📌 Key facts
💡 Background
The need for building high-performance teams has never been as critical for the success and survival of organizations in today's dynamic and ever-changing environment. The last two years of navigating a global pandemic and managing constant supply-chain disruptions have been a real challenge for every organization and leader (Entrepreneur, 2022).
But building a high-performing team requires more than just pulling together a group of talented people with the right skills. It requires careful development and nurturing of key traits, behaviors and best practices. When companies select their top executives, they still pay close attention to specialist knowledge. But, given today’s dynamic environment, traditional management training is only a limited basis for success. What is needed are top managers who are able to motivate a diverse, technically skilled and global workforce (Entrepreneur, 2022).
To find out more about key characteristics of high performing teams/organizations, a study including the perspectives from both team (leaders)/organizations and international research is to be conducted. Thus, your work will be divided into the following two parts:
- Part 1: Which practices form high-performing teams/organizations?
- Part 2: How does international leadership research address the development of high performing teams/organizations?
For this part, interviews with high performing teams/organizations need to be conducted and evaluated. To identify suitable questions for the interview practice articles should be analyzed before.
For this part, scientific articles should be reviewed to track which characteristics of a high performance team/organization have been addressed in international leadership research over time and derive an idea of how these practices might change in the future.
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership, and Teams.. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies, and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🧠Topics of Interest
- Leadership
- Transformation
- Business development
- Team performance
- Document analysis
- Qualitative research
🎓 Profile
- Enrolled in a Master program related to Business/Psychology/Communications
- Fluency in German and English is required
- You know how to research academic journals and review scientific articles
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for leadership, company succession and research
- Willing to do interviews with practitioners
- Passion to learn more about the future and do research with impact
📚 Further Reading
Jenewein, W., & Heidbrink, M. (2008). High-performance-teams: Die fünf Erfolgsprinzipien für Führung und Zusammenarbeit. Schäffer-Poeschel.
De Waal, A. (2021). The high performance organization: proposed definition and measurement of its performance. Measuring Business Excellence, 25(3), pp. 300-314. https://doi.org/10.1108/MBE-04-2020-0064
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside the university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (e-mail below) by submitting a short motivation letter, your CV and grade report
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!
👉 welpe@tum.de