Dr. Gesche Drescher (geb. Lotzkat)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in leadership behaviors, leadership outcomes, as well as selection processes in the management sector. As part of the “BMBF – Selection and Evaluation of Leaders in Business and Academia”-Project, I focus on studying attributes of hiring decisions. We try to understand impression formation in the selection procedure of executives and to detect influencing variables such as gender, status, or communication style. Another area of interest, are leadership theories and globalization. In my diploma thesis, I investigated the effectiveness of shared leadership in face-to-face- and virtual teams.

DIPLOMA THESIS

Leading virtual teams: Shared leadership in computer mediated interactions(Advisors: Prof. Dr. U. Konradt, Dipl.-Psych. Y. Garbers, CAU Kiel)

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Drescher, G., & Garbers, Y. (accepted for publication). Shared Leadership and Commonality: A Policy-Capturing Study. The Leadership Quarterly VHB-JQ3: A; ISI-IF:

Conference Presentations

Welpe, I.M.,  Quindeau, A., Spörrle, M., Strobel, M., Lotzkat, G., Ritzenhöfer, L. (2015, July). Goal achievement in academia – Evaluation of the TUM coaching program. Accepted for presentation at the Symposium on Governance, Performance & Leadership of Research and Public Organizations, Munich, Germany

Lotzkat, G., & Welpe, I. M. (2013, May). Receiving work from your boss - does leader gender matter in organizational delegation? Presentation at the 16th Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Münster, Germany

Lotzkat, G., & Welpe, I. M. (2013, February). Successful delegation in organizations: The role of gender for leader delegation behaviors. Presentation at Workshop der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Organisation des VHB, Jena, Germany

Lotzkat, G., & Welpe, I. M. (2013, January).  Can s(he) delegate?: Gender effects of leader delegation on employees’ impression formation. Poster presented at the fourteenth annual meeting of The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), New Orleans, LA, USA

Lotzkat, G., Braun, S., Welpe, I. M., Schneider, S. (2012, September). Shared leadership as a chance for women?!. Presentation at the 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs): Faszination Forschung, Universität Bielefeld

Book Chapters

Lotzkat, G., & Welpe, I.M. (f2015). Gibt es Geschlechtsstereotype in der Wahrnehmung von Berufsgruppen?. In I. M. Welpe, P. Brosi, L. Ritzenhöfer und T. Schwarzmüller (Eds.), Auswahl von Männern und Frauen als Führungskräfte: Perspektiven aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Medien und Politik. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.

Articles with Editorial Review

Winkler, B., Lotzkat, G., & Welpe, I. M. (2013). Wie funktioniert Führungskräfte-Coaching?: Orientierungshilfe für ein unübersichtliches Beratungsfeld. OrganisationsEntwicklung, Nr. 3/2013, 23-33

Schwarzmüller, T., Brosi, P., Lotzkat, G., Ritzenhöfer, L., & Welpe, I. M., (2013). Leadership in the 21st century. DLD Magazine, online first, June 4th 2013.