Empowered Life & Work innovation area

Self-determination and empowerment are central motives for action. Since the 1960s, the development of digital technologies has been linked to the goal of enabling people to live and work in a self-determined way. The corresponding offerings made possible by digitalisation are part of our world today: social networks and discussion forums, music and video streaming, crowdworking, hybrid work, virtual-agile work teams, career platforms and so on. However, fulfilling the promise of empowerment that goes hand in hand with these offerings constantly presents us with technological, legal, ethical and organisational challenges.

 

Sub­ject areas

This is an excerpt of current topics that are continuously expanded and updated.

  • Flexible working hours and locations
  • Recruitment
  • Digital twins of the human being
  • Platform work and business models
  • Data ownership and security
  • Identity politics and social networks
  • Cultural offerings and digitalisation
  • Social participation and digitalisation

Fields of ap­plic­a­tion

Work and organisation

Examples such as crowdworking, hybrid working and virtual-agile teams offer flexible and location-independent working opportunities and promote creativity and collaboration.

Education and training

Online learning platforms, virtual seminars and e-learning tools enable free access to knowledge and education for everyone, regardless of time and place.

Employer branding and personnel development

Platforms, websites and (digital) recruitment processes are playing an increasingly important role in creating an employer brand and promoting individual career paths at the same time.

Culture and networking

Social networks and apps enable employees and consumers to make more autonomous use of cultural offerings

Goals and vis­ions

We are committed to ensuring that business models and products take better account of the interests of consumers. We also sponsor the integration of ethical aspects and the legitimate interests of employees into the design of digital HR practices from the outset.

Man­ager

Martin Schneider

> Personalwirtschaft

Professor

Office: Q3.334
Phone: +49 5251 60-2929
Phone: 05251602930
E-mail: martin.schneider@uni-paderborn.de

Uni­ver­sity lec­tur­ers in­volved

> Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP)

Professor - Direktor of competence area digital security

> Wirtschaftspädagogik und Evaluationsforschung

Professor - Lehrstuhlinhaber

Office: Q1.441
Phone: +49 5251 60-2367
E-mail: marc.beutner@uni-paderborn.de

> Paderborn University

Chairwoman - Professor - Ethics committee Paderborn University

> Eventmanagement mit den Schwerpunkten Popmusikkulturen und digitale Medienkulturen

Professor - Eventmanagement mit den Schwerpunkten Popmusikkulturen und digitale Medienkulturen

Office: H7.204
Phone: +49 5251 60-4324
E-mail: beate.flath@uni-paderborn.de

Office: Q3.149
Phone: +49 5251 60-5533
Phone: (+49) 5251 60-5531
E-mail: dennis.kundisch@wiwi.uni-paderborn.de

> Digital Humanities

Professor

Office: E2.321
Phone: +49 5251 60-3275
E-mail: tobias.matzner@uni-paderborn.de

> Key research area Transformation and Education

Professor

Office: H4.320
Phone: +49 5251 60-2901
E-mail: niclas.schaper@uni-paderborn.de

> Signal & System Theory (SST)

Head - Professor

Office: P1.7.01.2
Phone: +49 5251 60-2213
E-mail: peter.schreier@sst.uni-paderborn.de

> Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP)

Manager - Professor - Managing Director, Senior Researcher

Office: ZM2.A.03.74
Phone: +49 5251 60-6820
E-mail: sauer@uni-paderborn.de
E-mail: sauer@sicp.de

> Graduate Centre of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics

Head - Professor

Office: F2.224
Phone: +49 5251 60-6681
E-mail: es@uni-paderborn.de

Office: Q2.448
Phone: +49 5251 60-4180
E-mail: matthias.trier@uni-paderborn.de

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