Final Theses
If you are studying at the Faculty of Economics and are interested in writing a Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis at the Chair for Work, Human Resources and Leadership, you can find information about the requirements as well as the supervision process here. Students of the Institute of Work Science (IAW) can find more information about the master theses here. Students of the Institute of Work Science (IAW) can find more information about the master theses here.
Information event
Timely before the beginning of each semester (usually in mid-January and mid-July) an information event about bachelor’s and master’s theses takes place at our chair. The information events will be announced in time in the news and on this site. The contact person is Immanuel Lutzeyer.
The next information meeting about theses at our chair will take place on Wednesday, July 05, 2023, at 16:00 (s.t.) in room GD 1/148. take place. Die Folien der Informationsveranstaltung zu Bachelor and master theses in the summermester 2023 can be found here.
Bachelor Theses
The Chair for Work, Human Resources and Leadership can provide supervision for up to 20 bachelor theses each semester. A pre-registration as well as the fine-tuned agreement on an exposé (3-5 pages) before the start of the processing period is required for a final supervision commitment. Please allow sufficient time for this. The exact processing period for Management & Economics students is determined by the examination office (please note the WiWi-BOS system). 2-subject Bachelor students do not have a specified deadline. Possible topics for a bachelor thesis at the chair can be found in the slides of the information event. You are also welcome to explore our list of already completed bachelor theses. If you are interested in writing a bachelor thesis, you can apply for pre-registration by sending an e-mail to (this is possible for about one month after the information event, see slides of information event). Please include your name, matriculation number, the modules you have attended with grade, your topic interest(s) and 2-4 concrete topic ideas (cf. slides of the information event).
Master theses
The Chair for Work, Human Resources, and Leadership can supervise 20 master’s theses at a time. If you are interested in writing a master thesis, you can apply by email to . Please indicate your name, matriculation number, the modules you have attended with grade, the desired start date of the thesis as well as your topic interest(s) and 2-4 concrete topic ideas (cf. slides of the information event). If our supervision capacity is not yet exhausted, we will fine-tune a topic with you, for which you will subsequently prepare an exposé (3-5 pages). As soon as the exposé has been successfully coordinated with us, the master’s thesis can be registered (more details on registration in FlexNow can be found here). Please allow sufficient time for this process. We reserve the right to put you on our waiting list first.
Guidelines for writing scientific theses
Students writing a thesis at our chair, get access to various materials around scientific working via a separate Moodle course. If you are not yet enrolled in the Moodle course, please contact Immanuel Lutzeyer.