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October 2013

  • The second edition of the Swiss HR-Barometer newsletter is out now and informs about our current research:
    • In what way do observed differences in salaries influence solidarity with the company?
    • Does the job market situation influence the courage of employees?
    • Fear of loosing one's job - a question of industrial sector affiliation and level of education?
    You may subscribe to it at no costs or download it on the external pageSwiss HR-Barometer website (in German, French and Italian only).

September 2013

Gudela Grote was invited by the US National Transportation Safety Board to speak about research perspectives on organizational accidents at the NTSB Forum "Safety culture: Enhancing transportation safety", Sept. 10-11, 2013, in Washington DC. external pageVideo & Audio Webcasts

August 2013

  • At external pageScientifica, Martin Gubler is presenting some results on chance events in careers (31st August, 2pm/5pm, in German): „Wie wir Zufällen in der beruflichen Laufbahn nachhelfen können.“

All our submissions for the Academy of Management Conference in Orlando (August 9-13, 2013) have been accepted. We will thus present our research at three symposia and in one professional development workshop (PDW).
• Applying Sequence Analysis in Career & HRM Research: Opportunities, Challenges and New Perspectives (Symposium)
• How Reference Groups Affect Careers: Investigating Normative, Comparative and Supportive Functions (Symposium)
• Learning to Coordinate: Relational and Technical Transformations in Health Care Delivery (Symposium)
• Doctoral/Early-Career Faculty Consortium for Mid-life Career Changers from Industry to Academia (PDW)

June 2013

  • From June 18 to 22, 2013 the conference "Safety management in context - Cross-industry learning for theory and practice" took place in the Centro Stefano Franscini in Ascona, Switzerland. The conference was organized together with John Carroll (MIT) and supported by the Centro Stefano Franscini, the SNF and the Biäsch Foundation. Guestspeakers were - among others - Edgar Schein (MIT), René Amalberti (IMASSA Paris) and Charles Vincent (Imperial College London. DownloadProgram (PDF, 1.5 MB).
  • The most recent issue of Journal of Vocational Behavior features the article Reference groups: A missing link in career studies by Gudela Grote and Douglas T. Hall. external pageArticle

May 2013

  • Gudela Grote was elected president of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology at the association`s general assembly in Münster, Germany. external pageEAWOP
  • The article Shared leadership in multiteam sytsms: How cockpit and cabin crews lead each other two safety by Nadine Bienefeld and Gudela Grote was published in Human Factors. external pageAbstract
  • The article Adding a strategic edge to human factors/ergonomics: Principles for
    the management of uncertainty as cornerstones for system design by Gudela Grote was published in Applied Ergonomics. external pageArticle

April 2013

In external pageHuman Resource Management – Jahrbuch 2013 a contribution to "Braucht es altersspezifische Anpassungen der Arbeitsgestaltung?" by Cécile Tschopp is published, based on the findings of the latest Human-Relations-Barometer (in German only).

March 2013

March 18, 2013: Article in Tages-Anzeiger AUS&WEITERBILDUNG "Wer hilft bei einem Stellenwechsel?" by Dr. Cécile Tschopp & Dr. Martin Gubler.
Article (in German only)

February 2013

Our study "How career orientation shapes the job satisfaction–turnover intention link" (by Cécile Tschopp, Gudela Grote and Marius Gerber) is published in the external pageJournal of Organizational Behavior.

January 2013

  • We congratulate Johann Weichbrodt on his successfully passed doctoral examination: On January 24 Johann defended his dissertation "Rules and Routines in Organizations and the Management of Safety Rules".
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