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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)

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!

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!  

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 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.  

This workshop taking place in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany, from March 24 to 26, 2025, offers a platform for networking, collaboration building, and topical exchange for early-career researchers working on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of work and organizational psychology/human factors/management and computer science, likely augmented with philosophical, ethical, and legal perspectives.  

Sihui Wu has been invited to join a panel of inspiring speakers at the Women in Robotics x ETH event on March 12, 2025.  The theme of her talk focuses on her work on diversity and robotics and she will share insights about her career path.

A new theory challenges how firms manage AI. Gudela Grote and colleagues published the paper in the Academy of Management Review. They argue that developers, users, and managers must share control and accountability through dialogue, negotiation, and careful design. The result could reshape how we trust AI.

On 7 March 2025, Sihui Wu and Kim Helmersen will give a guest lecture at the Cornell University, AAP Department of Design Tech, in the “Anthropocentric Models of Making With Cooperative Robots” seminar led by Marirena Kladeftira. Their lecture will feature a research presentation of “What Makes A Good Interaction for Construction Robotics and AI?” and include an interactive workshop that engages the students to blend technology and work design in various use cases.

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.

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.