📌 Key facts
- When: Start anytime. Applications are open!
- How to apply: Send us an e-mail (at the end of this page) with your CV and a grade report.
💡 Background
Negative leadership encompasses harmful behaviors that undermine employee morale and create toxic work environments, and current research highlights its significant prevalence and impacts across organizations. We want to design an intervention study, as we expect interventions to reduce the negative effects of leadership behaviors, improve employee well-being, and enhance overall organizational performance. By investigating the antecedents and consequences of negative leadership, we aim to develop effective strategies that foster healthier workplace environments and promote positive leadership practices.
Related Work:
Modliba, R. and T. Treffers (2024). "The good, the bad and the evil: A unified conceptualization of negative leadership behaviour." International Journal of Management Reviews.
Albarracín, D., et al. (2024). "Determinants of behaviour and their efficacy as targets of behavioural change interventions." Nature Reviews Psychology 3(6): 377-392.
🦾 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 Organisations 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 organisations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎓 Profile - what we value
- Interest and basic knowledge of: Leadership, Personality Traits, Study Design.
- Organizational skills and proactive communication.
- Reliable and self-driven working style.
- Analysis of questionnaires, video data, physiological measures (dependent on topic).
- Previous experience or interest in psychological topics and methods (such as content analyses, online questionnaires, experimental design…) is a plus.
- Since we might leverage data from “The Gottman Initiative”, which conducts experiments in German, native or highly proficient German language skills are mandatory.
📝 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact 
- Research question that aligns with the project
- Max of 10 key references relating to this topic and concise summary of these key references
- Approach for study design
📬 Contact
Nathalie Schenk (Chair for Strategy and Organization)
👉 nathalie.schenk@tum.de