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 Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences

Anne Burmeister

Research focuses

work and aging, age diversity, inclusion, knowledge transfer, interpersonal interactions, workplace friendship, remote work

Curriculum vitae

  • 01/2023: Full Professor Organisational Behaviour, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne, Germany

  • 10/2022 - 12/2022: Associate Professor Human Resource Management (with early tenure) Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands

  • 01/2019 - 10/2022: Assistant Professor Human Resource Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands

  • 01/2017 - 12/2018: Postdoctoral Researcher Work and Organisational Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland

  • 01/2012 - 06/2016: Strategy Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group, Germany

  • 01/2014 - 12/2016: Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (summa cum laude), Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany

  • 10/2010 - 10/2011: Masters in Management and Organisational Analysis (with distinction) Warwick Business School, United Kingdom

  • 10/2007 - 10/2010: Bachelors in Business Psychology (with distinction), Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany

Selected publications

  • Burmeister, A., Song, Y., Wang, M., & Hirschi, A. (2024). Understanding knowledge sharing from an identity-based motivational perspective. Journal of Management. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063241248106
  • Kanitz, R., Reinwald, M., Gonzalez, K., Burmeister, A., Song, Y., & Hoegl, M. (2024). Supportive, resistant, or both? A person-centric view on employee responses to diversity initiatives. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication, doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001190
  • Von Allmen, N.*, Hirschi, A., Burmeister, A., & Shockley, K. (2023). The effectiveness of work-nonwork interventions: A theoretical synthesis and meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication, doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001105
  • Pfrombeck, J., Burmeister, A., & Grote, G. (in press). Older workers' knowledge seeking from younger coworkers: Disentangling countervailing pathways to successful aging at work. Journal of Organizational Behavior. Advance online publication. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2751
  • Fasbender, U., Burmeister, A., & Wang, M. (2023). Managing the risks and side effects of workplace friendships: The moderating role of workplace friendship self-efficacy. Journal of Vocational Behavior, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2023.103875
  • Burmeister, A., Alterman, V., Fasbender, U., & Wang, M. (2022). Too much to know? The cognitive demands of daily knowledge seeking and the buffering role of contact quality. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(8), 1303-1322. doi: 10.1037/apl0000925
  • Burmeister, A., Alterman, V., Fasbender, U., & Wang, M. (2022). Too much to know? The cognitive demands of daily knowledge seeking and the buffering role of coworker contact quality. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(8), 1303–1322. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000925 
  • Li, Y., Gong, Y., Burmeister, A., Wang, M., Alterman, V., Alonso, A., & Robinson, S. (2021). Leveraging age diversity for organizational performance: An intellectual capital perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(1), 71-91. doi: 10.1037/apl0000497
  • Burmeister, A., Wang, M., & Hirschi, A. (2020). Understanding the motivational benefits of knowledge transfer in age-diverse coworker dyads: An actor-partner interdependence model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(7), 748–759. doi: 10.1037/apl0000466
  • Fasbender, U., Burmeister, A., & Wang, M. (2020). Motivated to be socially mindful: Explaining age differences in the effect of employees’ contact quality with coworkers on their coworker support. Personnel Psychology, 73(3), 407-430. doi: 10.1111/peps.12359 

Selected practitioner publications

Selected media publications

  1. BBC, 'Gen X has had to learn or die': Mid-career workers are facing ageism in the job market
  2. Forscherporträt im PERSONALquarterly, Ausgabe 4 | 2023
  3. "Jung und weise" - Article, FAZ 12.08.2023 by Felicitas Witte
  4. "Arbeitsbeziehungen: Kollegen sind auch nur Menschen" - Radiointerview with Host Julia Schöning, WDR 5 Innenwelt, 26.08.2023.