dr. Patrizia Hoyer

My research focuses on workplace wellbeing as a relational phenomenon. Rather than approaching wellbeing primarily as an individual responsibility or achievement, I investigate how it is shaped through organizational cultures, professional identities, collaboration practices, and broader social and institutional dynamics.

This research builds on my earlier work on career identity, global career mobility, and relational practices in organizations. Across this work, I have examined how career transitions, elite work contexts, mobility, and changing organizational forms affect professional self-understandings and experiences of work. More recently, I have increasingly focused on relational wellbeing as an emerging area within organization studies, including questions surrounding care, vulnerability, work stress, and human-AI collaboration.

I currently lead the interdisciplinary Impact Team Wellbeing in Crisis at VU Amsterdam and serve as work package leader in the NWA-funded DESTRESS consortium on the prediction and prevention of work stress. I also collaborate with Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin on research into academic nursing careers and wellbeing in healthcare organizations.

My work has been published in leading international journals such as Organization Studies, Human Relations, and Journal of Business Ethics, and includes contributions to the Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations. I have received research funding from organizations including the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Swiss National Science Foundation.

My teaching focuses on culture, identity, power, and workplace wellbeing in contemporary organizations. Across bachelor’s, master’s, PhD, MBA, and executive education, I aim to create engaging and reflective learning environments that combine conceptual depth with active participation and societal relevance.

I currently serve as coordinator of the Master’s programme Culture, Organization and Management (COM) and teach in the bachelor course Organizational Culture & Change and the master courses Organization & Power and From Fascination to Fieldwork to Future, a year-long course focused on fieldwork, professional development, and future-oriented academic skills. In recent years, I have also contributed to curriculum development, professional skills education, alumni engagement, and program innovation within the COM programme.

My teaching approach is grounded in responsible education and relational learning. I aim to support students not only in developing analytical and professional skills, but also in reflecting critically on organizational life, leadership, and their future roles in society. In 2024, I was nominated and shortlisted for the Faculty’s Docent Talent Award.

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