Simone Kauffeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 172174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Kauffeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Kauffeld |
| SIGNATURE | KAUFFELD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Braunschweig |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4158-5266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Innovation competencies among farmers
Purpose The aim of this research is to provide an overview of farmers’ competency needs and their perceptions of the importance of these competencies for innovation.Design/Methodology/Approach In Study 1, a competency model is developed, based on interviews with German farmers and agricultural experts (N = 34), to assess farmers’ competency needs. In Study 2, an online survey (N = 211) examined farmers’ perceptions of the importance of competenci…
Navigating new horizons
Introduction The transition from school to higher education is often challenging, leading some students to consider dropping out. Method This study examines the effectiveness of group coaching for N = 72 students during the study entry phase using a pre-post design with a control group. Results While no significant reduction in dropout intentions was found, the coaching group reported positive outcomes in social belongingness, confidence in vocat…
Successfully Engaged in Creativity
While scholars have focused on exploring what predicts subjective career success (SCS), we built on conservation of resources theory to study SCS not only as the ultimate outcome but also as a resource for achieving further valued work outcomes. To this end, we analyzed the gain spiral between SCS, work engagement, and creativity (SCS → work engagement → creativity → SCS) in a four-wave longitudinal design (one-year intervals). Based on a sample …
The role of first-semester career calling and career decidedness in pre-service teachers’ intentions to drop out after the first year of higher education
While career paths often require tertiary education, student dropout is a growing problem for colleges and universities worldwide, with dropout rates ranging from 15 to 40%. The first year of higher education is of particular importance in terms of students’ decisions to discontinue their chosen program. This study examined the extent to which career calling and career decidedness in the first semester combined with (missing) resource-oriented va…
Fostering personal engagement with energy transition pathways through empathic-collaborative communication
Introduction and Evaluation of a Digital Onboarding Tool for Higher Education Students
This article contributes to current literature by introducing and evaluating a digital onboarding tool for higher education. It presents the content and technical design of the tool, as well as evaluative results. The content structure of our digital onboarding tool was developed based on previous literature regarding student integration and onboarding, and it is divided into four main areas: information units, micro‐interventions, videos, and a …
A focus group study of students’ expectations of digital onboarding tools in higher education
In higher education, the array of roles performed by digital tools has been increasing rapidly. While some areas of higher education, such as teaching, already employ digital tools, the use of such tools in student onboarding has not yet been thoroughly explored. This study sought to develop a better understanding of student perspectives regarding digital onboarding tools through an investigation that built on the technology acceptance model and …
Proactive verbal behavior in team meetings
Proactivity has rarely been considered as a subject of investigation in social settings, such as team meetings. In this study, we investigate proactive behavior during meetings and examine how reactions to proactive behavior impact work-related outcomes. Drawing on meeting science and the wise proactivity framework, we hypothesized that supportive and critical patterns would emerge in response to proactive behavior. We also tested whether these p…
The positive effects of resource-oriented training on students’ perception and use of social support
Introduction University students are confronted with various demands that can lead to mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, or stress. One significant resource that has been shown to prevent or buffer mental health problems is social support. However, interventions enhancing students’ perception and use of social support are rare in higher education research. This study evaluates the effects of resource-oriented training followin…
The interplay of time management and academic self-efficacy and their influence on pre-service teachers’ commitment in the first year in higher education
The first academic year involves a variety of challenges students must overcome to maintain their commitment to enter the teaching profession. Students can build on their initial experience in the second semester, while everything is new in the first semester. This longitudinal study investigates the interplay of academic self-efficacy and time management, which are seen as crucial in the first year, and their effects on pre-service teachers’ com…
Empirical Findings on Learning Success and Competence Development at Learning Factories
To meet the changing competence requirements for employees in engineering professions, education and training need to adapt accordingly. Learning factories offer various possibilities to design or integrate practice-oriented learning into training measures. Whether this approach in fact facilitates learning and competence development is rarely investigated. For this reason, the objective of this scoping review is to analyze and summarize the exis…
Current Interventions for the Digital Onboarding of First-Year Students in Higher Education Institutions
