What opportunities and risks do employees in Switzerland see coming their way as a result of digitalisation? To what extent is the importance of career planning subject to year-on-year change?

HR as a challenger and critic of management

Leading from afar is not easy: How closely should managers lead their employees who are working from home? When does a high leadership intensity motivate employees and when does it discourage them?

Laura Schärrer and Reto Wegmann received their doctorates during the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Economics and Management.

As part of his dissertation, Reto Wegmann investigated the overall research question of how can the performance of temporary organizations responding to disasters and disease outbreaks be predicted? One of the findings: Speed is often more important than careful preparation.

Tinkering is frowned upon in the working world. Those who do it have not planned their work and resources and are not professional. A recent study from South Africa shows that "bricolage" is nevertheless a promising and even scalable concept when skillfully implemented in niche segments.

The trend toward flatter hierarchies, agile work and network-based organization requires that efforts of all employees are successfully coordinated. In order to achieve this, creating a common sense of a corporate purpose is essential. This is a leadership task. Yet, how does successful purposeful leadership look like? Leadership experts from the University of Lucerne address this question in three articles published in personalSCHWEIZ.

How we master changes in the working world.

In spring semester 2021, the lecture Human Resource Management was held for the fifth time at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Lucerne.

More and more employers are giving employees an active role in career planning within the organization. Internal job markets help with this. However, there are also losers in these application processes. How employers ideally deal with this.