Prof Dr Mona Weiss

Since April 2024
University professor (W3) for Work and Organisational Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

2018 to 2024
Junior Professor (W1) for Management and Diversity, Department of Economics and Business Administration-Focus: Business Administration, Freie Universität Berlin

2017-2018
Parental leave

2015-2017
Post-doc, New York University, Stern School of Business, New York, USA, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

February 2015
Doctorate, Dr. sc. ETH Zurich

2011-2014
Research Associate at (university) chair of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, ETH Zurich

2010-2011
Project manager and advisory service(s)|consultations, Accelerom AG, Zurich

2004-2009
Studied Psychology at the Universities of Halle-Wittenberg, Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia)

• Dealing with critical issues in the workplace (Employee Voice)
• Teamwork and coordination
• Healthcare and patient safety
• Age and ageing in the work context
• Accepting and introducing new technologies
• Wellbeing and health in the workplace

Weiss, M. & Zacher, H. (2024, in press). Still waters run deep: How employee silence affects incited incivility in the workplace over time. Journal of Business Ethics.

Röllmann, L. F., Weiss, M., & Zacher, H. (2024). Discussion and well-being in self-managed groups: the moderating role of divergent status perceptions. Current Psychology, 43(10), 8989-9004.

Weiss, M., Morrison, E.W., Szyld, D. (2023). I like what you say, but only when I feel safe: Psychological safety moderates the relationship between voice and perceived contribution to health team effectiveness. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1129359.

Weiss, D., Weiss, M., Rudolph, C. W., & Zacher, H. (2022). Tough times at the top: Occupation predicts changes in job satisfaction in times of crisis. Journal of Vocational Behaviour, 139, 103804.

Weiss, M. (2022). The critical role of team processes and team reflexivity in the emergence and prevention of racially motivated police violence. Industrial and Organisational Psychology, 15(4), 617-620.

Weiss, M., Weiss, D., & Zacher, H. (2022, in press). All set in stone?. How essentialist beliefs about age affect older workers' motivation to work beyond retirement age. Journal of Organisational Behavior, 43, 1446-1461.

Weiss, M. & Zacher, H. (2022). When and why voice leads to increased job engagement: The role of perceived voice value and emotional stability. Journal of Vocational Behaviour, 132, 103662

Weiss, D. & Weiss, M. (2021). Beyond Chronological Age: Alternative age constructs and their implications in the work context. In Zacher, H. & Rudolph, C. (Eds.), Age and Work: Advances in Theory, Methods, and Practice. The SIOP Organisational Frontiers Series. Routledge.

Röllmann, L. F., Weiss, M., & Zacher, H. (2021). Does voice benefit or harm job well-being? The role of job insecurity. British Journal of Management, 32, 708-724.

Weiss, D., & Weiss, M. (2019). Why people feel younger: Motivational and social-cognitive mechanisms of subjective age bias and its implications for work and organisations. Work, Aging and Retirement, 5(4), 273-280.

Weiss, M. & Morrison, E. W. (2019). Speaking up and moving up? How voice influences employees' social status. Journal of Organisational Behavior, 40(1), 5-19.

Tscholl, D. W., Handschin, L., Rössler, J., Weiss, M., Spahn, D. R., & Nöthiger, C. B. (2019). It's not you, it's the design-common problems with patient monitoring reported by anaesthesiologists: a mixed qualitative and quantitative study. BMC Anaesthesiology, 19(1), 1-10.

Weiss, M., Kolbe, M, Grote, G., Spahn, D., R., & Grande, B. (2018). We can do it! Inclusive leadership language promotes vocal behaviour in multiprofessional teams. The Leadership Quarterly, 29(3), 389-402.

Tscholl, D. W., Handschin, L., Neubauer, P., Weiss, M., Seifert, B., Spahn, D. R., ... & Ganter, M. T. (2018). Using an animated patient avatar to improve anaesthesia professionals' perception of vital signs. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 121(3), 662-671.

Weiss, M., Kolbe, M, Grote, G., Spahn, D., R., & Grande, B. (2017). Why didn't you say something? Effects of after-event reviews on voting behaviour and beliefs in multiprofessional action teams. European Journal of Work and Organisational Psychology, 26, 66-80

Weiss, D. & Weiss, M. (2016). The interplay of subjective social status and essentialist beliefs about age on cortisol responses to challenge in older adults. Psychophysiology, 53, 1256-1262.

Tscholl, D. W., Weiss, M., Noethiger, C. & Spahn D. R. (2016). How to conduct multi-method field studies in the operating theatre: The iPad® in combination with an application as a valid and reliable data collection tool. JMIR Research Protocols,5(1): e4.

Tscholl, D. W., Weiss, M., Kolbe, M., Staender, S., Seifert, B., Landert, D., ... Noethiger, C. B. (2015). An anaesthesia induction checklist for improvement of information sharing, knowledge of critical information, perception of safety and possibly perception of teamwork in anaesthesia teams. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 121, 948-956.

Schick, C., Weiss, M., Marty, A., Dambach, M., Spahn, D. R., Grote, G., Kolbe, M., & Grande, B. (2015). Simulation with PARTS (Phase Augmented Research and Training Scenarios): a structure to facilitate focused research and evaluation for crisis resource management simulation and team training. Simulation in Healthcare, 10, 178-187.

Weiss, M., Kolbe, M., Grote, G., Dambach, M., Marty, A., Spahn, D., & Grande, B. (2014). Agency and Communion predict speaking up in acute care teams. Small Group Research, 45, 290-313.

*Grande, B., Weiss, M., Biro, P., Grote, G., Steiger, P., Spahn, D. R. & Kolbe, M. (2014). Do we have to talk? Technical vs. combined technical (non-technical) airway training in anaesthesia and intensive care. [Is talking important? Technical vs. combined technical/non-technical airway training in anaesthesia and intensive care]. Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, 56, 5-12 *joint first authorship

Kolbe, M., Weiss, M., Grote, G., Knauth, A., Dambach, M., Spahn, D. R., & Grande, B. (2013). TeamGAINS: A tool for structured debriefings for simulation-based team training. BMJ Quality & Safety, 22, 541-553.

Von Hippel, C., Issa [Weiss], M., Ma, R., & Stokes, A. (2011). Stereotype threat: Antecedents and consequences for working women. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41(2),151-161.

Martiny-Hünger, T., Thürmer, J. L., Issa [Weiss], M., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2011). In support of reflexive behavioural determinants. [On the support of reflexive behavioural determinants]. Psychologische Rundschau, 62, 179-187.