Every year, students around the globe embark upon their higher education journey, making the onboarding of these students a critical task for colleges and universities. Combined with the growth in distance learning and the rapid development in technologies, the onboarding process occurs increasingly in the digital setting. For this reason, the objective of this scoping review was to report and map interventions, which are used in digital onboardi…
Motivation matters
Higher education institutions are striving to lower student dropout rates to increase the number of academically qualified persons in the labour market and decrease misguided investment. Researchers generally acknowledge that students who are firmly decided on their studies tend to drop out of their studies less frequently. Building on the extended expectancy-value model via the cost component, this longitudinal study investigates changes in and …
Student Presenteeism in Digital Times—A Mixed Methods Approach
In young adulthood, important foundations are laid for health later in life. Hence, more attention should be paid to the health measures concerning students. A research field that is relevant to health but hitherto somewhat neglected in the student context is the phenomenon of presenteeism. Presenteeism refers to working despite illness and is associated with negative health and work-related effects. The study attempts to bridge the research gap …
"We Could Be Much Further Ahead" -Multidimensional Drivers and Barriers for Agricultural Transition
Agricultural transition toward sustainability is subject to individual and political constraints, spurring the need to understand system dynamics from both a psychological and a public policy angle; however, empirical data remains limited. The present paper empirically contributes to theoretical frameworks on sustainability transitions and analyzes multiple dimensions related to the success of agricultural transition. This investigation employed …
Working Across Faultlines—Assessing Intersubgroup Communication in Teams
Communication between different subgroups is essential to group success, as different perspectives and knowledge need to be integrated. Especially when subgroups form due to faultlines, hypothetical dividing lines splitting a group into homogeneous subgroups, the resulting subgroups are vulnerable to negative intergroup processes. In this article, we evaluate different methods that have been used to trace communication between faultline-based sub…
The impact of influential others on student teachers’ dropout intention – a network analytical study
Recent studies have shown that the number of teachers in Germany is decreasing dramatically. In contrast, the rate of student teachers discontinuing their studies is rather high, and further increases the shortage of teachers. To address this issue, we investigated student teachers’ social support networks by using a social network approach. Guided by the social cognitive career theory, the mediating role of barriers (i.e. perceived disapproval o…
Why does competitive psychological climate foster or hamper career success? The role of challenge and hindrance pathways and leader-member-exchange
This study integrated research on competitive psychological climate (CPC) and successful career development within transactional stress theory and the job-demands resources model. The theoretical model assumed two different processes from CPC at work that might either foster or hamper career success. Specifically, CPC might be positively related to work engagement (motivation-enhancing path, CPC appraised as challenge) or burnout (energy-decreasi…
The Power of Followers That do not Follow
This study focuses on follower resistance as a potential antecedent of destructive leader behavior and examines leader-related moderators and mediators to help explain the relationship between follower resistance and destructive leader behavior. Drawing from implicit followership theories, we propose that the relationship between follower resistance and destructive leader behavior is moderated by leaders’ Theory X schema. Furthermore, we build on…
Follower behavior renders leader behavior endogenous
Incongruities between values, motives, and skills
Psychometric tools are increasingly applied during coaching, but little is known about their effects on clients’ well-being. We investigated the effects that are evoked when psychometric tools reveal incongruities between career-related values, motives, and skills during career coaching within an early-career sample. Results reveal a negative effect of within-person incongruities on life satisfaction and self-efficacy over time. Further, we compa…
Burnout and career (un)sustainability
Latent profile analysis
Latent profile analysis (LPA) is a categorical latent variable approach that focuses on identifying latent subpopulations within a population based on a certain set of variables. LPA thus assumes that people can be typed with varying degrees of probabilities into categories that have different configural profiles of personal and/or environmental attributes. Within this article, we (a) review the existing applications of LPA within past vocational…
Writing About the Silence
Autobiographical reports of episodes of ostracism and social inclusion were analyzed in two separate samples (German N = 93; English N = 243) using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software. Recalling ostracism was associated with the use of more first-person singular pronouns, fewer first-person plural pronouns, and more complex language. These findings could reflect ostracism inducing a self-focus and putting high cognitive load on …
Handbuch Karriere und Laufbahnmanagement
"We Could Be Much Further Ahead" -Multidimensional Drivers and Barriers for Agricultural Transition
