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SOME OF OUR LATEST NEWS:
HRM group @ 13th Biennial Dutch HRM Conference
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the dutch HRM group held its 13th biennial conference in Rotterdam from November 6 to 8 on the topic of “future-proofing HRM”. Also present – Isabella Scheibmayr – who organized the track “(Re)Imagining the Future of Work” together with Sophie de Winne and Max Bogaert. This track was about exploring the future of work with future-oriented methods (i.e. methods that use futures as data or as analytical lens). The accepted contributions dealt with the future of work in a wide area of topics from social robots conducting pay negotiations to artistic representation and subsequent focus groups, and from scenario techniques for craft work to possible imaginaries of gender identities at work.
Isabella Scheibmayr also presented initial results from the AK Vienna-funded project “Paradoxical incentive effects of algorithmic personnel management” in the track “HRM, Algorithms and Intelligent Technology: Implications for Work, Organizations and People”.
The program of the conference can be found HERE.
(online since 20.11.2024)
HRM group @ Amsterdam People Analytics Centre (APAC) Academy Session
Isabella Scheibmayr was invited by the Amsterdam People Analytics Centre at the University of Amsterdam to hold a lecture on „paradox incentives of algorithmic HRM“ in the Academy Session. In the talk Scheibmayr presented preliminary results from the project “ paradox incentive effects of algorithmic HRM” funded by the Digifonds of the Chamber of Labour Vienne.
Information on the public lecture can be found here.
(online since 16.10.2024)
HRM group @ Academy of Management Discoveries
The paper titles “The Future of HRM Incentivizing Strathern’s Paradox? Workers’ Responses to Algorithmic HRM” by Isabella Scheibmayr and Astrid Reichel has been published in the September issue of Academy of Management Discoveries. The article discusses how workers respond to algorithmic HRM, specifically to algorithmic personnel evaluation.
We are happy that the article also contains a video abstract that introduces the main research question.
The article and video abstract can be found here.
(online since 07.10.2024)
HRM group @ PERSONALquarterly
The 3/2024 issue of Personal Quarterly features an article by Astrid Reichel and Maike Andresen (University of Bamberg) on how companies can reduce the uncertainty that most organisations feel about women’s employment through adaptive succession planning and improve the career opportunities of female employees.
That’s the link to the journal and our article.
(online since 07.10.2024)
HRM group @ KI in HR
Everyone is talking about AI – but how can we manage the use of AI for HR? On September 17, three presentations dedicated themselves to this question as part of the event “Responsible use of AI in HR”.
In the first talk, Christina Fuchs (University of Salzburg) presented current findings on the paradoxical incentive effects of (in)transparent algorithmic management (project funded by the AK Wien, Digifonds).
Christine Malin (University of Graz) and Elias Felten (University of Salzburg) then addressed the possibilities for employee representatives to have a say (project funded by the AK Steiermark in cooperation with the ÖGB) as well as the legal framework for co-determination in companies. The subsequent discussion between the speakers and the audience provided an opportunity for suggestions and practical questions.We thank AK Wien and AK Steiermark for supporting our research and this event.
We thank AK Wien and AK Steiermark for supporting our research and this event.
(online since 07.10.2024)
HRM group @ New Technology, Work and Employment
A paper by Isabella Scheibmayr in cooperation with Clotilde Coron (Université Paris-Saclay) and Pierre Lescoat (NEOMA Business School) has just been published online in New Technology, Work and Employment.
The paper called “How to do HRM with numbers? A performative lens on HR metrics, HR analytics and HR algorithms” analyzes HRM quantification artefacts, such as algorithmic HRM, with a performative lens using Austin’s speech act theory. The study uses six cases from a large French-based telecommunications organization and finds that especially algorithmic HRM projects (compared to HR analytics) use illocutionary quantification acts to bring performative effects into being.
The paper can be found here.
