Prof. Dr. Bertolt Meyer

Effects of diversity and faultlines on groups and individuals

© Prof. Dr. Bertolt Meyer

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Mr Prof. Dr. Bertolt Meyer

Technische Universität Chemnitz

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Brief CV

Prof. Dr. Meyer studied psychology at the Universität Hamburg and at the Humoldt Universität zu Berlin. He then obtained a doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes. He completed his doctorate in 2007 at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and moved on to become senior assistant at the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) at the Chair of Social and Economic Psychology from 2007 until 2014. He is also holder of the professorship for Organizational and Economic Psychology at the TU Chemnitz since 2014.

Work environment

Research, teaching and consulting in the areas of workplace diversity, stereotypes, mental health and leadership. Development and teaching of multivariate statistical methods, co-editor of the American journal Small Group Research. 

Expertise

Effects of diversity and faultlines - hypothetical dividing lines that divide groups into relatively homogeneouse subgroups based on the distribution of several diversity characteristics - on groups and individuals.                                                                Development of statistical methods for measuring faultlines.

Visions

Diversity and demographic change are both an opportunity and a risk. The CDD can make a contribution to ensuring that we in society take advantage of the opportunities and minimize the risks. 

Research focus

• effects of diversity in research groups 
• faultlines 
• stereotypes
• mental health 

publications 

• van Dijk, H., Meyer, B., van Engen, M. L., & Lewin Loyd, D. (2017). Microdynamics in diverse teams: A review and integration of the diversity and stereotyping literatures. Academy of Management Annals, 11, 517-557. doi: 10.5465/annals.2014.0046
• Meyer, B. (2017). Team diversity: A review of the literature. In E. Salas, R. Rico, & J. Passmore (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell handbook of the psychology of teamwork and collaborative processes (pp. 151–175). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Meyer, B., Schermuly, C. C., & Kauffeld, S. (2016). That’s not my place: The interacting effects of faultlines, subgroup size, and social competence on social loafing behavior in work groups. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 25, 31-49. doi: 10.1080/1359432X.2014.996554