Dr. Emily Kleszewski

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 and dysfunctional work tendencies
• Stressors, recovery processes and well-being
• Digitalization and AI in the workplace and research

Publications:

• Kleszewski, E., Wehrt, W., Otto, K., Matick, E., & Kottwitz, M. U. (2025). Opening windows: Effects of an app-based mindfulness intervention on perfectionistic concerns and cross-domain functioning. Journal of Business and Psychology. Advance online publication.  
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10033-8
• Otto, K. & Kleszewski, E. (2025). Lack of detachment, affective rumination or problem-solving pondering? Decoding the connection between job insecurity and exhaustion. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 10(1), 9. 
  https://doi.org/10.16993/sjwop.280
• Kleszewski, E., Mohr, M., & Otto, K. (2025). 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. 34(5), 533–549.  
  https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1080/1359432X.2025.2508177 
• Baumann, A. W., Pranjic, C., Babjáková, J., Kleszewski, E., & Otto, K. (2025). 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. Advance online publication.  
  https://doi.org/10.1080/15555240.2025.2504672 
• Schlegel*, L., Kleszewski*, E., & Otto, K. (2024). The butterfly effect of appreciation at work: An impulse for daily 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 (available open access)
• Matick*, E., Kleszewski*, 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
• Mikolajczyk, 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., & 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 
• 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

Conferences:

• Kleszewski, E., Bolschakow, X., Bommert, M., & Rigotti, T. (2025, September). Contagious
  workaholism? A dyadic study on social costs among coworkers. Presentation at the EAWOP
  Small Group Meeting “Advancing workaholism research: Setting the stage for organizational
  prevention”, Gdansk, Poland.
• 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.

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)