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4th Issue 2015
Management Revue – Socio-Economic Studies, Volume 26
Open Issue
Contents
Sarah Altmann & Stefan Suess
The influence of temporary time offs from work on employer attractiveness – An experimental study
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Rainer Lueg & Louisa Vu
Success factors in Balanced Scorecard implementations – A literature review
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Osamu Suzuki
Unpacking performance benefits of innovation ambidexterity: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry
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Call for Papers
Digital Working Life (Seminar & Special Issue)
edited by Mikael Ottosson, Calle Rosengren (Lund University, Sweden), Doris Holtmann & Wenzel Matiaske (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany)
Forthcoming Issues
Ageing Societies: Comparing HRM Responses to the Career Expectations of Older Employees in Germany and Japan
edited by Keith Jackson & Philippe Debroux
Financial Participation
edited by Wenzel Matiaske, Andrew Pendleton & Eric Poutsma
Perspectives on Sustainable Consumption
edited by Ortrud Lessmann & Torsten Masson
Seminar at the IUC Dubrovnik (April 11-15th, 2016) & Special Issue of Management Revue
Working life is undergoing a radical change in which new digital technologies are changing the nature of labour and its organizational forms in a pervasive manner, regardless of whether it concerns qualified professionals or labourers. The framework, which previously regulated the content of work, as well as when, where and how it would be conducted is being reconsidered. A process that presents both challenges and possibilities.
One fundamental aspect of ICT is that it can make employees more accessible to others and allow work to become more available to the employee. Easy access to ICT functions (e.g., email, text and voice messages), for example, enable employees to continue working after leaving the office for the day. This ease of access may have both positive and negative effects. Although much of the research focus to date has concentrated on how ICT may act as demands, stressors or certain characteristics of ICT can enhance work-life balance, employee satisfaction, well-being and productivity.
Another aspect of new digital technologies concerns the manner in which the work process is monitored and controlled. Surveillance in the workplace is not a novelty. Nor is it unreasonable to expect that employers have both rights and reasons to do so. To a certain extent, of course. However, increasing availability of relatively inexpensive and easy to use technology, for example software monitoring programs, enables employers to expand the range and scope of their control over their employees’ activities. The increase in potential methods to track and monitor employee behaviour poses questions that concern where the borders for personal integrity are drawn. Who has the right to personal details, and at what point? In what way does this monitoring affect the social relations between employer and employee in terms of control, autonomy and trust?
Digital technology, in computers, phones or in the “Internet of things” also provides tools that enable the standardization of work on a completely different level than previously. For some workers, we see a degradation and depletion of work, and also that the control of work is increasing; a development that is usually described using the concept of “Digital Taylorism.” How does this development affect the working man or the working class?
In the special issue and the corresponding seminar (IUC Dubrovnik, http://www.iuc.hr, 11.-15.April 2016), we would like to discuss our topic in an appropriately broad and interdisciplinary manner. We are particularly interested in questions such as:
This is not an exhaustive list.
Deadline
Potential contributors to the seminar at the IUC Dubrovnik are encouraged to submit an abstract of 1-2 pages before January 31st, 2016 electronically via Management Revue’s online submission system at http://www.management-revue.org/submission/ using ‘IUC Dubrovnik’ as article section.
All contributors to the seminar are invited to submit their paper for the special issue of Management Revue. Full papers must be submitted by July 31st, 2016. All contributions will be subject to a double-blind review. Papers invited to a ‘revise and resubmit’ are due October 31st, 2016. Please submit your papers electronically via the online submission system at http://www.management-revue.org/submission/ using ‘SI Digital Working Life’ as article section.
Hoping to hear from you!
