Field of work Organizational Psychology

The joint conference of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) and the Austrian Society for Psychology (ÖGPs) took place in Vienna from September 16th to 19th, at which the Organisational Psychology team was represented with numerous contributions.

Professional life is full of paradoxes and contradictions, and the same applies to work-related learning. In a recent study, Dr. Hilko Paulsen, Prof. Dr. Timo Kortsch and Dr. Julian Decius examined which work-related learning paradoxes exist and how these are assessed by practitioners in terms of…

At the SIG 14 "Learning and Professional Development" EARLI conference in Jyväskylä, Finland, Dr. Julian Decius presented current research conducted by the field of work "Organizational Psychology" on the influence of generative AI on work-related learning. Specifically, the presentation dealt with…

Dr. Julian Decius presented his research on job wallowing, a new psychological construct defined as the purposeless retrospection of past work successes associated with positive emotions, at the Academy of Management Conference in Chicago. The abstract of the presentation is freely available here.…

Dr. Julian Decius has published an overview article on informal workplace learning in the Psychologische Rundschau. It defines what informal learning actually is, how it can be distinguished from related forms of learning and how it can be measured. It also provides an overview of the predictors and…

On 17 June 2024, Annelie Lorber and Hannah Krüger presented their findings from the RessourcE project at the 13th Researching Work & Learning Conference in Linköping, Sweden.

Dr. Julian Decius and Annelie Lorber presented research from the field of organizational psychology at the conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EAOHP), which took place from 05 to 07 June 2024 in Granada, Spain.

Together with Prof. Dr. Vera Hagemann, Dr. Julian Decius has published an article in the high-ranking journal “Learning and Instruction” (IF = 6.2).

The first user workshop of the QUALI-L hub in the RessourcE project took place on Monday, 27 May 2024.

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