Joerg Dietz

Joerg Dietz
CitizenshipGerman
EducationTulane University, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Bankakademie Frankfurt
Known forResearch on workplace diversity, employee-customer linkages, workplace discrimination
Scientific career
FieldsOrganizational Behavior, Discrimination
WorkplacesHEC Lausanne, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
Arthur P. Brief
Doctoral students
Thomas Fischer (academic)
WebsiteJoerg Dietz at HEC Lausanne

Joerg Dietz is a German Organizational Behavior academic and a professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior at HEC Lausanne. His research addressed leadership, contextual antecedents of organizational behavior, and diversity-related issues.

Early life and education

Dietz received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Tulane University in 2000, where his dissertation examined organizational climate on employee well-being and organizational effectiveness.[1]

Academic career

Dietz began his academic career as an assistant professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in 1999. He later became associate professor and held the Donald F. Hunter Professorship in International Business.[2] In 2009, he joined HEC Lausanne as a full professor and was appointed head of the Department of Organizational Behavior.[3] From 2012 to 2018 he served as Vice Dean of Faculty and Research, and then again as department head from 2018 to 2021. He has been a visiting scholar at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and an adjunct professor a Geneva Graduate Institute.[4]

Research

Dietz's research examines organizational behavior, including leadership and workplace diversity. He investigated leadership styles and leadership processes, with a focus on improving causal inference.[5]

His work has examined leadership research methods and questions of causal inference . He has also co-authored research on employment discrimination, including the relationship between decision-makers' demographic preferences and organizational commitment.[6] Other publications have considered how organizational and community contexts may be associated with workplace outcomes, including workplace aggression, customer satisfaction, and perceptions of diversity climate.[7] His research also covers the effects of organizational climate on employee performance, as well as employee-customer linkages in service organizations.[8] Throughout his career, Dietz has also worked on theory- and methods-related themes, including how to develop actionable theories.

His research contributions have been published in journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Business Ethics.

Awards and honors

  • Best Paper Award at the Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada in 2001.[9]
  • Co-winner of the Ivey Innovative Teaching Award in 2002 for the HBA program.[2]
  • The Outstanding Publication Award in Gender, Diversity, and Organization from the Academy of Management in 2008.[10]
  • The Richard Ivey School of Business's Fellowship in Teaching Innovation, awarded for outstanding teaching in 2008.[2]
  • Carolyn Dexter Award from the Academy of Management in 2010 for a paper on scientific mindfulness.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Dietz, Joerg (2000). Serving employees in service organizations: Three competing models of organizational climate for employee well-being effects on organizational effectiveness (Thesis). OCLC 1404396122. ProQuest 304630808.
  2. 1 2 3 HEC Lausanne Faculty Profile, Joerg Dietz
  3. ↑ "Joerg Dietz Faculty Profile". HEC Lausanne. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
  4. ↑ "Joerg Dietz Applying Organisation Theories to Practice" (PDF). Geneva Graduate Institute. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
  5. ↑ Fischer, Thomas; Dietz, Joerg; Antonakis, John (2024-06-01). "A fatal flaw: Positive leadership style research creates causal illusions". The Leadership Quarterly. 35 (3) 101771. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101771. ISSN 1048-9843.
  6. ↑ "APA PsycNet".
  7. ↑ Dietz, Joerg (1 October 2005). "Community matters: Realistic group conflict theory and the impact of diversity". Academy of Management Journal. 48 (5): 830–844. doi:10.5465/amj.2005.18803925. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
  8. ↑ Dietz, Joerg; Pugh, S. Douglas; Wiley, Jack W. (February 2004). "Service Climate Effects on Customer Attitudes: An Examination of Boundary Conditions". Academy of Management Journal. 47 (1): 81–92. doi:10.5465/20159561. ISSN 0001-4273. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
  9. ↑ Dietz, J.; Seijts, G. H. (2001). Does research improve teaching in business schools? Its impact on student quality, student salaries, and rankings. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.
  10. ↑ Petersen LE, Dietz J (2008). "Employment discrimination: Authority figures' demographic preferences and followers' affective organizational commitment". Journal of Applied Psychology. 93 (6): 1287–1300. doi:10.1037/a0012867. PMID 19025248.
  11. ↑ Jonsen K, Aycan Z, Berdrow I, Boyacigiller N, Brannen MY, Canney S, Dietz J, Gluesing J, Kwantes TC, Lazarova M, Madzar S, Maloney MM, Maznevski ML, Mcdonough EF, Taylor S, Thomas D, Weber T (2010). "Scientific mindfulness: A foundation for future themes in international business". Academy of Management Proceedings: 1–6. doi:10.5465/ambpp.2010.54492165.
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