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, Martina Günther, Dr. Marco C. Ziegler.
Notes:
Responsible for this website is Marco C. Ziegler.
Budgetholder: Section Head
Current and Upcoming Events
On Monday 06.05.2024 16:00 p.m. , Prof. Dr. Klaus Melchers (Ulm) will talk about Personnel Selection and Organizational Behavior in our section. Location: Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 103.
Abstract: Vorstellungsgespräche sind nicht nur eines der verbreitetsten Auswahlverfahren, sondern auch eines der validesten – zumindest so lange sie passend entwickelt und durchgeführt werden. Trotzdem gibt es Sorgen, dass Bewerbende versuchen, in diesen Interviews durch Lügen ihre Chancen zu verbessern, und dass dies die Validität der Interviews beeinträchtigt. In Rahmen des Vortrags wird ein Überblick gegeben über eine Serie von Studien, die wir in den letzten Jahren durchgeführt haben um Antworten zu finden auf Fragen wie: Können Bewerberinnen und Bewerber sich im Interview bewusst besser darstellen, als sie dies in Wahrheit sind? Welche Effekte auf die Interview-Leistung hat es, wenn sie so viel faken, wie sie könnten? Sind Warnungen ein brauchbares Mittel, um Faking in Interviews zu reduzieren? Wir wirken sich solche Warnungen auf Wahrnehmungen und Reaktionen von Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern aus? Lässt sich Faking durch bessere Interview-Fragen reduzieren? Versuchen eigentlich alle Bewerberinnen und Bewerber, sich besser darzustellen, als sie sind? Warum stellen sich Bewerberinnen und Bewerber besser dar, als sie tatsächlich sind und warum nicht? Und wie wirkt sich Faking auf die Kriteriumsvalidität von Interviews aus?
On wednesday den 22.05.2024 16:00 - 18:00 Dr. Mari Kira (University of Michigan Ann Arbor) will talk about "Perspectives on Refugees’ Well-Being: Stable Security, Values, and Temporality" in our section. Location: Phil. I, F005.
Abstract: In May 2022, the United Nations announced that the number of forcibly displaced people in the world had surpassed 100 million. Of these, almost 30 million are refugees, i.e., people forcibly displaced across country borders. A life as a refugee entails profound physical, psychological, and social hardships. Yet, even amidst these hardships, refugees’ stories bear witness to their psychological strength and resourcefulness. With the help of qualitative data collected among resettled refugees in the U.S., I will discuss three studies uncovering refugees’ experiences of and their striving toward well-being in their new home country. In the first study, we examine resettled refugees’ construction of well-being and suggest a novel well-being dimension – a sense of stable security – that constitutes a key dimension of refugees’ well-being. The second study identifies and examines personal values central to resettled refugees’ sense of well-being. With a person-centered analysis, we further highlight patterns showing how different values are related to one another in refugees’ statements of well-being. We show how refugees’ life experiences can lead to the holding of motivationally opposing values that typically do not coexist as value priorities. In the third study applying Photovoice methodology, we hear from adolescent refugees; what well-being means to them and how they strive towards it. The findings focus on the role of temporality in adolescent refugees’ experiences of well-being. Taken together, these three studies address the potential for and the processes of psychological well-being and growth amidst chronic adversities faced by refugee populations.
Latest events
On Tuesday 26th of March Dr. Sanne Feenstra (VU Amsterdam) spoke about "Insights into Women's Experiences” in our section.
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.