Successful Thesis Defenses of Our MPhil Students! 🎓

We are excited to share that our postgraduate students - Eva So, Isaaca Wang, Ming Tsang, and Toby Tsang - have successfully defended their theses for their MPhil in IO Psychology!

Eva SO : Writing Your Next Chapter: A Brief Intervention to Proactive Career Behaviour 

Isaaca WANG : If You Don’t Look Your Age: How Age-Incongruent Appearance Shapes Leadership Perceptions Across Working Adulthood 

Ming TSANG : Turning Workplace into Panopticon – How and When Electronic Employee Monitoring Undermines Performance

Toby TSANG : "Yes, Sir!" or "Yes, please." Dissecting Leadership Perception Biases in Law Enforcement

Congratulations to Ming, Eva, Isaaca, and Toby on this remarkable achievement! We wish them all the best in their future endeavors!🎊

UPDATES: Presentations at the 85th Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Copenhagen!

Three symposia, organized by postgraduate students of the Lifelong Learning Lab were accepted for presentation at the upcoming Academy of Management Annual Meeting taking place July 2025 in Copenhagen.

The symposium “Navigating Uncertainty: Psychological and Organizational Insights on AI and Digitalization” organized by Ming Tsang & Ryan Guo, will be sponsored by the Technology & Innovation Management (TIM), Organization Development & Change (ODC), and Organizational Behavior (OB) division.

• Monday, July 28, 2025

• 10:15 - 11:45 CEST (GMT+2)

• Bella Center: Hall D- D3-m7

The symposium “Age- and Gender-Related Barriers to Career Advancement and Leader Emergence”, organized by Isaaca Wang and Toby Tsang, will be sponsored by the Organization Behaviour (OB), Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI), and Human Resources (HR) divisions.

• Sunday, July 27, 2025

• 15:30 - 17:00 CEST (GMT+2)

• Bella Center: Hall D- D3-m6

The symposium "Navigating Person-Environment Fit: Adapting to Challenges in Work and Career", organized by Eva So and Francisco Wilhelm (University of Bern, Switzerland), will be sponsored by the Careers, Human Resources, and Organizational Behavior division.

• Tuesday, July 29, 2025

• 12:00 - 13:30 CEST (GMT+2)

• Bella Center: MR7

Moreover, postgraduate student Jerry Li will present a poster titled “Empowering Older Employees for the Increasingly Digitalized Workplace“ at the Professional Development Workshop titled “Aging and the Multi-age workforce: New Avenues for Research and Developing Evidence-based Practice” organized by the COST LeverAge Members Justin Markus and Ilke Inceoglu.

• Sunday, July 27, 2025

• 09:00 - 10:30 CEST (GMT+2)

• Bella Center: Hall D- D3-m1

Lastly, Professor Julian Pfrombeck will share his insights on “Age-diverse knowledge transfer” in the Caucus “Healthy, Successful Ageing and Transition into Retirement” organized by Irmgard Mausz and Alexandra Weilhartner.

• Monday, July 28, 2025

• 12:00 - 13:30 CEST (GMT+2)

• Bella Center: Hall A- A1-m4

24 May 2025: Presentation at EAWOP's Congress in Prague!

Julian Pfrombeck has recently presented two ongoing projects at the congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) in Prague on 24th May, 2025. His first oral presentation focused on "An Uncertainty Mindset Intervention to Improve the Job Search Experience of the Unemployed", highlighting how a shift in uncertainty mindset enhances job search experiences. He also shared another research project, "Older Workers’ Digital Self-Efficacy, Work Continuance Intentions, and the Organizational Context", offering practical insights on how organizations should unlock the motivational potential of older employees' digital self-efficacy.