Univ.-Prof. Dr. Renate Ortlieb
Renate Ortlieb has been Full Professor of Human Resource Management and Head of the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Graz since 2009. She studied business administration at Technische Universität Berlin (Diplom-Kauffrau, 1995) and earned her doctorate (2002) and habilitation (2009) at the Freie Universität Berlin. She has worked at the Universities of Constance, Essen, Flensburg, and at Freie Universität Berlin.
Renate Ortlieb has held visiting positions at various institutions, including the University of Brighton (UK), Hasselt University (Belgium), the University of Waterloo (Canada), and the Stockholm School of Economics. From 2013 to 2015, she served as Chair of the Scientific Commission Human Resource Management (WK PERS) within the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB). She has received several awards, including the Käthe Leichter Award for Women’s Studies, Gender Research, and Equality in the World of Work, as well as the Seraphine Puchleitner Recognition Award.
Current research interests of Renate Ortlieb include the labor market integration of refugees, the interplay between HR strategies and labor migration, and gender and diversity in organizations. She serves as co-editor of the German Journal of Human Resource Management, is a member of several editorial boards, and has published in journals such as Academy of Management Discoveries, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization, Organization Studies, and Work, Employment and Society.
More about Renate Ortlieb on the research portal of the University of Graz.
Selected publications
Knappert, L.; Ortlieb, R.; Kornau, A.; Maletzky de García, M. & van Dijk, H. (2023). The ecosystem of managing refugee employment: Complementarity and its microfoundations. Academy of Management Discoveries, 9(3): 339-362.
Ortlieb, R.; Glauninger, E. & Weiss, S. (2021). Organizational inclusion and identity regulation: How inclusive organizations form 'Good', 'Glorious' and 'Grateful' refugees. Organization, 28(2): 266-288 (free access).
Ortlieb, R. & Sieben, B. (2019). Balls, barbecues and boxing: Contesting gender regimes at organizational social events. Organization Studies, 40(1): 115-133. (free access)