Rolf van Dick

  • Biografische Angaben

    Rolf van Dick studied at Philips University Marburg and received his doctorate in 1999 at the interface of social, organizational and health psychology. He worked as Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Aston University, Birmingham and has been Professor of Social Psychology at Goethe University since 2006. He has held visiting professorships in Tuscaloosa (USA, 2001), Rhodes (2002), Katmandu (2009), Rovereto (2016), Beijing and Shanghai (2016) and at the Work Research Institute, Oslo (2016-2018). His research focuses on processes of social identities in organizations, especially in relation to diversity, health, leadership, and mergers. He has more than 300 publications. He was editor of the British Journal of Management and the Journal of Personnel Psychology and associate editor of Leadership Quarterly and European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology.
  • Publikationen

    Bracht, E., Monzani, L., Boer, D., Haslam, S.A., Kerschreiter, R., Lemoine, J.E., Steffens, N.K., Akfirat, S.A., Avanzi, L., Barghi, B., Dumont, K., Edelmann, C.M., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., Giessner, S., Gleibs, I.H., González, R., González, A.L., Lipponen, J., Markovits, Y., Molero, F., Moriano, J.A., , Neves, P., Orosz, G., Roland-Lévy, C., Schuh, S.C., Sekiguchi, T., Song, L.J., Story, J.S.P., Stouten, J., Tatachari, S., Valdenegro, D., van Bunderen, L., Vörös, V., Wong, S.I., Youssef, F., Zhang, X.-a., & van Dick, R. (2023). Innovation across cultures: connecting leadership, identification, and creative behavior in organizations. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 72(1), 348-388. http://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12381 [IF 3.712; Category: Psychology, applied 27/83; Q2]. Frenzel, S.B., Haslam, S.A., Junker, N.M., Bolatov, A., Erkens, V.A., Häusser, J.A., Kark, R., Meyer, I., Mojzisch, A., Monzani, L., Reicher, S., Samekin, A., Schuh, S.C., Steffens, N.K., Sultanova, L., van Dijk, D., van Zyl, L.E., & van Dick, R. (2022). How national leaders keep ‘us’ safe: A longitudinal four-nation study exploring the role of identity leadership as a predictor of adherence to COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions. BMJ Open; 12:e054980. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054980 [IF 2.692; Category: Medicine 141/793; Q1]. Liang, S., Lupina-Wegener, A., Ullrich, J., & Van Dick, R. (2022). ‘Change is our Continuity’: Chinese Managers’ Construction of Post-Merger Identification After an Acquisition in Europe. Journal of Change Management, 22:1, 59-78, DOI: 10.1080/14697017.2021.1951812 [IF 0.68; Category: Management 179/384; Q2]. Van Dick, R., Cordes, B.L. Lemoine, J.E., Steffens, N.K., Haslam, S.A., Akfirat, S.A., Ballada, C.J.A., Bazarov, T., Aruta, J.J.B.R., Avanzi, L., Bodla, A.A., Bunjak, A., Černe, M., Dumont, K., Edelmann, C.M., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., García-Ael, C., Giessner, S., Gleibs, I., Godlewska-Werner, D., Gonzalez, R., Kark, R., Laguia Gonzalez, A., Lam, H., Lipponen, J., Lupina-Wegener, A., Markovits, Y., Maskor, M., Molero Alonso, F.J., Monzani, L., Moriano Leon, J.A., Neves, P., Orosz, G., Pandey, D., Retowski, S., Roland-Lévy, C., Samekin, A., Schuh, S., Sekiguchi, T., Song, L.J., Story, J., Stouten, J., Sultanova, L., Tatachari, S., Valdenegro, D., van Bunderen, L., van Dijk, D., Wong, S.I., Youssef, F., Zhang, X-a., & Kerschreiter, R. (2021). Identity leadership, employee burnout, and the mediating role of team identification: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development project. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22):12081. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212081 [IF 3.390; Category: PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 42/176; Q1, median: 2.672]. Marx-Fleck, S., Junker, N.M., Artinger, F., & van Dick, R. (2021). Defensive Decision Making: Operationalization and the relevance of psychological safety and job insecurity from a conservation of resources perspective. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 94(3), 616-644. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12353 [IF 4.561; Category: Psychology, applied 20/83; Q1]

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