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Employee engagement is typically measured at the individual level and then aggregated to the overall organisational level, yet its implications for performance tend to become more visible at the level of work units. This paper aims to examine the current approaches to interpret work unit engagement scores. It argues for a shift away from additive approaches and towards a multiplicative perspective that better reflects how engagement translates into outcomes within work units.
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The discussion draws on practitioner literature and applied HR insights. Engagement is conceptualised through two core dimensions – affective commitment and confidence in leadership direction. It explores how these individually measured perceptions interact when aggregated at the work unit level and how different aggregation logics affect interpretation.
Findings
While engagement is measured at the individual level, its performance implications emerge most clearly at the work unit level. Additive aggregation can mask important imbalances between engagement dimensions, whereas a multiplicative interpretation highlights that the strongest and most consistent engagement outcomes are associated with work units where both dimensions are jointly high and balanced. Imbalances between dimensions tend to constrain the translation of engagement into performance.
Originality/value
The study offers a refined and practical interpretation of employee engagement by linking individual-level responses to work unit performance outcomes. It provides HR practitioners with a more diagnostic lens for interpreting engagement data, enabling more effective analysis of survey results and a clearer basis for designing targeted managerial interventions.
The visibility of an endangered language online plays a crucial role in language revitalisation. The internet offers a new domain for using minority languages, especially for speakers living outside the language communities. This article investigates Karelian language visibility on X, formerly known as Twitter, and describes the first corresponding data collection using language-related keywords and hashtags. In total, 2,625 entries written fully or partially in Livvi, South and Viena Karelian were scraped with Postman API. The visibility of Karelian on Twitter (X) has been increasing considerably in the past few years, with Livvi-Karelian being the most prominent dialect. Automatic language detection was tested on such data for Karelian for the first time, and allows the identification of Livvi-Karelian (or a mix of dialects that include Livvi-Karelian) with 99.7% sensitivity, and South Karelian and Viena Karelian as Livvi-Karelian with 90% and 73.8% sensitivity, respectively. The entries were also analysed thematically, and 10 major topics were identified. Since the data was collected using keywords and hashtags related to the Karelian language itself, most of the entries are related to the language and vocabulary in sense of translation or language learning. Language status and policy is another important topic identified in the data. Although language-related topics are the most popular, there are a substantial number of entries on eight further topics. Excluding citations from religious texts and media headlines, 751 Twitter (X) entries could be used for linguistic and sociological research. Further data collection considerations are also discussed.
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have been steadily becoming part of our reality. For their successful integration, studying and understanding public opinions and acceptance is important. Social media platforms offer an extensive opportunity for opinion mining. While there have been studies on people’s attitudes towards automated driving, another important ITS concept—connected driving—has received little to no attention. In the current study, data on how connected driving is represented and perceived were collected from German(-speaking) Reddit and Twitter. In relevant Reddit entries, the necessity of communication between vehicles was discussed almost exclusively in the context of automated driving. On Twitter, mostly shared news and information on the topic are presented, while the number of personal opinions is low. The most concerning subtopic seems to be cybersecurity, which reflects a general trend of data protection issues discussed in society.
Citizen Science (CS) is a prominent field of application for Open Science (OS), and the two have strong synergies, such as: advocating for the data and metadata generated through science to be made publicly available [1]; supporting more equitable collaboration between different types of scientists and citizens; and facilitating knowledge transfer to a wider range of audiences [2]. While primarily targeted at CS, the EU-Citizen. Science platform can also support OS. One of its key functions is to act as a knowledge hub to aggregate, disseminate and promote experience and know-how; for example, by profiling CS projects and collecting tools, resources and training materials relevant to both fields. To do this, the platform has developed an information architecture that incorporates the public participation in scientific research (PPSR)—Common Conceptual Model①. This model consists of the Project Metadata Model, the Dataset Metadata Model and the Observation Data Model, which were specifically developed for CS initiatives. By implementing these, the platform will strengthen the interoperating arrangements that exist between other, similar platforms (e.g., BioCollect and SciStarter) to ensure that CS and OS continue to grow globally in terms of participants, impact and fields of application.
