Hugo Kehr holds a Diplom in Business Administration as well as a Ph.D. and a Habilitation degree in Psychology from the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. He received a Heisenberg Fellowship and a Lynen Grant of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. Before coming to Technische Universität München, he has been Full Professor of Organization Behavior at Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney.
Hugo Kehr has been a visiting scholar at Venice International University, University of California at Berkeley, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Currently, Hugo Kehr is the Program Director of the Master in Management at the TUM School of Management, where he teaches General Psychology and Organizational Behavior in the undergraduate program, and Leadership by Motivation as well as Sex and Gender at Work in the graduate program. He is the organizer of the Munich Symposium on Motivation, a biannual international conference.
His current research, both basic and applied, is focused on motivational phenomena, such as volitional depletion, intrinsic motivation and flow experience, the motivating potential of visions, and implicit motives such as the sex motive and fear of death. Hugo Kehr serves in the editorial boards of Motivation Science, the German Journal of Human Ressource Management and Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie. He has published in international journals such as Academy of Management Review, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Personality, Motivation, and Emotion, and Personality and Individual Differences.
COVID-19: We are exploring individuals fear of death on compliance with COVID-19 measures
Visions: We explore the motivating power of corporate visions. The underlying idea is that visions, mental images of a desirable future, become effective by arousing employees’ unconscious motives.
Philosophy: In cooperation with the Munich University of Philosophy, we are about to develop a Philosophy of Motivation Psychology
Sex Motive: We are currently exploring the impact of the sex motive on workplace behaviors
