Research Profile
Strategy is executed by people. Understanding their behavior is key.
Research at the Chair of Human Resource Management focuses on the future of work, digital leadership, and incentives and motivation in organizations. We investigate what motivates people, how they lead and cooperate, and how digital transformation reshapes work and organizations. Our work combines organizational and personnel economics with experimental methods to generate insights relevant to both academia and practice, in close collaboration with partners from science and industry.
Research topics:
- Future of work and new forms of organization
- Digital leadership and cooperation
- Incentives, motivation, and performance
- Fairness, gender, and inclusion in organizations and digital systems
- Experimental methods and Human Subject Research
- ManyDesign and ManyLabs Projects
Research methods:
- Human Subject Research
- Economic laboratory experiments
- Field experiments
- Randomized controlled trials
Selected research projects:
- Digital Collaboration and Virtual Leadership
- Human Subject Research and ManyLabs
- Future Fields 3 Project: Hybrid Adaptive Systems for Better Work and Life
- Future Fields 2 Project: Digital Citizen Science
- teamIn: Digital Leadership and Technologies for Tomorrows Team Interaction (BMBF & esf)
Our research infrastructure is embedded in the Karlsruhe Decision & Design Lab (KD2Lab) and the DFG-funded research training group KD2School.
We organize the Speaker Series Decision & Design in collaboration with the KD2School and the annual Gender in Adaptive Design Workshop.
Please see the publications page and the homepages of team members for our full research output.