WU is currently inviting applications for the position of a full professor[1] of Human Resource Management at the Department of Management. Candidates are expected to have established an international reputation as a researcher in their field. Depending on the candidate’s academic credentials, the employment contract can be concluded either as a permanent employment contract or as a fixed-term employment contract with the option of a permanent extension.[2]
WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) combines excellence with responsibility.
Its rare triple accreditation by EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA is a guarantee for the highest quality research and teaching in the fields of business, economics, and business law. WU’s research is characterized by a wide diversity of disciplines practiced at WU, allowing researchers to deal with even the most complex of research questions.
International cooperation is very important to WU, and we encourage and support both faculty and student mobility. WU is also very aware of its responsibility to its students, faculty, and staff and is committed to gender equality, equal opportunities, accessibility, family-friendly working conditions, and sustainability.
In the Department of Management (https://www.wu.ac.at/en/management), we engage in research, teaching, executive education, and third mission activities. We strive towards excellent research at the highest level, and to contribute to exchanging knowledge internationally and nationally, within academia and with other actors in society. We ground our research and teaching mainly in management and organizational theory, and we appreciate a social science perspective. We value our common understanding of academia as a joint effort grounded in mutual respect and appreciate our constructive collaboration.
Qualifications
Human Resource Management (HRM) is a research area encompassing a broad variety of topics, as well as various relevant theoretical and methodological approaches. Human Resource Management particularly addresses structural and organizational aspects related to selecting, developing, evaluating, and rewarding human resources that contribute to organizational outcomes. Ideally, candidates will explore various challenges and opportunities related to the future of work in and about human resource management and consider its contextual embeddedness. This includes, but is not limited to, (1) Work, employment & society (e.g., sustainable and common good HRM), (2) Strategy and HRM, (3) Labour Relations and HRM, (4) Entrepreneurship and HRM, (5) Creativity & Innovation and HRM, (6) Artificial Intelligence & Digitalization and HRM, in different types of organizations and cultural contexts. In one or more of these research areas, candidates should have a track record of theory-related, empirical research in organizations.
The successful candidate is expected to have established an international reputation as a researcher as exemplified above and to have the following characteristics (candidates’ qualifications will be assessed under consideration of their academic age):
a) A solid academic qualification (e.g. PhD, habilitation, or equivalent qualification) in management (highly advantageous), alternatively a closely related area;
b) A track record of international experiences;
c) An outstanding international reputation for excellent research in Human Resource Management from a social science perspective;
d) An excellent research record with regard to their academic age, especially by
a. having demonstrated the ability to publish in top-tier journals of the field (especially advantageous also in journals from the WU star-list and the department’s A+ and A lists) and by
b. regular participation in conferences and workshops in the field of Management (e.g., Academy of Management, EGOS, EURAM, VHB)
e) A record in successfully attracting research funding;
f) Excellent teaching qualifications at undergraduate and graduate levels as well as in executive education;
g) active participation in the international scientific community and a track record of serving the scientific community;
h) team leadership qualities;
i) gender and diversity management skills;
j) well documented activities in the areas of self-governance and third mission.
k) ability to teach in German is an advantage; in case this is not possible at the start of the employment, a strong commitment to learn German towards an advanced level (CEFR B2) in the first five years is expected in order to fulfill necessary responsibilities of this position, including teaching, university self-governance, and third mission activities.
Expectations
We expect the successful candidate to teach at all levels of higher education and executive education at WU, both in classroom and in distance-learning. Full professors are expected to teach eight credit hours weekly at WU. We also want them to play an active role in the development and improvement of existing academic programs.
The successful candidate will be expected to take on a leadership role at institute level at the Department of Management, to establish stakeholder relations and to position the Institute for Human Resource Management as national and international knowledge hub for HRM. The new professor should also take an active role in the university’s self-governance and third mission activities. The successful candidate shares the department’s collaborative approach and is also expected to contribute to the future development of the Department of Management (see https://www.wu.ac.at/management/).
Overall, the successful candidate complements the department’s profile in research, teaching, and third mission. Especially in research, the candidate introduces new approaches to the overall portfolio of the department as well as connects with existing research foci.