Mikael Ottosson
Calle Rosengren
Doris Holtmann
Wenzel Matiaske
3rd Issue 2015
Management Revue – Socio-Economic Studies, Volume 26
Open Issue
Contents
Sharon P. McKechnie & Joy E. Beatty
Contemporary calendar management: Exploring the intersections of groupware and personal calendars
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Alexander Mitterle, Roland Bloch & Carsten Würmann
Time to teach: Revisiting teaching time in German higher education
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Thordis Reimer
Working time arrangements and family time of fathers: How work organization(s) shape fathers’ opportunities to engage in childcare
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Irma Rybnikova & Josephine Krüger
Between work and non-work: Institutional settings of boundary management in case of German self-employed lawyers
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Call for Papers
Digital Working Live (Seminar & Special Issue)
edited by Mikael Ottosson, Calle Rosengren (Lund University, Sweden), Doris Holtmann & Wenzel Matiaske (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany)
Forthcoming Issues
Financial Participation
edited by Wenzel Matiaske, Andrew Pendleton & Eric Poutsma
Die Universität Duisburg-Essen sucht am Campus Duisburg in der Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Mercator School of Management, Lehrstuhl für Unternehmens- und Technologieplanung, Schwerpunkt Telekommunikationswirtschaft eine/n
wissenschaftlicheMitarbeiterin/ wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter an Universitäten (Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L)
Ihre Aufgabenschwerpunkte:
Im Rahmen der Tätigkeit wird Gelegenheit zur wissenschaftlichen Weiterqualifikation
(Promotion) geboten.
Ihr Profil:
Gesucht werden Absolventen mit einem Universitätsabschluss (mind. 8 Semester, Diplom-/Masterabschluss oder vergleichbar) vorzugsweise aus dem Bereich des Wirtschaftsingenieurwesens oder der Betriebswirtschaftslehre (möglichst Prädikatsexamen). Gute Kenntnisse in der Planung, Umsetzung und Auswertung empirischer Erhebungen sowie einschlägige Praktika und/oder Erfahrungen im Bereich der Telekommunikations- oder Medienindustrien sind von Vorteil. Zudem sind sehr gute Englischkenntnisse unabdingbar.
Besetzungszeitpunkt: 01.02.2016
Vertragsdauer: zunächst 4 Jahre
Arbeitszeit: 75 Prozent einer Vollzeitstelle
Bewerbungsfrist: 15.11.2015
Die Universität Duisburg- Essen verfolgt das Ziel, die Vielfalt ihrer Mitglieder zu fördern (s. http://www.uni-due.de/diversity)
Sie strebt die Erhöhung des Anteils der Frauen am wissenschaftlichen Personal an und fordert deshalb einschlägig qualifizierte Frauen nachdrücklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Frauen werden nach Maßgabe des Landesgleichstellungsgesetzes bei gleicher Qualifikation bevorzugt berücksichtigt.
Bewerbungen geeigneter Schwerbehinderter und Gleichgestellter i. S. des § 2 Abs. 3 SGB IX sind erwünscht.
Ihre Bewerbung mit den üblichen Unterlagen richten Sie bitte unter Angabe der Kennziffer 581-15 an Herrn Prof. Dr. Torsten J. Gerpott, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Mercator School of Management, Lehrstuhl für Unternehmens- und Technologieplanung, Schwerpunkt Telekommunikationswirtschaft, 47048 Duisburg, Telefon 0203/379-3109, E-Mail monika.bunn@uni-due.de.
Informationen über die Fakultät und die ausschreibende Stelle finden Sie unter:
http://www.msm.uni-due.de/utp
Institution: Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Martin Eisend, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Date:
19.11.2015, 13:00-18:00 Uhr
20.11.2015, 09:00-16:00 Uhr
Place: Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043 Hamburg
Language of instruction: German
Registration: Der direkte Kursbeitritt erfolgt unter diesem Link. Wer nicht Angehöriger der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität ist, lege sich zuvor bitte unter diesem Link ein Konto auf dem Ilias-System der HSU an.
Contents:
Meta-Analysen integrieren empirische Befunde mehrerer Untersuchungen zu einer bestimmten Fragestellung und analysieren die Variabilität dieser Befunde. Damit bieten sie Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftlerinnen eine Möglichkeit, bisherige Forschungsergebnisse quantitativ zu integrieren und zu bewerten und sich somit einen Überblick über die empirische Forschung zu einer Fragestellung zu verschaffen. Sie helfen Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftlerinnen auch bei der Erklärung und Interpretation von unterschiedlichen und zum Teil gegensätzlichen Befunden in der bisherigen Forschung. Durch ihre generalisierenden Befunde unterstützt die Meta-Analysen auch Praktiker bei der Entscheidungsfindung. Aufgrund der stark zunehmenden Anzahl von empirischen Untersuchungen in vielen Disziplinen der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung kommt die Meta-Analysen in diesen Bereichen zunehmend zum Einsatz.
