📌 Key facts
- When: Applications open now!
- How to Apply: Send an email to alexandra.abler@tum.de with your CV, grade report, and a research proposal as one PDF file.
💡 Background
Diversity in top management teams (TMTs) has become a critical topic in organizational studies, shaping how businesses achieve sustainable growth, foster innovation, and navigate global challenges. Evidence shows that diverse leadership enhances creativity, decision-making, and adaptability to complex markets. Yet, the full potential of diversity remains underexplored, with many questions about its tangible impacts on performance and team dynamics.
This thesis investigates how different dimensions of diversity—gender, cultural background, experience, and more—affect the effectiveness and outcomes of TMTs. Through case studies, empirical analysis, and academic insights, the study will uncover actionable frameworks to help businesses leverage diversity for competitive advantage.
The research will focus on:
- Examining diversity’s role in driving innovation and organizational agility.
- Understanding challenges and biases in TMT dynamics.
- Identifying best practices for diverse leadership teams to thrive.
🦾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.
🎓 Profile
- Interest and basic knowledge of: Leadership, Management, Diversity, Systematic Literature Review.
- Organizational skills and proactive communication.
- Reliable and self-driven working style.
📝 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Alexandra Abler by submitting your CV and grade report in one pdf file.
Please indicate your preferred start date and motivation in your application.
Please don’t use ChatGPT within your application. Please write briefly and precisely, as you will do in your thesis.
📬 Contact
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Alexandra Abler (Chair for Strategy and Organization)
BCG Global BCG Gender Diversity Index 2024
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