[Air-L] Call for Papers "Digitalization of Work" at the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

[Scholz, Tobias]

Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to submit your work to the Minitrack on the “Digitalization of Work“ at the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023 (https://hicss.hawaii.edu), planned to take place at the beautiful island of Maui in January 2023!

Here you can find the detailed call for papers: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/knowledge-innovation-and-entrepreneurial-systems/#digitalization-of-work-minitrack

We anticipate submissions including (but not limited to) the following topics:

Employee Relations
· Motivating the future digital workforce
· Work-life-balance, work-life separation, and work-life-blending
· 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
· Temporary groups (pick-up groups) transforming into long-term team
· Intercultural communication and intercultural challenges

Human Resource Management
· Distant leadership and management of the digitalized workforce
· The implications of AI and algorithmic leadership
· Leadership for cloud-worker, click-worker, crowd-worker, and digital nomads
· Gamification of performance measurements in digital work
· Balancing self-leadership and intrinsic motivation with self-exploitation
· Empowerment and motivation of the employees digitally
· Skill development, learning, and talent identification in the digital environment
· The design of virtual recruiting (e.g., gamified assessment center, virtual onboarding)
· Establishing human automation resource management in the organization

Digital Work
· Digital professions and practices
· Balancing trust and surveillance in digital work and remote work
· Augmentation of the work interface
· Utilization of big data to empowering the digital employees
· Platformization of digital work
· Digitalized professions and work forms

Virtual and borderless organization
· Foster (open) innovation and intrapreneurship
· Fostering an organizational culture, work climate, commitment, and retention in a virtual organization
· Dissolution of company borders into the borderless organization
· Employee participation, collaboration, workers councils, and unions in a global digital world
· Avoiding the digital Taylorism and tackling the power shift in the new work forms
· Establishing employee-focused strategies and creating a sustainable business model
· Professionalization of a hybrid workplace
· Juridical and regulatory issues concerning remote and digitalized work
· The role of the HR department in this digital world

Guide for authors: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/

Important dates
· April 15: Paper Submission System Reopened for HICSS-56
· June 15: Paper Submission Deadline
· August 17: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
· September 4: Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript
· 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 Siegen | tobias.scholz at uni-siegen.de
Juho Hamari | Tampere University | juho.hamari at tuni.fi
Stephanie Orme | Emmanuel College | ormes at emmanuel.edu
Brian McCauley | Jönköping University | brian.mccauley at ju.se

We look forward to your submission!
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Dr. Tobias M. Scholz
University of Siegen
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