ABOUT OUR DEPARTMENT
Faculty & Staff
Ronald Bledow (Dipl.-Psych.)
Contact
Room
342
Tel & Fax
+49 (0) 641 - 99 26 256
+49 (0) 641 - 99 26 229
ronald.bledow@psychol.uni-giessen.de
Biographical Notes
| January 2010 | Doctor of Philosophy (expected) |
| Sep-Dec 2008 | Visiting researcher at Amsterdam School of Business, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (funded by a grant of the German Academic Exchange Service) |
| since 09/2007 | Management of the research project "Creation and Implementation of Radical and Incremental Innovation: An International Comparison at Multiple Levels of Analysis" (funded by VolkswagenStiftung). |
| since 04/2006 | Research associate and PhD student at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Giessen |
| Apr 06 | Diplom (Masters) in Psychology, University of Freiburg |
| 2005 | Development of an assessment center for the investment banking devision of HypoVereinsbank AG |
| 2005 | Diplomarbeit (Master Thesis): Development and Validation of a Situational Judgment Test of Personal Initiative |
| 2003-2004 | Graduate studies of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Michigan State University (funded by a grant of the German Acedemic Exchange Service) |
| 2000-2003 | Research Assistant, University of Freiburg (participation in various research projects in the fields of environmental psychology, social psychology and expert lay communication) |
| 1999-2003 | Studies of psychology and business administration at Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg |
Research Interests
Creativity and Innovation
Personal Initiative, proactive behavior and work engangement
Multilevel theory and methodology
Situational Judgment Tests
Research Projects
Courses & Seminars
| 2007/2008 | Creativity and Innovation (Teaching / research project) |
| 2006/2007 | Workgroups and Teams in Organizations |
| 2006 | Leadership in Organizations |
| 2005 | The Application of Assessment Centers (together with Michael Kobl, University of Munich) |
Publications & Presentations
Articles & Book Chapters
| Bledow, R., Frese, M., Erez, M., Anderson, N., & Farr, J., (2009). A dialectic perspective on innovation: Conflicting demands, multiple pathways, and ambidexterity. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 2(3), 305-337. | Download |
| Bledow, R., & Frese, M. (2009). A situational judgment test of personal initiative: Towards understanding construct based situational judgment tests. Personnel Psychology, 62, 229-258. | Download |
| Bledow, R., Schmitt, A. & Frese, M. (revise and resubmit). Work engagement as a dynamic process - the interplay of events, emotions and resources. Journal of Applied Psychology. | |
| Bledow, R. (2005). Development and validation of a situational judgment test of personal initiative. Diploma (Masters) thesis. | |
| Bledow, R. (in preparation). Leading the implementation of new ideas. | |
| Bledow, R. & Frese, M. (in preparation). The interplay between stable and dynamic antecedents of creativity. |
Talks & Presentations
| Bledow, R., Kuehnel, J., Schmitt, A., & Schaupp, K. (August 2009). Explaining the dynamics of work engagement: An integration of antecedents. In E. R. Crawford (Chair), Staying engaged: How to get and keep employee engagement. Show-case symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois. | |
| Kuehnel, J. & Bledow, R. (May 2009). Daily dynamics of work engagement as a function of state and trait personal resources. In D. Xanthopoulou (Chair): A day in the life of the happy worker. Symposium at the 14th European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. | |
| Bledow, R. & Frese, M. (May 2009). There are different ways to success: A contingency approach to the successful implementation of new ideas. Invited presentation at the conference of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. | |
| Bledow, R. & Farr, J. (April 2009). Leading the implementation of new ideas: Is there one best way? In J. Farr (Chair) and R. Bledow (Co-Chair): Leadership and innovation: What we know and need to know. Symposium at the 24th annual conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, Louisiana. | |
| Bledow, R. & Schmitt, A. (2008). Work engagement as a dynamic process - the interplay of events, emotions and resources. Poster presented at the 23rd annual conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Francisco. | Poster |
| Frese, M. & Bledow, R. (2008). The function of error management and personal initiative for creativity and innovation. Presentation given at the 23rd annual conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Francisco. | |
| Bledow, R., & Pittig, D. (2008). Managers’ error stories and their impact on learning. Poster presented at the International Conference of Psychology in Berlin, Germany. | |
| Bledow, R, & Schaupp, K. (2008). The daily dynamics of personal initiative at work. Poster presented at the International Conference of Psychology in Berlin, Germany. | |
| Bledow, R. & Frese, M. (2007). Situational judgments as proximal predictors of personal Initiative. Poster presented at the 22nd annual conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York, 2007 | |
| Bledow, R. & Frese, M. (2007). The situational judgment test of personal Initiative - first findings and next steps. Presentation for the Workshop on Proactivity and Personal Initiative at the University of Sheffield, UK. | |
| Bledow, R. (2007). Innovative Tendenzen der Testentwicklung. Vortrag für das Potenzialforum der Akademie bayrischer Genossenschaften. | |
| Schmitt, A. & Bledow, R. (2007). Arbeitsengagements als dynamischer Prozess - Wechselwirkungen zwischen Ressourcen, Ereignissen und Emotionen. Vortrag auf der Tagung der Fachgruppe Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie der DGPs in Trier. | Talk |
PROF. FRESE
NEW APPOINTMENT
Prof. Frese has left University of Giessen to work at University of Lueneburg and National University of Singapore.
You can still download his articles under the link below.
LINKS
LATEST PUBLICATION BY OUR TEAM
TITLE
Focus on opportunities as a mediator of the relationships between business owners' age and venture growth
JOURNAL
Journal of Business Venturing
LATEST PRESENTATION BY OUR TEAM
TITLE
Die Paradoxie des Innovation Championings: Wenn Handeln und Kontext im Widerspruch stehen
DATE
September 2009
VENUE
6. Tagung der Fachgruppe Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie der DGPs, Wien