Upcoming online seminar: Using video and sequential analyses for team dynamics and work design resea

On of our postdocs, Florian Klonek, is giving an online tutorial on using sequential analyses for team research.

This online seminar provides a hands-on look at how to run sequential analyses with coded video-data from team meetings. It is also a follow-up from Florian's research talk at the UWA business school last month.

The webinar is hosted by the American Psychological Association (APA Division 49) as par

t of a special issue of Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice with a focus on statistical methods in group psychology. This free webinar is open to the public.

While the webinar is more focused on the methodological details of collecting and coding video data and running sequential analyses, we invite everyone who is interested in using this technique to elaborate on questions like "How do work design decisions impact on team/group dynamic interactions?" or "How can work design create boundary conditions for shaping dynamics in teams or groups".

Click on this link if you want to see a recording of the webinar.

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2017 Global Workplace Trends – A new report by SODEXO

A report on global workplace trends has recently been released by SODEXO, summarising, from their perspective, the most relevant and significant changes that have a potential to shape future workplaces and organisations. It is based on input from 50 subject matter experts from various backgrounds on trend topics initially identified by Sodexo. The 10 trends that were selected and further discussed were:

1. The Agile Organisation: Striking a Balance Between Speed and Stability

2. The Rise of Cross-Workplaces: Accelerating Innovation Through Chance Interactions

3. Employees Without Borders: Understanding the Impact of Migration on the Workplace

4. The New Gen of Robotics: How Robots Are Transforming the Way We Work

5. Intergenerational Learning: A New Model for Talent Development

6. Personal Branding Goes to Work: A Powerful Tool for Employees and Employers Alike

7. Redefining Workplace Experience: Putting Design Thinking Principles to Work

8. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Reframing CSR Through a Shared Vision and Common Purpose

9. Unlocking the Potential of Millennial Talent: A New Understanding of What Drives This Generation

10. Wellness 3.0: The Workplace as a Wellness Destination.

This report was designed to stimulate conversations and new thinking around contemporary workplaces and employees’ experiences. Here, at the Centre for Transformative Work Design, we are very interested in joining this conversation so we encourage you to share your ideas about future work trends in the comments below.

Different perspectives on trends and changes identified within different industries are informative for our research within Stream 1, where we focus on developing a research approach to understand the role of work design in the context of radical changes that occur in work and society.

The full report is available here.

An interview with Sylvia Metayer, the CEO of Worldwide Services at Sodexo, discussing this report, is available in the following podcast.

PwC report - Will robots steal our jobs?

From PricewaterhouseCoopers, March, 2017

A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests that up to 38% of US jobs, 35% of German jobs and 30% of UK jobs are at risk of being lost to automation by the early 2030s. The risks are highest in sectors such as transportation and storage (56%), manufacturing (46%) and wholesale and retail (44%). They are lower in sectors like health and social work (17%).

For individuals, PwC report the key differentiating factor is education. Those in the UK with "low education" (GCSE level or lower) have a 46% potential risk of automation, compared to 12% for those with a "high education" (undergraduate degrees or higher).

It was noted by PwC, however, that the net impact of automation on total employment is unclear. In practice, not all these jobs may be automated due to economic, legal and regulatory reasons. Further, automation in areas like AI and robotics will create new jobs and enhance productivity, generating wealth and spending that will support additional jobs of existing kinds (e.g. in service sectors that are less easy to automate).

PwC believe there is a case for government intervention to ensure potential gains from automation are shared more widely across society through policies like increased investment in vocational education and training. They suggest universal basic income streams may also be considered, while recognising there are potential problems in terms of affordability and adverse effects on the incentives to work and generate wealth.