Dr. Johannes Arendt
Associated Researcher
Economic and Organisational Psychology
Research interests
- Relational Models
- Social Relationships at Work
- Jusice Perception
- Mindfulness at Work
Academic career
- since 2026
- Associated professor for Work, Organisational and Business Psychology at the Department Business Administration Online, MCI - The Entrepreneurial School, Innsbruck
- since 2025
- Associated researcher at the Chair of Economic and Organisational Psychology, University of Munich
- 2025-2026
- Senior lecturer at the Department Business Administration Online, MCI - The Entrepreneurial School, Innsbruck
- 2022-2025
- Research assistant at the Chair of Economic and Organisational Psychology, University of Munich
- 2019-2022
- Research staff member at the Institute of Psychology, UMIT, Hall in Tyrole
- 2019-2022
- Associated researcher at the Chair of Economic and Organisational Psychology, University of Munich
- 2014-2019
- Research assistant at the Chair of Economic and Organisational Psychology, University of Munich
- 2013-2018
- Lecturer at the Institute of Psychology, University of Innsbruck
Selected publications
- Pircher Verdorfer, A., & Arendt, J. F. W. (2024). Mindful together: examining the effect of mindfulness congruence on the quality of leader-follower relationships. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-07080-4
- Arendt, J. F. W., Kugler, K. G., & Brodbeck, F. C. (2024). When team members (dis) agree about social rules and norms: a shared relational models approach to explaining team viability. Current Psychology, 43(21), 19121-19139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-05680-8
- Arendt, J. F. W., Kugler, K. G., Brodbeck, F. C. (2022). Being on the Same Page about Social Rules and Norms: Effects of Shared Relational Models on Cooperation in Work Teams. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 26(5),1119-1139. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221088506
- Bunjak, A., Hafenbrack, A., Černe, M, Arendt, J. F. W. (2022). Better to Be Mindful, Optimistic, or Both? The Interaction between Optimism, Mindfulness, and Task Engagement. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12389
- Arendt, J. F. W., Kugler, K. G., & Brodbeck, F. C. (2021). Conflicting relational models as a predictor of (in)justice perceptions and (un)cooperative behavior at work. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 5, 183-202. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.85
- Arendt, J. F. W., Pircher Verdorfer, A., & Kugler, K. G. (2019). Mindfulness and Leadership: Communication as a Behavioral Correlate of Leader Mindfulness and Its Effect on Follower Satisfaction. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 667. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00667
- Arendt, J. F. W., & Pircher Verdorfer, A. (2025). Mindful Communication Scale (MCS). In O. N. Medvedev, C. U. Krägeloh, R. J. Siegert & N. N. Singh (Eds.), Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research (pp. 1-7). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77644-2_127-1
- Pircher Verdorfer, A. & Arendt, J. F. W. (2018). Mindfulness as a building block for servant leadership. In D. Van Dierendonck & K. Patterson (Eds.) Practicing Servant Leadership - Developments in Implementation (pp.101-116). Palgrave Macmillan.