C.C. (Claudia) Kitz, Dr
Assistant Professor
Expertise
My primary research interest revolves around bad news in organizational life and an individual's career context, such as (mass) layoffs, denied promotions, or negative performance evaluations. I am investigating bad news across different levels of analysis, combining individual, organizational, and industry-level processes. To study this, 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, how employees adapt their careers following negative career shocks, and how organizations face reputational issues. In other lines of research, I explore how 1) self-regulation impacts leadership effectiveness, 2) how a combination of individual- and context-related variables promotes resilience in leaders, or 3) how organizations benefit from adapting their diversity practices to support their 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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