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SUMMARY:WEI and MiRS Lecture 2025 with Professor Virginia Doellgast
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DESCRIPTION:Building worker voice and power in AI decisions: Three cases 
 in the German ICT industry\nVirginia Doellgast (Cornell University\, USA
 )\, Tobias Kämpf (University of Labour\, Germany)\, Barbara Langes (Inst
 itute for Social Science Research\, Germany)\n\nAbstract\nThis paper com
 pares works council initiatives to influence the adoption and deployment
  of AI-based tools in three German Information and Communications Techno
 logy (ICT) companies\, with the aim of investigating the conditions for 
 workers to establish collective voice in these decisions. In all three c
 ase studies\, works councils strengthened worker voice in decisions conc
 erning the use of management-automating AI technologies in areas such as
  performance monitoring and workforce analytics. However\, they faced mo
 re challenges in encouraging alternative approaches to skill development
  and employment restructuring associated with work-automating AI. Instit
 utional and discursive power resources help to explain both their overal
 l success in strengthening voice and different outcomes across AI applic
 ations.\n\nSpeaker Bio\nVirginia Doellgast is the Anne Evans Estabrook P
 rofessor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution in the ILR Schoo
 l at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the comparative politic
 al economy of labor markets and labor unions\, inequality\, precarity\, 
 and democracy at work. She is currently studying the impact of digitaliz
 ation and AI on job quality in in the ICT services and game development 
 industries\, based on comparative research in North America and Europe. 
 Past research projects have compared labor union responses to restructur
 ing and employer collective action in the telecommunications sector\; an
 d worker voice and well-being in call centers.\n\nThis lecture is open t
 o all. Please register for attendance.
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LOCATION:Penthouse\, Aliiance Manchester Business School\, Booth Street W
 est\, Manchester\, M15 6PB
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