Last week, Philipp Schäpers, Henrik Heinemann, and Franz Mönke participated in this year's Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference in Chicago. As the largest gathering in our field, SIOP offered fascinating insights into the latest research in workplace, organizational, and economic psychology. The AE Psychology of Entrepreneurship was well represented with two posters and a symposium, and we're bringing back exciting feedback for the further development and discussion of our studies! Beyond the academic program, Chicago provided numerous networking opportunities with both new and well-acquainted colleagues. Thank you, Chicago!

Great news: Franz Mönke has successfully secured the Professor Mick Marchington Applied Research Grant from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD. This grant supports the projects of exceptional early-career researchers with £6000. The funds will be used for a field study on cybervetting, "Social Media Assessments in Selection: Toward a Better Understanding of the (In)Validity of Cybervetting." The project is a collaboration between Franz Mönke (PI), Philipp Schäpers, Filip Lievens (Singapore Management University), and Jana Holtmann (University of Leipzig). Congratulations, we look forward to the first results!

More information about the grant is available here. The London-based CIPD is the oldest professional association for HR managers and has over 160,000 members worldwide.

Franz Mönke has recently started his research visit at Singapore Management University, Lee Kong Chian School of Business. This visit allows him to further work with Filip Lievens on social media assessments in personnel selection and is a part of Franz' Lim Kim San Fellowship.

Good luck and have a great time!
 

We are happy to announce that the Department of Psychology at the University of Münster honors Philipp Schäpers with its best teaching award in the winter term 2023/24. Philipp's course "Personnel Selection: Recruiting and Assessment" received the best student ratings at the department. Congratulations!

The recent paper by Franz Mönke, Filip Lievens, Ursula Hess, and Philipp Schäpers on similarity-attraction in social media assessments / personnel selection has been recognized as the Editor's Choice in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology. The Editor’s Choice is an initiative that honors articles with outsanding societal relevance, practical impact, and/or the potential for moving science in new directions. Congratulations!

The paper is published online first:
Mönke, F. W., Lievens, F., Hess, U., & Schäpers, P. (2023). Politics speak louder than skills: Political similarity effects in hireability judgments in multi-party contexts and the role of political interest. Journal of Applied Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001124

Our external doctoral student, Max Weldert, has embarked on a four-month research stay at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico as part of his doctoral studies. The Monterrey campus is widely known as the largest hub for entrepreneurship in Latin America. During his stay, Max will be working closely with the Institute for the Future of Education, allowing him not only to experience the local culture intensely but also to explore new research approaches for his dissertation on entrepreneurship and well-being. We wish him success and a great time!

The Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University has named Franz Mönke as Lim Kim San Fellow 2023-24. This competitive fellowship allows Franz to conduct a 4-week research stay with Prof. Filip Lievens, Ph.D., at the prestigious Faculty for Organizational Behavior and Human Resources. Excellent news, congratulations! 

We are happy to welcome Chiara Frieler and Louisa Königs as student assistants in the division Psychology of Entrepreneurship.

Chiara is a Bachelor's student in Psychology, you may reach out to her via cfrieler@uni-muenster.de
Louisa is currently pursuing her Bachelor studies in Business Administration, her e-mail is  lkoenigs@uni-muenster.de

We are looking forward to working with you, Chiara and Louisa!

Philipp Schäpers, Henrik Heinemann, and Franz Mönke successfully participated in the 13th Congress of the German Psychological Society, Section for Work, Organizational and Business Psychology, held in Kassel, Germany this week. There were many exciting inputs in highly current symposia and keynotes. Additionally, we were able to discuss current research projects from our division with this specialist audience: Insights on gender stereotypes in situational judgment tests, social responsibility as a potential advantage in personnel recruitment, and missing information in cybervetting were newly presented by us. We thank our colleagues for the exchange and the organizers for a great conference at the University of Kassel!

An exciting guest from Singapore: Last week, Prof. Filip Lievens, Lee Kong Chian Professor for HR at the Singapore Management University, visited us at REACH. We are very pleased that one of the most influential psychologists in the field of management and HR accepted Philipp Schäpers' invitation to join the AE Psychology of Entrepreneurship at the REACH Euregio Start-up Center and the University of Münster.

Together with students, PhD students and professors, in his keynote speech "From Good Research to Publishable Manuscripts", Prof. Filip Lievens took a look behind the scenes of top tier publications - and why it can be worthwhile to revise the first 2 pages so often. In the historical atmosphere of the castle's ballroom, Filip Lievens gave valuable tips on networking, reading between the lines when revising, and good writing (so that even your own grandmother would understand) to the many young scientists present. This insightful evening ended with a Meet&Greet and the opportunity for personal exchange.

