Dr. Wladislaw Rivkin

Associate Professor, Trinity Business School

Biography

Wlad(islaw) has completed his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Dortmund. Before joining Trinity College Dublin Wlad was a researcher at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors in Germany, and at Aston University in the UK. Wlad"s research agenda focuses on how to maintain and improve employees" health, well-being, and effectiveness from stressors, which require employees" self-regulation or self-control. He has vast expertise in applying experience sampling methodology (i.e. daily diary studies) and multilevel research. His research not only demonstrated that daily demands on employees" self-control impair employees" daily well-being but also identified psychological factors such as psychological detachment, affective commitment, and sleep quality, which can protect employees from the harmful effects of self-control at work. Wlad has taught students at undergraduate-, postgraduate-, MBA- and executive levels in different countries including Germany, the UK, Ukraine, and Colombia. His teaching draws not only from his vast theoretical knowledge but also from his experience as a business trainer, and coach. In his, lectures Wlad emphasizes how to apply theories to solve practical challenges. In 2019 Wlad was invited to deliver a course at the Summer School of the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia titled: `Improving Employees" Resilience in Turbulent Times - A Challenge for Future Leaders" Wlad has a track record as a PI of several research projects funded by national governments, Industry, and the European Union. These projects focused on developing and evaluating organizational interventions to facilitate employee effectiveness involving leadership training and work design. He is currently the PI of the Diversity Innovation Support Scheme for SMEs project funded by the European Union"s H2020 program (https://dinnos-h2020.com/)

