Faculty
Julian PFROMBECK
Ph.D., ETH Zurich
Assistant Professor
Rm 334, Chen Kou Bun Building
julianpfrombeck@cuhk.edu.hk
3943 9229
2603 5019
Brief Introduction
Julian Pfrombeck joined the Department of Psychology in 2023. He obtained his PhD from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University prior to joining CUHK. His research investigates age diversity and aging in work-related contexts.
Teaching Areas
- PSYC3810- Applied Psychology in Business
- PSYC6520- Engagement & Motivation in Organizations
- PSYC6570- Seminar in Consumer Psychology
Research Interests
In the first stream of his research, Julian Pfrombeck focuses on social interactions at work among age-diverse employees (e.g., knowledge transfer, feedback, speaking up) and their implications for personal development, social relationships, as well as organizational learning and success. The second stream of his research investigates how individuals navigate their careers, job changes, and job search during unemployment, especially in the later stages of their work life.
Publications
Pfrombeck, J., Burmeister, A., & Grote, G. (in press). The positive and negative effects of older workers’ knowledge seeking from younger coworkers: Disentangling countervailing forces to successful aging at work. Journal of Organizational Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2751
Pfrombeck, J., Galinsky, A. D., Nagy, N., North, M. S., Brockner, J., & Grote, G. (2023). Self-affirmation increases reemployment success for the unemployed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(37) e2301532120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301532120
Pfrombeck, J., Galinsky, A. D., Nagy, N., North, M. S., Brockner, J., & Grote, G. (in press). Self-affirmation increases reemployment success for the unemployed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Doden, W., Pfrombeck, J., & Grote, G. (2023). Are ‘job hoppers’ trapped in a hedonic treadmill? Effects of career orientations on newcomers’ job satisfaction and turnover intention patterns. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(1), 64-83. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2665
Pfrombeck, J., Levin, C., Rucker, D. D., & Galinsky, A. D. (2022). The hierarchy of voice framework: The dynamic relationship between employee voice and social hierarchy. Research in Organizational Behavior, 42, 100179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.riob.2022.100179
Grote, G.*, & Pfrombeck, J*. (2020). Uncertainty in aging and lifespan research: Covid-19 as catalyst for addressing the elephant in the room. Work, Aging and Retirement, 6(4), 246-250. https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/waaa020
*authors contributed equally to this work.
Pfrombeck, J., Doden, W., Grote, G., & Feierabend, A. (2020). A study of organizational cynicism and how it is affected by social exchange relationships at work. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 93(3), 578-604. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12306
