Mathias Diebig

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf | HHU · Institute of Occupational Medicine and Social Medicine

Introduction In addition to posing major public health challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected psychological and physical stressors in workplaces as well as strain by workers worldwide. Even prior COVID-19, the working conditions of early childhood professionals (ECPs) were described as critical leading to (psycho)somatic complaints. Despite...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world of work. Due to additional occupational health and safety measures early childhood professionals were faced with an increased workload, which may lead to an increased risk for their individual health. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to obtain updated prevalences of psychosocial work stress (effo...

According to the legal requirements in many countries, companies should conduct psychosocial risk assessments (PRA). However, recent studies have demonstrated deficiencies in PRA implementation. Especially micro-and small-sized enterprises (MSE) are in arrears. We conducted two explorative studies to shed light on this topic: We recruited MSE and e...

Zur Stressprävention stehen Unternehmen zahlreiche, prinzipiell wirksame Interventionen sowohl auf der Verhaltensebene als auch auf der Ebene der Arbeitsorganisation (Verhältnisprävention) zur Verfügung. Obwohl die Wirksamkeit verschiedener arbeitsplatzbezogener Interventionen belegt ist, werden Maßnahmen zur Stressprävention nur selten umgesetzt,...

Background COVID-19 has changed the work conditions across many sectors and fear of COVID-19 is ever-present. Yet, research has overlooked the contributing factors to fear of COVID-19 and its impact on well-being within an occupational context. This study addressed this gap from an integrative perspective by focusing on the essential workforce of c...

In diesem Kapitel werden zunächst Grundlagen der Gefährdungsbeurteilung psychischer Belastung aufgezeigt. Anschließend werden die Chancen einer vollständig digitalisierten Durchführung thematisiert und potenzielle Hindernisse auf Basis aktueller Forschungsergebnisse beschrieben und mögliche Lösungen zu deren Überwindung präsentiert. Abschließend wi...

Background Workplace-related stress is a major risk factor for mental and physical health problems and related sickness absence and productivity loss. Despite evidence regarding the effectiveness of different workplace-based interventions, the implementation of stress prevention interventions is rare, especially in micro and small-sized enterprises...

The reopening of child-care programs during COVID-19 demanded comprehensive preventive measures. Research to date has overlooked this reopening process as well as early childhood professionals’ (ECPs) implementation efforts and resulting changes in their work practices and well-being. As a result, this study sought insights into (1) the practical i...

Background We examine the role of learning-family conflicts for the relation between commuting strain and health in a sample of medical university students. The first goal of the study was to investigate the mediating role of learning-family conflicts. The second goal was to extend the temporal view on relations between study variables. Therefore,...

Diary studies in the leadership literature have linked leader behaviours to several outcomes of followers. As a side effect, they demonstrated that leaders show a certain degree of dynamism of their behaviours across time. Building on conservation of resources theory, we put leader dynamism and its influence on followers into focus and develop a th...

According to legal requirements in many countries, companies regardless of their size should carry out psychosocial risk assessments to prevent the negative impact of psychosocial stress. However, recent studies have demonstrated large deficiencies in the implementation of psychosocial risk assessments. In addition, most of the assessments can be c...

Background It can be suspected that work in child care facilities is associated with an elevated exposure risk towards SARS-CoV-2 infections. It is still unclear under which conditions employees in those facilities can safely pursue their work. Preventive workplace-related measures to reduce transmission dynamics in this work environment need to be...

Background: The negative effect of unfavorable working conditions and long-term work stress on health has been demonstrated in previous research. To address these challenges, systematic approaches such as psychosocial risk assessments (PRA) have been developed in many countries worldwide. Despite legal obligations, psychosocial risk assessments are...

Purpose The psychosocial risk assessment is a systematic intervention process for organizations that aims at improving psychosocial working conditions as well as employee health. Based on a screening of working conditions, interventions to reduce risk factors are implemented and evaluated. What is missing for most screening instruments however are...

Background Leaders in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are exposed to increased stress as a result of a range of challenges. Moreover, they rarely have the opportunity to participate in stress management trainings. Therefore, KMU-GO (ger: Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen – Gesundheitsoffensive; en: small and medium-sized enterprises – healt...

This is the English translation of the measurement instrument for the assessment of central aspects of the New Way of Work (Arbeit 4.0-Fragebogen).

Drawing from conservation of resources theory, we examine a trickle-down model of differentiated transformational leadership (leaders treating followers differently) across three hierarchical levels (i.e., managers, supervisors, and supervisors' followers). Specifically, we develop a model in which manager differentiated transformational leadership...

Treffen in der Arbeitswelt Mitarbeiter*innen, Geschäfts- oder Verhandlungspartner*innen verschiedener Nationen und Kulturen aufeinander, können vielerlei Probleme auftreten. Diese entstehen nicht allein durch die Tatsache, dass Arbeits- oder Geschäftspartner nicht die gleiche Sprache sprechen. Ziel dieses Kapitels ist es zu beschreiben, welche Vora...

Das Thema Diversity ist aktuell sehr prominent in den Medien vertreten. Gleichzeitig arbeiten immer mehr Personen mit unterschiedlichstem Hintergrund und Herkunft gemeinsam an den verschiedensten Projekten. Der Forschungszweig, welcher Bezug auf die Leistungsfähigkeit von Gruppen mit Teammitgliedern unterschiedlichster Merkmale nimmt, ist die Diver...

