Research and teaching assistants
Curriculum vitae and publications
Lukas Georg Hartleb (he/him) has been working at the Department of Human Resource Management since June 2024. From February to April 2024, he completed an Erasmus+ internship in the field of gender equality policy at the Bundesforum Männer in Berlin. Prior to this, he worked at the Writing Center of the University of Graz as a writing peer tutor, project collaborator and freelancer from 2018. In the course of this, he was involved in a research project on collaborative writing by students and the organization of the European Writing Center Association Conference 2022. Since 2022, he has been giving writing didactic input in courses and leading writing workshops at the University of Graz.
Lukas Georg Hartleb completed his Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Graz in 2023. He also volunteered as a member of the student council (2020-2023). Before that, he completed his Master's degree in 2022 and his Bachelor's degree in Sociology in 2019, also at the University of Graz.
His current research interests include intercultural cooperation in organizations and caring masculinities in the context of companies.
More about Lukas Hartleb on the research portal of the University of Graz.
Mag. Dr.rer.soc.oec. Christian Hirt
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Office hour (lecture period): Wednesday 9 - 10 a.m.
Curriculum vitae and publications
Dr. Christian Hirt has been a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Human Resource Management in the field of Management and Human Resources since July 2010. After completing his diploma and doctoral studies in Business Administration at the University of Graz, he earned his doctorate in 1996 with a dissertation on trends of change in Japanese human resource management. His professional experience spans a variety of roles, including positions as an executive assistant at Translingua (a translation and interpreting agency) and Styrian Display GmbH (SDS), as a co-founder and freelancer at Green Gold Handels-GmbH, and as a Coordinator for International Relations within the “JET Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program” in Kobayashi, Japan. In 2000, he took up a position as a contractual assistant at the Department of International Management before changing to the Department of Human Resource Management in 2010.
As part of his academic career, he has completed numerous research and teaching stays at renowned universities worldwide, including the National University of Galway (Ireland), the University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the University of Novi Sad (Serbia), the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), Edinburgh Napier University (United Kingdom), Universidad Católica del Uruguay (Uruguay), Chungbuk National University (South Korea), and in Japan at the University of Hiroshima, Sophia University Tokyo, and Kyoto University of Advanced Science (KUAS).
Since 2010, he has served as Coordinator for International Relations at the School of Business Economics and Social Sciences including the overall coordination of the Erasmus+ program and academic advising for incoming students. In addition to his academic teaching, he has lectured at FH Joanneum Graz, FH Upper Austria in Steyr, and in the Human Resource Management program at Uni for Life in Graz. He has also been active as a trainer in adult education, focusing on intercultural collaboration and communication at the bit-Management Training Center Graz.
His scholarly contributions include publications in international journals and participation in international research projects, such as the IMPALA project (South Africa), the “Teacher Training Austria-Japan Project” in cooperation with Hiroshima University, and the OEAD Project HU 07/2022 on human resource management during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria and Hungary.
Christian Hirt’s research interests lie in strategic and international human resource management as well as intercultural management, with a particular focus on Southeast European and Asian regions.
More about Christian Hirt on the research portal of the University of Graz.
Curriculum vitae and publications
Dr. Elena Ressi has been working as a university assistant at the Department of Human Resource Management since June 2017. From June 2017 to June 2020, she was employed as part of the cross-faculty research focus "Heterogeneity and Cohesion". She worked in research projects on the integration of refugees into the Austrian labor market (LAMIRA, INREST). In 2020, she completed her doctorate in social and economic sciences in the field of business administration at the University of Graz. Prior to this, she worked at BAB Unternehmensberatung GmbH from 2014 to 2017. She completed her interdisciplinary Master's degree in Global Studies in 2016. During her Master's degree, she completed professional practice in the field of market research in Berlin and worked for "ISOP - Innovative Social Projects" in Graz, among others. She completed her bachelor's degrees in sociology and business administration, also at the University of Graz, in 2011 and 2013 respectively.
