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SOME OF OUR LATEST NEWS:
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)
HRM group @ FM4
The working group Social Partnership (PLUS, JKU, University of Roskilde, AK Vienna, Forba), in which Astrid Reichel and Isabella Scheibmayr are involved, was asked for an interview by FM4. Our colleague and social partnership expert Thomas Paster, answered questions about the current railroad workers’ strike and social partnership in Austria on OKFM4.
Here you may find the interview!
(online since 29.11.2022)
HRM group @ Young Investigators Award 2022
At the Night of Excellence, our team member Christina Fuchs was awarded 2nd place in the Young Investigators Award in the category ‘Exploring Law, Business and Economics’.
With the Young Investigators Award, the PLUS has been honoring the best dissertation projects at the university for several years.
Ms Fuchs entered with her dissertation project “Human-technology interaction and is effects on organisational structures”.
Congratulations from all of your HRM group colleagues!
(online since 28.11.2022)
HRM group @ Research Seminar with Ewald Kibler (Aalto University)
Ewald Kibler (Aalto University) presented “Age, Aging and Entrepreneurship” in the research seminar on November 22, 2022 onsite in room HS 212. He gave an overview of his ongoing research on late-career entrepreneurs including the effects of transition into self-employment for late-career entrepreneurs, consequences of entrepreneurship on health, well-being and income and how it relates to age, different types of entrepreneurial activities and the issue of age discrimination.

We thank Ewald Kibler for his visit in Salzburg and the interesting insights on ageing and entrepreneurship he shared with us.
Future talks in the research seminar series you can find here.
(online since 24.11.2022)
HRM group @ 12 Biennial International Conference of the Dutch HRM Network
The 12th international conference of the Dutch HRM Network was held at the University of Twente in Enschede from November 9-11, 2022. The conference dedicated itself to the theme “ HRM for Resilient Societies: A Call for Actionable Knowledge” and covered topics of organizational and human resource resilience.
Christina Fuchs participated in the pHResh-Doctoral Consortium and presented her paper “Effects of digital communication on organizational structure”, co-authored with Astrid Reichel, in the conference-track “Imagining the (Distant) Future of Work”.

Isabella Scheibmayr presented a study co-authored with Astrid Reichel and entitled “Bringing the algorithmic HR manager in: Workers’ responses to AI informed algorithmic performance evaluation” in the track “HRM, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence”.
The conference report can be found here.
Many thanks to the dutch HRM network and the local organizing team of the University of Twente!
(online since 21.11.2022)
HRM group @ AK Science Award

The master thesis on the effect of agility on worker satisfaction (original title: Einfluss von Agilität auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit) by Teresa Doll was awarded the science prize by the Chamber of Labour Salzburg (Arbeiterkammer Salzburg). The master thesis of Teresa Doll was supervised by Isabella Scheibmayr from the HRM group and empirically investigated the effects of agility (agile practices as well as agile organization culture) on worker satisfaction in the IT sector.
The empirical results show that agile organization culture positively affects worker satisfaction.
We congratulate Teresa Doll for this well-deserved prize!
(online since 18.10.2022)
HRM group @ 9th Annual Conference of the Austrian Gender Studies Association (ÖGGF)
10 years after its foundation at the University of Salzburg, the Austrian Gender Studies Association (ÖGGF) again met in Salzburg for the 9th Annual Conference. Astrid Reichel and Isabella Scheibmayr from the HRM group presented newest insights in the talk titled “The gendered constellation of institutional logics: Female doctors navigating leadership careers”. A vibrant and diverse program complemented over 50 talks from various areas of gender studies. The highlight were the two keynotes by Eliza Steinbock & Del LaGrace Volcano!
We thank the organizational team for this exciting conference!
(online since 13.10.2022)
HRM group @ Events “Sozialpartnerschaftliche Handlungsfelder”
The book “Sozialpartnerschaftliche Handlungsfelder: Continuities, Breaks and Perspectives”, edited by Susanne Pernicka with the contribution “We Agreed in the Sense of Compromise”- the Role of Social Partnership in the Introduction and Implementation of Mandatory Pay Disclosures in the Equal Treatment Act” contributed by Astrid Reichel and Isabella Scheibmayr (pp. 109-128) was presented at two events:
- On September 7th, 2022, in the beautiful ambience of the lecture hall on the 6th floor of the Vienna Chamber of Labour, the presentation of selected scientific results and a high-level discussion on social partnership with Silvia Hruska-Frank (Director AK Vienna), Andreas Mörk (Managing Director Bundesparte Industrie, WKO), Eva Scherz (Collective Agreement Negotiator, GPA) took place.
