Working group for Business Psychology with a focus on Social Psychology

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Meeting of the Division for Work, Organizational, and Economic Psychology and Human Factors (AOW 21) at TU Chemnitz

This year's meeting of the Division for Work, Organizational, and Economic Psychology and Human Factors of the German Psychological Society took place as a hybrid conference from September 22–24 at the Technical University Chemnitz.

...Katharina Klug presented a recent study on the interactions between healthy leadership, self-leadership and flexible work design in cooperation with colleagues from the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg. The contribution was part of a larger symposium focused on new perspectives in research on leadership and health.

Together with Eva Selenko (Loughborough University), Katharina Klug also chaired an online symposium on precarious employment with various contributions, for example on job insecurity, overqualification and financial stress.

Das offizielle Poster der Fachgruppentagung zeigt das Logo der TU Chemnitz, der Konferenz und die Daten. Auf dem Bild sind eine menschliche und eine Roboterhand abgebildet, die beide das Peace-Zeichen machen

People and topics

Portrait von Katharina Klug

Dr. Katharina Klug

Contact:
Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 1
28359 Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-66759
Email: kklugprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

 

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The Glass Hall reflects the sunshine

The changing world of work

How does societal change affect careers, work behavior and well-being? One focal research area centers on topics such as job insecurity or the effects of flexibility in working times and locations.

Zwei Personen im Gespräch an einem Bürotisch.

Leadership and well-being

Supervisors have a considerable influence on their employees' well-being. One focal research area centers on how leaders affect their employees and what constitutes healthy leadershiip.

Diverse students in conversation.

Social psychology and working life

What do we know about interactions within and between groups? How do social relationships influence human behavior? Social psychology, a focus area in teaching, addresses these kinds of questions.