Current and Further Research Areas
Current Research Areas
Research is carried out at the chair within the framework of Organisational Behaviour and currently focuses (incl. dissertation projects) primarily on the following area:
- Academic personnel management
The main focus here is on professor selection in the narrow sense, appointment procedures, incentives for "good teaching", professor induction/placement, personnel development for junior academics and professors, leadership of and by professors, personnel management for academic management staff, internationalisation (see also doctoral students).
Other topics of interest from time to time include
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Human resource management in family businesses
Due to his leading involvement in the Institute for Family Businesses(iFUn) - East Westphalia-Lippe, various peronal-specific topics are sometimes also addressed in research.
The doctoral theses supervised by Professor Becker currently only include topics on academic personnel management and, where appropriate, personnel management in family businesses. Empirical work is being sought.
Further Research Areas
Various projects have been completed in the past (in some cases with and/or by employees). The focussed topics are still being pursued in cooperation with the company's practice. Topics:
- Incentive systems (for managers, variable remuneration, intrinsic motivation),
- performance and potential assessments,
- Demography-orientated HR work (incl. employee retention, realistic recruitment and staff induction),
- Management organisation in companies (organisation of company management incl. advisory board organisation and board organisation,
- External management in family businesses,
- Personnel management in family businesses,
- Problem-oriented learning & teaching],
- Evatuation of personnel development & transfer management,
- Family and Appointment: Family-friendly HR work (research projects in cooperation with the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Local Alliance for Families in the Gütersloh district),
- Procedures for exploratory research.
An overview of Prof Dr Fred G. Becker's publications can be found here, current and completed dissertation projects here: current, completed.