The article “Small-Scale Farmers as Experts: Mitigating Secondary Injustices by Co-Designing Technology-Enhanced Learning Through Critical Digital Pedagogy”by Arlette Danielle Román Almánzar, Rebecca Ruehle, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Carla Martin, Alyssa J. McDonald-Bärtl and Aniruddh Agarwal is now published in the Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ) special issue: Curated Cases on Social Justice and Digital Technologies.
The article “‘It wasn’t me’: the impact of social responsibility and social dominance attitudes on AI programmers’ moral imagination (intention to correct bias)" by the authors Arlette Danielle Román Almánzar, David J. Grüning, and Laura Marie Edinger-Schons has been published in the AI & Ethics Journal .
Ruri Takizawa led the research behind the article “Organizational Crisis in Spotlight Increases Preference for Female but Not Ethnic Minority Leaders: The Role of Signaling Theory for Glass Cliff Appointments”, examining why women and ethnic minorities are appointed as crisis leaders. It is now published in the Social Psychology Quarterly.
The article, “When a Precarious Position of Power is Perceived as a Glass Cliff: Reactions to Elisabeth Borne's Appointment as Prime Minister”, with Ruri Takizawa as the lead author, has been published in Psychologie Française. It explores interpretations of a precarious leadership appointment.
The article "Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Acountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users" by Gudela Grote, Sharon K. Parker and Kevin Crowston in the Academy of Management Review is now in press.
We are reaching out to AI companies that seek to establish themselves as leaders in promoting responsible AI. We aim to understand AI developers' design mindsets and the working conditions conducive to a proactive while also reflective approach to addressing AI's opportunities and challenges. Thereby, companies can be supported in gaining competitive advantage in ways that address both their technical and social responsibilities.
In today's fast-paced world of work, uncertainty is a constant companion. From technological advancements to changing market dynamics, it is something we all face daily. Rather than fearing uncertainty, what if we could harness its potential?
The chair received funding by the Mobility Initiative for the research project “Designing explainable ML-based systems for collaborative work in the railways” in collaboration with Siemens Mobility and the Swiss National Railways, and doctoral student Lena Schneider working on it. It started in Sepember 2022 and runs for 36 months. For this project we are hiriing a Postdoctoral Researcher. See add here:
The chair of Work and Organizational Psychology invites to a summer school on uncertainty at work in Ascona, Switzerland, from June 18 to 23, 2023. Deadline for a delaration of interest is November 1st, 2022, and should be sent to uncertaintysummerschool@ethz.ch. Link to conference page:
The chair has received a new SNF grant for the project "When more uncertainty is better: Interventions for promoting effective uncertainty regulation at work" starting April 1, 2022 and running for 48 months. For this project we are hiring a doctoral student - please follow the link to get to the add and application form.
