Katharina Tornau (Dipl.-Psych.)
Contact
Room
21a
Tel & Fax
+49 (0) 641 - 99 26 013
+49 (0) 641 - 99 26 229
katharina.tornau@psychol.uni-giessen.de
Biographical Notes
| since 10/2006 | Research project "Personal Initiative and Job Performance" funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) |
| since 01/2005 | Research assistant and PhD student at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology (Prof. M. Frese), University of Giessen |
| Okt 04 | Master (Diplom) in Psychology, University of Giessen |
| 10/2003-04/2004 | Diplomarbeit (Master thesis): Job Crafting in the Hotel and Restaurant Industry: A New Form of Work Behavior and its Meaning |
| 02/2002-04/2002 | Internship at the Department of Public Information at the United Nations, New York |
| 07/2001-09/2001 | Internship at trendence Institute for Personnel Marketing, Berlin |
| 04/2001-07/2004 | Graduate research assistant at the Department for General and Experimental Psychology (Prof. G. Haubensak), University of Giessen |
| 10/1998-10/2004 | Undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Giessen (psychology, minor: business administration) |
Research Interests
Personal Initiative and Proactive Behavior
Work Engagement
Citizenship Performance
Training
Meta-Analysis
Research Projects
DFG-Research Project "Personal Initiative and Job Performance"
Courses & Seminars
| 2006 | Seminar "Training" |
| 2005/2006 | Seminar "Socialization and Career Development" |
| 2005 | Seminar "Meta-Analyses" |
| 2005 | Seminar "Theories in Work Psychology" |
Publications & Presentations
Articles & Book Chapters
| Frese, M., Tornau, K., & Fay, D. (2008). Forschung zur Analyse und Förderung der Eigeninitiative: Love it, leave it or change it. Personalführung, 3, 48-57. | Download |
Talks & Presentations
| Tornau, K. & Frese, M. (2007, July). Proactivity pays off: A longitudinal study on the effects of personal initiative on objective career success. Poster presented at the 10th European Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic. | |
| Tornau, K. (2009, May). A close-up of proactivity: Examining similarities and differences of proactivity concepts. Paper presented at the 14th European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. | Talk |
| Tornau, K. & Kunze, N. (2008, June). The nomological network of proactivity: A meta-analytic investigation. Paper presented at the IWP Conference, Sheffield, UK. | Talk |
| Tornau, K. (2007, June). Personal initiative and performance. Presentation at the Workshop on Proactivity and Personal Initiative in the Workplace, Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK. | |
| Tornau, K. & Fay, D. (2006, July). Job Crafting in the Hotel and Restaurant Industry: A New Form of Organizational Behavior. Paper presented at the 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece. | |
| Tornau, K. & Fay, D. (2005, September). Job Crafting in der Gastronomie: Eine neue Form des Arbeitsverhaltens und ihre Bedeutung. [Job Crafting in the Hotel and Restaurant Industry: A New Form of Organizational Behavior.] Paper presented at the 4th meeting of the Section Work and Organizational Psychology of the German Psychological Society, Bonn, Germany. |
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