Here’s how we can make innovation more inclusive
Self-driving cars, automated manufacturing, home care robots: amid fears of job losses and social exclusion, how can we ensure technological progress benefits everyone?
Gudela Grote is Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at ETH Zürich. She is a member of the Swiss National Resource Council and of the Scientific Advisory Board for the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Her research addresses the increasing flexibility and virtuality of work and their consequences for the individual and organizational management of uncertainty, for instance in the context of teamwork in high-risk systems, effects of new technologies on work processes, and the management of the employment relationship. She has been consultant to a wide variety of public and private organizations, e.g. Swiss Railways, Swiss Re, and IAEA.