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Prof. Dr. Benedikt Hell,

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Contact

Phone
+41 62 957 22 96
E-Mail
benedikt.hell@fhnw.ch

Address

FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
School of Applied Psychology
Riggenbachstrasse 16
4600 Olten

Activities at FHNW

Role

Professor for personnel psychology with main focus on psychological assessment at the FHNW School of Applied Psychology

Areas of Expertise

  • Research and lectures in psychological assessment
  • Execution of projects from both the business environment as well as society
  • Applied research and applicable transfer
  • Conception and supervision of products for advanced Studies

Lecturing and Research

Lecturing

Lecturer for Bachelor, Master and Advanced Studies (CAS, MAS).

Applied research and development

We finance our research with third party funding. Our partners count businesses, public institutions, foundations as well as research funding institutions.

Research on the fundamentals of psychological assessment:

  • Fairness in psychological assessments (fairness of capability tests, gender equality in the area of career interests)
  • Research on work-relevant constructs (career interests, creativity, curiosity, intelligence, career-and work-relevant personality traits, values)
  • Studies on validity (individual studies as well as meta-analyses)

Development of psychological assessment methods:

  • Personality-, interest- and intelligence tests
  • Studies– and career-counselling tests
  • Interviews for various target groups
  • Tests targeting business founders, trainees and other target groups
  • Development of innovative psychological assessment methods (for example, Situational Judgement Tests, Short-Cut Methodologies)

Self-assessments (please see: www.self-assessment.ch) and methodologies developed by our research group:

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  • Self-Assessment Psychology psychologie-self-assessment.ch
  • Self-Assessment Entrepreneurs entrepreneur-check.ch

Projects

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Short bio

Benedikt Hell has worked as a researcher, lecturer and consultant specializing in psychological assessment since 1999. Studied psychology at the universities of Bielefeld and Bonn, 2003 doctorate in Hohenheim under Prof. Dr. Heinz Schuler, since 2010 lecturer and since 2012 professor of personnel psychology at the School of Applied Psychology FHNW.

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Extensive information can be found in the following two networks:

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Institute Humans in Complex Systems

Automation, digitalisation and technical networking present great opportunities but also challenges for the complex interplay between humans, technology and organisations.

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