Dr. Emily Kleszewski

Kurzbiographie

• Seit 2018 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Arbeitseinheit Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie am Fachbereich Psychologie der Philipps-Universität Marburg. Von 2018 bis 2022 Promotion zum Thema “Boon and Bane: How Perfectionism Shapes Employee Well-Being Through Health-Impairing and Motivational Processes”.
  
  
• Von 2013 bis 2017 Bachelorstudium an der Philipps-Universität Marburg. Bis 2018 anschließendes Masterstudium an der Philipps-Universität Marburg mit Vertiefungen in Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, sowie in Klinischer Psychologie.

Publikationen und Präsentationen

• Kleszewski, E., Mohr, M. & Otto, K. (in press). Perfectionism unfolding: The mutual reinforcement of employee perfectionism and work goal attainment and the moderating role of psychological capital. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.
  
  
• Kleszewski, E., Wehrt, W., Otto, K., Matick, E. & Kottwitz, M. U. (in press). Opening windows: Effects of an app-based mindfulness intervention on perfectionistic concerns and cross-domain functioning. Journal of Business and Psychology.
  
  
• Baumann, A., Pranjic C., Babjáková J., Kleszewski, E., & Otto K. (in press). Work ability among European parents: The impact of instrumental vs. emotional social support on time-based vs. strain-based work-family conflict. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health.
  
  
• Schlegel, L., Kleszewski1, E., & Otto, K. (2024). The butterfly effect of appreciation at work: An impulse for perfectionistic cognitions and well-being beyond the workday. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 29(6), 431–444. https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000390
  
  
• Otto, K., Baluku, M., Schaible, A., Oflu, C., Kleszewski, E. (2024). The only way is up? How different facets of employee and supervisor perfectionism help or hinder career development. Psychological Reports. https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941241229204
  
  
• Matick (geteilte Erstautorenschaft), E., Kleszewski1, E., & Otto, K. (2023). Far from perfect sleep: A diary study on multidimensional perfectionism in the context of the stressor–detachment model. International Journal of Stress Management, 30(4), 354–365. https://doi.org/10.1037/str0000302
  
  
• Mikołajczyk, K., Molek-Winiarska, D., & Kleszewski, E. (2023). “I have to be always on”–managerial role and experience of work-life balance and regeneration practices during remote work. International Journal of Workplace Health Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWHM-11-2022-0195
  
  
• Kleszewski, E., & Otto, K. (2023). A matter of needs: Basic need satisfaction as an underlying mechanism between perfectionism and employee well-being. Motivation and Emotion, 47(5), 761-780. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-023-10029-y
  
  
• Kleszewski, E. (2021). How to work for a perfectionistic boss. Harvard Business Review: Ascend. Retrieved from: https://hbr.org/2021/12/how-to-work-for-a-perfectionistic-boss
  
  
• Otto K., Geibel H.V., & Kleszewski E. (2021) “Perfect leader, perfect leadership?” Linking leaders’ perfectionism to monitoring, transformational, and servant leadership behavior. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:657394. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.657394.
  
  
• Kleszewski, E. & Otto, K. (2020). The perfect colleague? Multidimensional perfectionism and indicators of social disconnection in the workplace. Personality and Individual Differences, 162: 110016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110016.

Konferenzbeiträge

• Kleszewski, E. & Mohr, M. (2025, July). The double-edged sword of perfectionism in in-role and extra-role performance. Presentation at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  
  
• Kleszewski, E. & Berlips, E. (2025, May). The dark side of LinkedIn use: How perfectionism moderates emotional responses of envy and shame. Presentation at the 22nd Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.
  
  
• Kleszewski, E., Decius, J. & Krüger, H. (2025, April). Integrating AI into back-translation? Insights for organizational research practice. Poster-Presentation at the SIOP Annual Conference, Denver, United States. 
  
  
• Kleszewski, E., Otto, K., & Mohr, M. (2024). The perfectionism cycle: Dynamics between perfectionism, psychological capital, and goal attainment. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2024, No. 1). Valhalla, NY: Academy of Management. 
  
  
• Kleszewski, E., Otto, K., & Mohr, M. (2023, May). The boon and bane of perfectionism for employees' goal progress and well-being: Psychological capital as a mediator. Presentation at the 21st Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Katowice, Poland.
  
  
• Kottwitz, M., Kleszewski, E., & Wehrt, W. (2023, May). ”I feel for myself!” Effects of an online-guided self-compassion intervention on strain and task performance after failure. Presentation at the 21st Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Katowice, Poland.
  
  
• Kleszewski, E., Matick E. & Otto K. (2022, July). Effects of an app-based mindfulness training on employees’ perfectionism, stress and recovery: A randomised wait-list control trial. Poster presentation at the 15th European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Conference, Bordeaux, France.
  
  
• Kleszewski, E., & Otto K. (2022, September). Trigger or booster? The role of perfectionism in the stressor-detachment model. Presentation at the 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society, Hildesheim, Germany
  
  
• Kleszewski, E. (2021). How to work for a perfectionistic boss. Harvard Business Review: Ascend. Retrieved from: https://hbr.org/2021/12/how-to-work-for-a-perfectionistic-boss
  
  
• Kleszewski, E. & Otto, K. (2019, September). When leaders expect perfection: Linking other-oriented perfectionism, the Dark Triad and servant leadership. Poster presentation at the 12th Conference of the Division of Work, Organisational and Economic Psychology of the German Psychological Society, Braunschweig, Germany.

Forschungsinteressen

• Perfektionismus bei Berufstätigen
• Arbeitsbedingter Stress, Erholungsprozesse und Wohlbefinden
• Interventionen für Berufstätige

Lehre

• B-AOW2a Seminar: Karriereentwicklung – Aktuelle Perspektiven der Forschung und Interventionsansätze (seit SoSe 2024)
  
  
• M-NV Seminar: Normabweichendes Verhalten im Arbeitskontext (SoSe 2024)
  
  
• M-WP Vorlesung: Change Management (WiSe 2023/24)
  
  
• Vorlesungsreihe Persönlichkeit@Work im Rahmen des Moduls M-TFAa: Aktuelle Themen und Anwendungsfelder der Psychologie (WiSe 2023/24)
  
  
• B-BM Vorlesung: Beratung und Mediation (WiSe 2023/24)
  
  
• Vorlesung Work-Life-Balance und Erholung im Rahmen des Moduls B-EAOb: Einführung in die Arbeitspsychologie (seit SoSe 2021)
  
  
• B-AOW3/M-AOWa-Übung: Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung - Gesund am Arbeitsplatz (seit Sose 2019)
  
  
• B-AOW2b/M-AOWa-Seminar: Personalentwicklung & Intervention (seit Wise 2018/19)

Sprechzeiten: dienstags, 15-16 Uhr (nach Voranmeldung)