Dr. Daphna Shwartz Asher

Email:

[email protected]

Academic rank

Lecturer

Ph.D.

Tel Aviv University

2010

Research area

Organizational Behavior; Communication; Burnout; Career; Teams; Diversity

Dr. Daphna Shwartz-Asher is a researcher and lecturer at Tel-Hai Academic College. She is a Management Committee Member of COST Action CA22104 studying effective cyber-security solutions. Since 2022, she also serves as research director at the Ethiopian Jewish Association. During the years 2017-2020, she studied career attitudes as a research associate at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion. During the years 2017-2020, she studied career attitudes as a research associate at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion. During the years 2014-2017, she studied E-government as a visiting research associate at Rutgers research center (CIMIC). Her Ph.D., titled Virtual Teams, was awarded at 2010 by The Faculty of Management at Tel Aviv University. Her field of research is the impact of the 21st century on individuals and organizations: development and management of virtual teams, human behavior in social media, digital literacy, career management, diversity and empowerment of disadvantaged populations. Dr. Shwartz-Asher has experience in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the management discipline.

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Biographical Info

Post-Doc, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2020).

Teaching Certificate, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2020).

Post-Doc, CIMIC, Rutgers, NJ (2017).

Ph.D., Management, Tel Aviv University (2010).

M.Sc., Management, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2000).

B.A., Economics and Communications, Haifa University (1997).

Publications

Ph.D. Dissertation (2010), Faculty of Management Ph.D. in Management, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Dissertation topic: "Virtual Team Structure"- analyzing the effectiveness of virtual teams in comparison to face-to-face teams, with the hypothesis that the team’s informal structure can compensate for the shortcomings of a non-face-to-face interaction. The research combined an interdisciplinary study of Organizational Behavior, Information Systems, and Internet Studies. Supervisors: Prof. Niv Ahituv & Prof. Dalia Etzion.

Journal Publications

Avargil, S., Shwartz-Asher, D., Reiss, S. R., & Dori, Y. J. (2023). Professors’ retrospective views on chemistry career choices with a focus on gender and academic stage aspects. Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy, 36, 101249.‏ (Impact factor 5.464).
Tziner, A., Bar-Mor, H., Shwartz-Asher, D., Shkoler, O., Geva, L., & Levi, H. (2023). Insights into abusive workplace behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 14.‏ (Impact factor 4.2).
Rabenu, E., Shwartz-Asher, D. S., & Kurlander, Y. (2023). The dual role of faculty and motherhood: Enabling resources for successful coping. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 16(2), 252-256.‏ (Impact factor 9.375 Impact Score 0.73 h index 41).
Shwartz-Asher, D., Grabarski, M., Tziner, A., & Shkoler, O. (2023). Career Don’t Stop Believing: Career Empowerment as a Mediator between Hope and Organizational Outcomes. Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 39(1), 13-22.‏ (Impact score 5.63 h index 72).
Shwartz-Asher, D., Raviv, A., & Herscu-Kluska, R. (2022). Teaching and assessing active learning in online academic courses. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 6(1), 100341.‏ (Awarded as the Best Researcher Award at the International Academic Awards, Technology and Communication). (Impact factor 0.84).
Shwartz-Asher, D., Chun, S., Adam, N. R., & Snider, K. L. (2020). Knowledge sharing behaviors in social media. Technology in society, 63, 101426.‏ (Impact score 7.82 CiteScore 6.5 citations 19 h index 58).
Rocker Yoel, S., Shwartz Asher, D., Schohet, M., & Dori, Y. J. (2020). The effect of the FIRST Robotics Program on its graduates. Robotics, 9(4), 84. (Citescore 4.9 citations 5 Q1).
Shwartz-Asher, D. & Ahituv, N. (2019). Comparison between face-to-face teams and virtual teams with respect to compliance with directives, The Journal of Service Science and Management (JSSM), 12(4), 549-571. (Impact factor 1.24 citations 11 h index 46).
Shwartz-Asher, D., Chun, S. A., & Adam, N. R. (2017). Knowledge behavior model of e-government social media users. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 11(3), 456-475.‏ (Impact score 3.15 CiteScore 5.0 citations 13 h index 39).
Shwartz-Asher, D., Ahituv, N. & Etzion, D. (2009). Modelling the characteristics of virtual teams' structure, The International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, 4(2), 195-212. (Impact factor 0.178 CiteScore 0.8 citations 3).
Shwarts-Asher, D., Ben-Zion, U., Gabbay, S., & Yagil, J. (2006). Launching a corporate website and market efficiency. Applied financial economics, 16(07), 551-559.‏ (Impact score 1.916 citations 4 Q2 h index 57)

Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books

Shwartz-Asher, D. (2023). Employee Motivation. In D. Simchai, O. Blumen & Z. Barents (Eds.) Book of Human Services. Pardes (Haifa). [Hebrew]
Shwartz-Asher, D., & Ahituv, N. (2022). Do Virtual Team Members Swim Against the Tide?. Current Overview on Science and Technology Research Vol. 5, 152-173.‏
Grabarski, M. K., & Shwartz-Asher, D. (2022). 1. The “Era of Me”: design and integration of career paths in an era of self-directed careers. Engineering the World of Work: Organizations in an Era of Constant Change, 1.‏
Shwartz-Asher, D., Reiss, S. R., Ali, A. A. Y., & Dori, Y. J. (2020). Engineering Teachers’ Assessment Knowledge in Active and Project-Based Learning. Active Learning in College Science: The Case for Evidence-Based Practice, 851-869.‏ (Citations 1)
Shwarts-Asher, D. (2012). Social communication behaviors of virtual leaders. Telecommunication Economics: Selected Results of the COST Action ISO605 Econ@ Tel, 67-77.‏ (Citations 4)
Shwarts-Asher, D. (2010). Improving the Performance of Virtual Teams through Team Dynamics. Monitoring and Assessment in Online Collaborative Environments: Emergent Computational Technologies for E-Learning Support, 97-110.‏
Shwarts-Asher, D., Ahituv, N., & Etzion, D. (2009). Improving virtual teams through swift structure. In Encyclopedia of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges in e-HRM (pp. 510-517). IGI Global.‏ (Citations 4)

Articles in Conference Proceedings

Shwartz-Asher, D., Chun, S. A., & Adam, N. R. (2017, June). Evaluation on Social Media User's Knowledge Behavior Model. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on digital government research (pp. 590-591).‏ (Citations 1)
Shwartz-Asher, D., Chun, S. A., & Adam, N. R. (2016, June). Social media user behavior analysis in e-government context. In Proceedings of the 17th international digital government research conference on digital government research (pp. 39-48).‏
Shwarts-Asher, D., Ahituv, N., & Etzion, D. (2009, March). Computer-Mediated Group Interaction Processes. In 2009 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (pp. 255-262). IEEE.‏ (Citations 2)

Other Scientific Publications

Herscu-Kluska, R., Shwartz-Asher, D. & Dori, Y. (2020). Science and Technology (MUTAL) Digital Activities Guideline. A report submitted to The Ministry of Education. The Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion IIT, Haifa, Israel. 60 pages. [Hebrew]
Shwartz-Asher, D., Herscu-Kluska, R., Schohet, M., Zaaroura, N. & Dori, Y. (2020). Assessment of the digital projects of high school science and technology (MUTAL) students. A report submitted to The Ministry of Education. The Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion IIT, Haifa, Israel. 60 pages. [Hebrew]
Shwartz-Asher, D., Catz, B., Abu-Younis, A. A. & Dori, Y. (2019). Improving final projects in the technology education. The Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion IIT, Haifa, Israel. 350 pages. [Hebrew]
Shwartz-Asher, D., Schohet, M., Zaaroura, N. & Dori, Y. (2019). Assessment of the digital projects of high school science and technology (MUTAL) students. A report submitted to The Ministry of Education. The Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion IIT, Haifa, Israel. 60 pages. [Hebrew]
Swirski, H. & Shwartz-Asher, D. & Dori, Y. (2018). Assessment of the digital projects of high school science and technology (MUTAL) students. A report submitted to The Ministry of Education. The Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion IIT, Haifa, Israel. 58 pages. [Hebrew]

Areas of Interest

Organizational Behavior
Communication Technologies
Human behavior
Social media
Team work
Virtual environment
Distance work
Distance learning
Career development
Burnout
Diversity

Teaching

Organizational Careers (Graduate)
Management Seminar (Undergraduate)
Organizational Communication in a Global Era (Graduate and Undergraduate)
Management skills (Graduate)
Human Resource Management (Graduate and Undergraduate)
Organizational Behavior (Graduate and Undergraduate)
Introduction to Management (Graduate and Undergraduate)
Organizational Theories (Undergraduate)