Agricultural transition toward sustainability is subject to individual and political constraints, spurring the need to understand system dynamics from both a psychological and a public policy angle; however, empirical data remains limited. The present paper empirically contributes to theoretical frameworks on sustainability transitions and analyzes multiple dimensions related to the success of agricultural transition. This investigation employed …
Promoting Shared Leadership
Shared leadership is considered a promising concept that meets the increased complexity of working life. Researchers and practitioners therefore need to know which factors might advance the development of shared leadership. Contributing to the yet limited amount of empirical research on shared leadership antecedents, this study investigates the impact of variables from different types of antecedents suggested in literature (i.e., intrinsic and ex…
Writing About the Silence
Autobiographical reports of episodes of ostracism and social inclusion were analyzed in two separate samples (German N = 93; English N = 243) using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software. Recalling ostracism was associated with the use of more first-person singular pronouns, fewer first-person plural pronouns, and more complex language. These findings could reflect ostracism inducing a self-focus and putting high cognitive load on …
Nachhaltige Weiterbildung
Seminare und Trainings sind die beliebtesten Instrumente der Personalentwicklung, doch in Zeiten knapper Ressourcen muss auch in der Weiterbildung gespart werden. Die Kernfrage moderner Weiterbildung lautet: Wie kontrolliert man den Trainingserfolg und wie gestaltet man die Entwicklung von Mitarbeiterkompetenzen bedarfsgerecht, effizient und nachhaltig? Dieses Trainerhandbuch beleuchtet zunächst klassische Themen - aber mit besonderem Blick auf d…
Promoting Shared Leadership
Shared leadership is considered a promising concept that meets the increased complexity of working life. Researchers and practitioners therefore need to know which factors might advance the development of shared leadership. Contributing to the yet limited amount of empirical research on shared leadership antecedents, this study investigates the impact of variables from different types of antecedents suggested in literature (i.e., intrinsic and ex…
Appraisal Participation and Perceived Voice in Annual Appraisal Interviews
Appraisal interviews (AIs) are one of the most commonly used human resource practices in organizations. However, they are often criticized for comprising conflicting purposes. In this study, we focus on contextual factors of the appraisal process. Specifically, we propose that AIs follow a two-phase model of performance evaluation and development planning. These two phases trigger different levels of employee appraisal participation which, in tur…
Anerkennung der beruflichen Kompetenzen von Flüchtlingen – Ein Beitrag zur Integration
Handbuch Karriere und Laufbahnmanagement
The medium isn’t the message
Media use can be considered as an integral part of virtual communication and thus of present-day human interaction. Nevertheless, research on media use and effects still largely relies on laboratory experiments, treating it as a stable input condition, rather than as a function of human appropriation. In this study, we propose a conceptualization of virtual communication as a dynamic construct dependent on media appropriation, particularly of com…
Can't get no satisfaction? Motivating organisational energy efficiency efforts in Germany
Handbuch Karriere und Laufbahnmanagement
Arbeitszufriedenheit
Arbeitszufriedenheit verspricht Beschäftigten Wohlbefinden, Gesundheit und Spaß an der Tätigkeit. Unternehmen erhoffen sich, durch Arbeitszufriedenheit motivierte Beschäftigte, geringe Fluktuation und bessere Leistung. Das Aufzeigen hoher Arbeitszufriedenheit in regelmäßigen betrieblichen Erhebungen ist ein Aushängeschild für Recruiting und Investoren. Doch hält Arbeitszufriedenheit, was wir uns davon versprechen? Das Buch stellt die Geschichte d…
Follower behavior renders leader behavior endogenous
Incongruities between values, motives, and skills
Psychometric tools are increasingly applied during coaching, but little is known about their effects on clients’ well-being. We investigated the effects that are evoked when psychometric tools reveal incongruities between career-related values, motives, and skills during career coaching within an early-career sample. Results reveal a negative effect of within-person incongruities on life satisfaction and self-efficacy over time. Further, we compa…
Burnout and career (un)sustainability
Latent profile analysis
Latent profile analysis (LPA) is a categorical latent variable approach that focuses on identifying latent subpopulations within a population based on a certain set of variables. LPA thus assumes that people can be typed with varying degrees of probabilities into categories that have different configural profiles of personal and/or environmental attributes. Within this article, we (a) review the existing applications of LPA within past vocational…
Writing About the Silence
Autobiographical reports of episodes of ostracism and social inclusion were analyzed in two separate samples (German N = 93; English N = 243) using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software. Recalling ostracism was associated with the use of more first-person singular pronouns, fewer first-person plural pronouns, and more complex language. These findings could reflect ostracism inducing a self-focus and putting high cognitive load on …
Working Across Faultlines—Assessing Intersubgroup Communication in Teams
Communication between different subgroups is essential to group success, as different perspectives and knowledge need to be integrated. Especially when subgroups form due to faultlines, hypothetical dividing lines splitting a group into homogeneous subgroups, the resulting subgroups are vulnerable to negative intergroup processes. In this article, we evaluate different methods that have been used to trace communication between faultline-based sub…
