Participation and (A)synchronicity

This book analyzes how digital transformation in companies affects workplace stakeholders, focusing on co-determination's role. It highlights how co-determination itself transforms, with expanded employee participation in works councils' interest-political strategies, positioning participation as a strategic resource.

The Authors

Natalie Bella, MA works as research associate at the Institute for Employment Research in Nuremberg and is pursuing her doctorate on the problem of intercultural translation at the Fulda Graduate Centre of Social Sciences.

Dr. Julia Gamradt has been working in the realm of consulting, startups, and research organizations. The focus of her doctoral thesis at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) was on conflicts and flexibilization in organizational transformation processes.

Dr. Ronald Staples teaches and conducts research at FAU with a focus on innovation, organizational change, co-determination, and digitalization.

Prof. Dr. Werner Widuckel is professor emeritus of human resource management at FAU. Previously, he served as the labor director and human resources executive at AUDI AG.

Matthäus Wilga, MSc is pursuing his doctorate in the field of Information Systems at FAU and is a research collaborator at the Cambridge Service Alliance at the University of Cambridge, focusing on the role of AI agents in service interactions and their impact on value creation and human well-being.

Michael Whittall, PhD serves as Trade Union Secretary at IG Metall. Prior to this, he spent many years researching and teaching in the field of industrial relations. 

The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.