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Jaakko Kahilaniemi
Niina Nurmi
Assistant Professor, Organizational Design and Leadership
Person profile
I lead International Design Business Management (IDBM) Master’s program, Aalto University’s flagship that is a joint multi-disciplinary endavour between all six Aalto schools (ARTS, BIZ, CHEM, ELEC, ENG, and SCI). Yearly, 60 new students are selected in this program from business, design, and engineering backgrounds to learn how to create breakthrough innovations and do better business with design.
My research focuses on the future of work in global organizations -- how to design thriving collaborations for better employee health, creativity, and innovativeness in global virtual work. Tradigional work design theories have not kept pace with changes in modern day work. My research addresses this gap by focusing on work design and management of global virtual collaborations – situations in which knowledge workers are at a distance from other team members and must rely on communication technology to facilitate their interaction across distance, language, and cultures.
Read about my work in Finnish media:
Kauppalehti 23.3.2015 “Tutkimus: yli 45-vuotiaat ovat unelmatyöntekijöitä” [36.000 shares in social media]
Kauppalehti 29.9.2015 “Globaali tietotyö saa tekijät kukoistamaan”
Kauppalehti 21.10.2015 ”Tutkija: Tunnin aikaero voi pilata yhteistyön”
Akavalainen 6.11.2015 ”Globaalissa työssä on annettava aikaa palautumiselle”
Taloussanomat 22.4.2016 ”Mitä ihmettä? 45-vuotias on ihannetyöntekijä, 3 vuotta myöhemmin jo ikärasismia”
Talouselämä 15.7.2020 "Etätyö hidastaa uralla etenemistä – Kokosimme vinkit urasta huolehtimiseen poikkeusoloissa"
Person profile
I lead International Design Business Management (IDBM) Master’s program, Aalto University’s flagship that is a joint multi-disciplinary endavour between all six Aalto schools (ARTS, BIZ, CHEM, ELEC, ENG, and SCI). Yearly, 60 new students are selected in this program from business, design, and engineering backgrounds to learn how to create breakthrough innovations and do better business with design.
My research focuses on the effects of digitally disrupted work designs on employee and performance outcomes (including well-being, thriving, creativity, and innovativeness) in global organizations. Tradigional work design theories have not kept pace with changes in modern day work. My research addresses this gap by focusing on work design and management of global virtual collaborations – situations in which knowledge workers are at a distance from other team members and must rely on communication technology to facilitate their interaction across distance, language, and cultures.
Read about my work in Finnish media:
Kauppalehti 23.3.2015 “Tutkimus: yli 45-vuotiaat ovat unelmatyöntekijöitä” [36.000 shares in social media]
Kauppalehti 29.9.2015 “Globaali tietotyö saa tekijät kukoistamaan”
Kauppalehti 21.10.2015 ”Tutkija: Tunnin aikaero voi pilata yhteistyön”
Akavalainen 6.11.2015 ”Globaalissa työssä on annettava aikaa palautumiselle”
Taloussanomat 22.4.2016 ”Mitä ihmettä? 45-vuotias on ihannetyöntekijä, 3 vuotta myöhemmin jo ikärasismia”
Background
My academic background is in Adult Eduction and Organizational Psychology.
I am trained as an ethnographer at Stanford University, Center for Work, Technology, and Organization at the Department of Management Science and Engineering, where I worked for four years as a visiting scholar (2008 - 2010) and post dorctoral research (2013 - 2015).
I have also studied statistics in Helsinki University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and use qualitative and quantitative methods in my multi-method research studies.
I have led seven successful TEKES projects and secured over 3 million eur research funding for the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto University.
Before entering to academia, I worked as a Human Resource Manager in a born-global start-up, CRF Health.
Background
My academic background is in Adult Eduction and Organizational Psychology.
I am trained as an ethnographer at Stanford University, Center for Work, Technology, and Organization at the Department of Management Science and Engineering, where I worked for four years as a visiting scholar (2008 - 2010) and post dorctoral research (2013 - 2015).
I have also studied statistics in Helsinki University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and use qualitative and quantitative methods in my multi-method research studies.
I have led seven successful TEKES projects and secured over 3 million eur research funding for the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto University.
Before entering to academia, I worked as a Human Resource Manager in a born-global start-up, CRF Health.