Volume 77 (2024), Edition 1

The article examines the impact of digitalisation on the quality of work for professional truck drivers in Germany. Within the field of transport logistics the use of digital technology and control systems is far advanced. This has an impact on work...

The hospital sector in Germany, and related acute inpatient nursing care, is currently undergoing a radical change, which is characterised by the concept of the networked hospital. The core of the networked hospital is the implementation of a...

Discussions about people analytics (PA) often focus on potential efficiency gains for companies: through the systematic collection and algorithmic analysis of human resources data, PA promises to provide actionable recommendations that optimise...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly relevant in the world of work. What is particularly striking is the intensive discourse on AI being conducted in the media, politics and science, in which in some cases far-reaching expectations...

This article analyses the challenges and opportunities of workplace co-determination in the white-collar sector against the background of the digital transformation. The starting point is the observation that labour relations in the office are still...

This article draws on the power resources approach to analyse how power relations in the world of work change with digitalisation and how these changes can be shaped by industrial relations actors. The author presents collective agreements at...

The article offers insights into how technological innovation in the workplace might be shaped in the interests of employees. It does so by reconstructing two scenarios of democratised technology design in the workplace. The historical case of Lucas...