Professor Rolf van DICK

Adjunct Professor

Rolf van Dick is Professor of Social Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) where he also served as Dean and Vice President. Prior to his current position he was Professor at Aston Business School, Birmingham (UK) and he held a part-time appointment as professor at the work research institute (AFI) in Oslo, Norway. Since 2011, Rolf van Dick is scientific director of the interdisciplinary Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations (CLBO) and since 2026 speaker of the Goethe Leadership Centre (GLC), a Centre for Advanced Studies funded by the German Research Foundation. He has published/edited around 20 books and special issues, and 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology, or the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His research was cited over 39.000 times on google scholar and since 2021, he is one of the top 2% cited researchers internationally and across disciplines (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6). Rolf was visiting professor at Universities in Tuscaloosa (USA), Rhodes (Greece), Shanghai and Bejing (China), Rovereto (Italy), Oslo (Norway), Budapest (Hungary), and in Kathmandu (Nepal) and he was editor of Frontiers in Organizational Psychology, the British Journal of Management, and the Journal of Personnel Psychology. He is a Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology and Henriette Herz-Scout at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Research

My research is based on the social identity approach and I apply this to leadership, mergers & acquisitions, health and stress

Recent/representative publications

Marszałek, M., Retowski, S., Van Dick, R., & Roczniewska, M. (2026). Job crafting as a social activity: The roles of identity leadership and team identification. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-026-10100-8
Cruwys, T., Rathbone, J., Quayle, A., Butalia, R., Hardacre, S. L., & van Dick, R. (2026). Inclusive messaging from leadership reduces discriminatory attitudes and norms: A mixed-methods social identity analysis of a fitness facility. British Journal of Social Psychology, 65(3), e70091. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70091
Luostarinen, M., Hakanen, J.J., Van Dick, R., & Mäkikangas, A. (2025). Strengthening shared social identity leadership for organisational effectiveness. Journal of Change Management, 25(4), 294–322. https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2025.2579260
Bibic, K., Frenzel, S.B., Kerschreiter, R., Wilson-Lemoine, J.E., Steffens, N.K., Haslam, S.A., Monzani, L., Akfirat, S.A., Ballada, C.J.A., Bazarov, T., Aruta, J.J.B.R., Avanzi, L., Bunjak, A., Černe, M., Edelmann, C.M., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., García-Ael, C., Giessner, S., Gleibs, I.H., Godlewska-Werner, D., Kark, R., Laguia Gonzalez, A., Lam, H., Lupina Wegener, A., Markovits, Y., Maskor, M., Molero Alonso, F.J., Moriano Leon, J.A., Neves, P., Pauknerová, D., Retowski, S., Roland-Lévy, C., Samekin, A., Schuh, S., Sekiguchi, T., Story, J., Stouten, J., Sultanova, L., Tatachari, S., Van Bunderen, L., Van Dijk, D., Wong, S.I., Zhang, X.-a. & Van Dick, R. (2026). The value of leaders we trust and leaders who make us stronger: Exploring the distinct contributions of different components of identity leadership to group member outcomes. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 29(2), 302-322. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302251341818

Link to full CV incl. complete list of publications:

https://www.psychologie.uni-frankfurt.de/187038415/c_v_0417_2026.pdf