Rolf van Dick

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Rolf van Dick

Rolf van Dick (born April 5, 1967 in Duisburg ) is a German social psychologist . He is Vice President at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Rolf van Dick spent most of his childhood and youth in Burlo in western Munsterland , where he graduated from the Mariengarden grammar school . He later studied psychology at the Philipps University in Marburg . He did his doctorate in 1999 at the Philipps University of Marburg on the subject of stress and job satisfaction. From 1995 to 2002 he was a research assistant and assistant there. From 2003 he taught and researched at Aston University in Birmingham, initially as a Senior Lecturer and from 2005 to 2007 as Professor of Social Psychology and Organizational Behavior.

Act

Since 2006, Rolf van Dick has been Professor of Social Psychology at the Institute for Psychology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and teaches at the Goethe Business School. He was visiting professor in Beijing and Shanghai (2016), in Kathmandu (Nepal, 2009), on Rhodes (University of the Aegaean, Greece, 2002) and at the University of Alabama ( Tuscaloosa , USA, 2001). In 2016 he was visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Trento (in Rovereto, Italy) and from 2016 to 2018 he was a professor at the Labor Research Institute (AFI) in Oslo. At Goethe University he was Managing Director of the Institute for Psychology from 2007/2008, and from 2008 to 2011 Vice Dean or (from 2011 to 2015 and 2017/18) Dean of the Department of Psychology and Sports Science.

Rolf van Dick is co-founder and scientific director of the “Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations” at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Since May 2018 he has been one of the vice-presidents at the university.

Rolf van Dick was editor of the "British Journal of Management" and co-editor of the "European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology", from 2008 to 2015 editor of the "Journal of Personnel Psychology" and from 2016 to 2018 co-editor of "The Leadership Quarterly". He is on the editorial board of numerous specialist journals and a member of the review board of the German Research Foundation.

Research priorities

He conducts research on processes in and between groups, in particular on the application of 'social identity processes in diversity, leadership, mergers' and teamwork. Van Dick published over 200 publications on these topics, including over 100 articles in specialist journals as well as seven books and several special issues in specialist journals.

Awards

  • 2004 With Andreas Richter, Michael A. West and Jeremy Dawson: Best conference paper award and best student paper award of the Academy of Management Annual Conference in New Orleans
  • 2008 '1822 University Prize for Excellent Teaching' from Goethe University Frankfurt
  • 2009, 2016 and 2019 YAVIS Prize awarded by the students for the 'best teaching' in the department
  • 2014 Outstanding Reviewer Award - Journal of Managerial Psychology
  • 2018 Fellow, International Association of Applied Psychology

Memberships

  • British Academy of Management (BAM), Academy of Management (AoM), American Psychological Society (APS), American Psychological Association (APA)
  • German Society for Psychology (DGPs), European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EWOP)
  • Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

Fonts

  • Van Dick, R. (2015). Stress relieve. How groups influence our experience of stress. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
  • Van Dick, R. (2017). Promote identification and commitment. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
  • Van Dick, R. & Fink, L. (2018). Leadership styles. Personalities and celebrities looked over their shoulders. Heidelberg: Springer.    
  • Zhang, Xa., Li, N., Ullrich, J., & Van Dick, R. (2015). Getting everyone on board: The effect of differentiated transformational leadership by CEOs on top management team effectiveness and leader-rated firm performance. Journal of Management, 41 , 1898-1933.
  • Häusser, JA, Kattenstroth, M., van Dick, R., & Mojzisch, A. (2012). 'We' are not stressed. Social identity in groups buffers neuroendocrine stress reactions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 48, 973-977.
  • Richter, A., West, MA, Van Dick, R., & Dawson, JF (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.
  • Steffens, NK, Haslam, SA, Schuh, SC, Jetten, J., & Van Dick, R. (2017). A meta-analytic review of social identification and health in organizational contexts. Personality and Social Psychology Review , 21, 305-335.
  • Van Dick, R. & Haslam, SA (2012). Stress and well-being in the workplace: Support for key propositions from the social identity approach. In: J. Jetten, C. Haslam, & SA Haslam (eds.), The social cure: Identity, health, and well-being (pp. 175-194). Hove and New York: Psychology Press.
  • De Cremer, D., Van Dick, R., & Murnighan, K. (Eds.). (2011). Social psychology and organizations . Taylor & Francis (Series in Organization and Management).
  • Van Dick, R. & West, MA (2013). Teamwork, team diagnosis and team development [2. exp. Edition]. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Brief portrait of Rolf van Dick on harvardbusinessmanager.de . September 21, 2012, accessed October 14, 2016.
  2. a b c The scientific companion: Social psychologist Prof. Dr. Rolf van Dick. The world . October 24, 2016, accessed October 14, 2016.
  3. Brief CV . Website of the University of Frankfurt, accessed on May 28, 2018.
  4. New presidential team at Goethe University elected. University website February 7, 2018, accessed May 28, 2018.