Dr. Emily Kleszewski

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Contact information

+49 6421 28-23829 emily.kleszewski@staff 1 Gutenbergstraße 18
35032 Marburg
G|01 Institutsgebäude (Room: 03043 resp. +3043)

Short biography:

  • From 2018: research assistant at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology at Philipps University Marburg. From 2018 to 2022 PhD on “Boon and Bane: How Perfectionism Shapes Employee Well-Being Through Health-Impairing and Motivational Processes”.
  • From 2013 to 2017: Bachelor Thesis at Philipps University Marburg. Until 2018 Master’s degree at Philipps University Marburg focusing on work and organizational psychology as well as clinical psychology

Research interests:

  • Perfectionism
  • Stress and resources in the workplace
  • Recovery
  • Interventions for employees

Publications and presentations:

  • 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., 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. (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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110016.

  • 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.

Teaching:

  • B-AOW3-Übung A: Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung - Gesund am Arbeitsplatz (seit Sose 2020)
  • B-AOW2b-Seminar A: Personalentwicklung & Intervention (seit Wise 2019/20)
  • B-WP2-Übung B: Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung - Gesund am Arbeitsplatz (Sose 2019)
  • B-WP3b-Seminar A: Personalentwicklung & Intervention (Wise 2018/19)

Office hours:

Tuesdays, 15-16 hrs (upon agreement)

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