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Overview

Dieter Zapf is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences, Health Professions, and Psychology, with notable focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Emotional Labor in Professions
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Workplace Violence and Bullying
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges

Among recent publications, the following are attributed to Dieter Zapf:

  • Emotion Work: A Work Psychology Perspective, 2020, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Dieter Zapf include:

  • Marcel Kern
  • Clara Heissler
  • Kai Trumpold
  • David Holman
  • Norbert K. Semmer

The scientist has contributed to a range of publication venues, with multiple papers published in these journals:

  • Journal of Business and Psychology
  • European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
  • Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
  • Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

Dieter Zapf is also an author of books, including one published by Psychology Press eBooks titled Mobbing and Victimization at Work (2024).

Best Publications

  • Emotion work and psychological well-being: A review of the literature and some conceptual considerations

    Dieter Zapf

  • The Concept of Bullying and Harassment at Work: The European Tradition

    Ståle Valvatne Einarsen;Helge Hoel;Dieter Zapf;Cary L. Cooper

  • Organisational, work group related and personal causes of mobbing/bullying at work

    Dieter Zapf

  • Action as the core of work psychology: A German approach.

    Michael Frese;Dieter Zapf

  • On the relationship between mobbing factors, and job content, social work environment, and health outcomes

    Dieter Zapf;Carmen Knorz;Matthias Kulla

  • Longitudinal studies in organizational stress research: a review of the literature with reference to methodological issues.

    Dieter Zapf;Christian Dormann;Michael Frese

  • Diary Studies in Organizational Research: An Introduction and Some Practical Recommendations

    Sandra Ohly;Sabine Sonnentag;Cornelia Niessen;Dieter Zapf

  • Conflict escalation and coping with workplace bullying: A replication and extension

    Dieter Zapf;Claudia Gross

  • Empirical Findings on Prevalence and Risk Groups of Bullying in the Workplace

    Dieter Zapf;Jordi Escartín;Ståle Einarsen;Helge Hoel

  • Bullying and Emotional Abuse in the Workplace: International Perspectives in Research and Practice

    Ståle Einarsen;Helge Hoel;Dieter Zapf;Cary L Cooper

  • Emotion Work as a Source of Stress: The Concept and Development of an Instrument

    Dieter Zapf;Christoph Vogt;Claudia Seifert;Heidrun Mertini

  • Customer-Related Social Stressors and Burnout.

    Christian Dormann;Dieter Zapf

  • Methodological issues in the study of work stress: Objective vs subjective measurement of work stress and the question of longitudinal studies.

    Michael Frese;Dieter Zapf

  • Why negative affectivity should not be controlled in job stress research: don't throw out the baby with the bath water

    Paul E. Spector;Dieter Zapf;Peter Y. Chen;Michael Frese

  • Job satisfaction: a meta-analysis of stabilities

    Christian Dormann;Dieter Zapf

  • Emotion work and job stressors and their effects on burnout

    Dieter Zapf;Claudia Seifert;Barbara Schmutte;Heidrun Mertini

  • On the positive and negative effects of emotion work in organizations.

    Dieter Zapf;Melanie Holz

  • Individual Antecedents of Bullying: Victims and Perpetrators

    Dieter Zapf;Ståle Einarsen

  • Bullying and Harrassment in the Workplace: Developments in Theory, Research and Practice

    Stale Einarsen;Helge Hoel;Dieter Zapf;Cary Cooper

  • The Concept of Bullying at work: the European tradition

    S. Einarsen;H. Hoel;D. Zapf;C.L. Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

Ståle Einarsen
Ståle Einarsen University of Bergen
Cary L. Cooper
Cary L. Cooper University of Manchester
Michael Frese
Michael Frese Asia School of Business
Norbert K. Semmer
Norbert K. Semmer University of Bern
Nerina L. Jimmieson
Nerina L. Jimmieson Queensland University of Technology
Graham Leslie Bradley
Graham Leslie Bradley Griffith University
Morten Birkeland Nielsen
Morten Birkeland Nielsen National Institute of Occupational Health
Stephen G. West
Stephen G. West Arizona State University
Leona S. Aiken
Leona S. Aiken Arizona State University
Helen R. Winefield
Helen R. Winefield University of Adelaide

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