How will artificial intelligence affect human relations at work?

During the 21st EAWOP Congress, organized by the Polish Association of Organizational Psychology in Katowice, Poland, May 24-27, I also had the opportunity to interview Prof. