Prof. Dr. Ulrike Fasbender
Holder of the Chair of Business and Organizational Psychology
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Prof. Dr. Ulrike Fasbender is a Full Professor and the Chair of Business and Organizational Psychology at the Institute for Education, Work and Society – University of Hohenheim. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. She received her PhD from Leuphana University of Lüneburg and after, worked at Oxford Brookes University and Justus Liebig University in Giessen. In addition to her academic career, Ulrike has professional experience in the areas of human resources and management consulting. Next to her research on work and aging, Prof. Fasbender studies:
#1: Sustainable Career Development over the Lifespan
#2: Interpersonal Relations and Diversity Management
#3: Knowledge Transfer, Learning and Innovation in Organizations
#4: Organizational Behavior, Technology and Change
Her research is well supported through competitive grants, including the British Academy, the German Research Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the European Union's COST Action Initiative, and has been published in high-quality journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Human Relations, and the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. In 2021, Prof. Fasbender received the Dr. Herbert Stolzenberg Award for her research. With the population aging in many countries across the world, and the associated societal tensions, the topic of work and aging is a very critical one, and her research is making a substantial contribution to this field.
Prof. Fasbender currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and is on the Editorial Boards of Personnel Psychology, Work, Aging and Retirement, the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Management Review Quarterly, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
| Since 10/2021 | Professor of Business and Organizational Psychology, University of Hohenheim |
| 04/2017 – 09/2021 | Assistant Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology, Justus Liebig University Gießen |
01/2015 – 03/2017 | Lecturer, since 09/2016 Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice, Oxford Brookes University (UK) |
08/2012 – 12/2014 | PhD, Psychology (Dr. phil.), Leuphana University Lüneburg |
08/2010 – 07/2012 | Master, Psychology (M.Sc.), University of Mannheim |
10/2007 – 08/2010 | Bachelor, Business Psychology (B.Sc.), Leuphana University Lüneburg |
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
| Rinker, L., Fasbender, U., Gerpott, F.H., & Burmeister, A. (2024). Conquering knowledge exchange barriers with age differences: A stress appraisal perspective on the consequences of upward social comparisons. Advance Online Publication. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. doi: 10.1111/joop.12545 [PDF] |
| Drury, L., & Fasbender, U. (2024, in press). Fostering intergenerational harmony: Can good quality contact between older and younger employees reduce workplace conflict? Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. doi:10.1111/joop.12539 |
Umbra, R., & Fasbender, U. (2024, in press). How to capture the rage? Development and validation of a State-Trait Anger Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment. doi:10.1080/00223891.2024.2390990 |
| Dey, C., & Fasbender, U. (2024). Exploring the role of psychological ownership toward organizational innovation in family businesses. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies. doi:10.1108/JEEE-02-2024-0057 [PDF] |
| Marcus, J., Scheibe, S., Kooij, D., Truxillo, D., Zaniboni, S., Abuladze, L., Al Mursi, N., Bamberger, P., Balytska, M., Perek-Bialas, J., Boehm, S., Burmeister, A., Cabib, I., Coen, M., Deller, J., Derous, E., Diaz, N. B., Drury, L., Eppler-Hattab, R., Fasbender, U., & …Znidarsic, J. (2024). LeverAge: A European network to leverage the multi-age workforce. Work, Aging and Retirement. 10(4), 309-316. doi:10.1093/workar/waae009 [PDF] |
| Rinker, L., & Fasbender, U. (2024). Empirische Evidenz zum Wissenstransfer zwischen jüngeren und älteren Mitarbeitenden: Aktueller Forschungsstand und Ausblick für zukünftige Forschung. Psychologische Rundschau. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1026/0033-3042/a000685 [PDF] |
Harris, A., Davenport, M.K., & Fasbender, U. (2024, in press). Exploring the role of uncertainty regulation strategies to demystify the link between person-environment misfit and late career outcomes. Work, Aging and Retirement. doi:10.1093/workar/waae008 |
Veit, J., Ehlen, R., Fasbender, U., Otto, S., & Ruiner, C. (2024). Twin Transition in practice: How digital technologies promote employee green behavior. Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie. doi:10.1007/s11612-024-00741-9 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., Rivkin, W., & Gerpott, F.H. (2024). Good for you, bad for me? The daily dynamics of perspective taking and well-being in coworker dyads. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 29 (1), 1-13. doi: 10.1037/ocp0000367 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., & Gerpott, H. F. (2023). Designing work for change and its unintended side effects. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 145 (103913). doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2023.103913 [PDF] |
