Mario Michael Ottaiano
About
Mario Michael Ottaiano is a research associate at the Weizenbaum Institute. He studied sociology with a focus on economic, industrial and labour sociological issues at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena for his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. The general focus of his work is on the analysis of digitalisation processes in private companies and their impact on employees' work. He is also interested in the role of works councils and trade unions in socio-ecological transformation processes.
In his dissertation, he deals with the context of demographic change in western societies and its impact on the safeguarding and preservation of experiential knowledge in companies and workplaces and what role technology, and in particular artificial intelligence, plays in this.
Research Group: Working with Artificial Intelligence
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Fields of Research
Mario Michael Ottaiano researches:
- Demography and the safeguarding of experiential knowledge in company contexts (dissertation topic)
- Future of work
- Digitalization of (industrial) work and white-collar work (NewWork)
- Role and practice of trade unions in company transformation processes (before WI/WZB I worked at IG Metall Baden-Württemberg as trade union secretary for transformation issues, especially digitalization issues)
Future of Work; digital transformation; demographic change; experential knowledge, AI
Selected publications
- Ottaiano M. (2025). Tarifvertrag for Future? Potentiale und Grenzen betrieblicher Transformationspolitik am Beispiel der IG Metall Baden-Württemberg. In P. Bartelheimer & S. Ötsch (eds.), Konversion: Wirtschaftsdemokratie für den sozialökologischen Umbau (36th, pp. 109-137). Metropolis-Verlag.
- Ottaiano M. (2025). Neue Herausforderungen für die betriebliche Einführung von generativer KI: Zur Rolle von Partizipation und Anerkennung. Arbeits- und industriesoziologische Studien, 18(2), 143-162
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