Rowan Moelijker

Rowan Moelijker is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Business and Organizational Psychology at the Institute for Education, Work and Society at the University of Hohenheim. She conducted her doctoral research in Organizational Behavior at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and was a visiting PhD candidate at the University of Florida.

Rowan conducts theory-driven research using experience sampling, scale development, and experimental methods. Her doctoral research focused primarily on interpersonal inclusion and exclusion in the workplace, examining the signals, behaviors, and motives that shape these processes.

At the University of Hohenheim, she works on a DFG-funded project examining how social comparisons between younger and older employees shape emotions and knowledge transfer in age-diverse workplaces.

Her research focuses on:

• Age diversity, social comparison, and intergenerational workplace relationships
• Knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, and knowledge transfer
• Workplace inclusion and inclusive coworker behavior
• Workplace exclusion and exclusionary behavior
• Human resource management, including HR implementation and diversity communication