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Nishat Babu, Evgenia Lysova, Ante Glavas, Lakshmi Chandrasekar, Susana Esper, Josine L. Janssen, Christine Moser, Frank G.A. De Bakker, Nico Heuvinck, Svetlana Khapova, Wladislaw Rivkin, Christopher Wickert, Overcoming the Dichtonomy in Micro-Level CSR Research, 2020Conference Paper, 2020
Wladislaw Rivkin, Stefan Diestel, Jakob Stollberger, Claudia Alexandra Sacramento, The Mechanisms and Boundary Conditions Linking Sleep Duration to Work-Related Functioning, 2020Conference Paper, 2020
Anne-Kathrin Konze, Wladislaw Rivkin, Klaus-Helmut Schmidt, Can faith move mountains? How implicit theories about willpower moderate the adverse effect of daily emotional dissonance on ego-depletion at work and its spillover to the home-domain, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2019Journal Article, 2019
L. Gombert, Wladislaw Rivkin, K.-h. Schmidt, Indirect effects of Daily Self-Control Demands on Subjective Vitality via Ego Depletion - How Daily Psychological Detachment Pays Off, Applied Psychology, 2018Journal Article, 2018
Lilian Gombert, Anne-Kathrin Konze, Wladislaw Rivkin, Klaus-Helmut Schmidt, Protect Your Sleep When Work is Calling, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018Journal Article, 2018
Wladislaw Rivkin, Stefan Diestel, Klaus-Helmut Schmidt, Which daily experiences can foster well-being at work? A diary study on the interplay between flow experiences, affective commitment, and self-control demands., Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2018Journal Article, 2018
Anne-Kathrin Konze, Wladislaw Rivkin, Klaus-Helmut Schmidt, Is Job Control a Double-Edged Sword?, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2017Journal Article, 2017
Klaus-helmut Schmidt, Rüdiger Beck, Wladislaw Rivkin, Stefan Diestel, Self-control demands at work and psychological strain: The moderating role of physical fitness., International Journal of Stress Management, 2016Journal Article, 2016
Wladislaw Rivkin, S. Diestel, K.-h. Schmidt, Affective commitment as a moderator of the adverse relationships between day-specific self-control demands and psychological well-being, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2015Journal Article, 2015, TARA - Full Text
Stefan Diestel, Wladislaw Rivkin, Klaus-Helmut Schmidt, Sleep quality and self-control capacity as protective resources in the daily emotional labor process, Journal of Applied Psychology, 2015Journal Article, 2015
Wladislaw Rivkin, Stefan Diestel, Klaus-Helmut Schmidt, The positive relationship between servant leadership and employees" psychological health, German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management, 2014Journal Article, 2014
W Rivkin, S Diestel, KH Schmidt, Psychological detachment: A moderator in the relationship of self-control demands and job strain, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2015, p376 - 388Journal Article, 2015, DOI , TARA - Full Text
L Gombert, W Rivkin, T Kleinsorge, A diary-study on work-related smartphone use and employees' well-being: The moderating role of basic need satisfaction, Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft, 2018, p111 - 119Journal Article, 2018
AK Konze, W Rivkin, KH Schmidt, Implicit theories about willpower as a moderator of the adverse effect of daily self-control demands on need for recovery, Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft , 2018, p61 - 70Journal Article, 2018
Gerpott, Fabiola H., Rivkin, Wladislaw, Unger, Dana, Stop and go, where is my flow? How and when daily aversive morning commutes are negatively related to employees' motivational states and behavior at work., Journal of Applied Psychology, 2021Journal Article, 2021, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Wladislaw Rivkin, Stefan Diestel, Klaus-Helmut Schmidt, Which Daily Experiences Can Foster Well-Being at Work?, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2018Journal Article, 2018, DOI
Wladislaw Rivkin, Klaus-helmut Schmidt, Beneficial Effects of Servant Leadership on Short- and Long-Term Indicators of Employees" Psychological Health, Advances in Ergonomic Design of Systems, Products and Processes, 2016Journal Article, 2016, DOI
Rivkin, Wladislaw, Diestel, Stefan, Stollberger, Jakob, Sacramento, Claudia, The role of regulatory, affective, and motivational resources in the adverse spillover of sleep in the home domain to employee effectiveness in the work domain, Human Relations, 2021, p001872672110524Journal Article, 2021, DOI
Schweitzer, Vera M., Rivkin, Wladislaw, Gerpott, Fabiola H., Diestel, Stefan, Kühnel, Jana, Prem, Roman, Wang, Mo, Some positivity per day can protect you a long way: A within-person field experiment to test an affect-resource model of employee effectiveness at work, Work & Stress, 2022, p1-20Journal Article, 2022, DOI
Gerpott, Fabiola H., Rivkin, Wladislaw, Unger, Dana, Autonomous or controlled self-regulation, that is the question: A self-determination perspective on the impact of commuting on employees" domain-specific functioning, Organizational Psychology Review, 2022, p204138662211336Journal Article, 2022, DOI
Woods, Stephen A., Napiersky, Uwe, Rivkin, Wladislaw, Learning to self"lead: Examining self"leadership strategies, personality traits and learning attainment, Applied Psychology, 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI
Rivkin, Wladislaw, Diestel, Stefan, Gerpott, Fabiola H., Unger, Dana, Should I stay or should I go? The role of daily presenteeism as an adaptive response to perform at work despite somatic complaints for employee effectiveness., Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 27, (4), 2022, p411-425Journal Article, 2022, DOI
Gerpott, Fabiola H., Rivkin, Wladislaw, Diestel, Stefan, Keep it steady? Not only average self-control demands matter for employees" work engagement, but also variability, Work & Stress, 2023, p1-22Journal Article, 2023, DOI
Schweitzer, Vera M., Gerpott, Fabiola H., Rivkin, Wladislaw, Stollberger, Jakob, (Don"t) mind the gap? Information gaps compound curiosity yet also feed frustration at work, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 178, 2023, p104276Journal Article, 2023, DOI
Babu N., DeRoeck K., Rivkin W., Bhattacharya S., I can do good even when my supervisor is bad: Abusive supervision and employee socially responsible behaviour, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 2023Journal Article, 2023, DOI
Hohnemann C., Rivkin W., Diestel S., An Energizing Microintervention: How Mindfulness Fosters Subjective Vitality Through Regulatory Processes and Flow Experience at Work, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2023Journal Article, 2023, DOI
Fasbender, Ulrike, Rivkin, Wladislaw, Gerpott, Fabiola H., Good for you, bad for me? The daily dynamics of perspective taking and well-being in coworker dyads., Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 29, (1), 2024, p1-13Journal Article, 2024, DOI
Rivkin, Wladislaw, Moser, Karin S., Diestel, Stefan, Alshaikh, Isaac, Getting into flow during virtual meetings: How virtual meetings can benefit employee functioning in the work- and home domain, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 150, 2024, p103984Journal Article, 2024, DOI
Psychological development in, editor(s)S. Hayes, D. Barnes-Holmes & B. Roche , Relational frame theory: Creating an alternative behavioural agenda in language and cognition, Reno NV, Context Press, 2001, [Barnes-Homes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., Roche, B., Healy, O., Lyddy, F., Cullinan, V., & Hayes, S.C.]Book Chapter, 2001

