Matti Vartiainen

Matti A. Vartiainen, PhD, acts as the Professor of Learning Organization at the unit of Work Psychology and Leadership (Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management). He is also responsible for Human-Centered Information System module in Information Networks Degree Programme, which is carried out as collaboration of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, and Department of Automation and Systems Technology.

His teaching areas are learning, competence, and knowledge building; reward systems in organizations; knowledge support and collaborative working environments; sociotechnical work system analysis and design; and change management. He is leading the Virtual and Mobile Work Research Unit (http://vmwork.tkk.fi) at BIT Research Centre (http://www.bit.hut.fi/). His research interests cover the fields of organizational innovations, mobile distributed work, reward systems (http://www.palkitseminen.hut.fi), knowledge and competence building, collaboration, and e-learning systems.