Archiv des Autors: Michael Volk

CfP: Employer, Employee, and Linked Datasets (LEE). Datasets ‒ Availability, Quality, Perspectives (Seminar & Special Issue)

Combining data from employees on the one hand and establishments on the other is considered a promising research basis from different perspectives. Such datasets ideally provide information from different sources, which can increase the validity of the data, and operationalise a multi-level design, which is called for by various theoretical approaches. Furthermore, such data are of interest to different disciplines. Examples from different disciplines are:

  • 1) occupational and organisational psychology use such data to study subjective stress and leadership style,
  • 2) personnel research is interested in turnover rates and how this relates to relations between employers and employees,
  • 3) situational research is interested in fluctuation rates and situational conditions of personnel management,
  • 4) sociology is interested in career paths in different work organisations and the social structure of society, and
  • 5) economics interested in labour market outcomes more generally.

Of course, from these perspectives survey design in terms of e.g. information in questionaire and time dimension with possible panel structure is of interest in assessing the research potential of LEE datasets. The construction of such surveys is costly and entails a series of aspects concerening design. Therefore, their subsequent use is desirable, which necessitates institutional archiving and, better still, institutional data production. Most importantly, an overview of available data sets and projects on LEE data would promote international research. This entails systematic archiving, documentation and methodological research on possible caveats in specific survey designs producing LEE datasets. The advantages and disadvantages of these practices and quality management are also of great interest. Furthermore, a great interest is associated with theoretical and methodological questions on survey designs as well as possible applications in different disciplines. Accordingly, this workshop brings together researchers on methods concerning survey designs of LEE datasets with researchers doing research using LEE datasets to promote the mutial understanding of potentials and caveats in different designs of LEE datasets. Examples of contributions could be:

  • Specific employer, employee, and in particular linked data sets and projects
  • Methodological difficulties and solutions in the context of data collection, archiving and re-use
  • Theoretical issues dealt with when using LEE datasets in different disciplines and what  dimensions on LEE datasets are essential in that respect
  • Aspects of quality assurance and solutions on such issues
  • Issues concerning weighting, non-response and attrition in different types of survey datasets
  • Types of LEE datasets based on registers or surveys and issues therein
  • Examples of using LEE datasets for research in different disciplines

Course Directors & Guest Editors

  • Chris Brewster, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK
  • Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (Germany)

Deadline for abstract submission for the seminar: 31 July 2023.
Seminar at the IUC Dubrovnik: 2-6 October 2023.
Deadline for submission of the full paper for the Special Issue: 30 November 2023.
Publication date: Issue 4/2024

View the complete Call here.

Striving for Impact: Sustainable HRM for the Common-Good, 14/15 March, online & free of charge

This conference hosted by the Institute for Human Resource Management, WU Vienna, Austria and the Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations (LouRIM) at UCLouvain, Belgium, focuses on the task of taking stock of the impact of Sustainable HRM theories and practices on the Common Good. Embedded in a background of multi-level crises (e.g. Covid-19, violent-conflict, inflation, climate-change, growing social inequalities), and growing threats to the commons (democratic freedom, human rights, ecological integrity), our call can be considered a response to an urgency for business and HRM to adopt a more societal role and to critically reflect on the impact of HR policies, strategies and practices on wider societal and ecological shared “Common-Good” interests. While scholarly concepts of and approaches to sustainable HRM are diverse (e.g. Aust et al., 2020), our aim of this conference is to offer an opportunity for international scholars to present and discuss how and when our research can have a real-life impact by making contributions to today’s sustainability challenges as framed through the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and beyond.

Scientific Committee:

  • Ina Aust (LouRIM at UCLouvain, Belgium)
  • Julia Brandl (Universität Innsbruck, Austria)
  • Michael Brookes (SDU, DK)
  • Fang Lee Cooke (Monash University, Australia)
  • Marco Guerci (Università Delgi Studi Di Milano, Italy)
  • Michael Müller-Camen (WU Vienna, Austria)
  • Shuang Ren (Queen’s Management School, UK)
  • Douglas Renwick (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
  • Judith Semeijn (Open Universiteit, NL)
  • Philip Yang (Universität Tübingen, Germany)
  • Geoffrey Wood (Western University, Canada)

Format: Online.
Participation: free of charge. Register here and receive Zoom-link by e-mail. The registration is open up to the conference day.
Workshop program.

