Theses

Undergraduate and Master theses in Business Psychology/Social Psychology

If you would like to write your thesis in the field of business psychology / social psychology, please send your request to Katharina Klug. The thesis should include an empirical research project and thematically fit with the research and teaching focus of the working group for business psychology/social psychology. This includes fitting research methods: typically, we work with quantitative designs. Relevant topic areas include, but are not limited to the following:

Economic insecurity and stress

• Job insecurity
• Financial strain
• Atypical and precarious employment

Leadership

• Health-oriented leadership (HoL) from the employee perspective: Mechanisms, facilitating and hindering conditions
• …from the leader's perspective: antecedents; working conditions in leadership roles
• Self care and self-leadership

Work design

• “Work design behavior“: Leaders' decisions about employees' working conditions
• Operationalization and consequences of algorithmic management for employees
• Job crafting
• Demands, resources and effects of volunteer work

Early warning signs of mental health disorders in the workplace

• Facilitating and hindering conditions for the detection of warning signs among observers
• Leaders' reactions to employee warning signs

Career development

• Effects of previous experiences on current working conditions and well-being (e.g., “career shocks“, "critical life events“)
• Career prospects, attitudes and development among students
• Demands and resources in the education-to-employment transition

Work and politics

• Relationships between work experiences and political attitudes
• Political attitudes and discussions at work

Students' own research ideas are always welcome, too, provided they fit with the research expertise of the working group. You can write your thesis in German or English.