Mandatory Doctoral Course: Research Ethics (on-campus in Düsseldorf)
Course code
RES800, ELEC834
Course type
Doctoral Program Lecture
Weekly Hours
2,0
ECTS
3
Term
HS 2022
Language
Englisch
Lecturers
Prof. Dr. Fabiola Heike Gerpott
Please note that exchange students obtain a higher number of credits in the BSc-program at WHU than listed here. For further information please contact directly the International Relations Office.
Course content
Day 1: Introduction & Ethics Proposal Part I
- Many shades of grey: Moral dilemmas
- How to write an ethics proposal: Informed consent forms
Day 2: Ethics Proposal Part II, Ethical Challenges Conflicts & Data Handling
- Filling in an ethics application form for an ethics application Part II
- Reviewing an application for ethical approval (feedback session)
- Case Study Academic Misconduct
- Research Data Management: Guest speaker Hossam El-Zalabany
- Time to work on group presentations
Day 3: Team Presentations Open Science
- Team presentations:
o What did you sign up for? The DFG recommendations for safeguarding good scientific practice (specific focus on (co-)authorship, e.g., exchanging authorship favors with colleagues, faculty members demanding authorship on a publication coming out of a dissertation)
o What is open science? An introduction to principles of transparent and reproducible research
o How to publish open access?
o New publication processes to increase transparency (RRs, results-blind submissions, and the difference to pre-registration)
o Plagiarism and Peer Review
- Wrap-Up: Open Topics & Final Thoughts
Class dates
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| Monday, 19.09.2022 | 13:00 - 18:00 |
| Tuesday, 20.09.2022 | 08:00 - 18:00 |
| Wednesday, 21.09.2022 | 09:00 - 13:00 |
Learning outcomes
Upon completing the course, you should be able to…
- Analyze and review the work of others on ethical standards
- Evaluate your own research in terms of ethics procedures
- Plan your data handling and analysis plan for studies
- Critically discuss publications policies
- Consider alternative routes in the publication process
- Conduct open and reproducible research
Literature
Aguinis, H., Banks, G. C., Rogelberg, S. G., & Cascio, W. F. (2020). Actionable recommendations for narrowing the science-practice gap in open science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 158, 27-35. Doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.02.007Bhattacharjee, Y. (2013). The Mind of a Con Man. The New York Times, retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/diederik-stapels-audacious-academic-fraud.html?hp&_r=0Colquitt, J. A. (2012). Plagiarism Policies and Screening at AMJ. Academy of Management Journal, 55, 749–751. Doi: 10.5465/amj.2012.4004Dominus, S. (2017). When the revolution came for Amy Cuddy. The New York Times, retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/when-the-revolution-came-for-amy-cuddy.htmlAcademy of Management (2019). Ethics Video Series. Retrieved from http://aom.org/Multi-Media/Ethics-Video-Series/Ethics-Video-Series.aspx?terms=ethics%20video%20seriesFanelli, D, (2009). How many scientists fabricate and falsify research? A systematic review and meta-analysis of survey data. Plos One, 4: 5, e5738. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005738Kacmar, M. K. (2009). An Ethical Quiz. Academy of Management Journal, 52, 432-434. Doi: 10.5465/AMJ.2009.41330319Kerr, N. L. (1998). HARKing: hypothesizing after the results are known. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2(3): 196-217. Doi: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0203_4Martin, BR, (2013). Whither research integrity? Plagiarism, self-plagiarism and coercive citation in an age of research assessment. Research Policy, 42, 1005-1014. Doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2013.03.011Macfarlane, B. (2010). Researching with integrity: The ethics of academic enquiry. New York: Routledge.Murphy, K. R. & Aguinis, H. J (2019). HARKing: How badly can cherry-picking and question trolling produce bias in published results? Business Psychology, 34. Doi: 10.1007/s10869-017-9524-7Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349: 6251, aac4716. Doi: 10.1126/science.aac4716Spector, P. E., & Brannick, M. T. (2011). Methodological urban legends: The misuse of statistical control variables. Organizational Research Methods, 14(2), 287-305.Tenney, E. R., Costa, E., Allard, A., & Vazire, S. (2021). Open science and reform practices in organizational behavior research over time (2011 to 2019). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 162, 218-223. Doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.10.015
Exam
During the course, you are expected to…
- … actively participate in the class room (30%)
- … write an ethics proposal for your own research (40%)
- … present an ethics-related topic with your team (30%)