EWIDE - Emergent Work in the Digital Era
Overview
Research group description
EWIDE is committed to exploring how technology reshapes work practices and structures, fostering new and transformative work forms. With a vision that transcends traditional academic boundaries, we engage in interdisciplinary scholarship to deepen our understanding of the interconnections between technology, work, and wellbeing. As a key profiling area at the University of Jyväskylä, EWIDE stands at the forefront in Finland, continually advancing our leadership in researching the intricate relationship between technology, work dynamics, and wellbeing.
For scholars
EWIDE provides an academic community where scholars from diverse disciplines collaborate on the wicked problems associated with organizing in the digital age. We organize research efforts and initiatives to allow you to connect, share insights, and work collectively on pressing issues related to technology, work structures, and employee wellbeing. Together, at JYU we can help shape the future of work and technology by advancing theoretical and empirical knowledge about technology, work, and wellbeing.
For organizations
For organizations facing digital challenges: EWIDE is your go-to resource. Whether you face challenges related to multilocational and distributed workforces, the impact of digitalization and artificial intelligence or data ethics and privacy the EWIDE research initiative is the intellectual home to leading scholarship in Finland in these areas. We offer unparalleled expertise and resources to help organizations navigate the intricate landscape of technology, organizational structures, and employee wellbeing. If your organization is grappling with the impacts of digital transformation, we provide the insights and support needed to adapt and thrive in this ever-evolving environment.
EWIDE profiling area comprises three focus areas: A) Leadership and management, B) Communication practices, discourses and new competences, and C) Ethical AI and organisation (see figure below). These three focus areas are uniquely positioned to tackle the emerging problems and research challenges in the multidisciplinary research area of emerging work in the digital era.
Focus area A: Focus area A investigates how digital technologies, AI and algorithms influence leadership and management in the digital era from theoretical and also future educational competences perspectives. In this focus area, ethical practices within organizations are being studied as ways of supporting well-being and ethical behavior in organizations in the digital era.
Focus area B: Focus area B investigates how collaboration and communication processes are changing in the digital work environments and platforms, and what are the new competences required in relation to AI, algorithms and digitalization or work. This work is grounded on our systematic line of research on technology-mediated interaction at digitalized work. Focus area B grounds on JYU’s leading expertise in adult education. Our future research broadens and deepends understanding of sustainable worklife development and can be expected to produce groundbreaking theorizing and empirical evidence on technology-mediated interaction and promotion of competence and comprehensive well-being for digitalized work via social, cognitive and emotional processes.
Focus area C: Focus area C investigates how to design ethical systems for an ethical organization. EWIDE highlights the need to have AI systems that are reliable, trustworthy and transparent which form a strong basis for an ethical culture of organization. Ethical AI and organizational culture provide a favorable working environment which supports well-being in future organizations (high motivation and productivity, low stress). Work in focus area C is based on our extensive research on information systems development and occupational wellbeing research in the context of ethical organization. Our future research will be taking significant steps in new theory development in the area of ethically aligned cyber-physical system development, ethical organizational culture, and employee well-being.
