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Our Research fields
Work
Our interest is the effect of work on health with the term “health” being used in a broad sense encompassing individual well-being as well as personal development
Topics:
- Occupational health and safety
- Hazard analysis
- Age-appropriate job design
- Recovery processes
- Emotion regulation
- Occupational health promotion
Goals:
- Gaining new insights into casual processes and boundary conditions of the effects of work on health
- Developing interventions to support organizations in maintaining and promoting the health of their
employees
- Establishing modern and holistic hazard analysis methods
Modern Leadership
Our research is focused on the antecedents and consequences of modern leadership models and especially the detailed examination of different leadership behavior
Topics:
- Leadership and health
- Leadership in demographic change
- Ethical leadership / Shared leadership
- Management of multi-cultural teams
- Women in leadership positions
- Entrepreneurship and modern organizational development
Goals:
- Development and validation of new instruments in leadership entrepreneurship
- Improvement of existing leadership models and analysis of the interplay between different forms of leadership
- Identification of success factors and practical measures for leadership at different levels (individual, dyad, group)
Focus on Personell Psychology
We investigate modern human resources approaches, with a focus on personnel psychology so that personnel andorganizational development are closely linked.
Topics:
- Competence modelling
- Competence management
- Defining job requirements
- Professional personnel selection
- Training und training design § Coaching and mentoring
Goals:
- Development, validation and application of scientific based methods of competence evaluation and personnel selection
- Design and evaluation of training and other personnel development
- Support for aligning instruments personal strategies and organizational development strategies
Our Vision
- Dresden's work, organizational and personnel psychology enjoys a unique reputation in Germany and across borders in the fields of diversity, work and health and modern leadership.
- We are thematic experts in the field of W-O-P and continue to pass on our knowledge to our target groups in science and practice.
- We master current challenges in corporate groups, SMEs, administrations and non-profit organizations; We can be measured by the fact, that we solve concrete problems scientifically.
- Basic research and applied research are closely related to one another.
Our Values
- We assume responsibility for socially relevant questions through our research and through the training of highly qualified, motivated and dedicated students.
- We meet our quality requirements by continuously developing our expertise.
- We bear responsibility for the prospects of our employees.
- We live cooperation, local and international networks.
- We live appreciation, team spirit and productive cooperation.
Our Origins
The work psychological tradition at the TH / TU Dresden startsat the beginning of the 20th century. In 1922 the psychotechnical institute was founded in cooperation with the industrial engineering sciences. Under the leadership of Walter Blumenfeld, the focus of research and teaching was equally on investigations into the effect and design of working conditions as well as the qualification of persons. Practical research and training has already been accompanied by theoretical and experimental analyzes during this first phase. The principle of the unity of theory and practice, successively developed by Werner Straub, made it possible to fathom the general psychological mechanisms and processes in the context of the working world more and more.
The 1970s and 1980s were a phase of particularly dynamic development of Dresden's work psychology. The theory of action regulation and the intensive cooperation with researchers from the ETH Zurich, the Humboldt University and the TU Berlin formed the basis. During this period marked by Winfried Hacker, the number of conceptual and application-related questions broadened tremendously. A particular focus was the development of modern (bio-) psychological methods for analyzing and designing activities.
During the 1990s, the teaching and research fields, initiated by Peter Richter, were extended once again. Projects on the contextual factors of work (cultural background, form of organization, leisure) and other actors in the working world (entrepreneurs, executives, job seekers) created very good prerequisites for a thorough processing of numerous current questions of work, organizational and personnel psychology.