Rolf van Dick
Rolf van Dick is a social psychologist in Germany.
Life
Van Dick graduated in psychology 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, Birmingham, England, first as a senior lecturer, and from 2005 to 2007 as a full professor and chair of Social Psychology and Organizational Behavior.Since 2006, Van Dick has held the chair for Social Psychology at the Institute for Psychology at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and also is teaching at Goethe Business School, Frankfurt. He has been a visiting professor in Beijing and Shanghai, Kathmandu, Rhodes and at the University of Alabama.
At Goethe University, he was Director of the Institute of Psychology, and from 2011 to 2015 and again 2017/18 he served as Dean of the Department of Psychology and Sports Sciences. From 2016 to 2018, he has held a Professorship at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Work Research Institute, Norway and he is a member of the Psychology Review Board of the German Science Foundation.
Since May 2018, he serves as vice president at Goethe University and is responsible for international affairs, early career researchers, diversity and equal opportunities.
Van Dick is co-founder and Scientific Director of the Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations at Goethe University.
Van Dick has been involved in various editorial functions at the , the , and the and The Leadership Quarterly. He has been a member of various editorial boards including the British Journal of Management, the European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, the Journal of Business and Psychology, the Journal of Managerial Psychology, the Journal of Change Management, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Psychology Review, Organizacionnaâ psihologiâ, Science You Can Use, Social Psychology, The Leadership Quarterly, and the German journals, Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie, Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, and.
Research interests and awards
Among 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.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 60 books and book chapters and over 100 papers in academic outlets. He is also a regular contributor to practitioner outlets such as the German edition of the Harvard Business Manager.
In 2008, Van Dick was awarded with the University Teaching excellence award by the 1822-Foundation. In 2009 and 2016 he was awarded the YAVIS price for excellent teaching at the Department of Psychology. In 2018, he was elected Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology.
List of publications (selection)
;Papers- Steffens, N.K., Peters, K., Haslam, S.A., & Van Dick, R.. Dying for Charisma: Human inspirational appeal increases post-mortem. Leadership Quarterly, 28, 530-542. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2016.09.001
- Van Dick, R., Ciampa, V., & Liang, S.. Shared identity in organizational stress and change. Current Opinion in Psychology, 23, 20-25.
- Steffens, N.K., Haslam, S.A., Schuh, S.C., Jetten, J., & Van Dick, R.. A meta-analytic review of social identification and health in organizational contexts. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 21, 305-335. doi: 10.1177/1088868316656701
- Richter, A., West, M.A., Van Dick, R., & Dawson, J.F.. Boundary spanners’ identification, intergroup contact and effective intergroup relations. Academy of Management Journal, 49, 1252-1269.
- Ullrich, J., Christ, O., & Van Dick, R.. Substitutes for procedural fairness: Prototypical leaders are endorsed whether they are fair or not. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 235-244.
- Schuh, S. C., Van Quaquebeke, N., Göritz, A., Xin, K. R., De Cremer, D., & Van Dick, R.. Mixed feelings, mixed blessing? How ambivalence in organizational identification relates to employees’ regulatory focus and citizenship behaviors. Human Relations, 69, 2224-2249. DOI: 10.1177/0018726716639117
- Van Dick, R., & Kerschreiter, R.. The social identity approach to effective leadership: An overview and some ideas on cross-cultural generalizability. Frontiers in Business Research in China, 10, 363–384. DOI 10.3868/s070-005-016-0013-3
- Zhang, X-a., Li, N., Ullrich, J., & Van Dick, R.. 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. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206312471387
- Van Dick, R. & Haslam, S.A.. Stress and well-being in the workplace: Support for key propositions from the social identity approach. In: J. Jetten, C. Haslam, & S.A. Haslam, The social cure: Identity, health, and well-being. Hove and New York: Psychology Press.
- Haslam, S.A. & Van Dick, R.. A social identity analysis of organizational well-being. In D. De Cremer, R. Van Dick, & K. Murnighan,. Social psychology and organizations. New York: Taylor & Francis.
- Van Dick, R. & Monzani, L.. Does it matter whether I am a happy and committed worker? The role of identification, commitment and satisfaction for employee behavior. N. Chmiel, M. Sverke & F. Fraccaroli An introduction to work and organizational psychology. Oxford: Wiley.
- Sluss, D., van Dick, R., & Thompson, B.. Role theory in organizations: A relational perspective. In S. Zedeck, Handbook of I/O-Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
- Van Dick, R.. Organizational identification. In J. Meyer Handbook of Employee Commitment. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- De Cremer, D., Van Dick, R., & Murnighan, K... Social psychology and organizations. Taylor & Francis.
- Löwstedt, J., Larsson, P., Karsten, S., & Van Dick, R.,. From Intensified Work to Professional Development – A Journey through European schools. Brussels: PIE Lang.
- Van Dick, R.. Identifikation und Commitment fördern. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
- Van Dick, R. & West, M.A.. Teamwork, Teamdiagnose und Teamentwicklung. Göttingen: Hogrefe.