Rolf van Dick
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Life
Rolf van Dick graduated in psychologyPsychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. He earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from Philipps-University Marburg, supervised by Ulrich Wagner. From 1995 to 2002, he was working as a lecturer and assistant professor at the Philipps-University Marburg. From 2003 to 2006, he worked at Aston University
Aston University
Aston University is a "plate glass" campus university situated at Gosta Green, in the city centre of Birmingham, England.Established in 1895 as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School, Aston was granted its Royal Charter as Aston University on 22 April 1966...
, Birmingham, England, first as a senior lecturer, and from 2005 to 2007 as a full professor
Professor
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and chair of Social Psychology
Social psychology
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all...
and Organizational Behavior.
Since 2006 Rolf van Dick has held the chair for Social Psychology at the Institute for Psychology at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and also is teaching at Goethe Business School
Goethe Business School
The Goethe Business School is a Graduate Business School in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, set up as an independent, non-profit foundation under private law, held by Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Founded in 2004, Goethe Business School is the center for management education of...
, Frankfurt. He has been a visiting professor in Kathmandu (Nepal, 2009), Rhodes (University of the Aegaean, Greece, 2002) and at the University of Alabama
University of Alabama
The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....
(Tuscaloosa, Alabama USA in 2001).
At Goethe University, he was Director of the Institute of Psychology, and since 2008 he serves as Associate Dean of the Department of Psychology and Sports Sciences.
Rolf van Dick is co-founder and Scientific Director of the Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations (CLBO) at Goethe University.
Rolf van Dick is/was in various editorial functions at the http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1045-3172&site=1British Journal of Management
British Journal of Management
The British Journal of Management is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal, which was established by David T. Otley in 1990, and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British Academy of Management. The journal covers all main fields of management studies: from business ethics and...
] (Editor-in-chief), the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (Associate Editor), and the Journal of Personnel Psychology (Editor-in-chief). He is/was a member of various editorial boards including the British Journal of Management
British Journal of Management
The British Journal of Management is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal, which was established by David T. Otley in 1990, and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British Academy of Management. The journal covers all main fields of management studies: from business ethics and...
, the European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, the Journal of Managerial Psychology, the Journal of Change Management, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Science You Can Use (SIOP/APA annual series), Social Psychology, the German journals Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie, Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie and Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie.
Research interests and awards
Among Rolf van Dick's main research interests are inter- and intragroup-processes, especially the application of the social identity approach to diversity, leadership, mergers, teamwork, etc.Rolf van Dick conducts his research in laboratory settings as well as in field studies or through cooperation with companies and schools. He has published more than 40 book chapters and 85 papers in academic outlets (such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology), and he has authored or edited several books.
In 2008, Rolf van Dick was awarded with the University Teaching excellence award by the 1822-Foundation (German: Universitätspreis für exzellente Lehre der 1822-Stiftung).
List of publications (selection)
Papers- Hirst, G., Van Dick, R., & Van Knippenberg, D. (2009). A social identity perspective on leadership and employee creativity. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 30, 963-982.
- Meyer, J.P., Becker, T.E., & Van Dick, R. (2006). Social identities and commitments at work: Toward and integrative model. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 27, 665-683.
- Richter, A., West, M.A., Van Dick, R., & Dawson, J.F. (2006). Boundary spanners’ identification, intergroup contact and effective intergroup relations. Academy of Management Journal, 49, 1252-1269.
- Ullrich, J., Christ, O., & Van Dick, R. (2009). Substitutes for procedural fairness: Prototypical leaders are endorsed whether they are fair or not. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 235-244.
- Wieseke, J., Ahearne, M., Lam, S.K., & Van Dick, R. (2009). The role of leaders in internal marketing. Journal of Marketing, 73, 123-145.
Book chapters
- Haslam, S.A. & Van Dick, R. (2011). A social identity analysis of organizational well-being. In D. De Cremer, R. Van Dick, & K. Murnighan, (eds.). Social psychology and organizations. New York: Taylor & Francis.
- Riketta, M., & Van Dick, R. (2009). Commitment’s place in the literature. In H.J. Klein, T.E. Becker, & J.P. Meyer (eds.), Commitment in organizations: Accumulated wisdom and new directions (pp. 69–95). (SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series) New York: Routledge.
- Sluss, D., van Dick, R., & Thompson, B. (2011). Role theory in organizations: A relational perspective. In S. Zedeck (Ed.), Handbook of I/O-Psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 505–534). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Books
- De Cremer, D., Van Dick, R., & Murnighan, K. (Eds.). (2011). Social psychology and organizations. Taylor & Francis (Series in Organization and Management).
- Löwstedt, J., Larsson, P., Karsten, S., & Van Dick, R. (Eds.), (2007). From Intensified Work to Professional Development – A Journey through European schools. Brussels: PIE Lang.
- Van Dick, R. (2006). Stress und Arbeitszufriedenheit bei Lehrerinnen und Lehrern. Zwischen „Horrorjob“ und Erfüllung. [Stress and work satisfaction among teachers] Marburg: Tectum. 2nd edition
External links
- Website of the Social Psychology Unit of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Website of the Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations (CLBO) at Goethe University
- Website of the Research Training Group "Group focused enmity: Causes, phenomenology, consequences" of the Philipps-University Marburg and the University of Bielefeld
- Website of the German Psychological Society
- Journal of Personnel PsychologyJournal of Personnel PsychologyThe Journal of Personnel Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published four times per year by Hogrefe Publishing. It is the continuation of the Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie , originally published in German from the beginning of 2002 until the end of 2009...