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No stone left unturned? Towards a framework for the impact of datafication technologies on organizational control

2020-05-15 , Schafheitle, Simon Daniel , Antoinette Weibel , Ebert, Isabel Laura , Kasper, Gabriel , Schank, Christoph , Leicht-Deobald, Ulrich

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No stone left unturned? Towards a framework on the impact of datafication technologies on organizational control

2019-12-06 , Schafheitle, Simon Daniel , Weibel, Antoinette , Ebert, Isabel Laura , Kasper, Gabriel , Schank, Christoph , Leicht-Deobald, Ulrich

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No stone left standing? Understanding the impact of technology on established modes of organizational control.

2018 , Schafheitle, Simon Daniel , Weibel, Antoinette , Ebert, Isabel Laura , Kasper, Gabriel , Schank, Christoph , Leicht-Deobald, Ulrich

The goal of this paper is to develop an empirically grounded framework to analyze how new technologies alter or expand traditional organizational control configurations. New technologies for data gathering, analysis, interpretation and learning are increasingly applied in the workplace. Technology suppliers are developing and aggressively marketing solutions for employee management and control with growing interest. Yet detailed insight about the effects of these technologies on traditional control is lacking. To convey a better understanding about new technologies in employee management and control, this paper proposes a “New Technology Control Framework” on the basis of an iterative research design. The framework is anchored in the configurational control theory, drawing on empirical insights of research on electronic performance monitoring and enhanced 26 topic-guided interviews with experts, who either produce new technological control solutions or apply these. The prototype of a morphology of new technology control configurations (NTCCs) is refined through expert workshops and undergoes plausibility checks with users. The final framework is composed of eleven distinct, yet interrelated conceptual building blocks. The framework offers a first point of orientation to systematically analyze key implications for theory and practice for turning NTCC into a productive force for organizational control. It indicates which elements a configurational theory of organizational control should address in the digital age, to assist decision makers to strategically implement, customize off-the-shelf products and manage digitalization at the workplace. The results offer a conducive starting point for a range of scientific discourses in multiple fields by contributing to understanding how technological progress and digital transformation influence organizations.

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Big Data am Arbeitsplatz, Datenschutz- und arbeitsrechtliche Herausforderungen von People Analytics in Schweizer Unternehmen

2019 , Kasper, Gabriel , Wildhaber, Isabelle , Kieser, Ueli , Pärli, Kurt , Uttinger, Ursula

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The Challenges of Algorithm-based HR Decision-making for Personal Integrity

2019-06 , Leicht-Deobald, Ulrich , Busch, Thorsten , Schank, Christoph , Weibel, Antoinette , Schafheitle, Simon Daniel , Wildhaber, Isabelle , Kasper, Gabriel

Organizations increasingly rely on algorithm-based HR decision-making to monitor their employees. This trend is reinforced by the technology industry claiming that its decision-making tools are efficient and objective, downplaying their potential biases. In our manuscript, we identify an important challenge arising from the efficiency-driven logic of algorithm-based HR decision-making, namely that it shifts the delicate balance between employees’ personal integrity and compliance toward favoring compliance. The reason is that algorithm-based HR decision-making may marginalize human sense-making, promote blind trust in rules, and replace moral imagination. We suggest that critical data literacy, ethical awareness, the use of participatory design methods, and private regulatory regimes within civil society can help overcome these challenges. Our paper contributes to literature on workplace monitoring, critical data studies, personal integrity and literature at the intersection between HR management and corporate responsibility.

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Workplace Surveillance and Big Data: Contextualizing Digital Threats to Employees Moral Agency and Integrity

2018 , Busch, Thorsten , Schank, Christoph , Leicht-Deobald, Ulrich , Weibel, Antoinette , Schafheitle, Simon Daniel , Kasper, Gabriel , Wildhaber, Isabelle

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No stone left standing? Understanding the impact of technology on established modes of organizational control.

2018 , Schafheitle, Simon Daniel , Weibel, Antoinette , Ebert, Isabel Laura , Kasper, Gabriel , Schank, Christoph , Leicht-Deobald, Ulrich

The goal of this paper is to develop an empirically grounded framework to analyze how new technologies alter or expand traditional organizational control configurations. New technologies for data gathering, analysis, interpretation and learning are increasingly applied in the workplace. Technology suppliers are developing and aggressively marketing solutions for employee management and control with growing interest. Yet detailed insight about the effects of these technologies on traditional control is lacking. To convey a better understanding about new technologies in employee management and control, this paper proposes a “New Technology Control Framework” on the basis of an iterative research design. The framework is anchored in the configurational control theory, drawing on empirical insights of research on electronic performance monitoring and enhanced 26 topic-guided interviews with experts, who either produce new technological control solutions or apply these. The prototype of a morphology of new technology control configurations (NTCCs) is refined through expert workshops and undergoes plausibility checks with users. The final framework is composed of eleven distinct, yet interrelated conceptual building blocks. The framework offers a first point of orientation to systematically analyze key implications for theory and practice for turning NTCC into a productive force for organizational control. It indicates which elements a configurational theory of organizational control should address in the digital age, to assist decision makers to strategically implement, customize off-the-shelf products and manage digitalization at the workplace. The results offer a conducive starting point for a range of scientific discourses in multiple fields by contributing to understanding how technological progress and digital transformation influence organizations.

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Diskriminierung durch Algorithmen – Überlegungen zum schweizerischen Recht am Beispiel prädiktiver Analytik am Arbeitsplatz

2019 , Wildhaber, Isabelle , Lohmann, Melinda Florina , Kasper, Gabriel

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No stone left standing? Understanding the impact of technology on established modes of organizational control.

2018 , Schafheitle, Simon Daniel , Weibel, Antoinette , Ebert, Isabel Laura , Kasper, Gabriel , Schank, Christoph , Leicht-Deobald, Ulrich

The goal of this paper is to develop an empirically grounded framework to analyze how new technologies alter or expand traditional organizational control configurations. New technologies for data gathering, analysis, interpretation and learning are increasingly applied in the workplace. Technology suppliers are developing and aggressively marketing solutions for employee management and control with growing interest. Yet detailed insight about the effects of these technologies on traditional control is lacking. To convey a better understanding about new technologies in employee management and control, this paper proposes a “New Technology Control Framework” on the basis of an iterative research design. The framework is anchored in the configurational control theory, drawing on empirical insights of research on electronic performance monitoring and enhanced 26 topic-guided interviews with experts, who either produce new technological control solutions or apply these. The prototype of a morphology of new technology control configurations (NTCCs) is refined through expert workshops and undergoes plausibility checks with users. The final framework is composed of eleven distinct, yet interrelated conceptual building blocks. The framework offers a first point of orientation to systematically analyze key implications for theory and practice for turning NTCC into a productive force for organizational control. It indicates which elements a configurational theory of organizational control should address in the digital age, to assist decision makers to strategically implement, customize off-the-shelf products and manage digitalization at the workplace. The results offer a conducive starting point for a range of scientific discourses in multiple fields by contributing to understanding how technological progress and digital transformation influence organizations.

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Quantifizierte Arbeitnehmer: Empirische Daten zu People Analytics in der Schweiz

2020-05 , Wildhaber, Isabelle , Kasper, Gabriel

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