This research area deals with the consequences of dematerialization and automation of production systems and processes on employment relationships. The ways in which individual and team work performance is organized are increasingly detached from traditional spatial and temporal coordinates and from established hierarchical chains. These changes intersect both managerial and contractual spheres, raising new issues of compliance and self-regulation (unilateral or consensual, at individual and/or collective level) in the areas of job design, performance evaluation, and the protection of working conditions.
Among the research topics specifically included in this area are, for example:
• Performance management.
• Data-driven (HR) management.
• People analytics.
• Time and working time, organisational autonomy, work by objectives, right to disconnect.
• Impact of autonomy and discretion on the content and exercise of employer powers.
• Remote, agile, and hybrid working.
• Qualification of the employment relationship and protection models in the “grey area” between subordination and autonomy.
• Collective bargaining and worker participation as tools for organisational design, regulation and labour protection.
• Human-AI /human-robot hybrid work configurations
Referee
Prof. Tommaso Fabbri , prof. Alberto Tampieri
National Research Program (PNR) Area
Area 5.4 DIGITAL, INDUSTRY, AEROSPACE
Sub-areas:
5.4.6 Innovation for manufacturing industry
5.4.1 Digital transition – i4.0
5.4.3 Artificial intelligence
Disciplinary fields
Human Resource Organisation and Management, Labour Law and Industrial Relations, Labour Economics, Business Sciences and Management.