- On September 26th, 2022 the book was presented at the JKU. Introduced by Rector Lukas and presentations by Susanne Pernicka and Elias Felten, important representatives of the social partnership in Upper Austria, Gerald Silberhumer (Director WKOÖ), Max Stelzer (Head Human Resources voestalpine) and Ernst Stummer (Deputy Director AKOÖ), discussed the future of the social partnership.
(online since 10.11.2022)
HRM group @ Book “Sozialpartnerschaftliche Handlungsfelder”
The book „Sozialpartnerschaftliche Handlungsfelder: Kontinutitäten, Brüche und Perspektiven“, edited by Susanne Pernicka and published with Springer has appeard. It deals with fields of action for the Austrian Social Partnership. Astrid Reichel and Isabella Scheibmayr contributed the „Wir haben im Sinne eines Kompromisses zugestimmt.“ Die Rolle der Sozialpartnerschaft bei der Einführung und Implementierung verpflichtender Entgeltangaben im Gleichbehandlungsgesetz“ (p. 109-128) that investigates how actors of the Social Partnership participated in the discourse on how to implement a law that demands to publish the minimum wage in each job ad.
(online since 10.11.2022)
HRM group @ isaScience 2022
isaScience, organized by the University of music and performing arts Vienna (mdw), took place from August 31st until September 4th in Reichenau an der Rax. This year’s topic of the international interdisciplinary conference was Un/Learning Norms and Routines in Cultural Practice. Isabella Scheibmayr gave a talk titled ‘Musical Notation as Institution‘ in the Panel on interrogating institutions.
(online since 06.09.2022)
HRM group @ Best Paper Award at AoM 2022
At the Academy of Management 2022 in Seattle, a joint paper from 5C (Cross Cultural Cooperation on Contemporary Careers) was selected as one of two papers that the jury found to be the best of all papers published in the field of career research 2021! Astrid Reichel is part of the team of authors who developed a scale for measuring career success.
Thank you very much for this great honor!
(online since 10.11.2022)
HRM group @ AoM 2022
From August 5-9, 2022, the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management was held in Seattle, USA. Astrid Reichel was represented in 3 Professional Development Workshops (PDW), a symposium and a paper session.
The PDW “Careers in the Rough” is a paper development workshop in which young researchers are helped to develop their articles, Astrid Reichel has taken this role for several years.
In the PDW “Showcasing The Global Human Resource Management Casebook, Third Edition”, the authors of an edited work that includes HRM case studies internationally worked to complete this publication.
In the PDW “International Early Career Scholars: How to Engage with the HR Division” organized by Michal Biron (Israel), young international scholars are introduced to the network of HR Ambassadors. Astrid Reichel serves as an ambassador for Austria.
In the symposium, “Covid-19’s Impact Upon Careers: Findings from a Global Study” Astrid Reichel is part of a team of authors working on the paper “Taking charge while taking care? The effect of gender and children on proactive career behaviors”. Thank you Marijke Verbruggen, KU Leuven, for the excellent lead.
In the paper session “Relational Perspectives In HRM” Astrid Reichel presented a joint paper with Christina Fuchs on “How Job Design Shapes Effective Communication for Relational Coordination in Remote Work”.
(online since 10.11.2022)
HRM group @ 5C Meeting
On August 4, 2022, the biannual meeting of the Cross Cultural Collaboration on Contemporary Careers ( 5C) was held in Seattle, USA and online, where Astrid Reichel discussed the future of careers research with her international colleagues.
(online since 10.11.2022)
HRM group @ Kaiserschild Podcast
“Does digital communication provide sufficient space for employee voice?” In the current episode of the Kaiserschild Podcast, Christina Fuchs talks to Sandra Sonnleitner about this question.
The podcast focuses on the article “The Missing Spark of Digital Channels: Digitalization and Informal Employee Voice Behavior” by Christina Fuchs and Astrid Reichel (published in: “Work from Home: Multi-level Perspectives on the New Normal“). In addition, first results of a mixed-methods research project of the HRM group Salzburg in cooperation with Petra Eggenhofer-Rehart and Lea Reiss from WU Vienna will be presented.