(online since 05.09.2024)
HRM group @ AoM Best Paper Proceedings
“How to Align Strategic and Algorithmic HRM? An Integration Based on Ontological Status”, a full paper by Astrid Reichel & Isabella Scheibmayr was accepted to this years Academy of Management Conference in Chicago. The paper was also recognized as one of the 10% best papers in the HR Division.
A short version was published in this years Proceedings of the AoM, and can be downloaded here.
(online since 27.08.2024)
HRM group @ Defensio of Christina Fuchs
On 11 July 2024, Christina Fuchs successfully defended her dissertation on “Human Technology Interaction and its Effects on Organizational Structures”. The cumulative dissertation comprises five articles that investigate the effects of increased digitalization of work and communication on (tele)workers and the organization. It discovers surprising effects on employee voice, collaboration, professional isolation and even a change in formal hierarchies.
A big thank you goes to Astrid Reichel for the competent supervision of the dissertation, to Anne Keegan, who acted as reviewer for the dissertation, to the other members of the examination senate – Simon Oertel and Christine Bauer -, to the entire HRM team for the joint “doctorate time”, as well as to all colleagues from the department for the subsequent celebration!
(online since 27.07.2024)
HRM group @ AAM-Workshop
On June 28, 2024, the workshop “Paradoxical Incentive Effects of Algorithmic Personnel Management” took place at the SMBS, led by Astrid Reichel and Christina Fuchs. The event focused on critically examining the use of AI tools in HR. We presented the results of experiments on three areas of AI-powered employee assessment (recruitment, workplace safety, and employer branding) and discussed them during the workshop with a group of practitioners.
The event concluded with a social gathering.We thank the AK Wien (Digifonds) for supporting our research and this event!
(online since 07.10.2024)
HRM group @ e-HRM Conference
The international e-HRM conference took place at the University of Leeds for the 9th time. Christina Fuchs represented the HRM group and presented the paper “Incentive effects of algorithmic HR evaluation – the role of transparency and work task“, which she co-authored with Isabella Scheibmayr and Astrid Reichel. The article highlights the first results of a research project funded by the Vienna Chamber of Labor (AK Wien) – Digifonds – on the paradoxical incentive effects of algorithmic HR management.
We would like to thank the AK Wien for funding our research and the organizers of the conference!
(online since 25.06.2024)
HRM group @ Global Conference on IHRM
The 6th Global Conference on IHRM took place on 13-14 June 2024 at the University of Gothenburg. Astrid Reichel was part of the publishing panel and represented the International Journal of HRM as Associate Editor. She chaired the track “Virtual and automated global work” and presented the paper “The global rise of algorithmic HRM – research into neglected incentive effect” (co-authored with Isabella Scheibmayr and Christina Fuchs).
The Cranet Meeting, which is held twice a year, took place on 15 June. Astrid Reichel successfully completed her maximum term on the network’s Advisory Board in the middle of the year and was thanked by the Board for her work.
(online since 25.06.2024)
HRM group @ Gender, Work & Organization
The article “Organizing vulnerability: exploring Judith Butler’s conceptualization of vulnerability to study organizations” by Isabella Scheibmayr was now published in the special issue ‘”Troubling/Transforming Working Lives: Judith Butler, Gender, Work and Organization” in “ Gender, Work and Organization“. The special issue is investigating possible ways of using Judith Butler’s work in Organization and Management Research.
The article is available open access HERE.
(online since 11.06.2024)
HRM group @ Dialogforum 2024
“The art of living from science: Is the university a good employer?” is the title of the upcoming dialog forum, which GÖD is hosting hybrid at Unipark on May 15, from 2-4 pm. Discussions will include the advantages and disadvantages of development agreements and the establishment of more democratic processes in personnel development.
In addition to Astrid Reichel, the panelists include the Managing Rector of the PLUS, Martin Weichbold, the Vice Rector of the Mozarteum, Mario Kostal, Angela Wegscheider, Deputy Chairwoman of the University of Linz Works Council, and Martin Tiefenthaler, Chairman of the University Trade Union.