Governance in Wissenschaftsorganisationen – Konstruktiver Umgang mit Konflikten und Vorwürfen,16./17. März in Wuppertal

Veranstalter: Bergische Universität Wuppertal, die Universität Passau und das Bayerische Staatsinstitut für Hochschulforschung und Hochschulplanung  (IHF)  in Kooperation mit  dem Deutschen Hochschulverband (DHV) und der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK)

Am ersten Tag werden wir die Herausforderungen und Probleme kennenlernen, die bei der Etablierung und Umsetzung von Verfahren an Wissenschaftseinrichtungen auftreten. Wir werden diskutieren, welche Folgen dies für Einzelne und das System hat. Wir freuen uns auf Beiträge von Professor Bernhard Kempen (DHV) und Professor Oliver Günther (HRK), Professor Dr. Nicole Boivin (MPG), Michael Balter (Freier Journalist; ehem. Korrespondent f. SCIENCE Paris), Dr. Heide Ahrens (Generalsekretärin DFG), Professor Ulrike Beisiegel (Universität Göttingen) und Professor Thomas Krieg (Leopoldina). Gespannt erwarten wir fundierte Hintergründe über die rechtlichen Kontexte von Professor Sascha Herms (HTW Berlin), sowie Einblicke in interne Verfahren von Inge Bell (Bell Consulting), Professor Ursula Keller (ETH Zürich) und Professor Eric Steinhauer (Sprecher des Gremiums „Ombudsman für die Wissenschaft“).

Am zweiten Tag stehen Lösungsansätze und notwendige Veränderungen im Vordergrund. Hierzu erhalten wir empirische Einblicke in Wissenschaftshierarchien und Perspektiven von außen auf Governance im Wissenschaftssystem von Dr. Nicholas Russell (MPG), Thomas Sattelberger, Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär a.D aus der Politik, Hauke Paasch, CEO des Unternehmens Vorwerk aus der Wirtschaft und Kristin Haug (SPIEGEL) aus der Medienperspektive. Lösungen und nächste Schritte diskutieren wir mit Kerstin Dübner-Gee (Personalentwicklung & Chancen, MPG), Dr. Norbert Sack (Leadership Advisors for Academia), Prof. Dr. Ulrike Beisiegel (Univ. Göttingen) und Alina Fahrenwaldt (MPG).

Zur Konferenz-Website.
Zum Tagungsprogramm.
Teilnahmegebühr: 35 € (für Studierende 10 €)
Zur Anmeldung.

Extended deadline for submissions: The 16th International Human Resource Management conference (London, June 2023) is online now

The 16th International Human Resource Management conference will take place in London, June 28-30, 2023.

View the IHRM Conference’s Website here.

IHRM in Action:
In Search of Organizational Resilience in Multinational Enterprises
Details on the Call for Submissions also here.

Conference committee:

  • Dana Minbaeva, King’s College London, dana.minbaeva@kcl.ac.uk
  • Ian Hill, King’s College London, ian.j.hill@kcl.ac.uk
  • Hyun-Jung Lee, LSE, h.lee@lse.ac.uk

Timeline:
Extended abstract (max 2,000 words) submission deadline: 20 February 2023.
Decisions of acceptance: 3 April 2023.
Application for the PhD consortium: 10 April 2023.
Application for the Publishing Workshop: 8 May 2023.
Venue: King’s College London.

Schmalenbach-Tagung in Köln am 09. März 2023

Digitalisierung, Globalisierung und die Entwicklung Künstlicher Intelligenz eröffnen neue Chancen und Möglichkeiten in der Ausführung und Organisation von Arbeit. Hinzu kommen der demografische Wandel und die veränderten Anforderungen und Erwartungen der Mitarbeitenden. Unternehmen stehen vor enormen Herausforderungen in turbulenten Zeiten und reagieren mit Flexibilisierung, Qualifizierung und neuen Formen der Führung.

Wie wird die Arbeitswelt von morgen aussehen? Der Tradition der Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft entsprechend interessieren uns vor allem die betriebswirtschaftlichen Implikationen der neuen Entwicklungen.

Detailliertes Programm
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Drittmittelfinanzierte*r Wissenschaftler*in (prae doc)

Wir suchen Verstärkung am Institut für Verhaltenswissenschaftlich orientiertes Management

