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Norbert K. Semmer

Norbert K. Semmer

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Psychology

D-Index
68
Citations
16828
World Ranking
2484
National Ranking
27

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Norbert K. Semmer is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Health Professions and Medicine, with considerable contributions to General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Emergency Medical Services, and Social Psychology.

Their main topics of research include workplace health and well-being, healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, patient safety and medication errors, employment and welfare studies, emotional labor in professions, and cardiac arrest and resuscitation.

Norbert K. Semmer has frequently published in venues such as Occupational Health Science, Work & Stress, Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft, Frontiers in Psychology, and Academy of Management Proceedings.

Their recent papers include:

  • How effective are organizational-level interventions in improving the psychosocial work environment, health, and retention of workers? A systematic overview of systematic reviews (2023, Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health)
  • Emotion Work: A Work Psychology Perspective (2020, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior)
  • How are social stressors at work related to well-being and health? A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021, BMC Public Health)
  • How does appreciation lead to higher job satisfaction? (2020, Journal of Managerial Psychology)
  • Does stress influence the performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation? A narrative review of the literature (2020, Journal of Critical Care)

Their collaborations involve frequent coauthors such as Franziska Tschan, Achim Elfering, Wolfgang Kälin, Nicola Jacobshagen, and Sandra Keller.

Norbert K. Semmer has also contributed to book publications, including the title "CISS: Coping-Inventar zum Umgang mit Stress-Situationen. Deutschsprachige Adaptation des Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS [TM]) von Norman S. Endler und James D. A. Parker," published by the University of Bern in 2020.

They are a member of Academia Europaea since 2011.

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of work-family conflict and various outcomes with a special emphasis on cross-domain versus matching-domain relations.

    Fabienne T. Amstad;Laurenz L. Meier;Ursula Fasel;Achim Elfering

  • Job stress interventions and the organization of work

    Norbert K Semmer

  • Taking the chance: Core self-evaluations predict relative gain in job resources following turnover

    Achim Elfering;Achim Elfering;Anita Keller;Martial Berset;Martial Berset;Laurenz L. Meier

  • 1995 Volvo Award in clinical sciences. The diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging, work perception, and psychosocial factors in identifying symptomatic disc herniations.

    Norbert Boos;Rico Rieder;Volker Schade;Kevin F. Spratt

  • Illegitimate tasks as a source of work stress

    Norbert K. Semmer;Nicola Jacobshagen;Laurenz L. Meier;Achim Elfering

  • The emotional meaning of instrumental social support

    Norbert K. Semmer;Achim Elfering;Nicola Jacobshagen;Tanja Perrot

  • Illegitimate Tasks and Counterproductive Work Behavior

    Norbert K. Semmer;Franziska Tschan;Laurenz L. Meier;Stephanie Facchin

  • Teamwork and Leadership in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

    Sabina Hunziker;Anna C. Johansson;Franziska Tschan;Norbert K. Semmer

  • Occupational stress research: The Stress-As-Offense-To-Self Perspective

    Norbert Semmer;Nicola Jacobshagen;Laurenz Meier;Achim Elfering

  • ‘Shared job strain’: A new approach for assessing the validity of job stress measurements

    Norbert Semmer;Dieter Zapf;Siegfried Greif

  • Individual Differences, Work Stress and Health

    Norbert K. Semmer;Laurenz L. Meier

  • Getting groups to develop good strategies: Effects of reflexivity interventions on team process, team performance, and shared mental models

    Andrea Gurtner;Franziska Tschan;Norbert K. Semmer;Christof Nägele

  • Working conditions, well-being, and job-related attitudes among call centre agents

    Simone Grebner;Norbert K. Semmer;Luca Lo Faso;Stephan Gut

  • The ambivalence of challenge stressors: Time pressure associated with both negative and positive well-being

    Pascale S. Widmer;Norbert K. Semmer;Wolfgang Kälin;Nicola Jacobshagen

  • Natural history of individuals with asymptomatic disc abnormalities in magnetic resonance imaging : Predictors of low back pain-related medical consultation and work incapacity

    Norbert Boos;Norbert Semmer;Achim Elfering;Volker Schade

  • Outcome assessment in low back pain: how low can you go?

    Anne F. Mannion;Achim Elfering;Ralph Staerkle;Astrid Junge

  • The double meaning of control: three-way interactions between internal resources, job control, and stressors at work.

    Laurenz L. Meier;Norbert K. Semmer;Achim Elfering;Nicola Jacobshagen

  • Brief leadership instructions improve cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a high-fidelity simulation : a randomized controlled trial

    Sabina Hunziker;Cyrill Bühlmann;Franziska Tschan;Gianmarco Balestra

  • The impact of clinical, morphological, psychosocial and work-related factors on the outcome of lumbar discectomy

    Volker Schade;Norbert Semmer;Chris J Main;Chris J Main;Josef Hora

  • Work stressors and impaired sleep: rumination as a mediator

    Martial Berset;Achim Elfering;Stefan Lüthy;Simon Lüthi

  • Working conditions and three types of well-being: a longitudinal study with self-report and rating data.

    Simone Grebner;Norbert K. Semmer;Achim Elfering

Frequent Co-Authors

Achim Elfering
Achim Elfering University of Bern
Laurenz L. Meier
Laurenz L. Meier University of Neuchâtel
Terry A. Beehr
Terry A. Beehr Central Michigan University
Paul E. Spector
Paul E. Spector University of South Florida
Dieter Zapf
Dieter Zapf Goethe University Frankfurt
Michael Frese
Michael Frese Asia School of Business
José M. Peiró
José M. Peiró University of Valencia
Nathan A. Bowling
Nathan A. Bowling Wright State University
Joseph E. McGrath
Joseph E. McGrath University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Evangelia Demerouti
Evangelia Demerouti Eindhoven University of Technology

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