[Sigtis-l] Call for Submissions: Workshop on Social Computing for Workforce 2.0, at ICWSM 2013

[N. Sadat Shami]

Organizations have embraced Web 2.0 technologies, leading to the emergence
of ‘Enterprise 2.0’. Workers at successful organizations are increasingly
mobile, social, and collaborative. Consequently, the field of social
computing is increasingly interested in introducing and studying the tools,
practices and methodologies that engender the characteristics of such a
workforce. As new social computing technologies continue to be embraced and
thereby impact the manner in which work is accomplished in these
organizations, it is important to discuss their implications on workforce
management topics such as recruiting, retention, attrition, training,
assessment, employee engagement and productivity. This workshop will
provide a forum where designers, practitioners, as well as social science
and computer science researchers can: 1) introduce new tools or methods
that address workforce management issues, 2) advance our understanding of
workforce issues through qualitative and quantitative empirical studies,
and 3) discuss the impact and opportunities recent trends such as social,
mobile, and crowdsourcing have on the workforce.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners to explore, discuss, and understand challenges and new
opportunities that arise from an emerging Social Workforce. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to the following:

- Social listening technologies
- Data privacy and protecting employee information
- Novel applications and technologies for workforce management
- Line of business workforce challenges and solutions, e.g. sales enablement
- Voice of the employee
- Ethics of crowdsourcing
- Critical studies of workforce related issues
- Cross cultural studies of the workforce
- Workforce analytics (social analytics, predictive analytics, social
network analysis)
- Industry-specific (e.g. pharmaceuticals, retail, food & beverages)
workforce solutions and case studies
- Novel social learning and knowledge management approaches
- The role of HR in workforce management and optimization
- Novel work(place) models
- Novel approaches for talent management (recruiting, assessment, retention)
- Crowdfunding

More information about the workshop is available at:
http://socialworkforce.wordpress.com/ and about the conference at
http://www.icwsm.org/2013/index.php


Submission

We welcome submissions that address our workshop theme.  Workshop
submissions could be research papers or position papers, and should not
exceed 4 pages in length. Submissions must follow AAAI formatting
guidelines (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php) and be sent
as a PDF file by email to sadat at us.ibm.com. Submissions must be received by
18 March 2013, 5:00 PM PDT. Participants will be notified of acceptance by
26 March 2013. Accepted submissions will be published by AAAI Press.

Important Deadlines

Paper Submission: March 18, 2013
Paper Acceptance Notification: March 26, 2013
Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: April 1, 2013
ICWSM-13 Workshops Day: July 11, 2013

Organizers

N. Sadat Shami, IBM
Werner Geyer, IBM Research
Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Research
Andreas Eckhardt, Goethe University Frankfurt
Sven Laumer, University of Bamberg
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