News

March 2012

• New Podcast on DRS 2 in the Simulation Centre USZ and our SNF study "Combined technical and non-technical skills training for managing unanticipated difficult intubations": "Die Puppe im Operationssaal" (in German only).

• On 19th March, a report based on findings from our project “Beyond organization and self: The importance of reference groups in career transitions” was published in the „Tages Anzeiger“, a major Swiss newspaper. The article highlights the – sometimes unexpected – benefits of post-graduate management programmes. Artikel

• From March until summer Michaela Kolbe will be working as Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Medical Simulation in Cambridge, Mass, USA.

February 2012

Sifra Corver is working in exchange with the London Imperial College, Department Centre for Transport Studies, Dr. Arnab Majumbar during February 2012. She's working with Dr. Kohei Nonose from Japan on the development of measurement instruments for cognitive aspects (team situation awareness and team mental model) for ATC Enroute Control teams.

January 2012

Gudela Grote was awarded the Best Paper Award 2011 by the journal Die Unternehmung for her paper "Risk management from an organizational psychology perspective: A decision process for managing uncertainties". article

December 2011

We are happy to welcome Silvano Kobald on the first of December as Ph.D. student in our team. He will join the project-team of Martin Gubler, Cécile Tschopp and Wiebke Doden in the SNF project "Beyond organization and self: The importance of reference groups in career transitions". His provisional desk is in G12 and from January on in G08.

November 2011

• Gudela Grote was invited by the Lloyds Register Educational Trust to deliver their annual guest lecture at Imperial College London. The full talk can be accessed though this link.

• A warm welcome to Wiebke Doden as new Ph.D. student in our team. She will be working in the SNF project "Beyond organization and self: The importance of reference groups in career transitions" together with Cécile Tschopp and Martin Gubler. Wiebke's desk is in G 09.

October 2011

• We congratulate Martin Gubler on his promotion in organizational psychology at Loughborough University, UK. The title of his dissertation is „Protean and boundaryless career orientations – an empirical study of IT professionals in Europe“, and he was supervised by Prof. John Arnold and Dr. Crispin Coombs.

• Nadine Bienefeld won the 2011 Best Student Paper Award from the International Symposium of Aviation Psychology for her paper titled: ‘Emergency at 35'000 FT: How Cockpit and Cabin Crews Lead Each Other to Safety’ (ISAP, Wright University, Dayton, Ohio US) Award

• We would like to welcome Mona Weiss as Ph.D. student and Sonja Mötteli as trainee in our team. They both work with Dr. Michaela Kolbe in her SNF-project "Combined technical and non-technical skills training for managing unanticipated difficult intubations".

September 2011

We are happy to have two new junior research assistants, Stefanie Kopp and Lukas Imfeld, to support our team.

July 2011

• 5./19. Juli: Cécile Tschopp explains in a personnel podcast 1" & 2" (in German only) of the WEKA publishing house Switzerland the importance of psychological contracts in the relationship between employer and employee, supplemented with numerous implications for hr-people and line managers.

• July 4, 2011: Public lecture given by the renowned guest speaker Michael Arthur: "Fifteen Years of The Boundaryless Career: Implications for Individuals, Organizations and Nations". Invited are all those with an interest in contemporary careers. More: Michael_Arthur_lecture.pdf
  Time: 5.30 - 7 pm
  Location: ETH Zentrum HG D 1.1 (main building)

May 2011

• May 19, 2011: It is National Home Office Day 2011 today! In collaboration with the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz we are currently doing a questionnaire study to learn about the experiences of the participants of Home Office Day: What were the main challenges and benefits? How were participants able to work efficiently at home and how did they collaborate with their colleagues? Did you participate with Home Office and would you like to participate with the questionnaire as well, but didn’t register for it yet on www.homeofficeday.ch? Fill in the questionnaire (in German only) here

• Please tell us what you think about the additional features provided for the Spring 2011 HRM Leading Teams Lecture. Survey
  

April 2011

• Interesting not only for scholars: the video-podcast “Team Up!" (in english) made by Michaela Kolbe & Denniz Dönmez gives helpful inputs on how to work effectively in teams.

• ETH OAT team is now collaborating with Microsoft Schweiz concerning the evaluation of Microsoft’s Live and Work initiative. The project involves continuous monitoring and evaluation of the Live and Work project through an in-depth assessment of the work arrangements of Live and Work with a main focus on work-life balance, flexible work arrangements, team collaboration and team performance.

March 28, 2011

We would like to welcome Miltiadis Kyriakidis as external Ph. D. student who will be working in our research group for the next 4 months.

January 2011

EJWOP Best Paper Award 2010: The article "Substitutes for leadership in anaesthesia teams and their impact on leadership effectiveness", published by Barbara Künzle together with Eniko Zala-Mezo, Michaela Kolbe, Johannes Wacker, and Gudela Grote in Volume 19 (5) of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (EJWOP) was selected by the Editorial Board of the Journal as the best paper published by the Journal in 2010. This award, sponsored by the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC, USA, comprises a $1,000 cash award and the invitation to present the paper at a special session at the upcoming European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology conference in Maastricht, The Netherlands, im May 2011. article

November 18, 2010

5th anniversary of Swiss Human-Relations-Barometer (in German only): "Was bewegt Beschäftigte in der Schweiz?" Tagungs-Flyer_und_Anmeldekarte.pdf

November 1st, 2010

We are happy to have Mareike Haase, former Junior Research Assistant, now as Ph.D. student in our team. She will work together with Dr. Julia Belting in the project "Evaluation of the ICF implementation in clinical practice".

October 1st, 2010

We welcome Martin Gubler as our new group member. He works on the SNF project "Beyond organization and self: The importance of reference groups in career transitions" together with Cécile Tschopp.

Recurring events

Economic, Practical and Guest Colloquium of Work, Organizational and Economical Psychology

Gaestekolloquium_SOBFS11.pdf