Her research interests include the areas of inclusive organizations and change, labor market policy and intersectionality in the context of migration research, as well as labor market integration and careers of refugees. In recent years, she has worked in collaborative projects on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses, employer attractiveness in rural areas and organizational change in retail and has published in Organization and Journal of Organizational Behavior, among others.
More about Elena Ressi on the research portal of the University of Graz.
Selected publications
Ortlieb, R.; Baumgartner, P.; Palinkas, M.; Eggenhofer-Rehart, P. & Ressi, E. (2024). Employment outcomes of refugee women and men: multiple gender gaps and the importance of high-skill jobs. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, online first, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2024.2379945. (free access)
Ressi, E.; Weiss, S. & Ortlieb, R. (2024). Whose interests matter? The role of participation in inclusive organizational behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 45(9): 1364–1396.
Ortlieb, R. & Ressi, E. (2022). From refugee to manager? Organizational socialization practices, refugees' experiences and polyrhythmic socialization. European Management Review, 19(2): 185-206. (free access)
Curriculum vitae and publications
Anna Schwarzl (she/her) has been working as university assistant at the Department of Human Resource Management since September 2024. She completed her Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Graz in July 2024. From March 2022 to December 2023, she worked as project assistant and youth worker at the association mafalda Graz after doing an internship there. Before that, from November 2021 to February 2022, she collaborated on a project on gender equality in the workplace in cooperation with the association nowa Graz. She completed her bachelor's degree in sociology at the University of Graz in 2020 during which, from November 2019 to December 2020, she worked as a student assistant on an FWF-funded research project on political elites in Austria. Throughout her studies she volunteered as student representative in both the Bachelor's and Master's program (2019-2023).
Her current research interests include gender in organizations and social movements as well as feminist epistemology. In her Master's thesis she explored the gender gap in Wikipedia.
More about Anna Schwarzl on the research portal of the University of Graz.
Curriculum vitae and publications
Dr. Silvana Weiss has been working as a university assistant at the Department of Human Resource Management since 2014. In 2017, she completed her doctorate in social and economic sciences with a focus on sociology at the University of Graz. During her work, she has been involved in various research projects, including the operational design of home office opportunities (DIALOG), the integration of refugees into the Austrian labor market (LAMIRA, INREST), youth unemployment in Europe (EU Project STYLE) as well as work-life balance in academia (Project WLB). She spent several months for research stays at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Prior to her position at the University of Graz, she was employed at the Institute for Practice-Oriented Gender Research in Graz and worked as a clinical and health psychologist in the field of child and adolescent psychology. Between 2007 and 2008, Silvana Weiss was a research assistant at ETH Zurich. She completed her degree in psychology in 2007 in Graz, after an ERASMUS stay in 2006 at the Università degli Studi di Padova in Italy.
Her current research focuses on diversity and inclusion in the labor market and in companies, with a focus on gender and ethnic origin. She also conducts research on work-life balance, focusing in particular on the boundaries between professional and private life as well as academic careers.
In teaching, she teaches basic courses on personnel management as well as courses on gender and diversity management. She also supervises theses.
More about Silvana Weiss on the research portal of the University of Graz.
Selected publications
Weiss, S. & Ortlieb, R. (2024). Professional–personal boundary work: Individuals torn between integration and segmentation. German Journal of Human Resource Management, online first, DOI: 10.1177/23970022241291503. (free access)
Ressi, E.; Weiss, S. & Ortlieb, R. (2024). Whose interests matter? The role of participation in inclusive organizational behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 45(9): 1364–1396.
Leschke, J. & Weiss, S. (2023). Labor market hierarchies between intra-EU migrants: Why do mobile workers from the EU-West obtain better jobs and wages than those from the EU-East? Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(16): 4092-4119.
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.
Leschke, J. & Weiss, S. (2020). With a little help from my friends: Social-network job search and overqualification among recent intra-EU migrants moving from East to West. Work, Employment and Society, 34(5): 769-788.
