Field of work Organizational Psychology

A new publication in the journal "Human Resource Development Quarterly" (IF = 3.3) by Dr. Julian Decius and Dr. Julia Wegenka (née Hein) from University of Mannheim investigated the relationship between lecturers' goals in their teaching and informal learning activities. Lecturers can have different…

On August 1st, the research assistants and PhD students Annelie Lorber and Hannah Louisa Krüger joined the Organizational Psychology team. After both recently successfully completed their Master’s degree in Business Psychology at University of Bremen, they now join the research project…

Dr. Julian Decius, in cooperation with Dr. Peter Bleses from the Institute for Work and Economy (iaw), has acquired the BMBF-funded regional competence center for labor research "RessourcenEntwicklung in Dienstleistungsarbeit" (RessourcE) for a five-year period starting July 1, 2023. Twenty funded…

On 05.07.2023, the students of the Bachelor project seminar "Applied Organizational Psychology" led by Dr. Julian Decius were guests of the Bundesliga football club Bayer 04 Leverkusen. During the summer semester, the students had researched literature and conducted interviews with Bayer 04…

Dr. Julian Decius acted as a mentor at the junior researcher workshop of the DGPssection "Industrial, Organizational and Business Psychology". The multi-day event, hosted by Prof. Dr. Simone Kauffeld at the TU Braunschweig, served to advise and support doctoral students from German-speaking…

After a long and intensive peer-review process, the article "Active learning, active shaping, or both? A cross-lagged panel analysis of reciprocal effects between work design and informal workplace learning, and the mediating role of job crafting" has been accepted for publication in the prestigious…

Should organizations be concerned about investing in work-based learning for their employees? Do they increase internal employability or external employability, which makes employees attractive to competitors on the labor market? Dr. Julian Decius, Dr. Michael Knappstein (ISM Dortmund) and Dr.…

Dr. Julian Decius presented current research from the field of work Organizational Psychology at the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in Boston (April 19-22, 2023). As part of a symposium organized by Gabrielle Danna and Jason G. Randall (both at…

Servant leadership increases the adaptive performance of employees. Together with a Pakistani research team around Dr. Muhammed Qamar Zia, Dr. Julian Decius investigated the mechanisms that explain this process and the role played by job embeddedness and burnout. The calculations of the study in the…

Research in organizational psychology on work-related learning usually focuses on the perspective of companies. However, since co-determination and co-design of learning by employees also play an important role in competence development and further training, Dr. Julian Decius, together with Michael…