Heinz Schuler (psychologist)

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Heinz Schuler (born June 6, 1945 in Vienna ) is an Austrian psychologist . From 1982 to 2010 he held the chair for psychology at the University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart).

biography

Heinz Schuler studied psychology and philosophy in Munich. He received his doctorate in 1973. Supported by a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation, he completed his habilitation in 1978 at the University of Augsburg. In 1978/79 he held a professorship for business psychology and was also acting head of the didactic center and the center for study and conflict counseling. In 1979 he became professor and board member at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Erlangen.

Schuler had held the chair for psychology at the University of Hohenheim since 1982 and was also the scientific director of a personnel psychology and management consultancy in Stuttgart. He published around 600 scientific texts, including 30 books.

Schuler's work focuses on the areas of organizational and personnel psychology and its personality psychology basics, in particular professional aptitude diagnostics and performance research with the application areas of personnel selection, potential analysis , personnel development , e-recruiting and e-assessment, performance appraisal and career advice . He was a founder of the German-speaking personnel psychology within work and organizational psychology. Schuler is the originator of the trimodal approach in personnel psychology. With the development of multimodal performance assessment systems for both group and individual performance, performance assessment has been expanded from a purely personal to a team-based assessment.

Schuler's work since the 1980s has given the impetus to consider “social validity” as an additional quality criterion in the construction and application of personnel selection processes.

Schuler is the editor of the two volumes "Organizational Psychology" within the Encyclopedia of Psychology, founding editor of the journals "Arbeits- und Organizationspsychologie" and "Personalpsychologie" and the author / author of various aptitude diagnostic procedures, including the multimodal interview (MMI) and the achievement motivation inventory (LMI).

In addition to the publication of business psychological test procedures to support personnel selection in companies, in 1998 he participated in the establishment of a management consulting company and an AG for e-recruiting and web-based test procedures. He was the scientific director of the Institute for Professional Profiling.

Schuler is a member of the German Society for Psychology , Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York Academy of Science and the Humboldt Society .

On the occasion of Heinz Schuler's retirement, P. Gélleri and C. Winter published a commemorative publication entitled Potentials of Personal Psychology (2011). In 2011 he was awarded the golden badge of honor by the University of Hohenheim. He is the recipient of the German Psychology Prize 2017. The award speech is available on Heinz Schuler's profile at ResearchGate.

Publications (selection)

  • Textbook organizational psychology, 6th edition 2019 (with Klaus Moser)
  • The recruitment interview . 2nd Edition. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8017-2871-7 (370 pages).
  • Prepare and conduct recruitment interviews, 2016 (with Patrick Mussel)
  • Dark Triad of Personality at Work (TOP), 2016 (with Dominik Schwarzinger)
  • Psychological personnel selection, 4th edition. 2014
  • Textbook of Personnel Psychology, 3rd edition 2013 (with Uwe Peter Kanning)
  • Diagnosis of job-related creativity (DBK), 2013 DBK-P6 (with Petra Gélleri, Julia Winzen and Yvonne Görlich)
  • Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2007 (with Karlheinz Sonntag)
  • Creativity, 2007 (with Yvonne Görlich)
  • AZUBI-BK, 2006 and AZUBI-TH, 2007 (with Yvonne Görlich)
  • Analysis of Inferential and Creative Thinking (ASK), 2005 (with Benedikt Hell)
  • Achievement Motivation Inventory, 2004 (with George C. Thornton III., Andreas Frintrup and Rose Müller-Hanson)
  • Assessment and Promotion of Professional Performance, 2004
  • Achievement Motivation Inventory, 2001 (with Michael Prochaska)
  • Ethical Problems in Psychological Research, 1982.
  • Revised general office work test (ABAT-R) (with Gustav A. Lienert )
  • <www.was-studiere-ich.de> (test for career and study advice from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Schuler: The riddle of the feature-method-effects: What is “potential” and how can it be measured . In: Lutz v. Rosenstiel and Thomas Lang von Wins (eds.): Perspectives of potential assessment . Hogrefe, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-8017-1283-9 , pp. 53-71 .
personal data
SURNAME Schuler, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna