Current Funded Research Projects
Salary transparency in job advertisements
In Austria, companies have been gathering experience with disclosing salaries in job advertisements for several years now, which is now also becoming relevant in other countries in light of the EU directive on pay transparency. The project examines the effects of the current practice in Austria on business and labour policy objectives.
Contact: Julia Brandl, Levent Yilmaz
New pathways for upskilling temporary workers
The commitment of local stakeholders from human resource management (HRM), works councils, and training institutions is important in order to breathe new life into existing labour market support instruments. Using the example of upskilling temporary workers, this project aims to develop new approaches for how responsibility among local stakeholders may be shared in the future and how cooperation can be organised effectively.
Contact: Julia Brandl, Laverne Chore
Unitarism in Human Resource Management Studies
Unitarism is a perspective on employment issues that focuses on management concerns, and it is particularly prevalent in management studies. Through surveys conducted at Austrian universities, we are examining how university lecturers and students view unitarism and exploring what possibilities exist to create space for other perspectives on employment issues.
Funding: HRM Förderkreis
Contact: Julia Brandl, Sabine Bösl,
Christian Seubert, Larissa Schönherr, Severin Hornung
How can HR technology contribute to promoting diversity?
The effectiveness of HR technology depends on the interplay between quality of technologies in use and a company’s HR processes. As part of a corporate collaboration with a leading Austrian logistics provider, we are studying (deleted the example part) the Job Ad Decoder (JADE), an augmented writing tool designed to help users write inclusive job advertisements, to explore how this technology and human interaction can be optimized to increase diversity in applicant pools.
Funding: UIBK Research Scholarship; HRM Förderkreis
Contact: Sabine Bösl,
Julia Brandl