Field of work Organizational Psychology

On January 20, 2025, students in the bachelor's module in organizational and business psychology, led by Dr. Julian Decius, were guests in Berlin at the transformation consultancy HRpepper. During the winter semester, the students had reviewed literature and conducted interviews with employees and…

Dr. Julian Decius, Lorenz Decius, and Prof. Dr. Simon Beausaert (Maastricht University) have developed a new theoretical model of work-related informal learning, which has now been published in the renowned journal Human Resource Development Review (IF = 4.6).

Including the active participation and moderation of a workshop by the team of organizational psychology, the first annual conference of the “RessourcE” project took place at Martinsclub Bremen.

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.