University of Leipzig
Institute of Psychology
Work and Organizational Psychology
Seeburgstr. 14 - 20
04103 Leipzig
Tel.: +49 (0) 3 41-97-3 59 32
Fax: +49 (0) 3 41-97-3 59 33

Office hours: on Wednesdays from 15 till 15.30 o'clock

Room: 412

E-Mail:

mohr@uni-leipzig.de



Education and academic degrees:

  • Habilitation (University of Osnabrück)
  • Ph. D. (University of Osnabrück, Dr. rer. nat.)
  • Supervisor according to the principles of the BDP (Association of German Professional Psychologists)
  • Approbated Psychotherapist
  • Diploma of Psychology (Free University Berlin)
  • Intermediate examination for a diploma: Psychology and Sociology (Universität Konstanz)



Positions:

  • 2009-2010: Alva Myrdal-guest professorship at the Mälardalen University in Sweden
  • Summer 2008: Lecturer at the Teacher Traning and Educational Academy, Riga, Latvia
  • Summerterm 2002: Research in Vietnam (subject "Irritation - an international scale to measure strain at work")
  • Winterterm 99/2000: Sabbatical in USA, Virginia, study about "stress at work" in three companies
  • Since 1995: Professor at the University of Leipzig
  • Study trip, USA University of California, Berkeley; Florida State University, Tallahassee
  • Study visit to Paris following an invitation of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
  • Junior professor (Free University Berlin, Work and Organizational Psychology)
  • Substitute professor of Work and Organizational Psychology (Ludwigs-Maximilian-University, Munich)
  • Lecturer (University of Bern)
  • Junior researcher (Institute of Psychology, Free University Berlin)
  • Junior researcher (project "Psychological stress at work", Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
  • Research assistant for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
  • Psychotherapist (Berlin)



Further activities:

  • Member of professional associations (DGVT, DGP, EAWOP, APA, IAAP)
  • Advisor to national and international Research Funding Organizations (e. g. DFG, SNF) and to many national und international professional journals; Member of appointment commissions in Germany and other countries, etc.
  • Involved in the IIPP (International Interdisziplinary PhD Program) of the University of Leipzig "From signal processing to behavior"
  • Member of the Policy Committee "Unemployment" of the IAAP (International Association of Applied Psychology), registered as NGO at the UN in Genf
  • Temporarily: Member of the board of the ZPR (Center for Prevention and Rehabilitation Research); Dean for student affairs; Director of the Institut of Psychology II; etc.
  • Selected by the Minister for Work and Social Affaires as member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) (2009-2013)
  • Member of the task force of the National Center for Health Education (BZgA) "Health support for social disadvantaged groups"
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the task force "Health support for the unemployed" (Saxonia: Ministery of Social Affairs)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of Campus Inform e.V. (a student Consulting Group, University of Leipzig)
  • Mentor (in "ProFil", career support project for women in sciences coordinated by the three Universities in Berlin, 2006-2007)
  • Founder member of the first Alumni-Association of the Faculty for Bioscience, Pharmacology and Psychology
  • Best Paper Award (2007) of the Center for Creative Leadership for an article about Leadership (with 3 co-authors, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology)



Research Topics:

  • Stress (at work) and workplace health promotion
  • women's employment
  • Minority positions: women in leadership, men in female dominated occupations
  • mental health while acting under insecurity: limited employment, job insecurity, temporary work, unemployment



Selected Publications:

Otto, K., Rigotti, T. & Mohr, G. (in press). Psychological effects of restructuring. In: A. Antoniou & C. Cooper (Eds.). The Psychology of the Recession on the Workplace.

Korek, S., Sobiraj, S., Weseler, S., Rigotti, T., & Mohr, G. (in press). The gender role self-concept of men in female-dominated occupations: Does it depend on how they see their jobs? Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Scheel, T., Rigotti, T., & Mohr G., (in press). Training and performance of a diverse workforce. Human Resource Management.

Scheel, T., & Mohr, G. (2012). The third dimension: Value-oriented contents in psychological contracts. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, DOI:10.1080/1359432X.2012.665229

Mohr, G. & Otto, K. (in press). Health effects of unemployment and job insecurity. In: A. Antoniou, G. Chrousos, C. L. Cooper, M. W. Eysenck, & C. D. Spielberger (Eds.), Handbook of occupational health psychology and medicine. London: Elsevier.

Mohr, G. (i. D.) Erwerbslosigkeit [Unemployment]. In: U. Kleinbeck & K-H. Schmidt (Hrsg). Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Band Arbeitspsychologie [Encyclopedia of Psychology, Volume Work Psychology]. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Mohr, G. & Wolfram, H-J. (in press). Stress among managers: The importance of dynamic tasks, predictability, and social support in unpredictable times. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

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

Wolfram, H-J., Mohr, G. & Borchert, J. (2008). Gender role self-concept, gender-role conflict, and well-being in male primary school teachers. Sex Roles : A Journal of Research. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-008-9493-4.

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.

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.

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.

Mohr, G. & Semmer, N. (2002). Arbeit und Gesundheit: Kontroversen zu Person und Situation [Work and Health: Controversies concerning individual and environmental aspects]. Psychologische Rundschau, 53, 77-84.

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, 337-359. (Short version of the "Habilitation")

Mohr, G. (1991). Fünf Subkonstrukte psychischen Befindensbeeinträchtigungen bei Industriearbeitern: Auswahl und Entwicklung [Five Subdimensions of psychosocial health of blue collar workers]. In: S. Greif, E. Bamberg & N. Semmer (Hrsg), Psychischer Streß am Arbeitsplatz [Psychological stress at work] (S. 91-119). Göttingen: Hogrefe. (Short version of the PhD thesis)

Frese, M., Mohr, G. (1987). Prolonged unemployment and depression in older workers: A longitudinal study of intervening variables. Social Science and Medicine, 25, 173-178. (Additional study to the diploma-thesis)