Farewell After Many Years of Service at LMU

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On Monday, October 12, 2026, Felix Brodbeck, Professor of Business and Organizational Psychology at LMU, was honored by the Department of Psychology’s Executive Board as he retired. Felix Brodbeck studied psychology at LMU and earned his diploma in 1987. He then worked as a researcher on a DFG project on human-machine interaction led by Lutz von Rosenstiel and later—between 1994 and 1999—worked on his habilitation (titled “Synergy is not for free: Theoretical models and experiments about performance and performance change in task-oriented small groups”). In 2000, he moved to Aston Business School in Birmingham before returning to LMU in 2007 to succeed Lutz von Rosenstiel.

Brodbeck’s research covers topics at the core of organizational psychology (such as leadership or processes in work teams), as well as social psychology (e.g., gender differences in negotiations, moral convictions, or trust and identification within groups). In addition, Brodbeck, together with Dieter Frey, established a master’s program in “Business, Organizational, and Social Psychology” in 2011.

We would like to thank our colleague Felix Brodbeck from the bottom of our hearts for his dedication and commitment to the department and its values—high academic quality, the integration of theory and practice, fairness in our interactions with one another, and a balanced profile that encompasses the entire field of psychology—and wish him all the best in his retirement, happiness, good health, and leisure—and that he may long retain his curiosity and enthusiasm for big ideas.