Job Strain in, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology, 2017, [Wladislaw Rivkin, Klaus-Helmut Schmidt]Book Chapter
Positive und negative Effekte der Selbststeuerung auf psychische Gesundheit und Motivation in, editor(s)Jochmann, I. Böckenholt, S. Diestel , HR Exzellenz in Leadership & Transformation, Springer, 2017, pp375 - 406, [Stefan Diestel, Wladislaw Rivkin, Klaus-Helmut Schmidt]Book Chapter
Training Interventions to Increase Innovation and Productivity in Age-Diverse Teams in, editor(s)B., Deml, P. Stock, R. Bruder, C.M., Schlick , Advances in Ergonomic Design of Systems, Products and Processes, Germany, Springer, 2017, pp115 - 124, [K. Küper, Wladislaw Rivkin, K.-H. Schmidt]Book Chapter
Resources buffering the day-specific relations between work-related self-control demands and employee well-being in, editor(s)C.Saunders , Psychology of Self-Control, 2016, [Wladislaw Rivkin, Klaus Helmut Schmidt]Book Chapter
Advances in Ergonomic Design of Systems, Products and Processes in, editor(s)B., Deml, P. Stock, R. Bruder, C.M., Schlick , Beneficial Effects of Servant Leadership on Short- and Long-Term Indicators of Employees' Psychological Health, Springer, 2016, [Wladislaw Rivkin, Klaus-helmut Schmidt]Book Chapter
Innovationskraft altersgemischter Belegschaften steigern -- Eine ganzheitliche Intervention in, editor(s)Sabina Jeschke, Anja Richert, Frank Hees, Claudia Jooß , Exploring Demographics, 2015, pp463 - 475, [Kristina Küper, Wladislaw Rivkin, Stefan Diestel, Klaus-Helmut Schmidt, Theresa Myskovszky von Myrow, Philipp Przybysz, Christian Ahlfeld, Martina Frießem, Joachim Zülch, Susanne Kleibömer, Julia Günnewig, Michael te Heesen, Michael te Falkenstein]Book Chapter
Gesundheitsorientierte Führung in, editor(s)A. Gerlmaier, E. Latniak , Handbuch Psycho-Soziale Gestaltung Digitaler Produktionsarbeit, Springer, 2019, pp344 - 348, [W. Rivkin]Book Chapter
Training von Führungskompetenzen zur Steigerung der Innovation und Produktivität in altersgemischten Teams in, editor(s)T. Langhoff, M. Bornewasser, E. Heidling, B. Kriegesmann M. Falkenstein , Innovationskompetenz im demografischen Wandel: Konzepte und Lösungen für die unternehmerische Praxis, Springer, 2015, pp90 - 109, [Bröker, L., Rivkin, W., & Günnewig, J.]Book Chapter

Research Expertise

Description

My research agenda, so far, has focused on self-control demands and emotional labour as dominant sources of stress in modern occupations. More specifically, today's work requires employees to control emotions and affective states for example when dealing with challenging beneficiaries, resist distractions (i.e., by smartphones and social media), and overcome motivational barriers when working on unattractive tasks. Effective coping with such demands requires self-control or willpower in more colloquial terms. Theoretical models suggest that exerting self-control is an effortful process, which diminishes the capacity to further engage in self-control. To illustrate, imagine a dieter who after a stressful day at work cannot refrain from eating a chocolate bar because (s)he does not have sufficient resources to maintain their diet. In this context, my previous research has identified resilience factors (i.e., affective commitment, flow experiences, psychological detachment, and sleep quality), which can protect employees from the adverse effects of self-control-related stressors. My research also highlights my methodical expertise in study design (i.e., cross-sectional-, longitudinal-, different types of diary studies, and randomized control trials) and data analysis (i.e., hierarchical linear regression, structure equation modeling, latent growth modeling, and multilevel modeling). My research was published in high-impact international journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, The Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and the Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Recognition

Best Presentation Award Conference of the German Society for Work Studies 2017
Best Paper Award at the Institute of Work Psychology International Conference 2018
Trinity Research Excellence Award 2021
Best Presentation Award Conference of the German Society for Work Studies 2015

German Society of Psychology
European Association of Occupational Health Psychology
European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology
Academy of Management

Communications Officer of the Academy of Management OB division 2021