Summer school on uncertainty at work 2023

A summer school to explore uncertainty

Global developments, such as economic crises and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, make uncertainty ever more salient for individuals, organizations, and society at large.

Building on two very successful conferences on uncertainty in 2018 (organized by Sharon Alvarez in Pittsburgh and by Mark Griffin and Gudela Grote in Ascona), the summer school will bring together leading scholars and doctoral students from various (sub)disciplines in psychology, management, and organizational sciences.

The aim is to compare and contrast different conceptual and methodological approaches to examining uncertainty regulation, with a focus on work as a particularly relevant social context. The predominant view of uncertainty reduction as the main motivational driver will be debated in light of recent research on exploration and learning in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and strategic management. New interdiscliplinary perspectives will be discussed and foundations built for an emerging community of uncertainty researchers.

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