Kerstin Alfes is a Professor of Organisation and Human Resource Management at ESCP Europe, Campus Berlin. She is the Academic Director for the Master in European Business (MEB) at the Berlin Campus. Prior to joining ESCP Europe, Kerstin was a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University London and an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University (The Netherlands). Kerstin completed her Habilitation (2014) and her Dr. rer. oec. (PhD equivalent, 2008) at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and received her Master Degree (Diplom-Kauffrau) from the University of Mannheim (Germany) in 2004.

Kerstin’s research interests include Strategic Human Resource Management, employee engagement, overqualification and volunteering. She has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed journals including Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Vocational Behavior and International Journal of Management Reviews. Kerstin has raised research funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and industry. Recently, she worked with a team of researchers based at the Institute of Employment Studies, University of Sussex, the University of Warwick and the University of Kent in conducting an evidence synthesis on employee engagement.

Kerstin teaches courses on Organisation and Human Resource Management on graduate, post-graduate and Executive levels in various programs at ESCP Europe. She also consults practitioners in the development and successful implementation of engagement strategies, and serves as a keynote speaker at practitioner conferences and seminars. 

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Academic Articles

2023

ALFES, K., A. AVGOUSTAKI, T. A. BEAUREGARD, A. CAÑIBANO, M. MURATBEKOVA-TOURON

New ways of working and the implications for employees: A systematic framework and suggestions for future research

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 33 (22), 4361-4385

Academic Articles

2022

ALFES, K., M. MEIER-BARTHOLD, T. BIEMANN

Strong signals in HR management: How the configuration and strength of an HR system explain the variability in HR attributions

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Other Intellectual Contributions

2022

MEY, C., K. ALFES

Kommunikation als Katalysator für mehr Wellbeing at Work

PERSONAL QUARTERLY, 03/2022

Academic Articles

2021

TRAEGER, C., D. HASKI-LEVENTHAL, K. ALFES

Extending organizational socialization theory: Empirical evidence from volunteer work for refugees in France and Australia

HUMAN RELATIONS

Academic Articles

2021

FUERSTENBERG, N., K. ALFES, E. KEARNEY

How and when paradoxical leadership benefits work engagement: The role of goal clarity and work autonomy

JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, 94(3), 672-705

Academic Articles

2021

ALFES, K., M. VELD, N. FÜRSTENBERG

The relationship between perceived high‐ performance work systems, combinations of human resource well‐being and human resource performance attributions and engagement

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 31 (3), 729-752

Academic Articles

2021

BREAUGH, J., K. ALFES, A. RITZ

Strength in numbers? Understanding the effect of team-level PSM on team effectiveness.

INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 25 (1), 65-85

Academic Articles

2020

VAN DIJK, H., A. SHANTZ, K. ALFES

Welcome to the Bright Side: Why, How, and When Overqualification Enhances Performance.

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 30(2), 100688

Academic Articles

2020

RITZ, A., C. SCHOTT, C. NITZL, K. ALFES

Public Service Motivation and Prosocial Motivation: Two Sides of the Same Coin. In: Public Management Review

PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 22 (7), 974-998

Academic Articles

2020

FUERSTENBERG, N., K. ALFES, A. SHANTZ

Meaningfulness of work and supervisory‐rated job performance: A moderated‐mediation model

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 60 (6), 903-919