(online since 07.05.2024)
HRM group @ CarCon 2024
The Career Division of the Academy of Management organized their second division conference ( CarCon) from April 18-19 at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Isabella Scheibmayr participated online and presented two papers at the conference. On Thursday, she presented a co-authored study with Astrid Reichel on the leadership career of female doctors and on Friday a single-authored paper on the role of canonization in the careers of contemporary Austrian composers.
We thank the organizing team for this great experience!
The conference program can be found here. 
(online since 22.04.2024)
HRM group @ Neo-Institutionalismus Workshop
On 21 and 22 March, the 19th Neo-Institutionalism Workshop took place at the University of Jena. Astrid Reichel presented “the gendered logic of logics“, a joint paper with Isabella Scheibmayr. It deals with the fact that part-time leadership is considered possible, depending on what is done in “the other time”. The workshop was attended by a high calibre of people and was therefore highly informative.
Many thanks to the organizers, Peter Walgenbach, Philipp Poschmann, a
nd Lisa-Marie Gerhard.
(online since 08.04.2024)
HRM group @ Automation of Work
On 29 February, Astrid Reichel was invited as a speaker at the symposium “The Automation of Work” at WU Vienna, organized by Susanne Auer-Mayer and Andreas Tinhofer. She spoke to experts (from WK, AK, trade unions, start-ups) and interested parties about the use of AI in HRM.
(online since 08.04.2024)
HRM group @ Interdisciplinary Symposium
On February 1, the KnowledgeNetwork Law, Business and the World of Work (WissensNetzwerk Recht, Wirtschaft und Arbeitswelt) is hosting the interdisciplinary symposium “The Attractive Workplace: Meaning, Social or Gravel?” at the Edmundsburg in Salzburg (held in German).
Astrid Reichel and other colleagues from research and practice will speak and discuss the topics of work, resources, remuneration, and employer branding.
HERE you may find more information and the detailed program.
(online since 24.01.2024)
HRM group @ Extended Views
Recently, Christina Fuchs and Petra Eggenhofer-Rehart (WU Vienna) published the chapter “ Homeoffice, Sweet Homeoffice? Effects of teleworking on the perception of isolation during the lockdown“ in the anthology “Extended Views: Social and Economic Perspectives on the Covid-19 Pandemic”. In this book publication, researchers from a wide range of disciplines investigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The chapter Homeoffice, Sweet Homeoffice explores how increased teleworking during and after the pandemic affects the professional and social isolation of employees.
A big thank you goes to the Kaiserschild and Dr. Hans Riegel Foundation for supporting and funding our research.
online since 16.01.2024)
HRM group @ PLUS Research Seminar
On 9 January, Prof. Dr. Leonard Dobusch from the University of Innsbruck was a guest at the Economics and Business Research Seminar. He spoke about “openness as an organizing principle” and explained how this supposed openness can also promote exclusion.
We would like to thank Leonard very much for the exciting lecture and the stimulating discussions (also on current economic events) afterwards in the Pauli Stube.
(online since 08.04.2024)
HRM group @ Gender, Work & Organization
A new article by Isabella Scheibmayr was just published in the journal “ Gender, Work & Organization“. The article “Organizing vulnerability: exploring Judith Butler’s conceptualization of vulnerability to study organizations“ is available open access here. In the article, Scheibmayr conceptualizes Judith Butler’s concept of Vulnerability for HRM- and Organization research.
(online since 18.12.2023)
HRM group @ EPURAI Paris
On November 23-24, 2023, the 2nd EPURAI (Ethical Public Robots and Artificial Intelligence) Workshop took place at the SKEMA Business School on the grand Paris Campus.
The full program can be found HERE.
