artificial managers, artificial management, managers, artificial leadership, team management automation, artificial intelligence
Have you ever been on a date with a robot? I have been, or at least in a few cases I thought so. In the days of Tinder, you can meet people who can associate with a robot made by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, regardless of gender. The robot was the first to become a citizen of Saudi Arabia in October 2017, becoming the first robot to receive citizenship of any country. Sophia is endowed with artificial intelligence, can adapt
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Do you remember the computer that rebelled against humanity when it sent its spaceship Discovery One towards Jupiter to investigate the source of a strange signal related to the Monolith? I’m writing, of course, about the HAL 9000 computer from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, where the main character David Bowman, as the sole survivor of the ship’s crew, must defeat the rebellious machine-manager. How did this happen? Invented a few years earlier, a supercomputer
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So far, I have presented three approaches to representing the work of a manager that are developing in parallel: managerial skills, managerial roles and management styles. Each of these approaches represented the manager from a different angle. But none provided an opportunity for us to answer the question – what does a manager actually do? What are the activities that he or she undertakes one after another? Managerial skills represented what a manager should be able to do. Managerial roles
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