The Kaiserschild Foundation supports this research project as part of the Covid 19 special grant, for which we would like to express our sincere thanks!
(online since 08.08.2022)
HRM group @ EGOS Colloquium Vienna
The 38th EGOS Colloquium took place from 7th to 9th July at the WU Vienna. This year’s theme was “Organizing: the beauty of imperfection”.
Astrid Reichel & Isabella Scheibmayr from the HRM group took part in the hybrid subtheme “Careers: Failure and Success in Changed Times” by presenting their paper on “The gendered logic of logics: Female doctors’ navigating specific constellations of logics to leadership careers”.
We want to thank the organizers of the sub-theme, Thomas Schneidhofer, Monika Hamori, and Xiao Chen for organizing this insightful sub-theme and the local organizing team of EGOS for organizing this great conference!
(online since 13.07.2022)
HRM group @ Extrajournal
The results of the paper “Beating the advertising drum for the employer: How legal context translates into good HRM practice” by Isabella Scheibmayr and Astrid Reichel published in Human Resource Management Journal have been discussed in Extrajournal.
(online since 04.07.2022)
HRM group @ BANDAS Center
On June 10, Astrid Reichel and Christina Fuchs visited the BANDAS Center (Business Analytics & Data Science) at the University of Graz and presented the paper “Effective Communication for Relational Coordination in Remote Work. How Job Design Shapes User-Technology Interactions” in the HFDT BrownBag Seminar. This was followed by a workshop at the BANDAS Center.
We would like to thank Dr. Stefan Thalmann, Dr. Jürgen Fleiß and Christine Malin for the organization!
(online since 28.06.2022)
HRM group @ e-HRM International Conference
The 8th e-HRM International Conference took place at the School of Business and Social Science in Aarhus (Denmark) from June 1st to 3rd. The conference was dedicated to the topic “Managing human resources in digitalized organizations and ecosystems“. International researchers presented their research on digital HRM.
Christina Fuchs represented the HRM group with the paper “Effective Communication for Relational Coordination in Remote Work. How Job design Shapes User-Technology Interactions” (co-authored with Astrid Reichel).
(online since 28.06.2022)
HRM group @ Employer Branding Awards
On May 23rd, 2022, in Vienna, Parkhotel Schönbrunn, the Employer Brand Managers Club awarded the best employer branding projects 2021/22 . Astrid Reichel was part of the jury and reviewed a big number of interesting initiatives from companies varying in size and industry.
Congratulations to the winners and the organizers!
(online since 04.07.2022)
HRM group @ Harvard Business Review
In the Harvard Business Review Dagny Dukach mentions a paper by Astrid Reichel (The disabling effect of enabling social policies on organisations’ human capital development practices for women) in a Research Roundup on “How Women Experience the Workplace Today“. Many thanks for the interesting article!
(online since 09.05.2022)
HRM group @ EIASM Workshop on Strategic HRM
The 37th Workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) was held on April 21st and 22nd at Minho University (Portugal). The theme of this year’s conference was “The Decade When Work Changed, Perhaps Forever.”.
Christina Fuchs presented the paper “Effective Communication for Relational Coordination in Remote Work. How Job Design Shapes User-Technology Interactions“ (co-authored with Astrid Reichel).
(online since 28.06.2022)
HRM group @ 100 years VHB
The German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB) celebrated their 100-year-anniversary with a centenary conference in a digital format at the Heinrich-Heine University (HHU) of Düsseldorf. The centenary conference „100 years VHB“ was organized to think critically about the future of Business studies together.
Isabella Scheibmayr presented the paper „Who benefits from HRM professionalization. The moderating role of gender on professionalization in organizations“ (joint work with Astrid Reichel) in the session „Research on Gender and Discrimination“.
We thank the HHU and the organization team around Prof. Dr. Barbara Weißenberger for organizing the conference!
(online since 23.03.2022)
HRM group @ Lecture Series 28.3.
In a series of lectures on “Gender, Diversity & Equality” (Mondays, 5:15 p.m.) on March 28th, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m. Astrid Reichel will give a talk entitled „It’s not YOU.“ The relevance of institutions for gender equality. The lecture will take place in person in HS 380 at the PLUS.
If you are interested, please join the event!
