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Name: Claude-H茅lene Mayer
Location: D Ring 436 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: +27 (0)11 559 3137
Email:听cmayer@uj.ac.za
About Prof. Claude-H茅l猫ne Mayer
Claude-H茅l猫ne Mayer is a Professor in Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the 东京热, South Africa. She is a Semester at Sea Alumni (SASFA22) and a Board member of the International Academy of Intercultural Research (IAIR). Claude is a Senior Editor for the Europe`s Journal of Psychology (EJOP), an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychology (Positive Psychology) and for the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management (IJCCM).
She holds Doctoral degrees in Psychology, Management and Cultural Anthropology. Her Venia Legendi is in Psychology with focus on Work, Organisational and Cultural Psychology (Europa Universit盲t Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany).
Her research areas include transcultural mental health, salutogenesis, transcultural conflict management and mediation, women in leadership, shame and love across cultures, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, and psychobiography. She is the winner of the William B. Gudykunst Book Award 2023 together with Elisabeth Vanderheiden for her 鈥濱nternational Handbook of Love鈥. Further, together with six other co-editors has has won one Nautilus Silver Award with special honours for academic on 鈥淲omen empowerment for a Sustainable Future鈥. Finally, she has won another Nautilus Award with special honours for academic rigor for her authored book 鈥淯nwrapping transcultural romantic love relationships鈥 (both books are published by Springer).
Her teaching areas are cross-cultural psychology, mental health, psychobiography, organizational theory, systems and design thinking, coaching, positive psychology, organizational behaviour and transcultural conflict management and mediation.
She is a licenced (Germany) systemic family therapist and facilitator in family therapy (SG), constellation facilitator (KI), mediator and mediation facilitator (BM 2001-2021), hypnotherapist (TIM) and coach and international consultant.
HIGHEST DEGREE
- 2012 – Habilitation in Psychology with focus on Work, Organisational and Cultural Psychology.
AWARDS LIST
- 2024:听 Nautilus Book Award Silver Winner. Special honors: Academic Rigor: Unwrapping Transcultural Romantic Love Relationships, USA
- 2024:听 Nautilus Book Award Silver Winner. Special honors: Academic Rigor: Women’s Empowerment for a Sustainable Future Transcultural and Positive Psychology Perspectives, USA
- 2023:听 Winner of the William B. Gudykunst Outstanding Book Award for the “International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives.”听听IAIR, Philadelphia July 2023
- 2021:听 Outstanding Best Paper Award: Frontiers in Psychology (Positive Psychology):听 听was awarded听the Frontiers in Psychology (Positive Psychology)听Best Paper听Award for 2021.
- 2021:听 TOP RESEARCHER 2020 at the School of Management in the Center for Economics and Business, 东京热, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2021:听 Nomination to Fellow of International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR), USA
- 2018:听 APA Convention Travel Award
- 2016:听 Best Qualitative Paper Award – Mayer, C.-H., Boness, C., Louw, L. & Louw, T. (2016). Intra- and inter-group perceptions of Chinese and Tanzanian employees in intercultural cooperation. 28th SAIMS (The Southern Africa Institute for Management Scientists) conference “Managing in Resource Restricted Times: Make Everyday Matter”, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 4.-7. September 2016.
- 2009:听 Nominee for Outstanding Paper Award – Louw, L. and Mayer, C.-H. (2009). 鈥楥ross-cultural health management in South Africa. Health professionals’ challenges in managing HIV/AIDS’. 13th Biennial Eastern Academy of Management International Conference, Theme 鈥淢anagement Challenges for a New World鈥, 鈥淢anaging in a Global Economy鈥, June 21-25 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
