Unfortunately, we cannot accept any new applications for Bachelor's Theses starting in Q3 2024. Due to a high amount of theses at our chair, we could not guarantee the quality in supervision we strive for, if we accepted any more theses. We will accept applications for Q4 when the registration window starts (i.e.,  May 2024).

In the following list, you can find potential topics for your bachelor's thesis. Your own ideas for possible topics are also welcome. Usually, bachelor's theses focus on literature reviews or conceptual works but empirical analyses are also possible. We encourage bachelor's theses written in English.

Predictive Human Resources

• How can organizations use HR data to forecast future trends and how can these forecasts help to anticipate challenges and achieve goals? How are such forecasts made, how reliable are they, and what are the limits of this method?
• Methods: Conceptual
• Note: You will develop a theoretical model based on a literature review. 

AI in Human Resources

• How can organizations effectively integrate AI into HR? In what areas of HR is AI already an established instrument? What are untapped potentials and what are the limitations of using AI in HR?
• Methods: Conceptual
• Note: You will develop a theoretical model based on a literature review. 

Leadership Challenges of Remote Work

• Which challenges are caused by remote work and virtual collaboration, and how should practitioners respond to them? How does leading change when followers work (partly) from home? 
• Methods: Conceptual
• Note: You will develop a theoretical model based on a literature review. 

Interruptions and Incivility in Virtual Teams

• How do interruptions between team members (i.e., one team member interrupting another) affect group dynamics in virtual teams? Are the effects only destructive or can interruptions foster constructive conflict and enhance creativity? How does the virtual setting shape the nature and effects of interruptions? Which leadership styles prevent or encourage interruptions and which leadership styles foster destcrutive or constructive effects of interruptions?
• Methods: Conceptual (and possibly quantitative)
• Note: You will create a dataset by coding video footage from a current team experiment. For a conceptual work, you will then conduct a literature review and develop a theoretical model that fits the experiment. You can also use the created dataset for a quantitaive empirical analysis.

Virtual Environmental Cues 

• How do environmental cues (e.g., background or lighting) and technical settings (e.g., camera perspective or video and audio quality) in virtual teams influence group dynamics and leadership?
• Methods: Conceptual (and possibly quantitative)
• Note: You will create a dataset by coding video footage from a current team experiment. For a conceptual work, you will then conduct a literature review and develop a theoretical model that fits the experiment. You can also use the created dataset for a quantitaive empirical analysis.

Gender Dynamics in Virtual Teams

• How do female leaders interact with their team members in virtual teams? Which gender differences prevail in virtual environments, and which vanish? What role do individual and technical characteristics play in these relationships?
• Methods: Conceptual (and possibly quantitative)
• Note: You will create a dataset by coding video footage from a current team experiment. For a conceptual work, you will then conduct a literature review and develop a theoretical model that fits the experiment. You can also use the created dataset for a quantitaive empirical analysis.

Cultural Influences on Multicultural Female Leaders

• How are female leaders affected by the interplay of different cultural environments? How are they shaped by the gender roles they grew up with? How do they cope with the (different) gender roles they face in a new cultural environment?
• Methods: Conceptual (and possibly qualitative)
• Note: For a conceptual work, you will develop a theoretical model based on a literature review. For a qualitative work, you will create a literature-based interview guideline, conduct interviews, and subsequently analyze the content of these interviews.

Gender Diversity and Innovation

• What is the relationship between gender diversity or female leadership and innovation in teams and firms? How does this relationship work and how does it depend on contextual contingencies?
• Methods: Conceptual
• Note: You will develop a theoretical model based on a literature review. 

Virtual Reality and Team Collaboration 

• What is the status quo of research regarding the usage of virtual reality for team collaboration within the framework of media richness theories? What are the information-carrying capacities of virtual reality compared to other types of communication media?
• Methods: Literature review and theory development
• Note: You will develop a theoretical model based on a literature review.

Work Behavior of Digital Nomads 

• What is the status quo of research on digital nomadism? How does the location independency of digital nomads influence their working behavior? Which factors are advantageous/disadvantageous for the work productivity of digital nomads?
• Methods: Literature review and qualitative
• Note: You will create a literature-based interview guideline, conduct interviews, and subsequently analyze the content of these interviews.

Informal Leader Emergence During Team Collaboration 

• What are antecedents and consequences of informal leader emergence during team collaboration? What is the status quo of research? How do informal leaders emerge during team collaboration and how does this influence team performance?
• Methods: Literature review and conceptual
• Note: You will create a dataset by coding video footage from a current team experiment. For a conceptual work, you will then conduct a literature review and develop a theoretical model that fits the experiment.

Psychological effects of remote work:

• Possible subtopics and research questions:
• How does remote work affect the psyche and motivation of employees in companies?
• What are the possible challenges (e.g. stress, social isolation or burnout)?
• And how can these be addressed by organizations?
• Method: Conceptual
• Note: You will develop a theoretical model based on a literature review.

Work-Life Balance in Remote Work:

• Analyze the challenges remote employees face in separating work and personal life and develop organization-specific measures to promote a healthy work-life balance.
• Method: Conceptual
• Note: You will develop a theoretical model based on a literature review.

Communication and Team Creativity in Remote Work:

• Possible subtopics and research questions:
• How should communication in remote teams be designed to promote team creativity?
• How are team processes relevant to creativity influenced by virtual collaboration? And how can organizations influence them? 
• Method: Conceptual
• Note: You will develop a theoretical model based on a literature review.