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HR and Employment Workshop

Giving Employees Voice in HR Analytics and AI-assisted HRM

Conference

Created with DALL-E (2025)

The HR and Employment Workshop brings together management and labour perspectives on contemporary challenges HRM and employees (as well as their representatives) face. The conference aims at bridging the divide between research and practice by bringing together scientists and practitioners, trade unionists, and politicians in the field of HRM as well as employment relations. Thereby, we want to create opportunities to connect with other experts in the field of HRM and employment relations, to gain insights into current research and share best practices.

Date and Venue

The workshop will be held on 15 May, 2025. A detailed timetable will be posted after reviewing submissions. It will be hosted by the Interdisciplinary Institute for Management and Organisational Behavior, Department of Management at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business in Vienna, Austria.

* If you have any questions, please contact Julius Lechner (Julius.Lechner@wu.ac.at)

Workshop and Submission

We invite two types of submissions to our workshop: research paper submissions and practice project submissions. Research paper submissions may draw on a broad range of theoretical approaches and methodologies, including conceptual as well as qualitative and quantitative empirical studies. Paper submissions follow the conventional academic format of presenting a research project. Practice project submissions, on the other hand, offer the opportunity to discuss, showcase or soundboard past, current or projected issues with a broader audience to gain feedback and additional insights. They should include a brief description of the practitioner’s context (e.g. the organisation and some background information) before describing a current challenge faced, a project or best practice aimed at addressing the contemporary challenges outlined in the call for papers.

Please read the following information carefully regarding the submission format. If you have any questions, please contact Julius Lechner (Julius.Lechner@wu.ac.at).

General Submission Information

  • Submission Platform: All submissions must be made via the conference submission portal between 10 February and 16 March 2025.

  • File Format: Accepted file formats are PDF or Word (.docx) for paper submissions and PDF, Word (.docx) and PowerPoint (.ppt) for practitioner submissions.

  • Review Process: All submissions will undergo a peer review process. Authors will be notified by 26 March 2025.

  • Presentation Requirement: Accepted submissions must be presented at the conference. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to participate at the conference and to present and discuss their submissions.

See full details here: Call for Papers and Projects

Scientific Committee

(alphabetical order)

Verena Bader, WU Vienna

Virginia Doellgast, Cornell University

Markus Helfen, University of Labour

Sven Horak, St. Johnʼs University

Stephan Kaiser, Bundeswehr University Munich

Mila Lazarova, Simon Fraser University and WU Vienna

Stefan Lücking, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung

Brian Matthews, WU Vienna

Wolfgang Mayrhofer, WU Vienna

Michael Müller-Camen, WU Vienna

Marco Rapp, Amsterdam Business School

Astrid Reichel, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg

Isabella Scheibmayr, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg

Stefan Süß, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Aizhan Tursunbayeva, University of Naples Parthenope

Organizing Committee

Verena Bader, Julius Lechner*, Marco Rapp, Astrid Reichel & Wolfgang Mayrhofer

* If you have any questions, please contact Julius Lechner (Julius.Lechner@wu.ac.at)