Was Sie erwartet

  • An einem spannenden praxisnahen Forschungsprojekt mitarbeiten: Sie arbeiten an dem drittmittelfinanzierten Projekt „Workplace Analytics -Optimierung von Arbeit durch algorithmische Selbst- und Fremdkontrolle“ mit (Förderinstitution: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung).
  • Forschen, für sich und andere: Sie unterstützen die Projektleiterin (Dr. Verena Bader) bei Veröffentlichungen, führen qualitative Datenerhebungen durch und forschen  praxisunterstützend mit Kooperations-Partner*innen aus Unternehmen und Gewerkschaften.
  • Organisations- und Verwaltungsaufgaben wahrnehmen: Sie arbeiten bei der Organisation des Forschungsprojekts mit und übernehmen unterstützende Aufgaben bei der Administration der Forschung.
  • Dissertation schreiben: Sie nutzen die Projektstelle, um ein geeignetes Dissertationsthema zu finden und dazu Ihre Forschung zu vertiefen.
  • Im Team arbeiten: Am Interdisziplinären Institut für verhaltenswissenschaftlich orientiertes Management (ivm) erwartet Sie ein Team, mit dem Sie das Themenfeld gemeinsam wissenschaftlich vorantreiben.
  • Persönliches Netzwerk aufbauen: Sie nutzen die prae doc-Phase, um Kontakte für die Zukunft zu knüpfen.

Was Sie mitbringen

  • Studienabschluss in Wirtschafts- oder Sozialwissenschaften: Sie haben Ihr Masterstudium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften oder in einem anderen facheinschlägigen Studiengang (z.B. Soziologie) mit sehr gutem Erfolg abgeschlossen.
  • Ausgeprägtes Interesse: Sie haben ausgeprägtes Interesse am wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten im Themenbereich Personalmanagement, digitale Transformation der Arbeitswelt und Mitbestimmung sowie an diesbezüglichen aktuellen Entwicklungen.
  • Kenntnisse: Sie haben bereits erste Kenntnisse im Bereich Personalmanagement und Arbeitsbeziehungen. Idealerweise haben Sie bereits Ihre sehr gut bewertete Masterarbeit zu Personalmanagement oder Zukunft der Arbeit verfasst.
  • Erfahrung: Sie haben Erfahrung mit wissenschaftlicher Recherche, idealerweise sind Sie bereits mit qualitativen Forschungsmethoden (Interviews, ethnographische Methoden) vertraut.
  • Sprachkenntnisse: Sie verfügen über ausgezeichnete Deutschkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift sowie über sehr gute Englischkenntnisse.
  • Engagement: Sie arbeiten selbstverantwortlich, eigeninitiativ und selbstorganisiert.

Was wir Ihnen bieten

  • Top-Wirtschaftsuniversität mit renommierten Expert*innen und anregender Themen-Vielfalt, dreifach akkreditiert
  • Ausgezeichnete Infrastruktur, technisch und räumlich und durch zahlreiche WU-Serviceeinrichtungen
  • Vielfalt und Wertschätzung in einem weltoffenen, inklusiven und familienfreundlichen Umfeld
  • Flexibilität und persönlicher Freiraum durch flexible Arbeitszeiten
  • Inspirierendes Campusleben mit über 2.400 Mitarbeitenden in Forschung, Lehre und Verwaltung und rund 21.500 Studierenden im gut erreichbaren und architektonisch einzigartigen Campus mitten in Wien
  • Großzügige Unterstützung bei Weiterbildung
  • Architektonisch herausragender, moderner Campus mitten in Wien
  • Sinnstiftende Arbeit, in einem angenehmen Arbeitsklima

Bewerbungsfrist: 15. Februar 2023.
Start: Ab 01. März 2023, befristet auf 3 Jahre.
Teilzeit, 30 Stunden/Woche
Zur vollständigen Stellenausschreibung, inkl. Kontakt und Fristen.

Call for Submissions: 10th Austrian Early Scholars Workshop in Management (AESW) in Graz

The Tenth Austrian Early Scholars Workshop in Management (AESW) will be held at the University of Graz. Organized by Robert Bauer (JKU Linz), Giuseppe Delmestri (WU Wien) and Renate Ortlieb (Uni Graz), the AESW invites early career scholars who intend to pursue an academic career in the fields of organization and management, human resource management, strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, international management or public management. Given faculty members’ extensive expertise in institutional theory as well as in organizational change, innovation and the grand societal challenges, the AESW provides an environment particularly conducive to research in these areas. The AESW is open to academics in early stages of their academic careers and PhD students who have already completed a substantial part of their dissertation projects.

Fee: There are no participation fees for accepted early scholars.
Submission deadline: 21 February 2023.
Date of the AESW: 4 & 5 May 2023
View the complete Call for Submissions here
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IHRM Webinar Series: Time is on our side? Towards more time-sensitive research in IHRM

This event is part of an IHRM Webinar Series, organized by the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Center for International Human Resource Studies at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), Pennsylvania Western University (USA), ESCP Business School and RIT Croatia (Europe).