The project “Barrier-reduced Machines in Innovative Interaction” (iBaMs) was aimed at enabling employees with intellectual disabilities to extend their range of tasks and to increase their level of responsibility. This goal is to be achieved by an assistive accessible control panel for the operation of complex computer-controlled machines. Therefore, users’ needs and skills as well as design requirements had to be specified in the project. The result is a concept for an assistive control panel whose display interface can be tailor-made to individual needs. Furthermore, indicators for characterizing user profiles and control panels were identified, and a concept was developed of how control panels can be determined and matched to the needs and preferences of individual employees. The complexity in recognizing the requirements of people with intellectual disabilities in a digital world is mapped onto a complex interaction of two sets of indicators—namely social indicators and technical indicators describing control panels. Guidelines on how the results can be evaluated are presented using plausible but fictitious data.
Das Gefühl, unter Zeitdruck zu stehen und unter Zeitnot zu leiden, ist zumindest in der westlichen Welt weit verbreitet. Klassisches Zeitmanagement kann als Mitverursacher für die Zeitverdichtung gesehen werden und sollte daher sinnvoll modifiziert bzw. ausgebaut werden. Hierzu bietet sich die Theorie der sozialen Beschleunigung als Ausgangspunkt an (Rosa 2012). Sie liefert eine Erklärung für die Zeitverdichtung und bringt die Autoren zu dem Vorschlag, die soziale Beschleunigung mittels sogenannter Moderatoren zu steuern. Ergebnisse aus Zeitmanagement-Workshops legen die Vermutung nahe, dass agile Arbeitsmethoden als Moderatoren zur Steuerung der sozialen Beschleunigung geeignet sein könnten, und führen die Autoren zu einem Konstruktionsschema für derartige Moderatoren.
Verständigungsprozesse zwischen Ungarn und Deutschen in der fachübergreifenden Technikforschung
(1998)
Die folgenden Darlegungen basieren auf ersten Ergebnissen des Projekts "Technikfolgenbeurteilung und Wissenschaftsethik in Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas. Eine Bestandsaufnahme", das der Verfasser als Gastwissenschaftler der Europäischen Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH bearbeitet. Dabei wird - im Sinne des Themas dieses Workshop - bewußt auf das Ausführen von zahlreichen inhaltlichen Details verzichtet, um den Verständigungs-, den Kommunikations- und Informationsprozeß um so stärker hervorheben zu können.
Denn es geht hier um die kognitiven und affektiven Wege des Lernens und des entsprechenden Handelns. Und damit haben wir in unserem Berufsleben permanent zu tun. Infolge der Internationalisierungs- und Globalisierungsprozesse ist die Zusammenarbeit mit Menschen verschiedener kultureller Prägungen zum Geschäftsalltag geworden. Das bedeutet erst recht ein ständiges und zugleich interkulturelles Lernen. In dieser Gedankenkette ist der fernöstliche Weisheitsspruch im Kontext der interkulturellen Kommunikation heute aktueller denn je. An bitteren Erfahrungen im Geschäftsbereich hat es in der Globalisierungsgeschichte nicht gemangelt. Führungskräfte zahlreicher Unternehmen können darüber berichten.
The author carried out a project on this subject and presented the results at CTR’s Open Day on 23rd March 2012 at King’s College in London [Eylert: 2012]. The key point of the study is the role of services in the telecommunication business and its development in the role of social networks in modern telecommunication media. The report takes a look at the implication of new services in mobile telecommunications regarding their influence on the society and vice versa. A specific example is given in the use of Facebook through smartphones.
Der Autor hat zu diesem Thema am 8. Dezember 2010 am Institut für Medienwissenschaften der Philosophischen Fakultät an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin einen Vortrag gehalten. Es ist der Versuch eines Diskurses von Medien, Nachrichtentechnik und Philosophie, was unterscheidet sie, was verbindet sie, was haben sie gemein. Der Autor stellt besonders die Menschen in den Mittelpunkt, die diese Entwicklung maßgebend beeinflusst haben. Was sind Triebkraft und Motivation der Menschen, die mit ihrem Tun solch nachhaltige Veränderungen in der Gesellschaft bewirkt haben? Gibt es einen philosophischen Anspruch, dem sich Nachrichtentechniker verpflichtet fühlen? Der Beitrag versucht, auch darauf eine Antwort zu geben.