(online since 09.03.2022)
HRM group @ Editorial Functions
Astrid Reichel has been appointed to the Editoral Board of Human Resource Management (ABS 4, ABDC A) AND as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Resource Management (ABS 3, ABDC A) (starting May 1st, 2022). The two boards gather the leading international researchers in the field of HRM. It is a great honor to be selected as a board member and being given the opportunity to contribute to the future of HRM research!
MANY THANKS to the Editors in Chief for their excellent choice! 😉
(online since 09.03.2022)
HRM group @ Human Resource Management Journal
The highly relevant findings of the paper „The disabling effects of enabling social policies” have already been debated in various media outlets. The article has now been published in Human Resource Management Journal.
Astrid Reichel, as the first author, together with Mila Lazarova (CAN), Eleni Apospori (GR), Fida Afiouni (LB), Maike Andresen (Ger), Janine Bosak (IR), Emma Parry (GB), Silvia Bagdadli (I), Jon P. Briscoe (USA), Martina Gianecchini (I), Pamela Suzanne (AR), and Mami Taniguchi (JP) shows that social policies aiming at enabling gender equality can actually have opposite effects. Analyzing the 5C data set the researchers show that more parental leave and more public childcare are actually negatively related to organizations’ investment in women’s human capital.
(online since 09.03.2022)
HRM group @ PLUS-News
Our research on the amendment of the Equal Treatment Law was featured in the News section of the University of Salzburg’s website. Here you can read all about it!
The press release was published at APA science as well:
(online since 08.03.2022)
HRM group @ Research Handbook on New Frontiers of Equality and Diversity at Work
The Research Handbook on New Frontiers of Equality and Diversity at Work, edited by Alain Klarsfeld, Lena Knappert, Angela Kornau, Eddy S. Ng and Faith W. Ngunijiri was published recently. This research handbook brings together equality and diversity aspects from different country perspectives. Isabella Scheibmayr and Astrid Reichel describe in their chapter, „At the European intersection: the Austrian way to equality, diversity and inclusion”, the implementation of mandatory pay information in job advertisements embedded in the Austrian context.
The chapter is available open access at Edgar Elgar Publishing.
(online since 24.01.2022)
HRM group @ Kaiserschild-Conference
On January 22, 2022, the final scientific conference of the Dr. Hans-Riegel Foundation and the Kaiserschild Foundation on research related to the Covid 19 pandemic will take place. The two foundations selected 33 research projects from numerous applications for special funding. The funded projects cover the entire spectrum of social and economic sciences.
At the final conference, the scientists will present their work and results to interested experts. Christina Fuchs (HRM group), Petra Eggenhofer-Rehart (WU Vienna) and Lea Reiss (WU Vienna) are presenting their project “Home Office, sweet Home Office? Effects of digital communication media on stress and well-being during lockdown“.
In their research, the scientists are investigating the effects of increased teleworking and the associated use of digital communication media in the extreme situation of a lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The conference is open to interested professional audiences. Please register in advance!
(online since 19.01.2022)
HRM group @ “personal manager”
Together with Marco Rapp and Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Astrid Reichel wrote an article in the practitioner journal “personal manager”. It has been published in Issue 1/2022. The paper shows and explains why – in contrast to many other occupations – HRM doesn’t suffer status loss despite large shares of women working in the field.
(online since 13.01.2022)
HRM group @ AK Wissenschaftspreis 2021
On December 13th, 2021 the “AK Wissenschaftspreis”, an award for excellent Masters’ and PhD. theses funded by the Austrian Chamber of Labor were presented in an online event with live music and champagne sent to the participants.
Astrid Reichel is a member of the jury for the category “Gerecht leben und arbeiten” (“fair living and working”). Congratulations to the winners!
For 2022, please don’t hesitate to hand in your excellent Masters’ and PhD. theses!
(online since 13.01.2022)
HRM group @ Work from Home
Recently, Christina Fuchs and Astrid Reichel published the article “The Missing Spark of Digital Channels: Digitization and Informal Employee Voice Behavior” in the book “Work from Home: Multi-level Perspectives on the New Normal”. In this specialized issue, researchers from around the world address current questions about the impact of widespread mobile work on motivation, work-life balance, engagement, and many other exciting topics in the field of HRM.
In their article, Christina Fuchs and Astrid Reichel present current results on changes in employee voice behavior triggered by the digitalization of informal voice channels.
