We cordially invite you to submit your work to the Minitrack on the "Digitalization of Work" at the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (https://hicss.hawaii.edu), planned to take place on the Big Island in January 2025!
Here you can find the detailed call for papers: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-58/knowledge-innovation-and-entrepreneurial-systems/#digitalization-of-work-minitrack
We anticipate submissions including (but not limited to) the following topics:
Digital Work
- Augmentation of the work interface
- Balancing trust and surveillance in digital work and remote work
- Cross-generational collaboration in digital work
- Cybersecurity practices for digital workers
- Digital professions and practices
- Digitalized professions and work forms
- Ethical use of AI and big data in empowering digital employees
- Environmental sustainability in digital work practices
- Platformization of digital work
Employee Relations
- Dealing with mental health issues in digitized work
- Dealing with social isolation in digitized work
- Dealing with the digital divide from a temporal and spatial perspective
- Intercultural communication and intercultural challenges
- Motivating the future digital workforce
- Resilience and adaptability training for digital work environments
Human Resource Management
- Balancing self-leadership and intrinsic motivation with self-exploitation
- Distant leadership and management of the digitalized workforce
- Empowerment and motivation of the employees digitally
- Establishing human automation resource management in the organization
- Ethics in AI and algorithmic decision-making
- Gamification of performance measurements in digital work
- Inclusive leadership strategies for a diverse digital workforce
- Skill development, learning, and talent identification in the digital environment
- The design of virtual recruiting (e.g., gamified assessment center)
- The implications of AI and algorithmic leadership
Virtual and Borderless Organization
- Avoiding the digital Taylorism and tackling the power shift in the new work forms
- Building resilience and flexibility in organizational culture
- Dissolution of company borders into the borderless organization
- Employee participation, collaboration, workers councils, and unions in a global digital world
- Establishing employee-focused strategies and creating a sustainable business model
- Foster (open) innovation and intrapreneurship
- Juridical and regulatory issues concerning remote and digitalized work
- Professionalization of a hybrid workplace
- Strategies for managing remote work burnout
- The role of the HR department in this digital world
Guide for authors: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/
Important dates
· June 15: Paper Submission Deadline
· August 17: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
· September 22: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication
· October 1: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference
If you have any further questions do not hesitate to contact the Minitrack Chairs:
Tobias Scholz | University of Agder | tobias.scholz@uia.no
Juho Hamari | Tampere University | juho.hamari@tuni.fi
Stephanie Orme | Key Lime Interactive | Orme.stephanie@gmail.com
Brian McCauley | Jönköping University | brian.mccauley@ju.se
We look forward to your submission!
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Tobias Scholz
University of Siegen
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