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Prof. em. Dr. Gisela Mohr, Foto: privat

Curriculum Vitae

  • Psychotherapist in a group practice (Berlin)

  • Research work for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

  • Scientific employee in the research project "Psych. Stress at the Workplace" (Program "Humanization of Working Life" [HdA] of the BMFT)

  • Research associate at the Institute of Psychology of the FU Berlin

  • Doctorate at the University of Osnabrück (Dr. rer. nat.)

  • Research assistant at the University of Bern, Chair of Industrial and Organizational Psychology

  • Substitute Professor for Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the LMU Munich

  • Assistant Professor at the Free University of Berlin (Industrial and Organizational Psychology)

  • Study visit to Paris at the invitation of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Study trip, USA University of California, Berkeley; Florida State University, Tallahassee

  • Habilitation at the University of Osnabrück

  • Since 1995: Professor at the University of Leipzig, development of the Department of Industrial and Organizational Psychology

  • WS 99/2000: Research stay in the USA, Virginia, to conduct studies in three companies on the topic of "stress at work"

  • 2000: Call to the University of Bielefeld (C4), rejected

  • SS 2002: Stay in Vietnam in the context of the research project "Irritation - an international scale to measure strain at work".

  • Teaching activities (undergraduate and postgraduate) at the Teacher Training and Educational Academy, Riga, Latvia, University of Glasgow, School of Psychology, University of Granada

  • 2009-2010: Alva Myrdal Visiting Professorship at Mälardalen University, Sweden

  • 2014: Early retirement, freelance work

Research Topics

  • Stress, health promotion, risk assessment
  • Optimization of work requirements: psychological work design
  • Leadership (... and health/ ... and diversity) (RE-SU-LEAD)
  • Restructuring / change management: psychological effects of job insecurity, unemployment, temporary contracts
  • Negotiation, moderation (of conflicts), coaching

Selected Publications

Bamberg, E. & Mohr, G. (2016). Psychologisches Wissen für die Praxis: Gefährdungsbeurteilung im Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz. Psychologische Rundschau. 67(2), 130-134. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000314

Otto, K., Mohr, G., Kottwitz, M. U., & Korek, S. (2016). The joint impact of microeconomic parameters and job insecurity perceptions on commitment towards one’s job, occupation and career: A multilevel approach. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 37(1), 43-71. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x14535822

Rigotti, T., Mohr, G., & Isaksson, K. (2015). Job Insecurity among Temporary Workers: Looking Through the Gender Lens. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 36(3), 523-547. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x13516026

Scheel, T., Rigotti, T. , & Mohr, G. (2014). Training and performance of a diverse workforce. Human Resource Management. 53, 749-772. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21583

Mohr, G. & Wolfram, H.-J. (2010). Stress among managers: The importance of dynamic tasks, predictability, and social support in unpredictable times. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 15(2), 167-179. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018892

Rigotti, T., Otto, K. & Mohr, G. (2007). East-West differences in employment relations, organisational justice and trust: possible reasons and consequences. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 28(2), 212-238. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x07076111

Mohr, G. & Wolfram, H.-J. (2007). Leadership and effectiveness in the context of gender: The role of leader's verbal behaviour. British Journal of Management. 19(1) , 4-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2007.00521.x

Mohr, G., Müller, A., Rigotti, T., Aycan, Z. & Tschan, F. (2006). The assessment of psychological strain in work contexts. Concerning the structural equivalency of nine language adaptions of the Irritation scale. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 22(3), 198-206. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759.22.3.198

Mohr, G. & Semmer, N. (2002). Arbeit und Gesundheit: Kontroversen zu Person und Situation. [Work and health: Controversies about person and situation.] Psychologische Rundschau, 53(2), 77-84. https://doi.org/10.1026//0033-3042.53.2.77

Mohr, G. (2000). The changing significance of different stressors after the announcement of bankruptcy: A longitudinal investigation with special emphasis on job insecurity. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21(3), 337-359. doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(200005)21:3<337::aid-job18>3.0.co;2-g (Kurzfassung der monographischen Habilitation)

Frese, M., Mohr, G. (1987). Prolonged unemployment and depression in older workers: A longitudinal study of intervening variables. Social Science and Medicine, 25(2), 173-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(87)90385-6 (Ergänzungsstudie zur Querschnittsstudie der Diplomarbeit)

Mühlpfordt, S., Paul, K. , Mohr, G. (2018): Interventionen für Erwerbslose. In: S. Greif, K.-C. Hamborg (Hrsg.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie. Methoden der Arbeits-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie (S. 559-620). Hogrefe.

Otto, K., Rigotti, T. & Mohr, G. (2013). The psychological effects of restructuring. In A.- S.- G. Antoniou & C. L. Cooper (Eds.), The psychology of the recession on the workplace (pp. 261-275). Elgar.

Otto, K. & Mohr, G. (2012). Demografische Entwicklung, Arbeit und Alter. In C. Busch, G. Mohr & E. Bamberg (Hrsg.), Arbeitspsychologie (S. 243-287). Hogrefe.

Mohr, G. & Otto, K. (2011). Health effects of unemployment and job insecurity. In: A.S. Antoniou & C. Cooper, (Eds.). New directions in organizational psychology and behavioral medicine (pp. 289-311). Gower Publishing.

Mohr, G. (1991). Fünf Subkonstrukte psychischen Befindensbeeinträchtigungen bei Industriearbeitern: Auswahl und Entwicklung. In: S. Greif, E. Bamberg & N. Semmer (Hrsg). Psychischer Streß am Arbeitsplatz (S. 91-119). Hogrefe. (Kurzfassung der monographischen Dissertation)

Mohr, G. Rigotti, T. & Müller, A. (2009). Irritation Scale for the assessment of work-related strain. Hogrefe Ltd.