We would like to thank the Kaiserschild Foundation for funding our research around the effects of increased digitization of communication channels in the wake of the Covid-19 induced home office.
(online since 12.01.2022)
HRM group @ Cranet Meeting
On November 19th, the University of Economics Bratislava hosted the Cranet Autumn-Meeting. Next to research activities the most important topics on the agenda were the current survey round and the network’s governance structures. Austria, represented by the HRM group at PLUS and the Interdisciplinary Institute for Management and Organisational Behaviour, has already completed data collection and is currently working on the research report. Astrid Reichel was confirmed as a member of the Cranet Advisory Board.
(online since 15.12.2021)
HRM group @ Human Resource Management Journal (HRMJ)
The article “Beating the advertising drum for the employer: How legal context translates into good HRM practice” by Isabella Scheibmayr & Astrid Reichel has been published early-view in Human Resource Management Journal (HRMJ). The article considers how HR practitioners have reacted to a change in legislation, the introduction of mandatory pay information in job advertisements. The authors found HR practitioners proactively engaging with the change in legislation, using institutional work to translate the legal rule into HRM practice.
The article can be found open access here: https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12413
(online since 09.11.2021)
HRM group @ Crowdworking Symposium 2021
On September 17th the 3rd Crowdworking Symposium took place in Bremen. Astrid Reichel is part of the scientific committee of this annual event and she was the discussant for Fabian Stephany (University of Oxford), who talked about the newest developments in the Online Labour Index in his presentation entitled „New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market“. The Online Labor Index (OLI) is one of the most important indexes capturing volume and distribution on plattform labour.
Many thanks for this highly interesting presentation as well as the brilliant organization of Lars Hornuf (University of Bremen) and his team!
(online since 09.11.2021)
HRM group @ AoM 2021
The 81st Meeting of the Academy of Management ( AoM) was taking place virtually from July 29th until August 4th and the HRM group was contributing with three presentations this year:
Astrid Reichel presented the paper „ HR managers riding the glass escalators, walking the stairs of equality, or both?” (joint work with Isabella Scheibmayr) in Session #1480 Diversity and Gender Inequity (sponsored by the HR Division).
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On Monday August 2nd Isabella Scheibmayr presented “Bringing the algorithmic HR manager in: Behavioral responses to algorithmic HRM” (joint work with Astrid Reichel) in Session # 857 HR Analytics and Algorithms (also sponsored by the HR Division)
On Tuesday, Astrid Reichel and Isabella Scheibmayr presented brand-new results under the title „Finding their way through multiple logics: Female doctors’ leadership careers” in the Symposium „ Women’s Careers in the 21st century: New Perspectives and insights“ (Session #1071).
The Symposium was organized by Fida Afiouni, Eleni Apospori, Bert Schreurs and Julia Richardson and sponsored by the Career, GDO and HR Divisions. We thank the organizers of the symposium for the excellent curation and organization of the symposium!
The full program can be found here, the abstracts were published in this years Proceedings of the Academy of Management.
(online since 11.08.2021)
HRM group @ EGOS 2021
The HRM group participated in this years EGOS Colloquium in the Track AI@Work organized by Marleen Huysman, Paul Leonardi, and Stella Pachidi (Standing Working Group Digital Technology, Media and Organization). Isabella Scheibmayr presented a joint work with Astrid Reichel on Starthern’s Paradox and the behavioural response of workers to algorithmic HRM. The virtual conference took place from July 8 to July 10 and was hosted by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
That’s the link to the conference.
(online since 04.08.2021)
HRM group @ 2021 Virtual Conference Gender, Work and Organization (GWO) 2021
The HRM group participated in the 2021 virtual GWO – Gender, Work and Organization Conference hosted by the University of Kent. After being postponed for a year, the biannual conference of the Journal by the same name took place from June 30th until July 2nd. Isabella Scheibmayr presented two papers:
- “The Disappearing Act of Transparency”, a joint paper with Astrid Reichel on the framing of Austria’s Equal Treatment Law in the legal and the HRM context, and,
- “Organizing vulnerability: Using Butler’s conception of vulnerability in organizational research”, a paper on Judith Butler’s concept of vulnerability as conceptualized in Frames of War.
