (pp. 638-639). Turin: EAWOP
Goštautaitė, B., Bučiūnienė, I., Mayrhofer, W., Bareikis, K., & Bertašiūtė, E. (2019). Using embeddedness theory to explain self-initiated expatriation intention of entry-level job applicants. Career Development International, 25(2), 69-89. https://doi.org/10.1108/CDI-04-2019-0094
Goštautaitė, B., Bučiūnienė, I., Milašauskienė, Ž., Bareikis, K., Bertašiūtė, E., & Mikelionienė, G. (2018). Migration intentions of Lithuanian physicians, nurses, residents and medical students. Health Policy, 122(10), 1126-1131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.07.001
Goštautaitė, B., Liubertė, I., Bučiūnienė, I., Stankevičiūtė, Ž., Staniškienė, E., Reay, T., & Moniz, A. (2019). Robots at work: how human-robot interaction changes work design. In 19th Eawop Congress, May 29 – June 1. Turin, Italy.
Goštautaitė, B., Liubertė, I., Bučiūnienė, I., Stankevičiūtė, Ž., Staniškienė, E., & Moniz, A. B. (2019). Crafting jobs and sharing social space with robots. In Academy of Management Proceedings (2019, 1, pp. 1-1). Briarcliff Manor, NY: Academy of Management
Goštautaitė, B., Pilkienė, M., Petreikienė, D., & Liubertė, I. (2022). Career imprints of Lithuanian schoolteachers: the “silenced generation” in changed times. 38th EGOS Colloquium: Organizing: the beauty of imperfection. Vienna, Austria.
Goštautaitė, B., Schroder, H., Pilkienė, M., Petreikienė, D., & Liubertė, I. (2021). Career imprints of older workers and proactive behaviors at work in Germany and Lithuania. In 6th Age In The Workplace Small Group Meeting (pp. 28-29). Groningen: University of Groningen; Tilburg University
Goštautaitė, B., Steindórsdóttir, B. D., Dello Russo, S., Parry, E., Verbruggen, M., Cerdin, J. L., Chudzikowski, K., Mishra, S. K., & Saxena, R. (2022). Age and career resilience during Covid-19: the mediating roles of career optimism and positive career meaning. In Academy of Management Proceedings (2022, 1, pp. 8-20). Briarcliff Manor, NY: Academy of Management. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2022.12144symposium
Jaškienė, J., Bučiūnienė, I., & Goštautaitė, B. (2022). HRM and research performance in the higher education context: Evidence from European countries. Academy of Management Proceedings, 1, p. 13155. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2022.13155abstract
Kazlauskaitė, R., Bučiūnienė, I., & Goštautaitė, B. (2014). Diversity-related human resource management and performance linkage: Does acting responsibly help organisations perform better? In 13th International Human Resource Management Conference: Uncertainty in a Flattening World: Challenges For IHRM, June 24-27. Krakow, Poland.
Liubertė, I., & Goštautaitė, B. (2021). Presenter symposium: Silence in and around organizations: New insights and implications for future research. In Academy of Management Proceedings (1, pp. 1-45). Academy of Management
Liubertė, I., Goštautaitė, B., Staniškienė, E., Stankevičiūtė, Ž., Bučiūnienė, I., Reay, T., & Moniz, A. B. (2019). The human side of robots and the robot side of us: Adjusting social lenses. In International Conference on Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (pp. 1-13). Brighton, UK
Liubertė, I., Goštautaitė, B., Stankevičiūtė, Ž., Reay, T., Staniškienė, E., Bučiūnienė, I., & Moniz, A. B. (2019). Robot as a ‘co-worker’, social order and communication: pouring new wine into old wineskins: Sub-theme 05: [SWG] Organization as Communication: Exploring the Communicative Incarnation of Organization. In 35th EGOS Colloquium, University of Edinburgh Business School, July 4-6th, 2019 (pp. 1-19). Edinburgh: European Group for Organizational Research (EGOS)
Liubertė, I., Petreikienė, D., Goštautaitė, B., & Pilkienė, M. (2021). Methodological challenges to studying silence in organizations: Silence In and Around Organizations: New Insights and Implications for Future Research. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), 30-35. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.10045symposium
Liubertė, I., Reay, T., Barrett, M., Beane, M., Goštautaitė, B., Lefsrude, L., & Seamans, R. C. (2020). How robots and automation change human work. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1). https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.10034symposium
Liubertė, I., Žebrytė, I., & Goštautaitė, B. (2022). Entrepreneurial Spirit Among Students in Lithuania 2021. National Report on the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey (GUESSS) 2021 in Lithuania. Vilnius: ISM Vadybos ir ekonomikos universitetas
Nakrošienė, A., Bučiūnienė, I., & Goštautaitė, B. (2019). Working from home: characteristics and outcomes of telework. International Journal of Manpower, 40(1), 87-101. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-07-2017-0172
Shao, Y., Goštautaitė, B., Wang, M., & Ng, T. W. H. (2022). Age and sickness absence: Testing physical health issues and work engagement as countervailing mechanisms in a crossnational context. Personnel Psychology, 75(4), 895-927. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12498
Staniškienė, E., Stankevičiūtė, Ž., Bučiūnienė, I., Goštautaitė, B., Liubertė, I., Reay, T., & Moniz, A. (2019). Understanding staff well-being in the context of rapid automation: the case of a manufacturing company. In EURAM 2019: exploring the future of management, 26-28, June, 2019, Lisboa, Portugal (pp. 1-28). Lisboa: European Academy of Management.
Goštautaitė, B., & Šerelytė, M. (2024). Decreasing employability with age? The role of automation risk, lifelong learning and occupational mobility. Baltic Journal Of Management, 19(2), 145-162. https://doi.org/10.1108/BJM-11-2022-0419
Marcus, J., Scheibe, S., Kooij, D., Truxillo, D. M., Zaniboni, S., Abuladze, L., Al Mursi, N., Bamberger, P. A., Balytska, M., Betanzos, N. D., Perek-Białas, J., Boehm, S. A., Burmeister, A., Cabib, I., Caon, M., Deller, J., Derous, E., Drury, L., Goštautaitė, B., … Žnidaršič, J. (2024). LeverAge: a European network to leverage the multi-age workforce. Work, Aging and Retirement, 1-8
Goštautaitė, B. (2024). Age and career resilience across countries: the role of education expenditure and unemployment rate. In Academy of Management Proceedings (2024, 1, pp. 13-18). Academy of Management. Retrieved 2024, https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.12449symposium
Steindorsdottir, B., & Goštautaitė, B. (2024). Career shocks and subjective career success: a lifespan developmental perspective. In Careers Division Community Conference, April 18-19 (pp. 1-1). Amsterdam: Academy of Management.