Later in the week, in addition to intensive research colloquia in the AE Psychology of Entrepreneurship, Prof. Lievens gave a workshop for the start-ups at REACH. What are the requirements of my start-up for employees? How do I select my first employees in a scientifically sound manner? How do I find a suitable co-founder? In an interactive session, the founders had the unique opportunity to gain insights into the state-of-the-art of psychological personnel selection.

We are happy about this successful and intensive week with Filip Lievens in Münster! We would like to thank him for his visit and look forward to further strengthening this research cooperation between the University of Münster, the AE Psychology of Entrepreneurship, and the Singapore Management University in the future.
 

Franz Mönke participated in this year's junior researcher workshop organized by the Division of Work, Organizational, and Economic Psychology in the German Psychological Society. The workshop took place from June 21 to June 23, 2023, at the Technical University of Braunschweig. This workshop serves as a central hub for networking among early-career researchers in our discipline in Germany. During the workshop, all participants had the opportunity to present their dissertation projects, and peers as well as experienced mentors provided feedback and suggestions. The workshop also included a program focusing on working conditions in academia, the publication process, and the diverse career opportunities available with a psychology Ph.D., which complemented the highly engaging sessions.

In the focus group "Technology and Personnel Selection," Franz presented a study design examining the psychometric properties of social media screenings in personnel selection. There were also ample opportunities for networking with other doctoral students. We would like to express our gratitude to the team led by Simone Kauffeld at the Technical University of Braunschweig for their excellent organization of the workshop. Additionally, we would like to thank the Santander Mobility Fund at the University of Münster for granting Franz a travel stipend for attending the workshop.

Henrik Heinemann und Franz Mönke participated in the 21st Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) in Katowice, Poland, last week. Innovative ideas, robust designs, and inspiring keynotes made the conference a great success for our doctoral students. Our colleagues also presented work from the AE Psychology of Entrepreneurship: current research findings on the role of social and environmental responsibility in the attractiveness of start-ups as employers, as well as the consequences of lacking information in personnel selection with social media, sparked discussions with colleagues from across Europe. Dziękuję, Katowice!

(Picture together with fellow Münster colleagues from the divisions Organizational and Economic Psychology as well as Work Psychology)

We are happy to announce that the  University of Münster's Graduate Centre, our university's key institution for planning careers in academia, has appointed Philipp Schäpers as a member of its scientific advisory board. Congratulations!

Good news: Contributions from the division Psychology of Entrepreneurship have been accepted at this year's European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) conference and the Section for Work, Organizational, and Economic Psychology together with the Section for Engineering Psychology of the German Psychological Association conference.
Philipp Schäpers, Henrik Heinemann, and Franz Mönke look forward to a fruitful exchange with our colleagues and inspiring research talks.

We are happy to welcome Isis Fischer, B.Sc. as a student assistant in the division Psychology of Entrepreneurship. Isis is a graduate student in Psychology and will support this year's data collection for the German student start-up monitor. We are looking forward to work with you, Isis!

You can reach out to Isis at ifischer@uni-muenster.de. 

We are happy to announce that the Department of Psychology at the University of Münster honors Philipp Schäpers with its best teaching award in the 2022/23 term. Philipp's course "Personnel Selection: Recruiting and Assessment" received the best student ratings at the department. Congratulations!

Philipp Schäpers joined the editorial board of the Journal of Business and Psychology. An overview is provided here.

Earlier this week, we had our christmas get-together with our dear colleagues from the Organizational and Business Psychology group. While enjoying some traditional mulled wine and Stollen (sorry, there is no English word for this German cake), we looked back at an exciting and successful year. We wish you very happy holidays and a happy new year!

Good news: Franz Mönke won the 3rd prize in the poster award at this year's science to start-up convention, Münster: Their poster "Politics Speak Louder Than Skills" presents the master thesis of Franz Mönke (Supervisors: Philipp Schäpers, Ursula Hess); the study was expanded in the last months together with Philipp Schäpers, Filip Lievens and Ursula Hess. The study focused on similarity biases in personnel selection, caused by political cues in social media assessments (cybervetting). Congratulations to the team!

The science to start-up convention took place at November 10th, organized by the REACH Euregio Start-Up Center. More than 200 scientists, entrepreneurs and students got to know Münster's start-up scene and discussed, how findings from science can be transformed to successful business cases and foundings. A start-up pitch contest and virtual poster exhibition were highlights of the day. Here, you find more impressions.

We are happy to welcome Hanna Lüdemann, B.Sc. as a student assistant in the division Psychology of Entrepreneurship. Hanna is a graduate student in Psychology, with focus on personnel and business psychology. Great to have you, Hanna!