Astrid Reichel was invited as a speaker at this interdisciplinary event with international scholars and presented on the following topic: “Being incentivized or gaming the system: algorithms in human resource management“.
Many thanks to Ali Ozkes and Roland Königsgruber (SKEMA Business School), Dieter Vanderelst (University of Cincinnati), Jurgen Willems (WU Vienna) for the invitation and excellent organization!
(online since 11.01.2024)
HRM group @ Austrian Women’s Prizes Awards Ceremony
On November 20, 2023, the Käthe Leichter and Grete Rehor Prizes were awarded under the umbrella of the Austrian Women’s Prize by the Federal Minister for WOMEN, FAMILY, INTEGRATION AND MEDIA. Many thanks to the award winner Prof. Lefkofridi for the invitation to participate and congratulations on the award!
(online since 11.01.2024)
HRM group @ PLUS Research Seminar
On Nobember 15, 2023, the renowned scientist, specialist for International HRM and editor, Mila Lazarova (Simon Fraser University Vancouver, WU Vienna) visited the Department of Business. In an interactive session, she used extensive of publishing and editing experience to give academics at different stages of their careers valuable tips on publishing.
(online since 11.01.2024)
HRM group @ Salzburger Nachrichten
On October 19th, a supplement on crowdsourcing was published in the Salzburger Nachrichten for which Prof. Reichel was interviewed.
The whole article can be found under this link.
(online since 07.11.2023)
HRM group @ Autumn Workshop of the Scientific Commission Personnel (WK PERS)
This year’s autumn workshop of the Scientific Commission Personnel in the German Academic Association for Business Research took place in Berlin and was organized by the Chair for Human Resource Management & Intercultural Leadership of the ESCP Business School.
Isabella Scheibmayr from the HRM group presented a paper on the integration of strategic and algorithmic HRM (co-written with Astrid Reichel).
(online since 09.10.2023)
HRM group @ Cranet Advisory Board
On September 20, one of the regular meetings of Cranet’s (Cranfield Network of Global HRM) Advisory Board took place. Cranet exists since 1989 and has representatives in over 40 countries worldwide. Astrid Reichel has been part of the Austrian team since 2005 and has been on the Advisory Board for several years.
Currently we are working on the feedback for the working groups dealing with the International Report of the last data collection round and the draft of the next survey instrument.
(online since 20.09.2023)
HRM group @ Salzburger Nachrichten
On Saturday, August 26th, 2023 a newspaper article on job-outs appeared in Salzburger Nachrichten. Astrid Reichel was interviewed about her experience on this topic.
The whole article may be found here.
(online since 29.08.2023)
HRM group @ AOM 2023
The HRM group participated in this year’s 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Boston. Isabella Scheibmayr presented the paper „Female Doctors’ Navigating Constellation of Logics to Leadership Careers“ (co-written with Astrid Reichel) in the Session ‘Gender and Career Challenges’.
The abstract was published in the AoM Proceedings. 
Astrid Reichel won an Acknowledgement Award of the CAR Division for Mentoring.
We congratulate!
(online since 14.08.2023)
HRM group @ 39th EGOS Colloquium
The 39th Colloquium by the European Group for Organizational Studies ( EGOS) was taking place from 6th to 8th July at the University of Cagliari in Sardinia. The HRM group defied the Southern Italian heat and presented work in three subthemes:
- Christina Fuchs presented in Subtheme 60 (Places, Emotions, and Organizations) the paper “The new meaning of office: How the emergence of a virtual workplace triggers changes of formal organizational structure from a place-making perspective” (co-authored with Astrid Reichel).
- Isabella Scheibmayr presented her work “Worlding desirable futures: Science fiction as method for theorizing organizations and organizing” in Subtheme 10 (Shaping Desirable Futures – Imagining (Real) Utopias)
- Astrid Reichel presented the paper “Taking charge while taking care? A multi-country study examining the effects of gender, parental status, and goals on proactive career behaviors” (co-authored with Marijke Verbruggen, Pamela Suzanne, Mami Taniguchi, et al.) in hybrid Subtheme 21 (Bricolaging Careers – (Re)Imagining Meaningful Careers for ‘the Good Life’).
