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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.  

The SNF news room is referring to the Swiss HR-Barometer, a project which is supported by the SNF, and to the article in HR Today about the latest results. Read article (in German only) here:

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The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems will take place 14 - 18 October 2024 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Our Chair will be represented with the contribution “Designing Workplace Robots: A Social Impact Assessment Tool for Automation and Augmentation in Construction” to the Late Breaking Results session by Sihui Wu, Kim Norgaard Helmersen, and Gudela Grote.

The thirteenth edition of the Swiss HR Barometer focusses on the topic of ‘Sense and nonsense at work’. The majority of the 2032 respondents in Switzerland feel that their work is important and meaningful, with this becoming increasingly im- portant from the age of 55. However, almost half feel alienated to some extent, and the perceived boredom has increased slightly compared to 10 years ago.  

In the Ö1 Morgenjournal of September 21, 2024, Gudela Grote talkes about changes in the working environment and how to handle consequential uncertainties among employees. Listen to it here (in German only):

This track will explore how AI is shaping the future of work across industries like healthcare, construction, and railways. We’ll dive into the intersection of technology and work psychology, discussing both the opportunities and challenges AI brings to job design.

The bi-annual DGPS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie) conference will take place September 16-19 in Vienna, Austria. We are happy to announce that our chair will be represented with several contributions: