Michael Frese

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Michael Frese (born 9 August 1949) is a German psychologist. Frese teaches at Asia School of Business, Malaysia and Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. He is a visiting professor at MUBS, Kampala Africa, and NUS Business School. He was Head of Department and Provost chair at NUS Business School until 2020.

Education and career[]

Frese completed his Master of Science at the Free University of Berlin. After studying psychology, Frese worked at the chair for educational and social sciences at the Technical University of Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1978. From 1980 onwards, he was a visiting professor at the University of Bremen and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1984, Frese received a professorship for work psychology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 1991 to 2009 he held the chair for work and organizational psychology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen; from 1995 to 2000 an additional chair at the University of Amsterdam(temporarily on leave in Giessen). Frese has been a Professor of Psychology at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Professor at the National University of Singapore since 2009.[1]

He has worked as a visiting professor in Kampala, London, Maryland, Michigan, and Zhejiang, among others. In 2013, Frese was elected a fellow to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[2][3] As ranked by the German business newspaper Handelsblatt in 2012 and 2014, Frese is the third most published management scholar in Germany (BWL-rankings).

Research Interests[]

Frese researched in the areas of stress, work and health and human-computer interaction, and introduced the concept of error management.[4] He later developed training concepts for entrepreneurship. His research on 'Personal Initiative' started as a reaction to German re-unification in 1990.[1] Connecting to his studies on entrepreneurship he majorly researched on innovation.

Stress at work[]

For the first 10 years of his career, Frese participated in large field studies on stress at work in blue-collar workers. Frese was keen to study methodological issues so that the effects of work stressors on strain could be studied independently of neurotic tendencies of individuals.[5]

Personal Initiative[]

Personal Initiative (PI) was developed as a scientific concept within the action regulation theory tradition. The three key facets of PI  – self-starting, future oriented, and overcoming barriers form an empirically related syndrome of proactive behaviours.[1] Personal Initiative behaviour is related to performance at work and as entrepreneur, as well as to career progress and employability, explaining additional variance in addition to personality variables, as shown in a meta-analysis.[2]

He then developed Personal Initiative Training for entrepreneurs that is useful in field studies.[6]

Action Theory[]

Action Theory is an application-oriented meta-theory that seeks to understand how people use routines and conscious strategies to regulate their actions to achieve goals. Originally developed in Germany, Frese advanced this theory in the areas of personality processes.[7]

Error Management[]

As learners actively explore the environment, errors occur inevitably. To deal with these errors, a pure error-prevention approach cannot adequately address the fact that errors are common.[8] Error Management attempts to prevent negative error consequences, reduce their negative impact, or deal quickly with error consequences once they have occurred.[9][8]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Frese, Michael; Fay, Doris (1 January 2001). "4. Personal initiative: An active performance concept for work in the 21st century". Research in Organizational Behavior. 23: 133–187. doi:10.1016/S0191-3085(01)23005-6. ISSN 0191-3085.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "List of Members | Prof. Dr. Michael Frese". Leopoldina Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  3. ^ Tornau, Katharina; Frese, Michael (5 June 2012). "Construct Clean-Up in Proactivity Research: A Meta-Analysis on the Nomological Net of Work-Related Proactivity Concepts and their Incremental Validities". Applied Psychology. 62 (1): 44–96. doi:10.1111/j.1464-0597.2012.00514.x. ISSN 0269-994X.
  4. ^ Frese, Erich (1991). "Grundlagen der Organisation". doi:10.1007/978-3-322-85678-4. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ Frese, Erich (1988), "Entscheidungen", Grundlagen der Organisation, Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag, pp. 173–199, retrieved 17 September 2021
  6. ^ Campos, Francisco; Frese, Michael; Goldstein, Markus; Iacovone, Leonardo; Johnson, Hillary; McKenzie, David; Mensmann, Mona (January 2018). "Personal Initiative Training Leads to Remarkable Growth of Women-Owned Small Businesses in Togo". doi:10.1596/29168. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ Frese, Michael; Stewart, Judith; Hannover, Bettina (1987). "Action Style Questionnaire". PsycTESTS Dataset. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Frese, Michael; Keith, Nina (3 January 2015). "Action Errors, Error Management, and Learning in Organizations". Annual Review of Psychology. 66 (1): 661–687. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-010814-015205. ISSN 0066-4308.
  9. ^ Park, Peom. Common-cause analysis in human-software interaction: system design, error control mechanism, and prevention (Thesis). Iowa State University.

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