Ph.D Daniela Frau

Work at ZHAW

Position

Senior Lecturer and Diversity Management Delegate

Focus

Diversity & Inclusion, Diversity Management, Organizational Fairness, Organizational Trust, Pay for Performance, Social Sustainability, Inclusive Leadership

Teaching

• Co-Lead Strategic Diversity Management
• Lecturer at CAS Strategisches Human Capital Management
• Lecturer at CAS Performance & Compensation Management
• Lecturer at CAS Corporate Responsibility
• Program Director CAS Managing Diversity, Inclusion and Social Sustainability (DIS)

Experience

• Diversity Management Delegate
  ZHAW SML
  01 / 2020 - today
• Senior Lecturer
  ZHAW SML
  07 / 2013 - today
• Programm Director MAS Programs
  ZHAW SML, Departement of General Management
  07 / 2013 - 07 / 2018
• Executive Search Project Manager (C-Level)
  guido schilling
  05 / 2012 - 05 / 2013
• Global Program Manager
  Global Program Manager
  01 / 2007 - 02 / 2012

Network

Membership of networks

EGOS

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0009-0004-0930-5596

Awards

EURAM Best Paper Award (3rd)
EURAM
06 / 2022

Social media

LinkedIn

Projects

• Empowering Women Managers: A comparative study of Switzerland and South Africa / Team member / Start imminent
• Overcoming barriers in companies to promote the inclusion of employees with disabilities / Project leader / completed
• Surveying the ZHAW Diversity Climate for students at the ZHAW / Team member / completed
• Age Diversity Practices in Companies in Switzerland / Project leader / completed

Publications

Books, peer-reviewed

Frau, D. (2023) The impact of variable pay for mixed performance on trust in the employer through the lens of fairness heuristics : a longitudinal mixed-method, field quasi-experiment. Doctoral dissertation. Difo-Druck.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Frau, D. (2024) 'Praxisbeispiel: Rollenklärung und Rollendefinition bei Radio Zürisee', in Bischof, N. and Künzli, R. (eds) New Leadership in neuen Organisationsdesigns : Learning Journeys für mehr Selbstorganisation. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel, pp. 133–144.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Frau, D. and Sapegina, A. (2025) 'Insights on the use of advanced mixed-method quasi-experimental design for datafied pay for performance implementation', in BAM2025 Proceedings. London: British Academy of Management.
• Frau, D., Grammenou, A. and Busch, T. (2025) 'Implementation of inclusive gender identity practices : empirical evidence from Swiss organizations', in Gender, Work & Organizations Conference, Nantes, France, 21-23 July 2025.
• Rickert, A., Frau, D. and Deuss, Y. (2024) 'The age of datafication : balancing employee-leader vulnerability, trust, and responsibility in datafied pay for performance systems', in BAM2024 Proceedings. London: British Academy of Management.
• Frau, D. (2023) 'The impact of overall fairness in monetary rewards systems on trust in the employer : a longitudinal mixed-method, field quasi-experiment', in 12th FINT Workshop on Trust Within and Between Organizations, Helsinki, Finland, 14-17 June 2023.
• Frau, D. (2022) 'The impact of variable pay for mixed performance on trust in the employer through the lens of fairness heuristics : a longitudinal mixed-method, field quasi-experiment', in 22nd EURAM Annual Conference, PhD Colloquium, Winterthur, Switzerland, 13-14 June 2021.

Other publications

• Frau, D. and Bernasconi, S. (2026) 'DEI-Backlash in Schweizer Unternehmen – Angstmache oder Tatsache?', personalSCHWEIZ, 2026(2), pp. 35–37. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-36494.
• Frau, D. (2025) Hindernisse in Unternehmen überwinden zur Förderung der Inklusion von Mitarbeitenden mit einer Behinderung : eine empirische Studie. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-35914.
• Frau, D. (2024) Inklusive Geschlechtsidentitätspraktiken in Organisationen der Schweiz : eine empirische Studie. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-31712.
• Frau, D. (2024) 'Das neue Kompetenzprofil von Diversity-Manager*innen : Diversity-Logiken in Einklang bringen', personalSCHWEIZ, 2024(9), pp. 24–25. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-32945.
• Frau, D. (2024) 'Diversity-Management-Praktiken an der SML : ein Erfahrungsbericht aus der Praxis', Education Permanente - Fachzeitschrift für Weiterbildung, 2024(1), pp. 117–129. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-30860.
• Frau, D. and Wittenwiller, L. (2023) 'Das passende Label finden : Schweizer Diversity-Labels im Vergleich', personalSCHWEIZ, 2023(1), pp. 34–36.
• Menzi, C., Frau, D. and Heimann, M. (2023) Applied Blind Hiring @ ZHAW. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-29974.
• Frau, D., Costa, V. and Krauskopf, P. (2023) Altersdiversitätspraktiken in Unternehmen der Schweiz. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-28804.
• Frau, D. and Beurer-Züllig, B. (2023) 'Promoting social sustainability by embedding diversity in higher education', in Conference Teaching and Learning for Change : Sustainability in Higher Education, Bern, Schweiz, 1. September 2023. Bern: SDNS. Available at: https://www.he-sustainability.ch/_files/ugd/e9061f_fa33125c2a6a4d60afe1014ebc96f1d0.pdf.
• Menzi, C. et al. (2022) Digital und divers : das Bewerbungsverfahren der ZHAW neu denken. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-27443.
• Krauskopf, P., Frau, D. and Müller, C. (2022) Vorstudie «Korrelation zwischen Wettbewerbs- und Innovationfähigkeit und Implementierung von Diversity&Inclusion-Grundsätzen». Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. Available at: https://www.swissdiversity.com/studie.
• Frau, D., Rietmann, K. and Gerber, M. (2021) 'Mehr Inklusion durch intelligente Algorithmen', HR Today, 2021(4), pp. 24–25. Available at: https://www.hrtoday.ch/de/article/mehr-inklusion-durch-intelligente-algorithmen.
• Frau, D. (2019) The impact of transparent, mixed performance-related pay on employees' trust in the employer. First International Network on Trust (FINT).
• Frau, D. (2017) 'Immobilien-Management praxisnah', Handelszeitung.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Frau, D. (2017) 'The impact of monetary rewards on trust in the employer', in 3. SML Research Colloquium, Winterthur, 24. Februar 2017.

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