Prof. Dr. Gudela Grote

Gudela Grote has been full Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics since 2000. Before she was Assistant Professor (since 1992) and Associate Professor (since 1997) at the ETH Zurich. Gudela Grote studied psychology at the University of Marburg and at the Technical University in Berlin. She received her doctorate at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, in 1987. Since 1988 she has continued her research at the ETH Zurich. She has held visiting positions among others at the University of Sheffield, Birkbeck University of London, Curtin University, NASA Ames, MIT, and Stanford.

The main objective of her research is to provide psychologically based concepts and methods for integrative job and organizational design, taking into consideration the changing technological, economic and societal demands and opportunities. A special interest in her research are the increasing flexibility and virtuality of work and their consequences for the individual and organizational management of uncertainty. Application fields for Prof. Grote's research are e.g. teamwork and standardization in high-risk systems, uncertainty regulation and uncertainty mindsets, and effects of new technologies such as artificial intelligence on work processes of technology developers and users.

Prof. Grote is has been associate editor of the journal Safety Science and is currently member of the editorial board of several journals, such Journal of Applied Psychology and Academy of Management Review. She has published widely on topics in organizational behavior, human factors, human resource management, and safety management. She has worked with companies such as the Swiss Railways and Swiss Re and with public organizations, especially regulatory agencies. Gudela Grote has been Head of the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zürich and President of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology. She is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and member of the Swiss National Research Council. Together with Prof. Bruno Staffelbach (University of Lucerne) she publishes the "Schweizer Human Relations-Barometer", a biennially representative survey of employees in Switzerland. Since 2020, she is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and since 2024 Co-Chair of the Thinking Ahead On Societal Change (TASC) Platform associated with the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.