Presentations

Role	Subject of Lecture/Discussion	Place of Conference	Name of Conference	Date
Presenter	Career Empowerment – Don't Stop Believing.	Portland, Maine, USA	The 59^th Eastern Academy of Management Annual Meeting	2022
Presenter	Teaching and Assessing Active Learning in Hybrid Academic Courses	Tel-Hai College, Israel	Higher Education in the Post Corona Era International Conference	2021
Presenter	Scientists’ Perspectives: Choosing an Academic Career in Chemistry	A Virtual Conference	The 94^th NARST international conference	2021
Presenter	Choosing a science career: Self-efficacy and identity perspectives	Baltimore, MD, USA	The 92^nd NARST international conference	2019
Presenter	The processes of choosing academic career in sciences: Science education and gender perspectives	The national council for the advancement of women in science and technology, Tel Aviv, Israel	The 2018 Gender Equity Conference of the Future: Redesigning the Tomorrow	2018
Presenter	Evaluation on Social Media User's Knowledge Behavior Model	City University of New York, NY, USA	In Proceedings of The 18^th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research	2017
Presenter	Social media user behavior analysis in e-government context.	Fudan University, China	In Proceedings of The 17^th International Digital Government Research Conference	2016
Presenter	Are virtual team members compliant? (Citations 2)	HongKong, China	2014 International Conference on E-commerce and Contemporary Economic Development	2014
Presenter	Social aspects of virtual teams	MIT, MA, US	Collective Intelligence	2012
Presenter	Virtual teams’ leadership	Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel	The 5^th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS)	2010
Presenter	The impact of team structure on virtual team output mediated by task and social processes	Polo Scientifico University, Caserta, Italy.	The 3^rd COST 2102 international training school on "Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces: Theoretical and Practical Issues"	2010
Presenter	Computer-mediated group interaction processes	Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan.	The 3^rd International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems	2009
Presenter	Improving the performance of virtual teams through team structure (Citations 1)	Ann Arbor, Michigan, US	The 3^rd International e-Social Science Conference	2007

Organization of Conferences or Sessions

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Subject of Conference/

Role at Conference/

Comments

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Conference

Name of

Conference

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Session chair (co with Edna Rabenu)

Session 113 - Between closeness and distance in qualitative research based on data that is public

Ben-Gurion university of the Negev

(Israel)

“Proximity and distance in qualitative research.”

9th Conference of the Israeli Center for Qualitative Research of People and Societies

15.2.2023

Organizing the conference

In collaboration with the P.A.I.- Israeli Association of Organizational Development

Tel-Hai academic college

(Israel)

The face of the future world of work

30.3.2023

Professional Activities

2023-2027	COST Action CA22104 Management Committee Member
	I am a part of a research group at its early development stage. Our project relies on cross- domains expertise, ranging from cyber security, wireless communication technology, data science, sociology, psychology and lawyers traying to put human-being in the loop for the conception of novel and more effective cyber-security solutions.
2022-	Association of Ethiopian Jews - AEJ
	A research project manager: Local government adequate representation; Eradicating racism.
2018-2020	Technion R&D Foundation, Haifa, Israel
	Faculty of Education in Science and Technology Researcher Level A at More-Tech: Technology National Teacher Center – Assessment of Engineering Project; responsible for pedagogical activities planning and operating.
	Research projects: FIRST Career Choice; Faculty Career Choice. Teachers training programs academic management: PBL; Digital Pedagogy in STEM.
2015-2017	Rutgers Business School, NJ, USA
	The Department of Management and Global Business - I developed a new course ("Effective Leadership Communication"), supervised by Prof. Kurtzberg, and suggested a syllabus and a full course material including class outlines, reading material and students individual and team assignments.
	CIMIC - A visiting research associate at Rutgers Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC) under the supervision of Prof. Nabil Adam.
2010–2011	Econ@Tel (A COST Network)
	As an Econ@Tel member, I participated in the 6th MC Meeting (Ghent, Belgium, June, 2010), in the 7th MC Meeting (Rennes, France, May, 2011) and in the 8th MC Meeting (Budapest, September, 2011).
2006	Dan Academic Center, Petah Tikva, Israel
	Composed a fully detailed curriculum for the Business Administration undergraduate program of a new College which was under the process of establishment.
2003–2004	The Institute for the Study of Israel in the Middle East, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, CO, USA
	A research project manager: Social Capital Accruing from Oslo Accords.