| Fasbender, U., Burmeister, A., Wang, M. (2023). Managing the risks and side effects of workplace friendships: The moderating role of workplace friendship self-efficacy. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 143 (103875). doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2023.103875 [PDF] |
Watermann, H., Fasbender, U., & Klehe, U.-C. (2023). Withdrawing from job search in response to age discrimination: Effects on occupational future time perspective, career exploration and desire to retire. Acta Psychologica. 234 (103875). doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103875 [PDF] |
| Fasbender, U., Baltes, B., & Rudolph, C.W. (2023). New directions for measurement in the field of work, aging and retirement. Work, Aging and Retirement. 9(1), 1-6. doi:10.1093/workar/waac028 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., Gerpott, F. H., & Rinker, L. (2023). Getting ready for the future, is it worth it? A dual pathway model of age and technology acceptance at work. Work, Aging and Retirement, 9 (4), 358-375. doi: 10.1093/workar/waac035 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., Vignoli, M., & Topa, G. (2022). Understanding how aging experiences shape late career development: The mediating role of psychological capital. Career Development Quarterly, 70(3), 174-189, doi: 10.1002/cdq.12301 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U. & Drury, L. (2022). One plus one equals one: Age-diverse friendship and its complex relation to employees’ job satisfaction and turnover intentions. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 31 (4), 510-523. doi:10.1080/1359432X.2021.2006637 [PDF] |
Dietz, L., & Fasbender, U. (2022). Age-diverse workplace friendships: A systematic literature review and recommendations for future research. Work, Aging and Retirement, 8 (2) 163-197. doi:10.1093/workar/waab028 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U. & Gerpott, H. F. (2022). Knowledge transfer between younger and older employees: A temporal social comparison model. Work, Aging and Retirement, 8 (2) 146-162. doi:10.1093/workar/waab017 [PDF] |
| Fasbender, U., & Gerpott, F. H. (2022). Why do or don’t older employees seek knowledge from younger colleagues? A relation–opportunity model to explain how age-inclusive human resources practices foster older employees’ knowledge seeking from younger colleagues. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 71 (4), 1385-1406. doi:10.1111/apps.12362 [PDF] |
| Burmeister, A., Alterman, V., Fasbender, U., & Wang, M. (2022). Too much to know? The cognitive demands of daily knowledge seeking and the buffering role of contact quality. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107 (8), 1303-1322. doi:10.1037/apl0000925 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., Gerpott, H. F., & Unger, D. (2021). Give and take? Knowledge exchange between older and younger employees as a function of generativity and development striving. Journal of Knowledge Management, 25 (10), 2420-2443. doi:10.1108/JKM-11-2020-0856 [PDF] |
Watermann, H., Fasbender, U., & Klehe, U.-C. (2021). Predicting the self-regulated job search of mature-aged job seekers: The use of elective selection, loss-based selection, optimization, and compensation strategies. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 128. doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2021.103591 [PDF] |
Klehe, U.-C., Fasbender, U., & van der Horst, A. (2021). Going full circle: Integrating research on career adaptation and proactivity. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 126. doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103526 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U. & Gerpott, H. F. (2021). To share or not to share: How can age-specific HR-practices impact the negative effects of age discrimination on knowledge sharing? European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 30 (1), 125-142. doi:10.1080/1359432X.2020.1839421 [PDF] |
Palmer, C., Fasbender, U., Kraus, S., Birkner, S., & Kailer, N. (2021). A chip off the old block? – The role of dominance and parental entrepreneurship for entrepreneurial intentions. Review of Managerial Science,15, 287-307. doi:10.1007/s11846-019-00342-7 |
Fasbender, U., Burmeister, A., & Wang, M. (2020). Motivated to be socially mindful: Explaining age differences in the effect of employees’ contact quality with coworkers on their coworker support. Personnel Psychology, 73, 407-430. doi:10.1111/peps.12359 [PDF] |
Gerpott, F. H., Fasbender, U., & Burmeister, A. (2020). Respectful leadership and followers’ knowledge sharing: A social mindfulness lens. Human Relations, 73, 789-810. doi:10.1177/0018726719844813 (all authors contributed equally; highly cited paper in the Web of Science) [PDF] |
