Research
Infrastructure Projects
The Center for Human Resource Management (CEHRM) is an active partner in Swiss, European, and global research platforms and networks as detailed below.
Scope: The Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) research program is a multi-phase and multi-method project investigating the inter-relationships between societal culture, organizational culture, and organizational leadership in 61 countries around the world. Role: Co-Investigator for Switzerland.
Third party funded research projects
Our team has successfully obtained competitive third party funds to support several of our applied research projects. This supplementary monetary support has allowed us to comprehensively investigate empirical problems as well as create new doctoral student and post-doc researcher positions.
Organizations often find it difficult to identify talented employees. The SNSF funded project evaluates what kind of biases are relevant in talent identification, how they influence decision making in talent identification and how to deal with biases that are discriminating.
Many workers today are pursuing independent careers in the gig economy. What drives financial and personal success of gig workers? The aim of the SNSF funded project is to study this question and to develop and test interventions to promote career success of gig workers.
Inspired by cases of business failures resulting from the arrogance of the top management and fear of middle managers to tell the truth, this interdisciplinary project explores how HR professionals could, in cooperation with professional comedians, take up a role of modern court jesters in allowing top management to realize the distortions of reality.
Our project will derive recommendations for an efficient implementation of pay transparency. In addition, the project provides an important research contribution by distinguishing between three different aspects of pay transparency and empirically validating these pay transparency aspects.
The aim of this framework is to challenge and inspire existing talent management in Swiss companies operating in China by:
- Giving an overview on the complexity of talent management;
- Exploring the cultural influence of China on talent management;
- Presenting guidelines on what to consider when doing talent management in China.
Until today, the Chair has completed 22 research projects funded by public and private third parties covering a wide range of topics.
List of completed third party funded research projcets
In collaboration with researchers in Australia, the United Kingdom and United States, the Center for Human Resource Management (CEHRM) empirically investigates the differences in compensation and pay transparency practices among different countries around the world. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of current compensation and pay transparency practices and explore the conditions under which organizations are more likely to offer pay transparency and whether pay transparency is related to organizational results.
Researchers from more than 40 countries collaborate to investigate the impact of merit pay across different countries and territories. Employee level data is collected before and after a merit pay raise and matched with objective merit raise data. This study will be able to answer fundamental questions regarding merit based pay and provide valuable insights for participating organizations.
Arpagaus, G. (2020). Wenn die Kollegen die Firma verlassen – theoretische Ansätze zur Analyse von positiven und negativen Effekten für verbleibende Mitarbeitende. Bachelorarbeit.
Alessandri, L. (2019). Migration in die Schweiz - Eine Analyse zur Integration von ausländischen Beschäftigten in die Schweizer Unternehmen. Bachelorarbeit.
Kälin, F. (2019). Online recruitment and selection: The role of content of the LinkedIn profile in perception of candidates. Bachelorarbeit.
Lustenberger, J. (2019). Einfluss der Lohntransparenz auf das Vertrauen in das Unternehmen. Bachelorarbeit.
Sivanantharasa, T. (2019). Soziale Unterstützung und Stressbewältigung. Bachelorarbeit.
