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Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management

Mission Statement

The research interests of this interdisciplinary section cover the areas of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior. Specific fields of interest include leadership; teamwork; new team-based forms of organization; the roles of hierarchy, power, status and influence; emotions in organizations; personnel diagnostics (e.g., applicant selection, employee assessment); career management and career adjustments; assessing and promoting work performance in different contexts; personality and intelligence in careers; and the scientist-practitioner gap in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior.
The section aims to advance the research areas of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior at JLU and strengthen JLU’s national and international visibility in these fields to make JLU even more attractive to young researchers. The section strives to involve both senior and early-career researchers in all academic disciplines concerned with the human being in an organizational context and/or organizational structures.

 

Section Head

The OB & HRM Section is lead by the following team: Dr. Katja Wehrle, Dr. Sascha Abdel Hadi, Dr. Katerina Tsantila, Dr. Marco C. Ziegler.

 

 Section Head

 

Notes:

Responsible for this website is Marco C. Ziegler.

Budgetholder: Section Head

 

Current and Upcoming Events  

 

Tuesday 26. March10:00 a.m. Dr. Sanne Feenstra (VU Amsterdam) will talk about "Insights into Women's Experiences”. Location: online - contact aikaterini.tsantila for the invitation-link.

 

Abstract: Increasing numbers of women are shattering the glass ceiling to ascend to positions of power. Dr. Sanne Feenstra, from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, will delve into the challenges women encounter while navigating the corporate power structure and examine how these obstacles affect their perceptions of wielding power. Dr. Feenstra's presentation will center on the impact of gender stereotypes, discrimination, and demeaning treatment on women's sense of deservingness in high-power roles, evident in their experiences of impostor phenomenon (aka impostor syndrome). Furthermore, Dr. Feenstra will explore shifts in societal perceptions of men and women occupying powerful positions.

 

Bio: Dr. Sanne Feenstra is an Assistant Professor in Organizational Psychology at VU Amsterdam and content director of the Amsterdam Leadership Lab. She completed her PhD thesis (entitled Power in Organizational Life: An investigation of how stable and unstable power affect important organizational leadership outcomes) in 2020 at the University of Groningen.

Her research focuses on leadership, power, and the impostor phenomenon. Sanne has published her research in journals such as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Applied Psychology: An International Review and her research is regularly quoted in the press and various media outlets.

More events coming soon...

Latest events

Most recently, on Wednesday, 20.12.2023, a lecture by J.-Prof. Dr. Annabelle Hofer (University of Cologne) titled "Different perspectives on the precariousness of the new world of work and its relevance for OB/HRM” took place.

On Thursday, 30.11.2023 , Prof. Dr. Laura Venz (Leuphana University Lüneburg)  presented "Different perspectives on the precariousness of the new world of work and its relevance for OB/HRM”.

On Friday, 17.11.2023, a lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefan Krumm (FU Berlin) titled "Situational Judgment Tests in Aptitude Diagnostics - Low-fidelity Simulations or "only" Judgment Tests?" took place.

Prof. Dr. Mario Gollwitzer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) spoke on 14.11.2023 on "DISPOSITIONAL SENSITIVITY FOR INJUSTICE - ALWAYS SOMETHING GOOD?". We were given an exciting insight into his research activities.

On 03.November a research lecture titled "Mitigating biased perceptions of young leaders: The roles of organizational stability versus change and evaluator age" was given by Prof. Dr. Claudia Buengeler.

A research colloquium took place in July, where Julia Heimrich and Lena Nüchter presented their PhD projects.

In May, Dr. Joost van de Brake (University of Groningen) gave a guest lecture on "New Perspectives on Multiple Team Membership".

In January, Dr. Juriena De Vries (Leiden University ) gave a guest lecture on "The interplay between work characteristics, physical activity, and employee well-being".

A guest lecture on "Bayessche Inferenz und Statistik: Eine Einführung", by Dr. Stephan Poppe (Universität Leipzig) took place in January, too.