(online since 04.08.2021)
HRM group @ HRMJ Highly Commended für den Best Paper Award 2020
The Best Paper award of the Human Resource Management Journal (HRMJ) is bestowed on the article that “best encapsulates the mission of HRMJ, makes an original or important contribution to HRM scholarship, reflects theoretical and/or methodological rigour and has broad readership appeal”. Every year, only two papers are awarded this honour – one best paper and one highly commended (runner-up).
For 2020 our article “ The HR lady is on board: Untangling the link between HRM’s feminine image and HRM’s board representation” by Astrid Reichel, Isabella Scheibmayr (both HRM group) and Julia Brandl (University of Innsbruck) was Highly Commended for the Best Paper Award of HRMJ. The article is published in Vol. 30, No. 4 of HRMJ, and the achievement will be formally announced in the next issue of HRMJ.

We thank HRMJ for this great honour!
(online since 09.06.2021)
HRM group @ EAISM-Workshop
The 36th international workshop of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) about “Strategic Human Resource Management” took place from May 27th to 28th, 2021 in a digital setting. During the workshop, researchers presented latest results about strategic HR, digitization, sustainability and other highly interesting topics.
The HRM group was represented by Christina Fuchs with the presentation “The spark of face-to-face communication: Examining how informal digital voice channels influence employees’ willingness to speak up “. Christina Fuchs presented current results about changes of Employee Voice Behavior triggered by the digitization of informal voice channels.
We thank the EIASM team around Ingrid Fulmer, Michael Segalla and Bruno Staffelbach for organizing this exciting workshop and all participants for the lively exchange!
We would also like to thank the Kaiserschild Foundation for promoting our research on the effects of the augmented digitization of communication channels following increased location flexibility induced by Covid-19.
(online since 07.06.2021)
HRM group @ AKempor 2021
The Annual Conference of the Arbeitskreis Empirische Personal- und Organisationsforschung (AKempor) was held in May 2021 at the Europe University of Flensburg in a virtual space. Astrid Reichel, Christina Fuchs and Isabella Scheibmayr represented the HRM group with two talks.
- Christina Fuchs presented the paper “The spark of face-to-face communication: Examining how informal digital voice channels influence employees’ willingness to speak up” (co-author Astrid Reichel), examining the effects of digitalizing informal voice channels on employee voice under home office conditions in the Covid-19 related lockdowns in Austria.
- Isabella Scheibmayr discussed unwanted methodological effects of machine-learning assisted automated employee evaluation algorithms in the paper “Strathern’s paradox. How AI-supported automated performance evaluation transforms work” (co-authored with Astrid Reichel).
That’s the link to the detailled programme (in German).
We thank the team of Thomas Behrends and Susanne Royer from the Europe-University Flensburg for organizing this fascinating conference!
(online since 12.05.2021)
HRM group @ Podcast of SN
Astrid Reichel and Stephanie Rausch are talking about women’s quota and token women. Listen to the Salzburger Nachrichten Podocast (in German)!

Already on April 23rd Salzburger Nachrichten reported in detail on gender stereotypes and women’s quota.
(online since 06.05.2021)
HRM group @ Oxford Handbook
The “ Oxford Handbook of Contextual Approaches to Human Resource Management” has been published online. Astrid Reichel co-authored two of the chapters in the edited book.
- The chapter „Human Resource Management Outsourcing” (Lazarova/Reichel) provides an overview about the extent to which HRM outsourcing is used in organizations, influencing factors, effects and common theoretical backgrounds in HRMO research.
- The chapter „Human Resource Management in the Germanic Context” (Krebs/Wach/Wehner/Reichel/Mayrhofer/Sender/Staffelbach/Ligthart) considers similarity and differences within the Germanic cluster (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands) in strategic HRM and HR development.
(online since 27.04.2021)
HRM group @ Kaiserschild Foundation Grant
Christina Fuchs was awarded with the Kaiserschild Foundation’s Covid-19 research grant as the main applicant for a joint project between the HRM Group at the University of Salzburg and the Vienna University of Economics and Business, investigating the effects of the increased use of digital communication media during the Covid-19 lockdown on individual career paths and career-relevant structures in organizations.
The Kaiserschild Foundation was founded in 2007 in Austria, in 2011 Dr. Hans-Riegel-special prizes were awarded first time at the University of Salzburg. The foundation is committed to promoting innovative research projects by young scientists.
We thank them for this recognition and financial support!
(online since 16.02.2021)