Sascha Ruhle

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• PhD
• Assistant Professor at Tilburg University

Organizations increasingly implement AI for career development to enhance efficiency. However, there are concerns about employees’ acceptance of AI and the literature on employee acceptance of AI is still in its infancy. To address this research gap, integrating justice theory, we investigate the effects of the deciding entity (human, human and AI,...

Employee absence, or absenteeism, has been a subject of substantial attention in organizational psychology over the past century. It pertains to an individual's temporary withdrawal behavior from work, bearing significant implications for organizations, individuals, and society. We describe distinct definitions and interpretations of absence, focus...

Background Structural and behavioral interventions to manage work-related stress are effective in employees. Nonetheless, they have been implemented insufficiently, particularly in micro- and small-sized enterprises (MSE). Main barriers include a lack of knowledge and limited resources, which could potentially be overcome with simplified web-based...

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CALL FOR PAPERS Be There or Be Square? Theoretical and Empirical Advancements in Workplace Attendance Behavior Research July 20 and 21, 2023 Tilburg University

Workplace attendance behaviors (WABs), that is, absenteeism and presenteeism, are important to both organizations and individuals. Yet, despite growing knowledge on their formation and ongoing calls for its exploration, research on how the legitimacy of WAB impacts attendance decisions is missing. We contribute by providing researchers with the Wor...

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,...

Although negative employer reviews pose a threat to employers by reducing organizational attractiveness, employers can respond to reviews to avert these threats. However, we lack a clear understanding of the response strategies and factors that determine response strategies' impact. To address this issue, we introduce image repair theory (IRT) as a...

Research on commitment has highlighted the importance of understanding multiple commitments to similar objects, and there is a desire to clarify the attendant complex interactions by applying a person-centred approach to commitment. Although there is a rich body of knowledge on commitment, questions regarding possible conflicts among the various ty...

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...

Objectives Hospitals are psychologically demanding workplaces with a need for context-specific stress-preventive leadership interventions. A stress-preventive interprofessional leadership intervention for middle management has been developed. This phase-II study investigates its feasibility and outcomes, including work-related stress, well-being an...

Background Occupational stress is a major public health challenge that requires a variety of evidence-based preventative approaches to increase their reach within the working population. Behavioral stress management interventions are considered an established approach for occupational stress prevention. Both in-person group-based stress management...

This study explored (virtual) sickness presenteeism in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using qualitative data from 505 members of the German working population, it investigates how working from home, which rapidly increased because of the COVID-19 outbreak, is perceived with regard to the pandemic. The study explored how this development affe...

Personalmanagement bezieht sich auf verschiedene Akteure (potenzielle, aktuelle und ehemalige Mitarbeitende mit und ohne Führungsverantwortung). Kommunikation spielt in deren Interaktion und in verschiedenen Funktionen des Personalmanagements eine wichtige Rolle. Die Personalforschung trägt dem Rechnung, indem verschiedene Aspekte der Kommunikation...

Purpose An increasing prevalence of work-related stress and employees’ mental health impairments in the health care sector calls for preventive actions. A significant factor in the workplace that is thought to influence employees’ mental health is leadership behavior. Hence, effective leadership interventions to foster employees’ (leaders’ and staf...

This position paper brings together recent and emerging developments in the field of presenteeism. A critical synthesis of the evidence is needed due to persisting conceptual and methodological challenges as well as the increased volume of research in the field.This paper integrates emerging evidence and critical thinking into three areas: (1) concep...

The purpose of this study is to develop a richer understanding of how the interaction between individual perceptions of attendance norms, values, behaviors, and the work context shapes the perception of attendance culture. We aim to identify various perceptions of attendance culture in the workplace and their respective characteristics. To gain ins...

Zusammenfassung. Das Mental Health Literacy tool for the Workplace (MHL-W; Moll, Zanhour, Patten, Stuart & MacDermid, 2017 ) ist ein vignettenbasiertes Instrument mit 16 Items zur Messung psychischer Gesundheitskompetenz im Arbeitskontext. Nach der Übersetzung ins Deutsche sowie einer Anpassung der Vignetten anhand einer qualitativen Expertenbefrag...

