Jan Dettmers

Jan Dettmers (* 1976 ) is a German psychologist .

Life

He studied psychology, computer science and sociology at the University of Hamburg and the University of La Sapienza in Rome. In 2004 he became a qualified psychologist. After completing his doctorate in Hamburg in 2009 (reviewers: Eva Bamberg , Friedemann W. Nerdinger , Matthias Burisch and Monique Janneck), he was offered a junior professorship for work and organizational psychology at the University of Hamburg in 2011 . After a research and teaching stay at Macquarie University and a substitute professorship at the University of Leipzig from 2014 to 2015, he took over the professorship for work and organizational psychology at the Medical School Hamburg in October 2015 . In 2018 he was offered a professorship for work and organizational psychology at the Distance University in Hagen . There he has been head of the department for work and organizational psychology since 2019.

Research priorities

Jan Dettmers' research focuses on flexible work and health, work-home interaction, service work and innovation. After completing his doctorate, Jan Dettmers specialized in flexible forms of work that are characterized on the one hand by a high degree of autonomy and self-control, and on the other by the disappearance of conventional structures and boundaries.

Jan Dettmers examines the effects of unbounded work and its effects on recovery processes and the life-domain balance. In particular, he published numerous articles on the subject of extended availability ("permanent accessibility"). On the basis of his empirical findings to convey processes and moderating factors of the effect of extended availability, he developed design and training concepts for the health-promoting handling of extended availability. A second focus concerns the ambivalent effect of a high degree of autonomy at work, dealing with the increasing demands of independent work design (job crafting) and the role of self-endangering coping strategies in dealing with stress, v. a. Time pressures, which can increase the negative effects of stress.

In addition to the scientific consideration of new, flexible forms, Jan Dettmers investigates and develops methods of risk assessment of psychological stress in work and advises companies and institutions on this topic.

Fonts (selection)

• J. Dettmers, E. Clauß: Work design skills for flexible and self-designed working conditions. In: Design skills for healthy work. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2018, pp. 13–25.
• J. Dettmers: How extended work availability affects well-being: The mediating roles of psychological detachment and work-family-conflict. In: Work & Stress. Volume 31, No. 1, 2017, pp. 24-41.
• J. Dettmers: Constant accessibility and extended availability - effects and possibilities of a health-promoting design. In: Digital Work - Digital Health. BKK health report. 2017, pp. 167–174.
• J. Dettmers, T. Vahle-Hinz, E. Bamberg, N. Friedrich, M. Keller: Extended work availability and its relation with start-of-day mood and cortisol. In: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Volume 21, No. 1, 2016, p. 105.
• J. Dettmers, E. Bamberg, K. Seffzek: Characteristics of extended availability for work: The role of demands and resources. In: International Journal of Stress Management. Volume 23, No. 3, 2016, p. 276.
• J. Dettmers, N. Deci, S. Baeriswyl, M. Berset, A. Krause: Self-endangering work behavior. In: Healthy at work. Springer, Cham 2016, pp. 37–51.
• J. Dettmers, S. Kaiser, S. Fietze: Theory and practice of flexible work: Organizational and individual perspectives. Introduction to the special issue. In: management review. Volume 24, No. 3, 2013, pp. 155-161.
• J. Dettmers: Role Innovation and Organizational Innovativity. In: Journal of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Volume 54, No. 3, July 2010, pp. 105-116.
• J. Dettmers: Cooperation and Competence Development: Effectiveness and Conditions . Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-1916-1 .
• “I'm not a waiter!” The customer and innovation-related understanding of tasks of craftsmen . Hamburg 2009.

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Jan Dettmers