Dr. Carolin Dietz

Academic Career

• 2022 – present:Teaching & Research Assistant, Professorship of Work-, Organizational-, and Economic Psychology, University of Technology Chemnitz
• 2022:Research Assistant, Europa-Universität Flensburg
• 2020 – 2022:Research Assistant, Project “Zentrum digitale Arbeit”, Leipzig University
• 2016 – 2021:Ph.D. in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.), Leipzig University, Prof. Hannes Zacher, Thesis title: „Antecedents and Consequences of Employee Presenteeism: Evidence from Longitudinal and Experimental Studies”, Final grade: “summa cum laude”
• 2012 – 2019:Bachelor of Science in Economics, Leipzig University
• 2015 – 2020:Teaching & Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Leipzig University
• 2012 – 2015:Master of Science in Psychology, Leipzig University
• 2009 – 2012:Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Leipzig University

Research Interests

• Management of acute and chronic sickness in the work context, especially sickness presence
• Digitization driven transformation of work characteristics and employee behavior, health, and well being
• The role of leadership and job design for employees’ occupational health and well-being, especially links between specific leader behaviors and employee health

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Dietz, C. & Scheel, T. (2017). Leadership and presenteeism among scientific staff: The role of accumulation of work and time pressure. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1885.
• Ruhle, S. A., Breitsohl, H., Aboagye, E., Baba, V., Biron, C., Correia Leal, C., Dietz, C., Ferreira, A.I., Gerich, J., Johns, G., Karanika-Murray, M., Lohaus, D., Løkke, A., Lopes, S. L. , Martinez, L. F., Miraglia, M., Muschalla, B., Poethke, U., Sarwat, N., Schade, H., Steidelmüller, C., Vinberg, S., Whysall, Z., Yang, T. (2019). “To work, or not to work, that is the question” – Recent trends and avenues for research on presenteeism, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2019.1704734
• Dietz, C., Zacher, H., Scheel, T., Otto, K. & Rigotti, T. (2020). Leaders as role models: Effects of leader presenteeism on employee presenteeism and sick leave. Work & Stress, https://doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2020.1728420
• Dietz, C. & Zacher, H. (2021). Effects of employee presenteeism on customer repurchase and recommendation intentions: The role of customer affective reactions. Journal of Business and Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-021-09764-1
• Weigelt, O., French, K. A., de Bloom, J., Dietz, C., Knoll, M., Kühnel, J., Meier, L. L., Pindek, S., Prem, R., Schmitt, A., Syrek, C. J., & Rink, F. A. (in press). Moving from opposition to taking ownership of open science to make discoveries that matter.Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.
• Dietz, C., Bauermann, P., & Zacher, H. (2022). Relationships between ICT Use for Task and Social Functions, Work Characteristics, and Employee Task Proficiency and Job Satisfaction: Does Age Matter?. Merits, https://doi.org/10.3390/merits2030016
• Dietz, C., & Zacher, H. (2023). Reciprocal Effects of Sickness Presence, Job Satisfaction, and Health: A Six-Wave Longitudinal Study. Occupational Health Science, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00154-y 

• Dietz, C., Weigelt, O., Meyer, B., & Syrek, C. (2025). It's getting kind of heavy. – Linking episodes of sickness presence to changes in fatigue over time. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000411 

• Mohr, M., & Dietz, C. (2025). It’s got to be perfect? Differentiating the unique daily relationships of perfectionism and excellencism with employee effort, performance and fatigue. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 98, e70034. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70034 

• Ruhle, S. A., Breitsohl, H., Dietz, C., Martinez, L. F., & Miraglia, M. (2026). Navigating opportunities and pitfalls in workplace attendance behaviour research: towards conceptual and methodological clarity. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 35(2), 151–163. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2026.2621587 

Conference Contributions (Selection)

• Dietz, C. & Weigelt, O. Wie bedenklich kann krank arbeiten schon sein? Eine Wochenbuchstudie zu Präsentismus und Fatigue. 52. Congress of the German Psychological Society, Hildesheim, Germany, September 10^th – 15^th, 2022.
• Dietz, C., Meyer, B., Syrek, C., & Weigelt, O. (2023). Präsentismus und Ermüdung: Eine episodische Perspektive auf kurzfristige und mittelfristige Belastungs- und Erholungsprozesse. 13. Conference of Section for Industrial and Organizational Psychology of the German Psychological Society, Kassel, Germany, September 12^th – 15^th, 2023.
• Dietz, C. Sickness Presence during a Pandemic: The Role of Governmental Pandemic Guidelines and Telework. 21. Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP), Katowice, Poland, Mai 24^th – 27^th, 2023.
• Dietz, C., Weißbach, L A., Ulrich, L., & Posch, M. Präsentismus und energetisches Wohlbefinden - Eine Wochenbuchstudie zur Rolle von Erholung am Wochenende. 53. Congress of the German Psychological Society, Vienna, Austria, September 16^th – 19^th, 2024.
• Dietz, C. Attendance Behavior – On the Importance of Time. Conference on Understanding Attendance Behaviour in Context, Place, and Time. Leicester, UK, June 3^rd – 4^th, 2025
• Dietz, C. Exploring Temporal Aspects of Associations Between Sickness Presence Episodes, Strain and Recovery. 85. Congress of the Academy of Management (AOM). Copenhagen, Denmark, July 25^th – 29^th, 2025. 
• Dietz, C. & Mohr, M. Präsentismus und Fatigue - Eine Tagebuchstudie zur Rolle von Mikropausen während des Arbeitstages. 14. Conference of Section for Industrial and Organizational Psychology of the German Psychological Society, Lüneburg, Germany, September 9^th – 12^th, 2025.