Der Kurs wendet sich an Nachwuchswissenschaftler und Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen, die sich mit der Methode der Meta-Analysen vertraut machen möchten und lernen möchten, wie man diese erfolgreich einsetzt und verwendet. Nach Besuch des Kurses sind die Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen in der Lage….
Der Kurs setzt grundlegende Kenntnisse in Statistik und multivariater Datenanalyse voraus. Insbesondere sollten die Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen mit Test-verfahren und regressionsanalytischen Techniken vertraut sein; erwünscht ist auch ein Grundverständnis von Strukturgleichungsmodellen.
Der Kurs setzt grundlegende Kenntnisse in Statistik und multivariater Datenanalyse voraus. Insbesondere sollten die Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen mit Test-Verfahren und regressionsanalytischen Techniken vertraut sein; erwünscht ist auch ein Grundverständnis von Strukturgleichungsmodellen.
Informationen zum Raum und zu den Inhalten des Workshops (Handouts, Präsentationen, Beispieldaten) gehen Ihnen an den Tagen unmittelbar vor der Veranstaltung mit Hilfe des Ilias-Mailsystems zu.
Markus Burkhardt, Peter Sedlmeier
Explorative und deskriptive Datenanalyse mit R
Die explorative Datenanalyse (EDA) umfasst eine Reihe meist grafischer oder semigrafischer Verfahren, die es ermöglichen, Daten und Ergebnisse besser zu verstehen. Das Ziel der EDA ist es Muster, Auffälligkeiten oder Zusammenhänge in Daten zu entdecken. Im Hauptteil des Buches werden die Grundtechniken zur Exploration von Verteilungen, Zusammenhängen und multivariaten Beziehungen vorgestellt. Die Grenzen zwischen der explorativen und der deskriptiven Datenanalyse sind fließend und für eine vernünftige Datenanalyse (und auch zur Kommunikation von Ergebnissen) sind beide unabdingbar. Deswegen behandelt das Buch beide Arten von Verfahren. Zudem enthält es ein Kapitel über Effektgrößen und eines zu Grafiken in der Inferenzstatistik. Alle Verfahren werden mit Hilfe von Beispielen illustriert und können unter Verwendung der frei erhältlichen Programmiersprache R von jedermann leicht nachvollzogen werden. Ergänzend werden alle R-Skripte auch online angeboten (http://www.r-stutorials.de/eda). Da keinerlei Programmierkenntnisse vorausgesetzt werden, eignet sich dieses Buch auch zum Einstieg in R.
Schlüsselwörter: Explorative Datenanalyse, deskriptive Datenanalyse, semigrafische und grafische Verfahren, Effektgrößen, R
Markus Burkhardt ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Professur für Forschungsmethoden und Evaluation am Institut für Psychologie der TU-Chemnitz.
Peter Sedlmeier ist Professor für Forschungsmethoden und Evaluation am Institut für Psychologie der TU Chemnitz.
Seminar at the IUC Dubrovnik (April 11-15th, 2016) & Special Issue of Management Revue
Working life is undergoing a radical change in which new digital technologies are changing the nature of labour and its organizational forms in a pervasive manner, regardless of whether it concerns qualified professionals or labourers. The framework, which previously regulated the content of work, as well as when, where and how it would be conducted is being reconsidered. A process that presents both challenges and possibilities.
One fundamental aspect of ICT is that it can make employees more accessible to others and allow work to become more available to the employee. Easy access to ICT functions (e.g., email, text and voice messages), for example, enable employees to continue working after leaving the office for the day. This ease of access may have both positive and negative effects. Although much of the research focus to date has concentrated on how ICT may act as demands, stressors or certain characteristics of ICT can enhance work-life balance, employee satisfaction, well-being and productivity.
