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Wie wollen wir zukünftig arbeiten, leben und wohnen? Wie wollen wir den dafür notwendigen Verkehrsaufwand gestalten und wie können die Folgen des Klimawandels so verhindert werden, dass die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe für alle sozialen Gruppen und mit nachhaltigen Verkehrsmitteln möglich wird?
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The project analyses the effects of Algorithmic Management (AM) on employment relations and employee representation. AM systems are increasingly used to track the performance of employees or contractors and to optimize decisions concerning their tasks. If they are not designed in an inclusive way, this can result in work intensification, and increased standardization, control and surveillance.
School-to-work transitions (STWT) have been studied from a perspective that enables us to consider the individual and institutional factors involved in this transition. This is how the institutions like education and the labor market interact with what different individuals decide to do within these transitions. It is a perspective that allows considering the interaction between individuals and institutions (Allmendinger, 1989; Gangl, 2001; Shavit et al., 1998). Work constitutes a fundamental part of individuals´ life and is an important generator of individual and social welfare.
The dissertation with the draft title “The role of the state and the EU in the digitalization of the world of work. Contradictions, Challenges and Potentials for Good Work using the example of the automotive industry” deals with the political-economic competition program of the “digital sovereignty of Europe”, its consequences for the world of work as well as the claims and perspectives of trade unions and works councils in Europe.
The post-war liberal world order, and a triumphalist neoliberalism since the 1990s, transformed citizenship whereby an increasingly agentic and right-bearing individual gained prominence across a wide-range of policy and institutional domains. The script of agentic individuality, a core precept of liberal citizenship, unfolded and became standardized through interacting dynamics between national and transnational courts (e.g. the European Court of Justice), instruments of international organizations (e.g.
Ongoing pilot survey on STEM scientists and professionals employed in Chinese and the UK higher education institutions.
The project studies the transformations of UK higher education institutions in their pursuit of internationalization. The project analyzes two types of data: a) textual data collected from University websites using data mining techniques, b) organizational level data on governance structures dedicated to the internationalization mission.
A multi-sited survey of students enrolled in tertiary education in China, Japan, Germany and the UK. With a sample size of about 9000, the survey implemented a structured sampling approach, based on university ranking and size, and in China it was additionally stratified by provinces, taking into consideration the geographic inequalities in access to education.
This doctoral thesis aims to shed light on structural and workplace culture conditions in the creative industries that may possibly foster workplace sexual harassment and violence. Its main interest lies in digital or technology-facilitated sexual violence. Following a mixed methods approach, the magnitude of this phenomenon as well as possible prevention measures will be examined.