The ODA Section invites you to a seminar where Ingrid Wahl, University of Vienna, will give the following presentation:

Employee Appreciation: Why It Matters and How to Measure It

Host: Winni Johansen

Abstract
Employee appreciation - understood as perceiving positive signals regarding work-related behaviors and traits - represents a central element of internal communication and organizational climate. A systematic review has highlighted its importance and provided research recommendations that guided my subsequent empirical studies. Two survey studies examined both the importance and reception of appreciation, as well as cross-country differences between two major economies, Germany and the U.S. Building on these findings, a new scale has been created to measure appreciation climate within organizations in Germany and is currently being validated in the Danish and U.S. context. In my research talk, I will share key results of these projects.

Short bio
Ingrid Wahl is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna, where she also earned her PhD in Psychology. Her research explores internal communication with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and employee appreciation, and she has also published on employee activism and teleworking, as well as earlier work on tax psychology. During her two-week Circle U. stay at Aarhus University, she will extend this research by validating her German-language scale on organizational appreciation climate in the Scandinavian context.

Everyone is welcome!