Johnny Hellgren

Johnny Hellgren is a University Lecturer and Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, specializing in Work and Organizational Psychology. His academic profile shows active engagement in both teaching and research within organizational behavior, with a particular focus on pay systems, job insecurity, and employee attitudes.

His primary research interests include:

• Pay justice and compensation systems
• Job insecurity and its effects on performance
• Employee voice and silence strategies
• Non-standard employment contracts
• Union membership and labor relations
• Personnel recruitment and selection
• Leadership and organizational change

Hellgren's research employs both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with substantial focus on Swedish workplaces across various sectors. His recent work has examined compensation profiles among private sector employees using latent profile analysis, revealing how combinations of pay level, perceived horizontal pay dispersion, and procedural quality affect employee outcomes. His research demonstrates that higher pay levels generally correlate with better performance and health outcomes, particularly when combined with high procedural quality.

Hellgren has been actively publishing in high-impact journals including Frontiers in Psychology, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Journal of Social Work. His work shows a consistent trajectory examining how organizational practices affect employee attitudes, behaviors, and wellbeing, with particular attention to fair treatment in pay systems and the consequences of job insecurity.

He has contributed to significant research projects including "Legitimitet i lönebildningen" (Legitimacy in wage formation), which aimed to contribute to more secure knowledge about wage setting in the private sector, and "NOWSTARS," which examined employment contracts, insecurity, union membership, working conditions, and work-related attitudes and health among women and men in flexible labor markets.