More information on the conference can be found at the EGOS website and the 2023 Colloquium website.
(online since 13.07.2023)
HRM group @ 16th IHRM Conference
IHRM in Action! This was the motto of the 16th International Human Resource Management Conference, which took place from June 28 to 30 at King’s College in London. Christina Fuchs represented the HRM group Salzburg and presented the paper “The New Meaning of Office: How Hybrid Work Changes Formal Organizational Structure from a Place-Making Perspective” (co-authored with Astrid Reichel) in the sub-theme “New Work Arrangement and Its Implications”.
Many thanks to Dana Minbaeva and the King’s College team for organizing this exciting event! 
(online since 12.07.2023)
HRM group @ PAAM Workshop Leeds
The 2nd EIASM workshop of people analytics and algorithmic management (PAAM) took place at the Business school of the University of Leeds from 21st until 22nd of June. Isabella Scheibmayr presented two papers: “The performativity of quantification acts in HRM: insights from six cases in France”(co-authored with Clotilde Coron, Université Paris-Saclay) and “Is strategic algorithmic HRM inherently antagonistic?” (co-authored with Astrid Reichel).
We thank Maria Belizon, Andy Charlwood and Jeroen Meijerink and the EIASM for organizing this productive workshop!
(online since 29.06.2023)
HRM group @ EURAM 2023
From June 14 to 16, the 23rd Conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) took place at Trinity Business School in Dublin. Christina Fuchs participated in the track “New ways of working and hybrid workplaces” and presented her paper “The new meaning of office: How hybrid work triggers the emergence of a virtual workplace and changes of formal organizational structure“, co-authored with Astrid Reichel.
We thank the EURAM team and especially the track leaders Emamdeen Fohim and Fabrizio Maimone.
(online since 26.06.2023)
HRM group @ Gender, Diversity & Inclusion
On June 12, Prof. Reichel was the guest speaker at the lecture series “Gender, Diversity & Inclusion”. The lecture was recorded for Salzburg Uni TV and can be watched here.
Many thanks to Prof. Zoe Lefkofridi and her team for organizing this exciting event.
(online since 21.06.2023)
HRM group @ HRIC South Africa
From May 31 to June 2, the 4th International Conference of the HR Division of the Academy of Management took place in South Africa. Astrid Reichel presented 2 articles, both of which have now been successfully published: “ Who benefits from HRM professionalization? The moderating role of gender in professionalization effects in organizations” and “ Workers’ responses to algorithmic HRM. Incentivizing Strathern’s paradox?” (published under the title “The Future of HRM Incentivizing Strathern’s Paradox? Workers’ Responses to Algorithmic HRM” and both written in cooperation with Isabella Scheibmayr).
Many thanks to Bennie Linde and his team at NWU on site and to the HR Division of AoM.
(online since 21.06.2023)
HRM group @ OS Workshop
Isabella Scheibmayr presented a paper called “Worlding desirable futures – science fiction as method” at the 17th Organization Studies Workshop organized by the journal Organization Studies from 17th to 20th May in Athens, Greece. This year’s workshop theme was “Utopias and dystopias: Organization studies in a brave new world?”.
(online since 30.05.2023)
HRM group @ Academy of Management Discoveries
A new paper by Isabella Scheibmayr and Astrid Reichel titles “The Future of HRM Incentivizing Strathern’s Paradox? Workers’ Responses to Algorithmic HRM” has been accepted in Academy of Management Discoveries. The accepted manuscript is available HERE. The article discusses how workers respond to algorithmic HRM, specifically to algorithmic personnel evaluation.