The impact of influential others on student teachers’ dropout intention – a network analytical study
Recent studies have shown that the number of teachers in Germany is decreasing dramatically. In contrast, the rate of student teachers discontinuing their studies is rather high, and further increases the shortage of teachers. To address this issue, we investigated student teachers’ social support networks by using a social network approach. Guided by the social cognitive career theory, the mediating role of barriers (i.e. perceived disapproval o…
Why does competitive psychological climate foster or hamper career success? The role of challenge and hindrance pathways and leader-member-exchange
This study integrated research on competitive psychological climate (CPC) and successful career development within transactional stress theory and the job-demands resources model. The theoretical model assumed two different processes from CPC at work that might either foster or hamper career success. Specifically, CPC might be positively related to work engagement (motivation-enhancing path, CPC appraised as challenge) or burnout (energy-decreasi…
The Power of Followers That do not Follow
This study focuses on follower resistance as a potential antecedent of destructive leader behavior and examines leader-related moderators and mediators to help explain the relationship between follower resistance and destructive leader behavior. Drawing from implicit followership theories, we propose that the relationship between follower resistance and destructive leader behavior is moderated by leaders’ Theory X schema. Furthermore, we build on…
Empirical Findings on Learning Success and Competence Development at Learning Factories
To meet the changing competence requirements for employees in engineering professions, education and training need to adapt accordingly. Learning factories offer various possibilities to design or integrate practice-oriented learning into training measures. Whether this approach in fact facilitates learning and competence development is rarely investigated. For this reason, the objective of this scoping review is to analyze and summarize the exis…
Current Interventions for the Digital Onboarding of First-Year Students in Higher Education Institutions
Every year, students around the globe embark upon their higher education journey, making the onboarding of these students a critical task for colleges and universities. Combined with the growth in distance learning and the rapid development in technologies, the onboarding process occurs increasingly in the digital setting. For this reason, the objective of this scoping review was to report and map interventions, which are used in digital onboardi…
Motivation matters
Higher education institutions are striving to lower student dropout rates to increase the number of academically qualified persons in the labour market and decrease misguided investment. Researchers generally acknowledge that students who are firmly decided on their studies tend to drop out of their studies less frequently. Building on the extended expectancy-value model via the cost component, this longitudinal study investigates changes in and …
Student Presenteeism in Digital Times—A Mixed Methods Approach
In young adulthood, important foundations are laid for health later in life. Hence, more attention should be paid to the health measures concerning students. A research field that is relevant to health but hitherto somewhat neglected in the student context is the phenomenon of presenteeism. Presenteeism refers to working despite illness and is associated with negative health and work-related effects. The study attempts to bridge the research gap …
"We Could Be Much Further Ahead" -Multidimensional Drivers and Barriers for Agricultural Transition
Agricultural transition toward sustainability is subject to individual and political constraints, spurring the need to understand system dynamics from both a psychological and a public policy angle; however, empirical data remains limited. The present paper empirically contributes to theoretical frameworks on sustainability transitions and analyzes multiple dimensions related to the success of agricultural transition. This investigation employed …
The positive effects of resource-oriented training on students’ perception and use of social support
Introduction University students are confronted with various demands that can lead to mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, or stress. One significant resource that has been shown to prevent or buffer mental health problems is social support. However, interventions enhancing students’ perception and use of social support are rare in higher education research. This study evaluates the effects of resource-oriented training followin…
The interplay of time management and academic self-efficacy and their influence on pre-service teachers’ commitment in the first year in higher education
The first academic year involves a variety of challenges students must overcome to maintain their commitment to enter the teaching profession. Students can build on their initial experience in the second semester, while everything is new in the first semester. This longitudinal study investigates the interplay of academic self-efficacy and time management, which are seen as crucial in the first year, and their effects on pre-service teachers’ com…
Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (10 works) · Applied Psychology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Perception (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Higher education (5 works) · Knowledge management (5 works)