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Isabelle Wildhaber
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Prof. Dr.
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Wildhaber
First name
Isabelle
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isabelle.wildhaber@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 2801
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PublicationBig Data in the workplace: Privacy Due Diligence as a human rights-based approach to employee privacy protectionData-driven technologies have come to pervade almost every aspect of business life, extending to employee monitoring and algorithmic management. How can employee privacy be protected in the age of datafication? This article surveys the potential and shortcomings of a number of legal and technical solutions to show the advantages of human rights-based approaches in addressing corporate responsibility to respect privacy and strengthen human agency. Based on this notion, we develop a process-oriented model of Privacy Due Diligence to complement existing frameworks for safeguarding employee privacy in an era of Big Data surveillance.Type: journal articleJournal: Big Data & Society
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PublicationThe Challenges of Algorithm-based HR Decision-making for Personal Integrity(Springer, 2019-06)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.Type: journal articleJournal: Journal of business ethics : JOBEVolume: 160Issue: 2
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PublicationWorkplace Surveillance and Big Data: Contextualizing Digital Threats to Employees Moral Agency and Integrity(Academy of Management Global Proceedings, 2018)Type: conference paperVolume: 2018
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PublicationBig-data driven workplace surveillance: the case of SwitzerlandBig data promises to improve just about every aspect of modern business life, especially in the realm of human resource management (HRM). From recruiting to promotion decisions to fraud prevention, analytics software will influence or take over many core functions of HRM over the course of the next few years. Will this development lead to fairer organizations or to corporate surveillance? Our research project will study Swiss companies in order to answer this and many other questions at the intersection of HRM, business ethics, and labor law.Type: presentation