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Focus area A investigates how digital technologies, AI and algorithms influence leadership and management in the digital era from theoretical and also future educational competences perspectives. In this focus area, ethical practices within organizations are being studied as ways of supporting well-being and ethical behavior in organizations in the digital era.

Focus area B investigates how collaboration and communication processes are changing in the digital work environments and platforms, and what are the new competences required in relation to AI, algorithms and digitalization or work. This work is grounded on our systematic line of research on technology-mediated interaction at digitalized work. Focus area B grounds on JYU’s leading expertise in adult education. Our future research broadens and deepends understanding of sustainable worklife development and can be expected to produce groundbreaking theorizing and empirical evidence on technology-mediated interaction and promotion of competence and comprehensive well-being for digitalized work via social, cognitive and emotional processes.

Focus area C investigates how to design ethical systems for an ethical organization. EWIDE highlights the need to have AI systems that are reliable, trustworthy and transparent which form a strong basis for an ethical culture of organization. Ethical AI and organizational culture provide a favorable working environment which supports well-being in future organizations (high motivation and productivity, low stress). Work in focus area C is based on our extensive research on information systems development and occupational wellbeing research in the context of ethical organization. Our future research will be taking significant steps in new theory development in the area of ethically aligned cyber-physical system development, ethical organizational culture, and employee well-being.