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Claudia Kitz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Organizational Psychology at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. She holds a PhD, MSc, and BSc in Psychology from the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and has industry experience at Infineon Technologies and the Carinthian Alliance Against Depression.
- Education:
- PhD in Social Sciences and Economics (Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management), University of Klagenfurt
- MSc in Psychology, University of Klagenfurt
- BSc in Psychology, University of Klagenfurt
Her research focuses on the psychological and organizational impact of delivering bad news in workplace settings, including layoffs, denied promotions, and negative performance evaluations. She investigates how such communication affects individual behavior, workplace relationships, and organizational reputation, while exploring pathways to positive outcomes after negative experiences. Methodologically, she employs natural experiments, web scraping, machine learning, and large language models.
Recent projects include analyzing mass layoffs in the tech industry during economic recessions and AI-driven uncertainty, using mixed-method strategies like sentiment analysis, structural topic modeling, and longitudinal data. She also studies self-regulation in leadership, resilience development, and organizational adaptation to aging workforces.
She serves as an external lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Faculty of Law and Business, University of Klagenfurt. Her work emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly with sociological and financial perspectives, to address macro-level industry transformations alongside micro-level individual coping mechanisms.