Background: Health care employees in Germany and worldwide are exposed to a variety of stressors. However, most of the hospitals in Germany lack a systematic workplace health management. Thus, this study aims at the evaluation of the effects of a behavioural as well as organisational (´complex´) intervention on the mental health and well-being of...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the commitment of public accountants toward their profession and organization, and to provide evidence for various commitment profiles. Specifically, we analyze the relationships between commitment profiles and differences seen in the work context, professional and commercial values, role conflict and amb...

European employees are increasingly likely to work in cases of illness (sickness presenteeism, SP). Past studies found inconsistent evidence for the assumption that temporary workers decide to avoid taking sick leave due to job insecurity. A new measure to identify decision-based determinants of SP is presenteeism propensity (PP), which is the numb...

Recruitment of qualified non-family employees is a challenge for many family firms. Job seekers from outside may be wary of the family firm employment practice and the family themselves may have an informal approach to finding employees which often relies on word of mouth and produces a limited pool of talent. In this study we investigate adopted r...

Research on employee voice has highlighted the different nature of promotive and prohibitive voice. However, only few studies have explicitly analysed the implications of this distinction for showing voice. Therefore, to enhance our knowledge regarding the formation of employee voice, our article focuses on the moderating role of the message conten...

Based on the job demands-resources model and role conflict theories, we developed and tested hypotheses to elucidate the consequences that work-to-life and life-to-work conflicts have on job satisfaction and how affective, normative, and continuance professional commitment moderate these relationships. Using data collected from German academics, ou...

This position paper presents the state of the art of the field of workplace commitment. Yet, for workplace commitment to stay relevant, it is necessary to look beyond current practice and to extrapolate trends to envision what will be needed in future research. Therefore, the aim of this paper is twofold, first, to consolidate our current understan...

Die zunehmende Komplexität und Dynamik technisch-ökonomischer Entwicklungen führt in vielen Unternehmen zu einer Flexibilisierung der Arbeit. Als Folge dessen weisen atypische Beschäftigungsformen, insbesondere das Freelancing, seit Jahren hohe Zuwachsraten auf. Inwieweit diese neuen Beschäftigungsformen einen Einfluss auf das individuelle Sinnerle...

Während die Erforschung der Ursachen und Entstehung von Sinnerleben bei der Arbeit vielseitige Aufmerksamkeit in Forschung und Praxis erfährt, sind die Folgen von Sinnerleben bisher nur rudimentär betrachtet worden. Außerdem stehen bei diesen Betrachtungen die positiven Folgen eines Sinnerlebens während der Arbeit im Vordergrund. Ziel des vorliegen...

The construct of public service motivation (PSM) has gained a lot of attention as a motivational force for joining the public sector. However, since its introduction by Perry and Wise (1990), research based on longitudinal data linking PSM with actual behavior, i.e. joining the public sector, has remained scarce, particularly with respect to German...

Research on presenteeism (that is, attending work while ill) often focusses on the high-skilled workforce. However, understanding low-skilled work is important, as it still has a high prevalence through nearly all industries. It remains unclear, if the results for high-skilled worker can be applied to the low-skilled workforce, especially regarding...

Interns are ubiquitous in organizations, yet relatively rarely studied, particularly after their temporary organizational membership has ended. Adopting an organizational commitment perspective, we conducted two studies to investigate two important outcomes of former interns’ membership: intention to return to their former employer, and word-of-mou...

Research on attraction to organizations commonly shows that non-monetary aspects have a key role in the rating of potential employers. Organizations therefore attempt to communicate such non-monetary aspects through their mission statements. However, the potential impact of mission statements on the attractiveness of organizations and the intention...

The examination of individual differences as driver of differences in workplace attitudes has gained more and more attention. After reviewing research on commitment propensity, I will provide a new definition of commitment propensity as general, stable attitude towards becoming committed in the workplace. It is applicable to any workplace target an...

Research on affective organizational commitment has largely been conceptually restricted by the temporal boundaries of organizational membership, while only few authors have addressed how individuals may commit to an organization before becoming members. Given that individual careers increasingly span across a greater number of organizations, this...

This working paper addresses the question which dimensions of Ajzens (1988) Theory of Planned Behavior, named attitude towards start-up, perceived behavioral control and subjective norms can be used to explain the entrepreneurial intentions of business students. Furthermore we hypotheses an influence of attendance in entre-preneurship lectures, hav...