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Overview

Simone Kauffeld is affiliated with Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology, social sciences, and business management. Their research output prominently spans organizational behavior, human resource management, social psychology, and sociology.

Their published work includes studies on vocational behavior, career development, leadership dynamics, and learning processes within organizational contexts. Among the recent papers are:

  • Latent profile analysis: A review and "how to" guide of its application within vocational behavior research (2020, Journal of Vocational Behavior)
  • Motivation matters: predicting students' career decidedness and intention to drop out after the first year in higher education (2021, Higher Education)
  • Why does competitive psychological climate foster or hamper career success? The role of challenge and hindrance pathways and leader-member-exchange (2021, Journal of Vocational Behavior)
  • Follower behavior renders leader behavior endogenous: The simultaneity problem, estimation challenges, and solutions (2020, The Leadership Quarterly)
  • Understanding learning spillover: the major role of reflection in the formal-informal learning interaction within different cultural value settings (2020, Journal of Workplace Learning)

Kauffeld's frequent coauthors include Eva-Maria Schulte, Britta Wittner, Sandra Rothenbusch, Sina Gessnitzer, and Daniel Spurk, highlighting ongoing collaborative efforts within vocational and organizational psychology domains.

Publication venues that regularly feature Kauffeld's research are:

  • Gruppe Interaktion Organisation Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Higher Education

Kauffeld has published books with Springer Nature, including FITOR - Fragebogen zur individuellen, Team und organisationalen Resilienz (2021) and Kompetenzen von Mitarbeitenden in der digitalisierten Arbeitswelt (2023), which address resilience and competencies in digitalized work environments, respectively.

The main topics and areas of research focus include:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Innovation, Technology, and Society
  • Corporate Management and Leadership
  • Team Dynamics and Performance
  • Digital Innovation in Industries
  • Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
  • Resilience and Mental Health

In total, Kauffeld's scholarly work engages deeply with advancing understanding in organizational and vocational behavior, leadership mechanisms, and the interplay between formal and informal learning within diverse cultural settings. Their contributions provide insights relevant to multiple subfields such as organizational behavior, social psychology, and applied psychology.

Best Publications

  • Latent profile analysis: A review and “how to” guide of its application within vocational behavior research

    Daniel Spurk;Andreas Hirschi;Mo Wang;Domingo Valero

  • Meetings Matter Effects of Team Meetings on Team and Organizational Success

    Simone Kauffeld;Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock

  • Effects of team and organizational commitment – A longitudinal study

    Alexandra Neininger;Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock;Simone Kauffeld;Angela Henschel

  • Arbeits-, Organisations- und Personalpsychologie für Bachelor

    Simone Kauffeld

  • Kompetenzen messen, bewerten, entwickeln : ein prozessanalytischer Ansatz für Gruppen

    Simone Kauffeld

  • Fostering networking behavior, career planning and optimism, and subjective career success: An intervention study

    Daniel Spurk;Simone Kauffeld;Luisa Barthauer;Nora S.R. Heinemann

  • Evaluating training programs: development and correlates of the Questionnaire for Professional Training Evaluation

    Anna Grohmann;Simone Kauffeld

  • Self‐directed work groups and team competence

    Simone Kauffeld

  • Examining the factor structure and predictive ability of the German‐version of the Learning Transfer Systems Inventory

    Reid Bates;Simone Kauffeld;Elwood F. Holton

  • How transformational leadership works during team interactions: A behavioral process analysis

    Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock;Annika Luisa Meinecke;Jens Rowold;Simone Kauffeld

  • Exploring the critical role of motivation to transfer in the training transfer process

    Anna Grohmann;Johannes Beller;Simone Kauffeld

  • The Working Alliance in Coaching: Why Behavior Is the Key to Success

    Sina Gessnitzer;Simone Kauffeld

  • Complaint and solution-oriented circles: Interaction patterns in work group discussions

    Simone Kauffeld;Renee A. Meyers

  • Social support at the workplace, motivation to transfer and training transfer: a multilevel indirect effects model

    Ann-Christine Massenberg;Daniel Spurk;Simone Kauffeld

  • Verbal interaction sequences and group mood: Exploring the role of planning communication.

    Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock;Renee A. Meyers;Simone Kauffeld;Alexandra Neininger

  • A Sequential Analysis of Procedural Meeting Communication: How Teams Facilitate Their Meetings

    Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock;Joseph A. Allen;Simone Kauffeld

  • Das deutsche Lerntransfer-System-Inventar (GLTSI): psychometrische Überprüfungder deutschsprachigen Version

    Simone Kauffeld;Reid Bates;Elwood F. Holton;Annette C. Müller

  • Sales training: Effects of spaced practice on training transfer.

    Simone Kauffeld;Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock

  • Never Too Early: Learning Transfer System Factors Affecting Motivation to Transfer Before and After Training Programs

    Ann-Christine Massenberg;Eva-Maria Schulte;Simone Kauffeld

  • Why Do Adaptable People Feel Less Insecure? Indirect Effects of Career Adaptability on Job and Career Insecurity via Two Types of Perceived Marketability:

    Daniel Spurk;Simone Kauffeld;Annika L. Meinecke;Katharina Ebner

  • Dynamics of Resistance to Change: A Sequential Analysis of Change Agents in Action

    Florian E. Klonek;Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock;Simone Kauffeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Eva Jonas
Eva Jonas University of Salzburg
Dieter Frey
Dieter Frey Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ming Ming Chiu
Ming Ming Chiu University of Hong Kong
Andreas Hirschi
Andreas Hirschi University of Bern
Mo Wang
Mo Wang University of Florida

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