Content

Students have the opportunity to work on real research questions from the Chair of Human Resource Management. The chair conducts research on the Future of Work, (digital) leadership, AI, and incentive and motivation systems from an economic perspective. In most cases, the research involves human subjects in the context of empirical studies.

In this practical seminar, students take on a focused, independent research question from the chair's research environment and thereby contribute to the chair's ongoing projects.

The focus is on practical implementation. The course is aimed in particular at students with an affinity for programming and methodology who wish to apply their technical and methodological skills in an economics research context. Students work largely independently on a focused task, with supervision from the chair.

A project typically comprises one of the following building blocks:

• the development and implementation of software
• the analysis of an experimental dataset
• the development and implementation of an experimental design

Learning objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• structure and work on a focused scientific or practice-oriented research question from the chair's research environment
• select and implement a suitable methodological and technical solution for a focused task (e.g., implementing software, designing an experiment, or analyzing an experimental dataset)
• document their approach and results in a scientific manner and present them to a specialist audience
• relate their results to the relevant state of research

Workload

• Supervision and in-person appointments: 25 hours
• Familiarization and literature review: 15 hours
• Practical component: 60
• Written documentation: 25 hours
• Final presentation preparation: 10 hours

Total 135 hours

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