Simon Daniel Schafheitle
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Schafheitle
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Simon Daniel
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Item type:Publication, Shedding Light in the Dark: Distrust as a Distinct Concept in Stakeholder Relationships(2025-12); ; ; Sachs, SybilleIn response to calls for a more comprehensive understanding of stakeholder relationships, this study complements the well-established “bright side,” where trust enables value creation through shared interests and values, with the “dark side,” where conflicts and harmful behavior lead to negative outcomes in relationships between focal organizations and their stakeholders. To refine the boundary conditions of the dark side, we conceptualize distrust in stakeholder relationships and introduce stakeholder distrust, defined as the collective unwillingness of a focal organization to accept vulnerability, as a relational construct distinct from both stakeholder trust and suspicion. We develop a causal model of stakeholder distrust and outline several propositions regarding its antecedents and consequences. These distinctions, together with the causal model, (i) advance stakeholder examination, (ii) inform stakeholder engagement, and (iii) refine our understanding of the relational dynamics underlying stakeholder relationships. Collectively, they support a more nuanced examination of stakeholder relationships, facilitate the identification of early warning signals in ongoing interactions, and suggest how distrust can be addressed through stakeholder engagement practices, which include methods, tools, and routines that structure interactions with stakeholders. Accordingly, we advance theoretical understanding of stakeholder distrust while offering practical approaches to prevent and resolve conflicts and harmful behavior.Type:journal articleJournal:European Management JournalScopus© Citations 4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Introduction to the Special Issue: Trust and Vulnerability(2025-12-19); ; Möllering, GuidoTrust research has long treated vulnerability as a conceptual given: necessary, assumed, yet seldom examined in its own right. As relations between people, organisations, technologies, and even countries become increasingly interdependent, opaque, and sometimes strained, understanding the dynamics between trust and vulnerability has never been more urgent. This Special Issue opens dialogue across disciplines, exploring how vulnerability and trust are enacted, negotiated, and made meaningful within the shifting terrain of contemporary life.Type:journal articleVolume:15Issue:2Scopus© Citations 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational Active Trust-Building(2023-06-04); ; van der Werff, LisaPublic and academic opinion remains divided regarding the benefits and pitfalls of datafication technology in organizations, particularly regarding their impact on employees. Taking a dual-process perspective on trust, we propose that datafication technology can create small, erratic surprises in the workplace that highlight employee vulnerability and increase employees’ reliance on the systematic processing of trust. We argue that these surprises precipitate a phase in the employment relationship in which employees more actively weigh trust-related cues, and the employer should therefore engage in active trust management to protect and strengthen the relationship. Our paper develops a framework of symbolic and substantive strategies to guide organizations’ active trust management efforts to (re-)create situational normality, root goodwill intentions, and enable a more balanced interdependence between the organization and its employees. We discuss the implications of our paper for reconciling competing narratives about the future of work and for developing an understanding of trust processes.Type:journal articleJournal:Journal of Management StudiesScopus© Citations 35 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, No stone left unturned? Towards a framework for the impact of datafication technologies on organizational control(2020-05-15); ; ; ; Type:journal articleJournal:Academy of Management DiscoveriesVolume:6Issue:3Scopus© Citations 121 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The Road to Trust. A Vignette Study on the Determinants of
Citizens’ Trust in the European Commission(2020); ; Scopus© Citations 11 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The 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:2Scopus© Citations 285 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Goldgräberstimmung im Personalmanagement?
Wie Datafizierungs-Technologien die Personalsteuerung verändern.(Handelsblatt Fachmedien GmbH, 2019-07-12); ; Type:journal articleJournal:Zeitschrift für OrganisationsentwicklungIssue:3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Evidenzbasiert entscheiden. Wie sich HR-Manager Forschungsergebnisse zunutze machen
könnenType:journal articleJournal:Zeitschrift Führung + OrganisationVolume:87Issue:3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The Quest for Trust in Technology-Immersed Workplaces - Determinants of Employees’ Trustworthiness Expectations and Willingness to be Vulnerable Towards Their Employer(2023-06-15); ; Lisa Van Der WerffIn this paper, we analyze the determinants of employees’ perceptions of employer trustworthiness and of their willingness to be vulnerable in a technology-immersed workplace. By means of a factorial survey experiment, we investigate the causal impact of various active trust strategies based on technology and bureaucracy acceptance, trust and the leadership literature. By active trust strategies, we refer to means of the employer to actively cultivate and intensify the trust relationship in the context of technology-induced trust strain. Our analyses show that a participatory style of technology implementation and a salient experimental and error culture have a direct causal impact on employees willingness to be vulnerable; the impact of human-centered technology design and caring leadership principles, however, are mediated by trustworthiness perceptions.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Exploring the Chemistry of Datafication Control –
Pathways for a Trust-Enabling Use of Smart Workplace TechnologyType:conference paperJournal:Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2022)