Another aspect of new digital technologies concerns the manner in which the work process is monitored and controlled. Surveillance in the workplace is not a novelty. Nor is it unreasonable to expect that employers have both rights and reasons to do so. To a certain extent, of course. However, increasing availability of relatively inexpensive and easy to use technology, for example software monitoring programs, enables employers to expand the range and scope of their control over their employees’ activities. The increase in potential methods to track and monitor employee behaviour poses questions that concern where the borders for personal integrity are drawn. Who has the right to personal details, and at what point? In what way does this monitoring affect the social relations between employer and employee in terms of control, autonomy and trust?
Digital technology, in computers, phones or in the “Internet of things” also provides tools that enable the standardization of work on a completely different level than previously. For some workers, we see a degradation and depletion of work, and also that the control of work is increasing; a development that is usually described using the concept of “Digital Taylorism.” How does this development affect the working man or the working class?
In the special issue and the corresponding seminar (IUC Dubrovnik, http://www.iuc.hr, 11.-15.April 2016), we would like to discuss our topic in an appropriately broad and interdisciplinary manner. We are particularly interested in questions such as:
This is not an exhaustive list.
Deadline
Potential contributors to the seminar at the IUC Dubrovnik are encouraged to submit an abstract of 1-2 pages before January 31st, 2016 electronically via Management Revue’s online submission system at http://www.management-revue.org/submission/ using ‘IUC Dubrovnik’ as article section.
All contributors to the seminar are invited to submit their paper for the special issue of Management Revue. Full papers must be submitted by July 31st, 2016. All contributions will be subject to a double-blind review. Papers invited to a ‘revise and resubmit’ are due October 31st, 2016. Please submit your papers electronically via the online submission system at http://www.management-revue.org/submission/ using ‘SI Digital Working Life’ as article section.
Hoping to hear from you!
Mikael Ottosson
Calle Rosengren
Doris Holtmann
Wenzel Matiaske
Institution: German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Lecturer: Dr. Susanne Friese, QuaRC
Schedule: 16.-17.11.2015
Place: GIGA, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20534 Hamburg, Germany
Registration: Online via the GIGA website
Course description:
The course starts with an overview of analysis approaches to qualitative data in order to provide the context for coding approaches that are mainly used when using software to support the analysis process. As part of the course, the software ATLAS.ti is introduced and you learn how to set up a project, how to prepare and code data. Throughout the course, the technical aspects of the analysis process are related to methodological considerations, as just knowing the mouse clicks will not help you to conduct your analysis. Students will have the possibility to present their project. If you want to do so, please get in touch with the instructor one month before the course, so we can discuss where you are at and where your presentation best fits in.
About the lecturer
Dr. Susanne Friese studied Nutrition, Home Economics, Family Resource Management, and Marketing at the universities of Bonn and Oregon (USA). During her studies she became interested in qualitative research methods and computer-assisted data analysis.
In 1996, she founded QUARC, a consultancy that specializes in procedures and methods of qualitative data analysis, with a special focus on computer-aided qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS).
Institution: German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, Leipzig
Schedule: 12.-13.11.2015
Place: GIGA, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20534 Hamburg, Germany
Registration: Online via the GIGA website
Course description:
The workshop will introduce to principles, forms and techniques of interviewing in qualitative social research. It will discuss questions like: Why and for what purposes do we use interviews as opposed to other forms of data collection? What are the basic principles and specific types of interviewing in qualitative research as opposed to quantitative approaches? Which type of interview (individual/collective, narrative/semi-structured etc.) do we use for which type of research question? Which problems do we face in specific types of interviews (narrative, expert, focus interviews, group discussions etc.) and with regard to specific interview partners (age, class, gender, region). How does our own role and standpoint influence interviews and how can we deal with that in the course of the research? What are typical mistakes and problems during the interview? etc. The workshops will combine input lectures with intensive discussions of the participants’ projects and research experience. Active participation is necessary.
About the lecturer
Prof. Dr. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr is professor of cultural sociology at Leipzig University. Her research focuses on Islam in Western societies, secularisation, and qualitative methods. She has published extensively in German and International Journals. Her publications on social science research methods include the book “Qualitative Sozialforschung. Ein Arbeitsbuch” (co-authored with Aglaja Przyborski, 2008, German).
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