About this event

Time is an essential and classic, yet underdeveloped issue in IHRM studies. However, time has an often long and distinguished pedigree in a number of scientific disciplines such as philosophy, physics, sociology, psychology, and organization studies. They constitute rich sources of inspiration and refreshment for the field of IHRM. From these sources, crucial general anchor points emerge that lead to yardsticks for the degree of time-sensitivity of IHRM research. They point us towards specific routes for enriching our studies with temporal aspects that allow a more comprehensive and in-depth view on the phenomena IHRM is dealing with.

After briefly diagnosing the current situation in terms of time and IHRM studies, this webinar focuses on outlining the general anchor points and specific yardsticks for more time-sensitive IHRM research. It closes with major calls for the field of IHRM to further develop in this area.

Speakers

  • Wolfgang Mayrhofer Full Professor and head of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Organizational Behaviour, WU Vienna, Austria.
  • This session will be moderated by Marion Festing, Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership at ESCP Business School’s Berlin campus

Date: 23 February 2023.
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. CEST (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Zagreb)
More information & registration here. This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom. Event access links will be provided 24 hours prior to the event start.
No fee.
Inquiries: beedie-events@sfu.ca

Previous installments of the IHRM Webinar Series are available online at our YouTube Channel.

CfP: Conference on Attendance Behavior, July 2023 in Tilburg

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a conference named “Be There or Be Square? Theoretical and Empirical Advancements in Workplace Attendance Behavior Research” that will take place at Tilburg University (Netherlands) on the 20th and 21st of July 2023.

In a nutshell, we aim to bring together researchers from different fields interested in various aspects of Workplace Attendance Behavior (such as absenteeism and presenteeism) to discuss new projects, ideas, and to advance the field.

The submission deadline for extended abstracts to be reviewed is 3 April, 2023. Feel free to share this with interested colleagues and coauthors. If you have any questions about the conference or your potential submission, feel free to reach out.

View the complete Call here.

CfP: Stress and Strain at Work – Concepts, Methods, and Results of Survey Research (Seminar& Special Issue)

Work-related stress can harm an individual’s health, well-being, and satisfaction and is a common problem (not only) in European countries (Aumayr-Pintar et al., 2015). It impacts the private sphere of life and can also have economic consequences for the employer through reduced work performance, lower productive output or employee absenteeism. Over the past seven decades, researchers have been engaged in the study of stress (Väänänen et al., 2012), and the interest and relevance continue to grow (Rigó et al., 2021).

Based on different theoretical conceptualisations, the measurements of stress (and strain) in industrial psychology, organisational sociology, or labour research (Abbas et al., 2013) are complex and situational. Individual diagnostic measurement tools are too large for population surveys. Consequently, these extensive surveys and panel studies apply short versions of stress measures (e. g., Siegrist et al., 2009). However, results from these population surveys are necessary to classify, compare and validate study results. In addition to the measures‘ brevity, the measurement type is also relevant. Studies indicate that the type of measurement can have a decisive impact on the results (Tobsch et al., 2018). This could be shown in a stress-theoretical measurement setting when testing the internationally used and valid effort-reward imbalance model (Siegrist, 2016). Therefore, there is a need to address theoretical concepts, the methodology of stress measures in extensive surveys and panel studies, as well as empirical findings from these surveys and studies such as the International Labor Office’s (ILOs) Decent Work Survey Program (Anker et al., 2002), Eurofound’s European Working Conditions Survey (Eurofound, 2022) or national survey such as the German Socio-Economic Panel (Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), 2021).

Seminar at the IUC Dubrovnik (15-20 May 2023) & Special Issue

Based on these brief reflections, the purpose of the seminar and the aim of the special issue of management revue – Socio-Economic Studies is to focus on the diverse theoretical models, measures and concepts of stress applied in surveys and panel studies, and investigate and discuss findings from these surveys and studies in the context of the mentioned methodological challenges:

  • Which stress concepts are implemented in surveys? How are these stress concepts adapted to meet the standards of survey methodology?
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of having different (and competing) measures?
  • Which surveys and panel studies are suitable for stress measurements?
  • What variables and concepts are needed in surveys and panel studies besides stress measures?
  • How do the findings from different surveys differ?
  • These are just some ideas and not an exhaustive list. The seminar welcomes empirical studies and theoretical papers and provides sufficient time for discussion and reflection.

Course Directors & Guest Editors

  • Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (Germany)
  • Mandy Müller, Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (Germany)
  • Simon Jebsen, University of Southern Denmark

Deadline for abstract submission for the seminar: 28 February 2023.
Deadline for submission of the full paper for the Special Issue: 30 August 2023.
Publication date: Issue 2/2024

View the complete Call here.