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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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Toxic gamer culture, corporate regulation, and standards of behavior among players of online games

2016 , Busch, Thorsten , Boudreau, Kelly , Consalvo, Mia , Conway, S. , DeWinter, J.

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Nachhaltige Entwicklung kritisch hinterfragt : Drei Orte der Verantwortung einer integrativ verstandenen Agrarethik

2012 , Ulrich, Peter , Busch, Thorsten , Meier, Uwe

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Doing well by doing good? Normative tensions underlying Twitter's Corporate Social Responsibility ethos

2014 , Busch, Thorsten , Shepherd, Tamara

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Freie Software als Entwicklungshelfer? Corporate Citizenship und der Digital Divide aus ökonomischer, ethischer und unternehmensstrategischer Sicht

2007 , Busch, Thorsten

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Corporate responsibility and the governance of gender-based harassment in online game spaces

2016 , Busch, Thorsten , Chee, Florence , Harvey, Alison , Grosser, K. , McCarthy, L. , Kilgour, M.

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Capabilities in, capabilities out : overcoming digital divides by promoting corporate citizenship and fair ICT

2011-11-01 , Busch, Thorsten

This conceptual article discusses strategies of corporations in the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector and their role in the conflict over access to knowledge in the digital environment. Its main hypothesis is that ICT corporations are very capable actors when it comes to bridging digital divides in both developed and developing countries-maybe even the most capable actors. Therefore, it is argued that ICT corporations could use their capabilities to help citizens gain sustainable access to knowledge in order to enable them to lead self-sufficient lives. In a nutshell, capabilities are presented as both the input (capabilities of ICT corporations) as well as the output (capability building for empowering citizens) of corporate strategy-making focusing on fair ICT. Corporate citizenship is put forth as the theoretical concept bridging corporate strategies an daccess to knowledge: If ICT corporations act in accordance with their self-understanding of being ‘good corporate citizens', they could be crucial partners in lessening digital divides and helping citizens gain access to knowledge. From the perspective of ‘integrative economic ethics' (Ulrich 2008), it is argued that ICT corporations have good reason to actively empower citizens in both developed and developing countries by pursuing ‘inclusive' strategies in many fields, such as open-source software development. That way, ICT orporations could enable, support and provide citizens with capabilities enabling them to help themselves. In order to make inclusive business models work, the rules and regulations companies find themselves in today must enable them to act responsibly without getting penalized by more ruthless competitors. This article explores several cases from the ICT field to illustrate the interplay between a responsible business model and the rules and regulations of the industry. From a capabilities perspective, the most desirable mix of corporate strategies and industry regulation is one that results in the highest level of generativity (Zittrain 2008). Thus, ICT should not be closed systems only driven by the company behind them. Instead, they need to be open for the highest possible level of thirdparty innovation.

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Digital business ethics and the videogames industry

2016 , Busch, Thorsten , Heider, D. , Vanacker, B.

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Gut gegen Böse? Feedback moralischer Entscheidungen in Videospielen

2013 , Busch, Thorsten , Lorch, Alexander , Vorbohle, Kristin

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