C.C. (Claudia) Kitz, Dr
Assistant Professor
Expertise
My primary research interest revolves around (in)voluntary transitions of industries, organizations, and their members, such as (mass) layoffs, career adaptation, or population aging. I study these transitions across multiple levels of analysis, integrating individual, organizational, and industry-level processes to better understand what shapes outcomes for organizations and the people within them. To do so, I employ various methodological approaches, including (natural) experiments, and extensive data collection and analysis techniques such as web scraping, machine learning, or large language models. I have a particular focus on exploring how positive outcomes can be encouraged, leadership communication amidst uncertainty, how employees adapt their careers following negative career shocks, and how organizations face reputational issues. In other connected lines of research, I explore how 1) self-regulation impacts leadership effectiveness in challenging times, 2) how a combination of individual- and context-related variables promotes resilience in leaders, or 3) how organizational practices can better support an aging workforce.
Other positions
- Lecturer, Faculty of Management and Law, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
- I am a member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Organizational Behavior and Journal of Business and Psychology, and serve as an ad-hoc reviewer for Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Applied Psychology: An International Review, and Journal of Experimental Psychology–General.
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