PD Dr. habil. Sabine Hommelhoff (née Mayser)

Biography

Professional Experience

• Since Nov. 2025: Senior Researcher (Akademische Rätin) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institute for Leadership and Organization
• 2020-2025: Senior Researcher (Akademische Rätin) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of Psychological Assessment
• 2013-2020: Postdoctoral Position, Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; 5-month research stay at Stanford University, Lifespan Development Lab
• 2012-2013: Business Intelligence Manager, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Munich
• 2008-2012: Research Associate at Technische Universität München, Chair for Services and Technology Marketing; 3-month research stay at Universität Zürich, Switzerland, Chair for Marketing and Market Research
• 2006-2008: Boston Consulting Group, Center for Consumer Insight, Munich

Education

• Habilitation in Psychology (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2020)
• Doctoral degree in business administration (Dr. rer. pol., Technische Universität München, 2011)
• Diploma in Psychology (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2006)

Research

Research Interests

• Workplace relationships
• Work orientations
• Aging at work

Selected Publications

• Hommelhoff, S., Keller, F., & Stemmler, M. (2025). Turnover reasons are more complex than “people quit bosses”: An approach-avoidance perspective. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 158: 104099.
• Hommelhoff, S., Richter, D., & Scheibe, S. (2024). Sexual jokes and conversations at the workplace and their relation to employee well‐being: Results from a longitudinal study. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 97(3): 767-775.
• Scheibe, S., Retzlaff, L., Hommelhoff, S., & Schmitt, A. (2024). Age‐related differences in the use of boundary management tactics when teleworking: Implications for productivity and work‐life balance. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 97(4): 1330-1352.
• Hommelhoff, S., Leickert, T., & Liao, H. W. (2023). Reminiscence about work life in retirement: What is remembered? Why might it matter? Work, Aging and Retirement, 9(3): 312-322.
• Hommelhoff, S., & Götz, D. (2022). We are all friends and family here! How jobseekers react to communal job advertisements. German Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 67(2): 80-91.
• Hommelhoff, S., Weseler, D., & Niessen, C. (2021). The role of cognitive job crafting in the relationship between turnover intentions, negative affect, and task mastery. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 34(6): 704-718.
• Hommelhoff, S., Richter, D., Niessen, C., Gerstorf, D., & Heckhausen, J. (2020). Being unengaged at work but still dedicating time and energy: A longitudinal study. Motivation Science, 6(4): 368-373.
• Hommelhoff, S. (2019). Having workplace friends is not always fun: A critical incident study. German Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 63(3): 152-164.
• Hommelhoff, S., Müller, T., & Scheibe, S. (2018). Experimental evidence for the influence of occupational future time perspective on social preferences during lunch breaks. Work, Aging and Retirement, 4(4): 367-380.
• Niessen, C., Müller, T., Hommelhoff, S., & Westman, M. (2018). The impact of preventive coping on business travelers' work and private life. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(1): 113-127.
• Hommelhoff, S. (2017). Implicit managerial theories about followers and customers. Journal of Service Theory and Practice, 27(1), 47-68.
• Hommelhoff, S., & Richter, D. (2017). Refuting the cliché of the distrustful manager. European Management Journal, 35(2): 164-173.
• Hommelhoff, S., & von Wangenheim, F. (2015). How relationship norms affect consumers’ stance on differential customer treatment. Schmalenbach Business Review, 67(2): 196-225.
• Mayser, S., & von Wangenheim, F. (2013). Perceived fairness of differential customer treatment: Consumers’ understanding of distributive justice really matters. Journal of Service Research, 16(1): 99-113.
• Mayser, S., Scheibe, S., & Riediger, M. (2008). (Un) reachable? An empirical differentiation of goals and life longings. European Psychologist, 13(2): 126-140.