EvoFrame
Department of Occupational, Social and Preventive Medicine
The digitisation and automation of activities, as well as the increasing demand for digital literacy, are challenges of the new world of work that must be overcome. The ability to deal with these changes and proactively shape them is referred to as readiness to change [1]. The readiness to change of employees has already been studied in connection with personality traits [2]. However, viewing readiness to change from a purely differential psychological perspective, has the risk of excluding people from the labour market or disadvantaging them in the selection process based on individual personality traits. The Institute of Occupational, Social and Preventive Medicine, on the other hand, wants to focus on variable factors in working conditions and investigate risk and protective factors for employees in connection with readiness to change. The ‘EvoFrame’ project aims to investigate how working conditions need to be designed so that employees can increase their creadiness to change and cope with change processes in a resilient manner. The goal is to develop an evidence-based concept that incorporates both the individual abilities of employees and the structural characteristics of organisations in order to support change in a healthy way within the company.
Participating institutions
Participating institutions
- Werner-von-Siemens Center: https://wvsc.berlin/projekt/evoframe/#about
- Technical University of Berlin: https://www.tu.berlin/snet/forschung/projekte/evoframe
Quellenangaben
[1] Holt, D. T., Armenakis, A. A., Feild, H. S., & Harris, S. G. (2007). Readiness for Organizational Change: The Systematic Development of a Scale. Journal of Applied Behavioural Science, 43 (2), 223-255. doi.org/10.1177/0021886306295295
[2] Szebel, A. (2015). Veränderungskompetenz von Mitarbeitern (Dissertation, Universität Köln). kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/6183/
This project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the programme ‘Innovations for production, services and tomorrow's work’ and is managed by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA).