Katja Mayr, M.Sc.

Academic career

Main focus of research

• Leadership in the context of seemingly contradictory demands (paradox)
• Stability and flexibility in organizations
• Employee surveys

Teaching

• Diagnostik & Intervention: UK Personalpsychologie (WiSe 2018)

Publications

• Mayr, K. K., Halmel, V. A., Kugler, K. G., & Brodbeck, F. C. (2022, September). Paradoxical Management Within Organizations: How Handling Paradoxes Spreads Across Organizational Levels. Poster presented at the 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Hildesheim, Germany.
• Mayr, K. K., & Brodbeck, F. C. (2022, March). Wearing multiple hats: Can structured differentiation and integration help groups to work through paradox? Study design accepted & presented at the Paradox Research Education Practice (PREP) Inaugural Conference, associated with the International Management Division of the Academy of Management, virtual conference.
• Mayr, K. K, Boneberger J., Bredebusch, P., Kalbfell, L., Seitz, J. S., Kugler, K. G., & Brodbeck, F. C. (2022, January). No One-Size-Fits-All: Paradoxical Leader Behavior Influences Followers’ Creativity Depending on Followers’ Integrative Complexity [Accepted as paper presentation; congress cancelled due to Covid-19]. 20th Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP), Glasgow, United Kingdom.
• Stark, J., Halmel, V., Kubacek, J., Mayr, K. K., Kugler, K. G., & Brodbeck, F. C. (2021, September). The Paradoxical Leader Behavior in People Management Scale: An Evaluation of Content Validity and Scale Adjustments. Poster presented at the 12th Conference of the section Work-, Organizational- and Business Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Chemnitz, Germany.
• Dröge, H. J. F. F., & Hemmler, Y. M., Heller, T. Piehlmeier, K., Mayr, K. K., Kugler, K. G. & Brodbeck, F. C. (2021, July). Chat or mail? How communication tools influence integrative complexity and group decision quality. Paper presented at the 32nd International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Prague, Czech Republic [virtual].
• Mayr, K. K., Matthaei, B. D., & Brodbeck, F. C. (2020, September). Macht die Führungskraft das Unternehmen? Multilevel-Studie zu transformativer Führung und Beurteilung der Unternehmensführung. Poster presented at the 11th Conference of the section Work-, Organizational- and Business Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Braunschweig, Germany.
• Mayr, K. (2018). Kontrolle ist gut, aber Vertrauen ist besser. So fördern Sie Vertrauen in Ihrem Team. In F. C. Brodbeck (Hrsg.), Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspsychologie, (26). Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. http://www.evidenzbasiertesmanagement.de.
• Frey, D. & Mayr, K. (2018). Einleitung: Psychologie der Rituale und Bräuche. In D. Frey (Ed.), Psychologie der Rituale und Bräuche (p. 1-12). Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
• Mayr, K. (2018). Sonnwende und Sonnwendfeiern. In D. Frey (Ed.), Psychologie der Rituale und Bräuche (p. 55-66). Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
• Hermida Carrillo, A., Fischer, M. V., Mayr, K., Penzkofer, M. J., Fuhrmann, A. M., Hilpert, T. & Anders, L. (2018). Rituale zum Tod. In D. Frey (Ed.), Psychologie der Rituale und Bräuche (p. 121-132). Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
• Mayr, K. & Frey, D. (2018). Nachwort: Rituale als Chance für uns und die Gesellschaft. In D. Frey (Ed.), Psychologie der Rituale und Bräuche (p. 343-346). Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.