Syllabus

Basic information

  • Title: Digital-Work-EDW-B: Introduction to Digital Work
  • Credits: 6 ECTS (180h)
  • Degree program: Bachelor’s in Information Systems, International Information Systems Management, and Applied Computer Science.
  • Format: In-person lectures with applications and exercises.
  • Dates, rooms, and tasks: Listed on the Main page
  • Registration: Up-front registration is not required. You have to register for the exams via Flexnow.
  • Prerequisites: None.

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The lecture provides an overview of the field of Digital Work, with a focus on key design areas. The course is structured as follows:

  • Future of Work: Global trends and drivers of change
  • Design areas: Digital work individually, in teams, and with crowdworkers
  • Consequences of digital work

Instructor

My name is Gerit Wagner, and I am your instructor.

Gerit Wagner (Foto: Tim Kipphan)

Gerit Wagner
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg


Consultation hours

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Goal and learning objectives

Upon completing the course, students will have an understanding of the changes, design areas, and impacts of digital work. In particular, they will be able to explain and apply a repertoire of selected methods, design principles, and organizational policies in various situations. Additionally, they will be able to discuss the evaluation of individual measures and effectively and responsibly apply them in practice with this background knowledge.

Course outline

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Assessment and grading criteria

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Exam

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Exam review and post-correction

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References

Allen, D. (2015). Getting things done: The art of stress-free productivity. Penguin.

Davenport, T. H. (2005). Thinking for a living: how to get better performances and results from knowledge workers. Harvard Business Press.

Dennis, A. R., Fuller, R. M., & Valacich, J. S. (2008). Media, tasks, and communication processes: A theory of media synchronicity. MIS Quarterly, 32(3), 575-600.

Fayard, A. L., Weeks, J., & Khan, M. (2021). Designing the hybrid office. Harvard Business Review, 99(2), 114-123.

Holford, W. D. (2019). The future of human creative knowledge work within the digital economy. Futures, 105, 143-154.

Manyika, J. (2017). Technology, jobs and the future of work. McKinsey Global Institute.

Schaffers, H., Vartiainen, M., & Bus, J. (Eds.). (2022). Digital innovation and the future of work. CRC Press.

Tarafdar, M., Cooper, C. L., & Stich, J. F. (2019). The technostress trifecta‐techno eustress, techno distress and design: Theoretical directions and an agenda for research. Information Systems Journal, 29(1), 6-42.

Yang, L., Holtz, D., Jaffe, S., Suri, S., Sinha, S., Weston, J., Joyce, C., Shah, N., Sherman, K., Hecht, B., & Teevan, J. (2022). The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(1), 43-54.