Assoc. Prof. Dr. Johannes Arendt

Work, Organizational & Business Psychology +43 512 2070 - 4236 johannes.arendt@mci.edu

Professional work experience

01/2026 - present
Associate Professor at the Department Business Administration Online - MCI - The Entrepreneurial School
07/2025 - 01/2026
Senior Lecturer at the Department Business Administration Online - MCI - The Entrepreneurial School
03/2022 - 06/2025
Postdoctoral Researcher - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
03/2022 - 01/2023
External Lecturer in Differential and Personality Psychology - Umit Tirol
04/2019 - 02/2022
Postdoctoral Researcher - Umit Tirol
04/2014 - 09/2019
Academic Staff Member - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
03/2013 - 09/2018
External lecturer in the fields of methodology and basic psychological research - Universität Innsbruck
03/2012 - 09/2012
Student Assistant in Clinical Psychology - Universität Innsbruck
07/2011 - 09/2013
Werkstudent - PricewaterhouseCoopers AG WPG
10/2010 - 01/2011
Student Assistant in Applied Psychology - Universität Innsbruck
03/2009 - 09/2009
Tutor in Biological Psychology - Universität Innsbruck
10/2008 - 01/2011
Teaching Assistant in Social Psychology - Universität Innsbruck

Education

10/2014 - 07/2019
Dr. phil. - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Doctoral studies in psychology
01/2011 - 06/2011
Uppsala University
Exchange Student - Media & Communication studies, Educational Sciences
10/2005 - 10/2013
Mag. rer. nat. - Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
Psychology

Competitive Research Award

05/2023 - present
Exeter Center of Leadership
Rising Leader Best Paper Award 2023
05/2017 - present
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching

Peer reviewed journal article

Pircher Verdorfer, A., & Arendt, J. F. W. (2024). Mindful together: examining the effect of mindfulness congruence on the quality of leader-follower relationships. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-07080-4
Arendt, J. F. W., Kugler, K. G., & Brodbeck, F. C. (2024). When team members (dis)agree about social rules and norms: A shared relational models approach to explaining team viability. Current Psychology. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-05680-8
Arendt, J. F. W., Kugler, K. G., Brodbeck, F. C. (2023) Being on the Same Page about Social Rules and Norms: Effects of Shared Relational Models on Cooperation in Work Teams. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 26 (5), 1119-1139. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221088506
Bunjak, A., Hafenbrack, A. C., Černe, M., & Arendt, J. F. W. (2022). Better to be optimistic, mindful, or both? The interaction between optimism, mindfulness, and task engagement. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 95, 595–623. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12389
Arendt, J. F. W., Kugler, K. G., & Brodbeck, F. C. (2021). Conflicting relational models as a predictor of (in)justice perceptions and (un)cooperative behavior at work. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 5, 183-202. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.85
Arendt, J. F. W., Pircher Verdorfer, A., & Kugler, K. G. (2019). Mindfulness and leadership: Communication as a behavioral correlate of leader mindfulness and its effect on follower satisfaction. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(667). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00667

Editorial-reviewed journal

Arendt, J. F. W. (2021). Relationale Modelle am Arbeitsplatz. Personal in Hochschule und Wissenschaft entwickeln, 3, 101-113.

Chapters in books

Arendt, J.F.W. (2026). Mindfulness in Communication Scale. In: Singh, N.N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Other Contemplative Practices. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90465-4_142-1
Arendt, J. F. W., & Pircher Verdorfer, A. (2025). Mindful Communication Scale (MCS). In O. N. Medvedev, C. U. Krägeloh, R. J. Siegert & N. N. Singh (Eds.), Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research (pp. 601-607). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47219-0_127
Arendt, J. F. W., Bettac, E. C., Gammel, J. H., Rauthmann, J. F. (2021). Dispositional Characteristics of Abusive Supervisors. In S. M. Camgoz & O. T. Ekmekci (Eds.). Destructive Leadership and Management Hypocrisy: Advances in Theory and Practice. (pp. 83-98): Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-180-520211006
Streicher, B., Arendt, J. F. W. (2020). Veränderung der relationalen Vorstellungen, des Sozialverhaltens und der Moralvorstellungen durch Social Credit Systeme. In O. Everling (Ed.). Social Credit Rating: Reputation und Vertrauen beurteilen. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29653-7_19
Pircher Verdorfer, A. & Arendt, J. (2018). Mindfulness as a building block for servant leadership. In D. Van Dierendonck & K. Patterson (Eds.) Practicing Servant Leadership - Developments in Implementation (pp.101-116). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75644-8_7