(online since 15.05.2023)
HRM group @ Austrian Early Scholars Workshop in Graz
For 10 years now, the Austrian Early Scholars Workshop in Management offers researchers in early career stages the opportunity to present their research and discuss it with colleagues and professors from Austria and internationally. This year’s workshop took place for the first time at the University of Graz.
Isabella Scheibmayr presented her research paper “Is strategic algorithmic human resource management inherently antagonistic? An integration of strategic and algorithmic HRM based on an ontological status identification”.
Christina Fuchs participated in the Round Table Discussions with the paper “The new meaning of office: How hybrid work changes formal organizational structure from a place-making perspective” (both articles are co-authored with Astrid Reichel).
We would like to thank the organizers, Robert Bauer, Giuseppe Delmestri, and especially Renate Ortlieb and the organizational team of the University of Graz for this exciting and fruitful workshop!
(online since 09.05.2023)
HRM group @ 38th SHRM Workshop in Prague
On April 27 and 28, Isabella Scheibmayr and Christina Fuchs participated in the 38th Workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) at the University of Economics and Business in Prague. This year’s workshop was held under the motto “Challenges for HRM in the next generation”. 24 researchers presented their work in the field of HRM.
Isabella Scheibmayr presented her paper “Strategic algorithmic HRM – an inherent antagonism?”, and Christina Fuchs presented the paper “How technology providers legitimize AI for talent acquisition in the face of legal opaqueness and audience’s trust concerns” (both articles are co-authored with Astrid Reichel).
(online since 09.05.2023)
HRM group @ Human Resource Management Journal
The article “ Who benefits from (Human Resource Management) professionalization? The moderating role of gender on professionalization effects in organisations” by Isabella Scheibmayr and Astrid Reichel was recently published online in Human Resource Management Journal (HRMJ; ABS 4*, ABDC A).
The paper considers the interaction of professionalization and gender proportion of the HRM occupation on organizational closure of HRM and HRM’s probability to gain a seat on the corporate board. The study investigated this relationship for 3276 organisations in 34 countries using the Cranet survey 2014/15 and finds that organizational closure of HRM can be materialized especially for male HR directors and in countries where the proportion of women in HRM is lower. Interestingly, organizational closure does not automatically translate into board membership. Here the results imply a reverse gender effect: Only in countries with a very high proportion of women in HRM does organizational closure relate to a higher probability of HRM being represented on the board.
The study is open access and and will be published in a special issue later.
(online since 17.04.2023)
HRM group @ HUMAN RESOURCE Management
The article “Effective communication for relational coordination in remote work: How job characteristics and HR practices shape user-technology interactions” by Christina Fuchs and Astrid Reichel is now published in a Special Issue of the journal Human Resource Management (HRM; ABS 4, ABDC A*). This paper investigates how companies can promote effective digital communication and coordination between teleworking employees through targeted interventions and what role job design plays in this context. With our findings we show that it is important to involve HRM from the outset so that, in close cooperation with IT, a system can be found that—supported by suitable sets of rules—enables effective communication.
You can find the article as open-access here.
(online since 25.1.2023)
HRM group @ Cranet Country Report
Cranet, the world’s largest network (universities in over 40 countries worldwide) on HRM practices, is represented in Austria by the HRM group, University of Salzburg and the Interdisciplinary Institute for Management and Organisational Behaviour at WU Wien.
In 2021, the 9th round of surveys was completed in Austria. The country report describing key HRM data for Austria is now available.
(online since 11.01.2023)
HRM group @ 5C Blog
The HRM group is part of 5C (Cross Cultural Collaboration on Contemporary Careers). Based on the working paper, “The gendered logic of logics: Female doctors’ navigating specific constellations of logics to leadership careers“, presented at the 38th EGOS Colloquium by Isabella Scheibmayr and Astrid Reichel, Astrid Reichel wrote a contribution for the 5C blog. It describes a phenomenon that the authors call the part-time-leadership paradox.
(online since 11.01.2023)
