Prof. Dr. Florian Kunze

Portrait

Since July 2014 Florian Kunze (*1981) is holder of the chair for Organizational Behavior at the department for politics and public administration at the University of Konstanz and is also head of the Konstanz Future of Work Lab. From 2001-2006 he studied politics and management at the University of Konstanz. Thereafter (2006-2010), he did his doctoral studies at the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. From 2010-2011 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the same institute. Subsequently he was a one year visiting scholar at the Anderson School of Business, which is part of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) financed through a scholarship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). From 2013-2014 he was an Assistant Professor for Leadership at the University of St. Gallen. His main research focus is on managing workplace digitalisation - especially working from home, management of diversity and the demographic change in public and private organizations, and the design of effective leadership behaviors for individuals, teams and organizations.

Key Publications

(1) Reinwald, M., Zaia, J., & Kunze, F. (in press). Shine Bright Like a Diamond: When Signaling Creates Glass Cliffs for Female Executives. Journal of Management.

(2) Thürmer, J. L., & Kunze, F. (in press). Reaction to poor performers in task groups: A model of pro-group intent. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

(3) Dwertmann, D. J. G., Kunze, F. (2020). More Than Meets the Eye: The Role of Immigration Background for Social Identity Effects. Journal of Management. 

(4) Kunze, F., Boehm, S. A., & Bruch, H. (2021). It matters how old we feel in organizations: Testing a multilevel model of organizational subjective‐age diversity on employee outcomes. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42: 448-463.

(5) Reinwald. M., Zimmermann, S., Kunze, F (2021): Working in the Eye of the Pandemic Local COVID-19 Infections and Daily Employee Engagement. Frontiers in Psychology.

(6) Reinwald, M., Kunze, F. (2020): Being Different, Being Absent? A Dynamic Perspective on Demographic Dissimilarity and Absenteeism in Blue-Collar Teams. Academy of Management Journal., 63: 660-684.

(7) Kunze, F., Menges J. (2017): Younger supervisors, older subordinates: An organizational-level study of age differences, emotions, and performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38: 461-486.

(8) Kunze, F., Raes, A., Bruch H. (2015): It matters how old you feel - Organizational-level antecedents and performance consequences of relative-subjective age. Journal of Applied Psychology. 100(5), 1511-1526.

(9) Kunze, F., Boehm, S., Bruch, H. (2013): Organizational boundary conditions to prevent negative performance consequences of age diversity. Journal of Management Studies, 50 (3): 413-442.

(10) Kunze, F., Boehm, S., Bruch, H. (2011): Age diversity, age discrimination, and performance consequences -a cross organizational study. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32(2): 264-290.

CV

CV Prof. Kunze

Office hours

The office hours with Prof. Florian Kunze will take place from 16.10.23 every Monday between 11:30-12:30 via Zoom or in D235

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Letters of recommodation

Letters of recommendation can be written for students that have successfully participated in at least 2 courses with good or very good results (final grade >= 2,0). All letters will be confidential in the sense that they will only be mailed to the respective institution/organization the student is applying to. Please mail your CV, transcript of records, and the receiver's address to Office.Kunze@uni-konstanz.de

Thesis

For all students who are still looking for a suitable topic or inspiration for their thesis. Here you can find a pool of ideas for possible projects that can be supervised at our chair. If you are interested, please feel free to contact us (elena.gerdiken@uni-konstanz.de).

You can find here potential topics for your thesis.