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Professor Damian Grabowski is a psychologist specializing in work and organizational psychology as well as social psychology, in particular political and cultural psychology. He is also interested in personality psychology and psychology of individual differences.
In his research, he combines various sub-disciplines of psychology, including industrial and organizational psychology, health psychology, personality psychology, and psychology of individual differences. Overall his research contributes to the discipline of social sciences with the largest part pertaining to psychology, and some interdisciplinary cross-overs into sociology and political sciences.
One of his major research projects focused on the verification of psychometric tools for the assessment of work ethic, work motivation, and the assessment scales for organizational trust and trust in co-workers. Many of his projects investigate work ethic as a variable underlying employee engagement, including engagement understood as identification with one’s occupation, enthusiasm, work preoccupation, and commitment (affective, normative and continuance), or as a variable explaining unethical pro-organizational behaviors.
From 2020 to 2023, Professor Grabowski examined psychological aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of the war in Ukraine on mental health.
His most recent project concerns unethical pro-organizational behaviors, which are juxtaposed with narcissism, in particular narcissistic rivalry and admiration, Machiavellianism, and emotional intelligence.
Over the years, he has collaborated with researchers from Poland and other countries, for example with Professor David Woehr, and Abby Mello, Ph.D..
Professor Grabowski developed and co-created Polish adaptations and designs of various psychological assessment tools, such as:
- Multidimensional Assessment of Work Ethic (WPEP) and the Protestant Work Ethic Scale (SPEP) — together with professor Agata Chudzicka-Czupała
- Work Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation Scale (WEIMS) — together with Małgorzata Chrupała-Pniak, Ph.D.
- Religious Commitment Inventory (RCI 10) scale — with Jarosław Polak, Ph.D.
- Deinfluentization scale construction — together with Professor Barbara Kożusznik, Małgorzata Kożusznik, Ph.D., Mateusz Paliga, Ph.D., Barbara Smorczewska, Ph.D., Anita Pollak, Ph.D., and Dominik Adamek, M.A.
- Organizational cynicism and unethical pro-organizational behavior scales.
Professor Grabowski authored and co-authored 64 publications (47 articles, 16 chapters, and a monograph on work ethic). Main topics concern work ethic, employee engagement, organizational trust, sense of coherence, work motivation, occupational burnout, and workaholism as compulsive-obsessive disorder.
He participated in over 60 international conferences, organized by the Polish Psychological Association, Polish Psychiatric Association, Polish Society of Social Psychology (PSPS), and the Polish Association of Organizational Psychology.
Over the years, he provided assessment and consulting services for companies. He is experienced in conducting psycho-social assessments of organizations and diagnosis of harassment in organizations.
As an academic teacher, he is also interested in political psychology, mainly in protest behaviors, terrorism, and political leaders’ personality, which he researches in the context of the dark triad and tetrad.
At SWPS University, he teaches classes in organizational and work psychology, political psychology, methodology and statistics. He is also a Master’s thesis advisor.