Alterman, V., Fasbender, U., Froidevaux, A. & Xie, J. (2020). A conceptual model of small business owners’ unique retirement decisions: Multilevel antecedents and retirement adjustment consequences. Work, Aging and Retirement, 6, 146-152. doi:10.1093/workar/waaa010 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., Wöhrmann, A.M., Wang, M., & Klehe, U.-C. (2019). Is the future still open? The mediating role of occupational future time perspective on the effects of career adaptability and aging experience on late career planning. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 111, 24-38. doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2018.10.006 [PDF] |
Nagy, N., Fasbender, U., & North, M. (2019). Youthfuls, matures, and veterans: Subtyping subjective age in late career employees. Work, Aging and Retirement, 5, 307-322. doi:10.1093/workar/waz015 [PDF] |
Burmeister, A., Fasbender, U., & Gerpott, F. H. (2019). Knowledge hiding and moral emotions: The differential effects of guilt and shame on compensatory work behavior. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 92, 281-304. doi:10.1111/joop.12249 (all authors contributed equally; top cited article 2019-2020) [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., van der Heijden, B.I.J.M., & Grimshaw, S. (2019). Job satisfaction, job stress and nurses’ turnover intentions: The moderating roles of on-the-job and off-the-job embeddedness, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75, 327-337. doi:10.1111/jan.13842 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U. & Klehe, U.-C. (2019). Job search and (re)employment from a lifespan development perspective. Work, Aging and Retirement, 5, 73-90. doi:10.1093/workar/way009 [PDF] |
Burmeister, A., Fasbender, U., & Deller, J. (2018). Being Perceived as a Knowledge Sender or Knowledge Receiver: A Multi-Study Investigation of the Effect of Age on Knowledge Transfer. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 91, 518-545. doi:10.1111/joop.12208 (top cited article 2018-2019) [PDF] |
Fasbender, U. & Wang, M. (2017). Intergenerational contact and hiring decisions about older workers. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 32, 210-224. doi:10.1108/JMP-11-2016-0339 [PDF] |
Wöhrmann, A. M., Fasbender, U., & Deller, J. (2017). Does more respect from leaders postpone the desire to retire? Understanding the mechanisms of retirement decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1-11. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01400 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U. & Wang, M. (2017). Negative attitudes toward older workers and hiring decisions: Testing the moderating role of decision-makers' core self-evaluations. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 157-166. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02057 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., Wang, M., Voltmer, J.-B., & Deller, J. (2016). The meaning of work for post-retirement employment. Work, Aging and Retirement, 2, 12-23. doi:10.1093/workar/wav015 [PDF] |
Wöhrmann, A. M., Fasbender, U., & Deller, J. (2016). Using work values to predict post-retirement work intentions. Career Development Quarterly, 64, 98-113. doi:10.1002/cdq.12044 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., Deller, J., Wang, M., & Wiernik, B. M. (2014). Deciding whether to work after retirement: The role of psychological experience of aging. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 84, 215-224. doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2014.01.006 [PDF] |
Book chapters
Rinker, L., Fasbender, U., & Gerpott, F. H. (2025, in press). Understanding Age-Diverse Knowledge Exchange through Social Comparison. In E. F. Fideler (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Connections. Oxford University Press. [PDF] |
| Dietz, L., Burmeister, A. & Fasbender, U. (2022). Age and knowledge exchange: Ability, motivation, and opportunities. In H. Zacher & C.W. Rudolph (Eds.), The SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series - Age and Work: Advances in Theory, Methods, and Practice (pp. 259-276). Routledge. [PDF] |
Fasbender, U. (2020). Age discrimination as a bone of contention in the EU: A psychological perspective. In. T. Giegerich (Ed.) The European Union as Protector and Promoter of Equality (pp. 417-425). Springer. [PDF] |
Otto, K., Baluku, M., Fasbender, U., Klehe, U.-C. (2020). Human rights in business and employment: Promoting the right to work and keeping a look to avoid violations of human rights at work. In P. Hagenaars, M. Plavsic, N. Sveaass, U. Wagner, & T. Wainwright (Editors), Human Rights Education for Psychologists (pp. 120-133). Routledge. [PDF] |
