Danina MainkaView profile
Lecturer
Danina Mainka serves as a Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Business Administration within the Faculty of Business and Economics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Working under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Süß, she contributes to the Chair of Business Administration with a specialization in Work, Human Resources and Organization. Her primary research interests center on job crafting phenomena, examining how employees proactively reshape their work roles and responsibilities. She investigates these processes through both experimental and qualitative methodologies, with particular attention to contextual factors including part-time employment arrangements and craft industry settings. Her work explores the cognitive and behavioral responses to job crafting from multiple perspectives including managers, coworkers, and employees themselves. Analysis of her recent conference presentations reveals a clear research trajectory showing increasing focus on digital transformation in traditional industries, particularly skilled trades. While her early work concentrated on fundamental job crafting mechanisms, her more recent research examines how these processes interact with broader organizational changes driven by digitalization. Her methodological approach consistently combines rigorous experimental design with practical organizational applications. Danina Mainka actively collaborates with researchers including Stefan Süß, Annika Pestotnik, and Sarah Altmann, frequently presenting at major academic conferences such as the Academy of Management Meeting and the Working Group for Empirical Personnel and Organizational Research (AKempor). Her research contributes to bridging theoretical organizational behavior concepts with practical human resource management applications, particularly in non-traditional work contexts.
