Universität Wien

040238 SE Bachelor Seminar (incl. Bachelor´s Paper) (2023S)

Management and Consulting

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 24 participants
Language: German, English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Saturday 11.03. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock (Kickoff Class)
  • Thursday 11.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Thursday 11.05. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Friday 12.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Saturday 13.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Thursday 15.06. 09:45 - 16:30 Seminarraum 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.” (Palpatine)

Most of the leadership research so far has focused on its enhancing components and beneficial effects. As a case in point, numerous studies assessed the antecedents and effects of charismatic, ethical, democratic and transformational leadership (e.g., Brown & Trevino, 2006; Den Hartog, 2015; Dinh, Lord, Gardner, Meuser, Liden, & Hu, 2014; Gardner, Lowe, Meuser, Noghani, Gullifor, & Cogliser, 2020; Hiller, Sin, Ponnapalli, & Ozgen, 2019; Meuser, Gardner, Dinh, Hu, Liden, & Lord; Zhu, Song, Zhu, & Johnson, 2019 ). Only in the last decade, more scholars turned their attention to the malicious ingredients and consequences of leadership. In fact, prior to 2010 only 57 studies analyzed “bad leaders” (Schyn & Schilling, 2013: 138). This number rose to 386 at the end of the 2010s (Mackey, Ellen, MacAlister, & Alexander, 2021). Many of these papers demonstrated that the dark side of leadership constitutes a double-edged sword. While dark leadership styles can severely harm organizational culture and performance (Shaw, Erickson, & Nasirzadeh, 2015), leaders with dark personality traits can also have positive impact on both, followers as well as organizational outcomes. For example, narcissistic leadership is related to enhanced followers’ career success (Volmer, Koch, & Göritz, 2016) and can improve organizational outcomes (Fatfouta, 2019).

In this seminar, students will write a (pre-)scientific paper investigating the dark side of leadership and contrasting it with well researched bright leadership traits using experimental and empirical methods

The successful completion of the VO Introduction to Scientific Work as well as the VO and UE Statistics 1 constitutes a pre-requisite for attending this course.

This seminar provides students with skills and knowledge on how to conduct a (pre-)scientific research project. More specifically, students will further their insights into the following topics through input presentations at the kick-off meeting, the provision of learning videos via Moodle and literature:
• Scientific literature review
• Identifying relevant theories
• Study pre-registration
• Data collection & analysis
• Scientific presenting
• Academic paper writing
• Peer reviewing

Assessment and permitted materials

1. Study Pre-Registration with deadline 16.4.2023 (peer-grading) (15 points)
2. Two peer-reviews on study-preregistrations with deadline 1.5.2023 (peer-grading) (20 points)
3. Concept Presentation during seminar block in May (5 points)
4. Final Science Slam presentation on 15.6.2023 (peer-grading) (10 points)
5. Final seminar paper with deadline 30.6.2023 (50points)

All assignments are individual assignments. There is no group work in this seminar.

Students must cite all supporting tools, literature references, etc.
All submissions handed in on Moodle will be checked for plagiarism with TurnItIn and AI writing using an AI Content Detector. Accepting the usage of these tools constitutes a pre-requisite for registering for this course.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Passing grades can only be achieved by students not missing more than 10% of the lectures.

To pass the course, students must achieve at least half of the points available in the seminar paper as well as in the course overall.

Passing grades are distributed accordingly:

50 to < 62.5 points: 4
62.5 to < 75 points: 3
75 to < 87.5 points: 2
87.5 points or better: 1

Examination topics

Input presentation on 11.3.2023
All materials distributed via Moodle
All literature readings

Reading list

Ebster, C. & Stalzer, L. (2017). Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftler, 5. Aufl., Wien. ISBN: 978-3-8252-4684-6 (erhältlich im Facultas Shop)

Sheppard, V. (2020). Research Methods for the Social Sciences: An Introduction. Victoria: BCcampus.

Sreejesh, S.; Mohapatra, S. & Anusree, M. R. (2014). Business Research Methods: An Applied Orientation. New York: Springer.

Wason, K. D.; Polonsky, M. J. & Hyman, M. R. (2002). Designing vignette studies in marketing. Australasian Marketing Journal, 10(3), 41-58.

Zamora-Saiz A.; Gonzalez, C. Q.; Hurtado Gil, L. & Ruiz, D. M. (2020). An Introduction to Data Analysis in R. New York: Springer.

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