Gerpott, F. H., & Fasbender, U. (2020). Intergenerational learning in meetings: A social comparison perspective. In A. L. Meinecke, J. A. Allen, & N. Lehmann-Willenbrock (Eds.), Managing Meetings in Organizations (pp. 185-206). Emerald. [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., & Ang, Y. (2019). Female entrepreneurship. In C. Cooper, A. Antoniou, & C. Gatrell (Eds.), Women, Business and Leadership: Gender and Organisations (pp. 403-420). Edward Elgar Publishing. [PDF] |
Clayton-Hathway, K. & Fasbender, U. (2019). Women as leaders and managers: Understanding key career enablers and constrains in the British horseracing industry. In C. Cooper, A. Antoniou, & C. Gatrell (Eds.), Women, Business and Leadership: Gender and Organisations (pp. 2-18). Edward Elgar Publishing. [PDF] |
Wehrle, K., & Fasbender, U. (2018). Self-concept. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (pp.1-7). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2001-1 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U. (2018). Outcome expectancies. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (pp. 1-3). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1802-1 [PDF] |
Ehrlich, C. & Fasbender, U. (2017). Approach-avoidance conflict. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (pp.1-3). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_729-1 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U. & Deller, J. (2017). Career management over the life-span. In J. McCarthy & E. Parry (Eds.), The Handbook of Age Diversity and Work (pp. 705-736). Palgrave-Macmillan. [PDF] |
Fasbender, U. (2017). Stereotype, prejudice and discrimination toward older workers: A wind of change? In R. Burke, C. Cooper, & A. Antoniou (Eds.), The Aging Workforce: Individual, Organizational and Societal Challenges, pp.159-184. Emerald Publishing. [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., Wang, M., & Zhan, Y. (2018). Prosocial behavior in retirement. In P. M. Podsakoff, S. B. MacKenzie, & N. P. Podsakoff (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (pp. 559-576). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219000.013.15 [PDF] |
Pundt, L., Deller, J., Shultz, K.S., & Fasbender, U. (2016). Function, flexibility, and responsibility: Differences between the former professional job and post-retirement activities. In S. Manfredi & L. Vickers (Eds.), Active Ageing for Equality Law and for the Workplace. Palgrave-Macmillan. [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., & Deller, J. (2017). Post-retirement career planning. In N. A. Pachana (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geropsychology (pp. 1837-1846). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_231-1 [PDF] |
Fasbender, U., Deller, J., Zohr, M., Büsch, V., Schermuly, C., & Mergenthaler, A. (2015). Absicht zur Erwerbstätigkeit im (zukünftigen) Ruhestand [Intentions to work in (future) retirement]. In. N. F. Schneider, A. Mergenthaler, I., U. M. Staudinger, & I. Sackreuther (Eds.), Mittendrin? Lebenspläne und Potenziale älterer Menschen beim Übergang in den Ruhestand, (pp. 121-138). Budrich. [PDF] |
Practice-oriented articles
| Fasbender, U. & Klostermann, A. (2024). Erfahrungen mit dem Älterwerden: Chance oder Einschränkung [Experiencing aging: opportunity or limitation]. WIRTSCHAFTSPSYCHOLOGIE HEUTE, online publication. [PDF] |
| Fasbender, U. & Gerpott, F. H. (2023). Arbeitsgestaltung erleichtert den Change: Nicht nur auf das Individuum schauen, sondern die Arbeit gestalten [Work design facilities change: Don't focus on the individual only, design work!]. People & Work, 6/2023, 60-61. [PDF] |
Gerpott, F. H., Burmeister, A., & Fasbender, U. (2019). Beide Seiten einer Medaille: Umdenken im intergenerationalen Wissenstransfer [The two sides of a coin: Rethinking intergenerational knowledge transfer]. Wirtschaftspsychologie aktuell, 2/2019, 48–52. [PDF] |
02/2020 – 03/2020 | Visiting Researcher, Centre for Transformative Work Design, Perth (Australia) |
| 07/2018 – 12/2018 | British Academy Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London (UK) |
01/2017 | Visiting Researcher, University of Florida (USA) |
07/2013 – 08/2013 | Visiting Researcher, MIT Sloan School of Management (USA) |
02/2012 – 06/2012 | Visiting Student, University of Tartu (Estonia) |
09/2009 – 02/2010 | Visiting Student, IILM Institute for Higher Education (India) |
Associate Editor Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (Wiley); since July 2021 (Ad-hoc Reviewer since 2016) |
Special Issue Editor Work, Aging and Retirement (Oxford University Press): “New Advancements and Directions for Measurement in the Field of Work, Aging and Retirement”; 2019-2022 |
| Editorial Board Member of the Personnel Psychology (Wiley); since January 2023 (Ad-hoc Reviewer since 2020) |
Editorial Board Member Journal of Organizational Behavior (Wiley); since Januar 2021 (Ad-hoc Reviewer since 2020) |
Editorial Board Member Journal of Vocational Behavior (Elsevier); since November 2018 (Ad-hoc Reviewer since 2016) |
| Editorial Board Member Management Review Quarterly (Springer); since March 2022 |
Strategic Development Committee Member Work, Aging and Retirement (Oxford University Press), since February 2021 (Ad-hoc Reviewer since 2015) |