2014

December 2014

• The latest issue of the journal Safety Science features the article “Promoting safety by increasing uncertainty – Implications for risk management” by Gudela Grote. external page Article

• In press: Sonnentag, S., Unger, D., & Rothe, E. Recovery and the work-family interface. In T. D. Allen & L. T. Eby (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Work and Family. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

November 2014

The new "Swiss HR-Barometer 2014: Experience of work and Job crafting" based on data from this summer is now available online (in German only). external page More Info

October 2014

• As a contribution to the WDR tv series “W Wie Wissen” the medical simulation trainings and applied research done by Dr. Michaela Kolbe and Dr. Bastian Grande and their collegues at the University Hospital Zurich were presented in “Teamwork can save lives”. external page More (in German only)

• A warm welcome to Jan Richner as new trainee in our team. He will help Dana Unger in the SNF-project "Reference groups as constraints and enablers in individual careers".

September 2014

• Dr. Bastian Grande (USZ), Mona Weiss (ETH), Carl Schick (USZ) and PD Dr. Michaela Kolbe (ETH) won the SWISS QUALITY AWARD 2014 in the category "stationary sector” for their project "Über den Elefanten im Raum sprechen können - sogar in Akutmedizin: Simulationstrainings zur Verbesserung kommunikativer und klinischer Kompetenzen interprofessioneller Teams in der Akutmedizin”. 

• The article "The impact of controller support tools in enroute air traffic control on cognitive error modes: A comparative analysis in two operational environments" by Sifra Corver and Olga Aneziris in Safety Science is online now. external page Article

• We are happy to have Manuel Stühlinger, former Junior Research Assistant, per September 1st as Ph.D. student in our team - welcome Manuel! His desk is in K 503.

June 2014

• The article “The how and why of the relationship between job insecurity, subjective career success, and turnover intention” by Cécile Tschopp and Gudela Grote was published in the book Psychological, Educational and Sociological Perspectives on Success and Well-Being in Career Development (Springer) erschienen. external page Article

• A warm welcome to Jan Schmutz as new (future) Postdoc in our team. Jan's desk is in K 504.

May 2014

• The most recent issue of external page SAGW Bulletin (in German only) features the article “Elternschaft und Erwerbsarbeit im Spiegel des Schweizer HR-Barometers: Erwartung, Angebot und Bewertung” by Cécile Tschopp, based on data from the Human-Relations-Barometer Project. Download Article (PDF, 7.6 MB)

• We are happy to welcome Dr. Dana Unger on the 15th of May as new Postdoc in our team. Her office will be K 506.

April 2014

• We are pleased to announce two Professional Development Workshops moderated by Gudela Grote at the Academay of Management Conference 2014 in Philadelphia: Linking social networks and identity development in career research (Panelists: Tim Hall, Martin Kilduff, Barbara Lawrence, Polly Parker); Innovation versus risk - all the same for teams? (Panelists: Samer Faraj, John Mathieu, Frederick Morgeson, Eduardo Salas)

• The special issue in Ergonomics entitled "Beyond human-centred automation - concepts for human-machine interaction in multilayered networks" is available now, please see the external page Editorial by Gudela Grote, Johannes Wever and Neville Stanton. external page Free Online Access to Special Issue

• The article "Promoting safety by increasing uncertainty - Implications for risk management" by Gudela Grote has just appeared in Safety Science. external page Article

March 2014

The project “Teaching Patient Safety to Medical Students - Integrating Safety Culture in Education” was awarded the German Award for Patient Safety, 3rd place. The project is led by PD Dr. Sven Staender, Spital Männedorf. PD Dr. Michaela Kolbe is a teaching faculty member of this course. The award is endowed with EUR 3500.

February 2014

Dr. Michaela Kolbe received the VENIA LEGENDI in the field of teaching Work- and Organizational Psychology due to her habilitation thesis "Explicit and Tacit Understanding: Studying and Training Teamwork in Acute Care Settings".

January 2014

The White Book based on the conference " Safety management in context - Cross-industry learning for theory and practice", which took place in June 2013 at the Centro Stefano Franscini in Ascona, has just been published with the support of the external page Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue and is available as Download pdf (ZIP, 501 KB).