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Uncertainty is a defining feature of organizational and human experience. The COVID-19 pandemic generated uncertainty on a global scale, while a decade earlier the global financial crisis increased uncertainty for people and markets across the world. In The Oxford Handbook of Uncertainty Management in Work Organizations, leading researchers in their respective research domains, ranging from creativity to strategy management, provide a comprehensive overview of the role of uncertainty in work organizations and examine how organizations, teams, and individuals approach and manage uncertainty. To date, uncertainty has primarily been studied as a powerful external force, driving organizational actors to adapt. The handbook extends this view by highlighting a more generative role of uncertainty, where organizational actors may even deliberately create uncertainty to spur learning and innovation. The chapters present new insights on the role of uncertainty in organizations and discusses topics such as the neuroscience of decision-making, workplace uncertainty and employee proactivity, the implications of uncertainty for fairness, uncertainty in human-AI interaction, and uncertainty in safety management. This handbook will help to answer pressing questions on how individuals, decision makers in organizations, and policy makers can confront and even take advantage of uncertainty.

As I write, the financial systems of the world are collapsing with still no clear indication of what the consequences will be and which measures should be taken to avoid such a crisis in the future. There seems to be agreement though, that the financial instruments introduced in the past few decades entailed far too much complexity and uncertainty and that there was too little regulatory control over the use of these instruments. Management of uncertainty with the aim of achieving self-control is the core concern of this book. It was not written with a focus on financial systems, but many concepts developed in this book are applicable to this field as well. The - neric principles of reducing, maintaining or increasing uncertainties in view of the different contingencies an organization is faced with, the fundamental issue of how much control is possible and who should be in control, and the question of how much and what kind of regulation is necessary with the overall aim of finding an appropriate balance between system stability and flexibility are at the centre of heated debates on the future of finance.

As I write, the financial systems of the world are collapsing with still no clear indication of what the consequences will be and which measures should be taken to avoid such a crisis in the future. There seems to be agreement though, that the financial instruments introduced in the past few decades entailed far too much complexity and uncertainty and that there was too little regulatory control over the use of these instruments. Management of uncertainty with the aim of achieving self-control is the core concern of this book. It was not written with a focus on financial systems, but many concepts developed in this book are applicable to this field as well. The - neric principles of reducing, maintaining or increasing uncertainties in view of the different contingencies an organization is faced with, the fundamental issue of how much control is possible and who should be in control, and the question of how much and what kind of regulation is necessary with the overall aim of finding an appropriate balance between system stability and flexibility are at the centre of heated debates on the future of finance.

As I write, the financial systems of the world are collapsing with still no clear indication of what the consequences will be and which measures should be taken to avoid such a crisis in the future. There seems to be agreement though, that the financial instruments introduced in the past few decades entailed far too much complexity and uncertainty and that there was too little regulatory control over the use of these instruments. Management of uncertainty with the aim of achieving self-control is the core concern of this book. It was not written with a focus on financial systems, but many concepts developed in this book are applicable to this field as well. The - neric principles of reducing, maintaining or increasing uncertainties in view of the different contingencies an organization is faced with, the fundamental issue of how much control is possible and who should be in control, and the question of how much and what kind of regulation is necessary with the overall aim of finding an appropriate balance between system stability and flexibility are at the centre of heated debates on the future of finance.

This open access book directs attention to the safety implications of disruptive, sustainability-driven changes in sociotechnical systems resulting from climate-change considerations in high-risk industries. It addresses not only the dismantling of currently prevalent systems and structures and the achievement of a stable future state but also the management of processes for establishing new practices in a safe and reliable manner without undue interruption of important functions and services.Leading scholars from various fields of research have contributed to this brief by analyzing case studies as well as through conceptual and methodological work. They propose strategies for coping with new kinds of risk at local and organizational levels. The oil and gas and nuclear industries are two cases investigated here. They present a challenging mixture of continuity and disruption and require strategies for coping with safety and sustainability issues at the same time. Innovativemethods such as real-world experimentation and computer-based simulation are discussed as means of investigating the issues at stake. Climate Change and Safety in High-Risk Industries brings together critical appraisals of the challenges that will be faced by industry, regulatory bodies and decision-makers in coming decades. It analyzes whether safety and sustainability are accurately thought of as competing imperatives or, rather, offer possibilities for a more cooperative approach to the necessary adaptations in our modes of production and consumption.

Die Beziehung zwischen Mitarbeitenden und Unternehmen kann rein ökonomisch als Austausch von Arbeit gegen Geld verstanden werden. Diese Austauschbeziehung ist durch einen Arbeitsvertrag juristisch abgesichert, der auch weitere Merkmale der Beziehung definiert wie beispielsweise Arbeitszeiten und Bedingungen für die Beendigung des Vertragsverhältnisses. Neben der ökonomisch und juristisch definierten Beziehung zwischen Arbeitnehmer und Arbeitgeber besteht aber immer auch eine psychologische, auf dem sozialen Austausch beruhende Beziehung. Um die Gestaltung dieser Beziehung geht es in diesem Buch.Das Konzept des psychologischen Vertrags beinhaltet Verpflichtungen, Versprechen, Erwartungen, Leistungen des Unternehmens oder Beiträge der Mitarbeitenden, die in einem Beschäftigungsverhältnis über den juristischen Arbeitsvertrag hinaus ausgetauscht werden. Zentrale Fragen des psychologischen Vertrags sind beispielsweise: Wie sicher ist die Beschäftigung? Wie viel Einsatz und Leistung werden erwartet? Wie sehr können die eigenen Kompetenzen weiterentwickelt werden? Eine Vielzahl von Forschungsarbeiten zeigt, dass erfüllte psychologische Verträge förderlich sind für die Leistung, die Arbeitszufriedenheit und das Commitment von Mitarbeitenden.Dieser Band wendet die Ergebnisse wissenschaftlicher Forschung auf die Analyse der Unternehmenspraxis an und erlaubt es, die bisher oft implizite Anwendung des psychologischen Vertrags in Unternehmen zu reflektieren und zu diskutieren. Der psychologische Vertrag wird über den gesamten Verlauf der Beschäftigungsbeziehung hinweg – von der Rekrutierung über die Einstellung und Entwicklung bis zur Beendigung des Arbeitsverhältnisses – dargestellt. Empfehlungen zur Analyse und zur Gestaltung von Maßnahmen im Human Resource Management und der Führung werden abgeleitet. Dieser Band bietet eine praxisnahe Einführung und unterstützt Mitarbeitende, Vorgesetzte und Personalverantwortliche dabei, Beschäftigungsbeziehungen über den Arbeitsvertrag hinaus zu verstehen und zu gestalten.