Previous research on laissez-faire leadership and stress has focused on between-person differences by looking at general ratings of leader behaviours. Yet, researchers have demonstrated a high situational contingency of leadership behaviours that call for a more detailed analysis of within-person differences. We adopt a role theory perspective to e...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and evaluate a leadership development program with focus on transformational leadership and communication. It is explored whether these aspects of leadership can be trained in the course of a two-day intervention. Furthermore, it is tested if pre-training differences among leaders have an influence on...

Objective: The rapid development of technology is changing working conditions of many employees. With this, appropriate measurement instruments to capture work-related psychosocial risks to create healthy working conditions are becoming more and more important. Therefore, we developed and validated a questionnaire to assess stressors in work setti...

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Ziel dieses Beitrages ist es, ein Fragebogeninstrument zur Erfassung zentraler Merkmale der Arbeit 4.0 vorzustellen. Kerndimensionen des Fragebogens sind die Digitalisierung von Arbeitsprozessen, die Flexibilisierung der Arbeit in räumlicher und zeitlicher Hinsicht, die Entgrenzung der Arbeitstätigkeit, sowie die Möglichkeit zur Mitbestimmung bei d...

Zusammenfassung. Die Erfassung psychosozialer Belastung bei der Arbeit im Rahmen der Gefährdungsbeurteilung psychischer Belastung (GBU) verfolgt das Ziel, arbeitsbedingte psychische Belastungen zu messen und mögliche Gefährdungen zu verringern oder gänzlich zu vermeiden. Gängige Verfahren der GBU sind allerdings noch nicht an das veränderte Arbeits...

This study contributes to leadership literature by linking leader strain with followers' level of burnout while considering leaders' transformational leadership behaviour. The study provides promising insights into the field of leadership theory by shedding light on the nature of leadership under stress. The sample consisted of 294 dyads of leaders...

Work-related stress has considerable consequences for organizations. Thus, the prevention of stress has the potential to positively affect employees’ health and performance. While previous research found the first evidence that transformational leadership is negatively related to followers’ levels of perceived stress, this research was limited by i...

Aim: The aim of this article is to present the current state of research from the perspective of occupational medicine and psychology on possible new types of stressors that are becoming particularly relevant in the course of change in the world of industrial work. These stressors are related to three themes: (1) on-screen control activities, (2) h...

This study contributes to the literature on leadership by linking day-level transformational leadership behaviour with employees’ daily level of stress. A first-stage moderated mediation framework consisting of team cooperation, role conflict, and type of daily communication is introduced to specify how and when leaders’ transformational behaviour...

The goal of this study is to examine the effects of coaches' transformational leadership (TL) on player performance. To advance existing research, we examine (a) effects on individual and team performance and (b) consider joint moderating effects of players' win orientation and teams' competitive performance on the leadership-individual performance...

Zusammenfassung. Ziel der vorliegenden Validierungsstudie ist die Adaption einer Selbst- und Fremdbildversion des amerikanischen Communicator Style Measure (CSM) von Robert Norton (1983) in den deutschen Sprachraum. Norton (1983) postuliert elf verschiedene Kommunikationsstile, die mit Hilfe des CSM mit 51 Items valide erfasst werden können. Die Er...

This study contributes to literature on leadership by linking the full-range leadership behaviors (transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership) with an objective indicator of employees' stress, namely cortisol, assessed via hair. Hair cortisol is a biological indicator of stress, providing an innovative means of displaying the cor...

Das Thema Diversity ist aktuell sehr prominent in den Medien vertreten. Gleichzeitig arbeiten immer mehr Personen mit unterschiedlichstem Hintergrund und Herkunft gemeinsam an den verschiedensten Projekten. Der Forschungszweig, welcher Bezug auf die Leistungsfähigkeit von Gruppen mit Teammitgliedern unterschiedlichster Merkmale nimmt, ist die Diver...

Treffen in der Arbeitswelt Mitarbeiter, Geschäfts- oder Verhandlungspartner verschiedener Nationen und Kulturen aufeinander, können vielerlei Probleme auftreten, die nicht allein durch die Tatsache entstehen, dass Arbeits- oder Geschäftspartner nicht die gleiche Sprache sprechen. Ziel dieses Kapitels ist es zu beschreiben, welche Voraussetzungen un...

Purpose – The demands of balancing work and family roles are associated with stress experiences. Stress increases if work impinges too far on what is required from one’s family while a balance between these demands tends to decreases stress. The purpose of this paper is to investigate resiliencefor the extent to which it can predict both work-fami...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive examination of different leadership constructs investigated extensively, namely transformational and transactional leadership, laissez-faire, consideration, and initiating structure, as well as leader-member-exchange. The theoretical overlap as well as the empirical correlations bet...

Zur Beurteilung, ob Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung eine hinreichend große Aussagekraft und Übertragbarkeit besitzen, ist eine genaue Auseinandersetzung mit der in der Untersuchung verwendeten Methodik von zentraler Bedeutung. Ein kritisches Hinterfragen der Merkmale einer Untersuchung, wie Aufbau, Design, Auswertungsmethoden und der Art der Interpre...