You can reach out to Hanna at hluedema@uni-muenster.de. 

Franz Mönke and Philipp Schäpers just published an article in Wirtschaftspsychologie aktuell, a HR practitioner's magazine of the German Association of Psychologists (BDP)
"#Cybervetting: How social media changes personal selection"

In this article, we review what HR professionals aim to achieve with social media assessments, how researchers discuss the validity of this emerging practice controversially, how biases might lead to adverse impact in cybervetting, and how rules can help organizations to engage in meaningful cybervetting.

After all, cybervetting seems to be used a lot, but studies a little. That is why we call for an open debate in science, society, and HR practice about the role that social media can or cannot play in personnel selection.

The magazine article is avalaible here (in German).

The REACH EUREGIO Start-up Center has awarded its Thesis Award to Henrik Heinemann and his master thesis "Curious enough to Start Up? Incremental Validity of Epistemic Curiosity for Predicting Entrepreneurship and the Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Alertness". This price is dedicated to highly innovative theses in applied sciences, that will drive innovation and product development. A great achievement, congratulations to Henrik! The thesis was supervised by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Schäpers and Prof. Dr. Patrick Mussel (FU Berlin).

Today, a film crew from the University of Münster accompanied Philipp Schäpers on his way through the Department of Psychology. Philipp will be part in a short documentary about early career professors at the University of Münster. We are looking forward to it, here we can give you a short sneak preview...

In this week, Henrik Heinemann and Franz Mönke took part in the 52nd Conference of the German Psychological Association, the largest conference of academic psychology in Germany. We learned a lot from all these inspiring keynotes, current studies, and great chats with our fellow psychologists. It was fantastic to get to know to many other colleagues! At the conference, we had the ability to present and discuss our latest findings from studies on curiosity of entrepreneurs and political biases in personnel selection with social media. Thank you, University of Hildesheim and DGPs for hosting this spectacular week!
 

We are very happy to welcome a delegation from the Universidad de La Habana, Cuba at the University of Münster! Dr. C. Adalberto Avila Vidal, Dr. Klency González Hernández, Dr. C. Yaima Blanco García and Dr. Daybel Pañellas Alvarez from the Faculty of Psychology were our guests in this research exchange as part of an ERASMUS-cooperation between the faculties. We are looking forward to many opportunities to discuss research projects, talk about strengthening the research cooperation and develop new research ideas. 
The AE Psychology of Entrepreneurship looks forward to productive meetings with Dr. Daybel Pañellas Alvarez and to continue the work on projects on entrepreneurship and Situational Judgment Tests. We thank the International Office of the WWU, Dr. Pascal Rickert and Sandra Wiegand for their support in preparing this stay!
 

Henrik Heinemann and Franz Mönke send their best regards from Havana, Cuba! As part of an ERASMUS-cooperation between the University of Münster and the Universidad de La Habana, they are part of a two-week research exchange with the Faculty of Psychology. They took part in the 12. Encuentro Internacional de Estudiantes de Psicología, presented current research projects, and developed ideas on cross-cultural research in entrepreneurshop and psychological assessment, together with our cooperation partner Prof. Dra. Daybel Pañellas Alvarez. Thank you for welcoming us! We learned so much about the Cuban perspectives on psychology, society, and everyday life. We are looking forward to a fruitful research cooperation between Münster and La Habana. 

We are happy to announce that the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the Free University Berlin honors Jun.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Schäpers with its best teaching award in 2021. Congratulations!

Starting in January, Henrik Heinemann, M.Sc. is joining us as a Doctoral Researcher. After finishing his Bachelor's Degree at FU Berlin, Henrik came to Münster and completed his Master of Science at the University of Münster. Recently, he finished his thesis about the Entrepreneurial Personality and will now start as a PhD student in the department of Psychology of Entrepreneurship. Welcome to the Team, Henrik!


You can reach Henrik Heinemann via hheinemann@uni-muenster.de.

We are happy to welcome Franz Mönke, M.Sc. as a Research Associate at WWU Münster. Recently, Franz finished his psychology degree at FU and HU Berlin. Starting in November, he is joining us as a PhD Student in Psychology of Entrepreneurship. We are looking forward to exciting years and projects with Franz!

You can contact Franz Mönke via franz.moenke@uni-muenster.de.
 

The EAWOP EC has decided to award Jun.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Schäpers with the EAWOP Early Career Research Mentoring Grant. Congratulations!

I am glad to announce that I started a new position as Assistant Professor for Psychology of Entrepreneurship at the University of Münster. I am looking forward to many great collaborations with my new colleagues and an exciting cooperation with REACH - the new university start-up center in Münster.