In an ever-changing working environment, customer and workplace demands have brought new challenges to how we organize and manage work. Increasingly, this is addressed by the idea of 'agility.' From its beginning, agile work has claimed to be a radically different approach which allows organisations to react flexibly to changing environmental demands whilst also offering a 'people' centered approach to management. While the literature often examines agile instruments from a business perspective, this edited collection advances the discussion of the efficacy of agile working, by applying a more critical social science perspective.The chapters scrutinize whether agility is just a discursive imperative, or whether it is in fact a genuine organizational and institutional strategy that is meant to better deal with complexity and volatility. The answers to these questions can vary at different levels, and the editors therefore examine agility at the level of teams, organizations and societies. By assembling different perspectives on the sustainability and virtue of agile instruments, and by bringing together international scholars from a variety of disciplines, the project stimulates a comparative discussion.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 13.2 International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2014, held in Paderborn, Germany, in September 2014. The 13 full papers and 10 short papers presented together with one keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as integration of software engineering and user-centered design; HCI models and model-driven engineering; incorporating guidelines and principles for designing usable products in the development process; usability engineering; methods for user interface design; patterns in HCI and HCSE; software architectures for user interfaces; user interfaces for special environments; representations for design in the development process; working with iterative and agile process models in HCSE; social and organizational aspects in the software development lifecycle; human-centric software development tools; user profiles and mental models; user requirements and design constraints; and user experience and software design.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 13.2 International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2020, which was supposed to be held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in November/December 2020, was instead held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 10 full papers and 5 short poster and demo papers presented together with 5 poster and demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers focus on the interdependencies between user interface properties and contribute to the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with multiple properties that should be taken into account when developing interactive systems. They are organized in the following topical sections: user-centred design approaches; model-based and model-driven approaches; software development strategies; and posters and demos.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 13.2 International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2022, which was held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, during August 2022. The 11 full papers presented together with 2 poster and demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers focus on the interdependencies between user interface properties and contribute to the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with multiple properties that should be taken into account when developing interactive systems. They are organized in the following topical sections: user-centred design approaches; model-based and model-driven approaches; software development strategies; and posters and demos.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 13.2/13.5 Joint Working Conferences: 6th International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2016, and 8th International Conference on Human Error, Safety, and System Development, HESSD 2016, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2016. The 11 full papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as integration of software engineering and user-centered design; HCI models and model-driven engineering; incorporating guidelines and principles for designing usable products in the development process; usability engineering; methods for user interface design; patterns in HCI and HCSE; software architectures for user interfaces; user interfaces for special environments; representations for design in the development process; working with iterative and agile process models in HCSE; social and organizational aspects in the software development lifecycle; human-centric software development tools; user profiles and mental models; user requirements and design constraints; and user experience and software design.

Stefan Sauer entwickelt ein allgemeines arbeitssoziologisches Analysekonzept fur selbst organisierte Arbeit und wendet es exemplarisch in zwei empirischen Fallen an, die aus der Automobilindustrie und dem IT-Sektor stammen. Das Analysekonzept zeigt Moeglichkeiten, Voraussetzungen und Grenzen einer Selbstorganisation, die auf Arbeitsvermoegen und Anerkennung basiert, im Zusammenspiel von struktureller, interaktionistischer und subjektivierender Ebene auf. Entscheidende Groessen sind dabei das individuelle Arbeitsvermoegen von Beschaftigten und dessen strukturelle wie interaktive Anerkennung als Voraussetzungen gelungener Selbstorganisation.

Das Buch bietet neue Erkenntnisse zu Vertrauen als Modus sozialer Regulierung in der Arbeitswelt. Das hier entwickelte Konzept des reflexiv-erfahrungsbasierten Vertrauens eroffnet einen Zugang zu Vertrauen jenseits traditioneller Vertrautheit und moderner rationaler Kalkulation. Ausgelotet wird die Moglichkeit und Notwendigkeit einer kooperativen Arbeitspolitik trotz antagonistischer Interessen. Eine leitende These: Der Wandel von Arbeit fuhrt zu Anforderungen und Potenzialen in der Arbeitspolitik, die uber explizite und formelle Regelungen hinausgehen.

Vertrauen in Unternehmen wird zumeist auf den Handlungsspielraum der Mitarbeiter bezogen und damit als Vertrauen von Unternehmen gegenuber den Arbeitnehmern diskutiert. Hier wird hingegen das Vertrauen der Arbeitnehmer gegenuber den Unternehmen in den Blick geruckt, das speziell bei selbstverantwortlicher Arbeit notwendig ist. In funf Fallstudien werden Wege aufgezeigt, wie sich Unternehmen als vertrauenswurdig erweisen konnen und welche Voraussetzungen, Chancen und Risiken fur Unternehmen und Arbeitnehmer damit verbunden sind.

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