News
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New book chapter published
The book chapter ‘’Artificial Intelligence: How It Changes the Landscape for Work Design Research and Practice" by Nadine Bienefeld and Gudela Grote was published in Transformative Work Design: Synthesis and New Directions by @Oxford University Press (promo code AUFLY30 should give you 30% off).
Contribution at EPOC 2025 in Chennai
Kim is presenting his and Sihui’s conference paper ‘Sustaining and Transcending
Boundaries: Innovation Notions, Narratives, and Networks in Digital Fabrication
Year 2015-2024’ at the Engineering Project Organization Conference (EPOC) in
Chennai on the 15th of July, 2025.
AI Talk at the ETH AI Center
Dr. Uma Rani from the International Labour Organization (ILO) will present her recent research titled: “The human cogs in the AI machine: Exploring decent working conditions in the AI-driven BPO sector in India and Kenya” on August 5, 2025, from 11:30-12:30h at the ETH AI Center in Zurich Oerlikon. Link to detailed invitation:
Workshop on AI futures: Reimagining learning and work in 2035 and beyond
Join this dynamic workshop taking place this coming Wednesday to explore AI’s transformative impact on learning and work. Engage with experts and explore compelling future scenarios, crowdsourced from students, educators, and communities, and brought to life through powerful storytelling and short films. Collaborate in focused groups to design actionable roadmaps, identifying barriers, incentives, and strategies to help realize your collective vision by 2035.
Join today: Conversation on the sidelines of the AI for Good Summit 2025
Speakers include Gudela Grote, Babak Hodjat and Mark Nitzberg. Please register and join us for a conversation focusing on our capacity to align control and accountability for all stakeholders in a new AI supply chain. As AI evolves from static tools to autonomous, agentic systems, the question of who holds responsibility, and under what conditions, has never been more urgent.
Contribution of our Chair at the 2025 AOM Annual Meeting
From July 25-29,
2025, the Academy of Management (AOM) will host its 85th Annual Meeting in
Copenhagen, Denmark. We are happy to announce that our chair will be
featured in multiple sessions:
Phd successfully defended
The lab congratulates Alina Gerlach on her doctoral defense! She has successfully
defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Embracing Uncertainty: Individual
Differences and Contextual Influences that Affect the Regulation of Uncertainty
at Work” in May 2025. We are happy that she will continue her work as a postdoctoral researcher.
Contribution at ICRA 2025
The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will take place on May 19-23, 2025, in Atlanta, USA. Our Chair will be represented with the contribution “Designing Workplace Robots: A Game for Automation and Augmentation Strategies in Construction” to the 4th Workshop on Future of Construction: Safe, Reliable, and Precise Robots in Construction Environments, by Sihui Wu, Kim N. Helmersen, and Gudela Grote.
Invitation to a debate on artificial intelligence (AI)
This event is organized by our chair in collaboration with the Debate Club Zürich, the Student Association of ETH Zürich (VSETH), the Student Association of the University of Zürich (VSUZH), and our Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology (WOP). The debate will follow a British Parliament–style format, and will center on the question: “Should Companies Compensate Victims of Artificial Intelligence?”
Date/Time: Thursday, May 15, 2025, 18:30h
Location: ETH LEE E101
Contribution of our Chair at the EAWOP Congress 2025
From May 21 to 24, 2025, the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology will hold their 23st congress in Prague, Czech Republic. We are happy to announce that our chair is represented with several contributions:
New article in HR Today
In HR Today, Gudela Grote explains what HR and good leadership can do in times of crisis due to geopolitical tensions, trade turmoil and wars. (Article in German only)
Top viewed article 2
The article "Older workers' knowledge seeking from younger coworkers: Disentangling countervailing pathways to successful aging at work" by Julian Pfrombeck, Anne Burmeister and Gudela Grote in Journal of Organizational Behavior has been recognized as top viewed article among work published in this journal in 2023 up to 12 months after publication. Congratulations to the authors!
Top viewed article 1
The article "Choosing human over AI doctors? How comparative trust associations and knowledge relate to risk and benefit perceptions of AI in healthcare" by Sophie Kerstan, Nadine Bienefeld and Gudela Grote in the journal Risk Analysis has been recognized as top viewed article among work published in this journal in 2023 up to 12 months after publication. Congratulations to the authors!
Contribution to CHI 2025
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems will take place April 26- May 1 2025 in Yokohama, Japan. Our Chair will be represented with the contribution “Designing Targeted Explanations for Heterogeneous Stakeholders - AI for Collaborative Use in the Railways” by Lena Schneider, Gudela Grote, Daniel Boos and Yaren Cakir.
Gudela Grote as visiting professor at TU Eindhoven
Gudela Grote is visiting professur at TU Eindhoven this spring and gave an EAISI lecture on April 10, 2025 on the alignment of control and accountability in the development and use of AI.