Many companies are currently experiencing a tense situation: productivity is falling, innovation processes are stalling, and employees report that they are barely able to do their actual value-adding work. Technological investments alone are not enough to overcome these challenges. Often, technology, organizational structures, and employee skills are not sufficiently aligned. Excessive bureaucracy, complex regulations, and inefficient processes tie up valuable working time and hinder effective collaboration.
This is where the “Work Based Organizing” research project comes in. The focus is on concrete work activities, i.e., what employees actually do. Based on real work processes, technology, organization, and training are integrated and systematically coordinated in line with the human, technology, and organization approach. The aim is to simplify work, reduce unnecessary stress, and create scope for productive and innovative activities.
Together with industry cooperation partners, the project develops analysis and planning tools, as well as measures for work and organizational design based on specific practical cases, and supports employees in organizing their work independently, competently, and effectively. These approaches are tested and further developed in a business context. In this way, “Work Based Organizing” contributes to using existing working time more efficiently and in a more value-adding manner, specifically reducing organizational ballast, and sustainably strengthening resilient organizational structures.
The project is funded as part of the “Future of Work” funding program, which is part of the “Future of Value Creation – Research on Production, Services, and Work” research program run by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMFTR) and the EU through the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus).
Contact:
Johannes Pannermayr, M.Sc.
Chair of Ergonomics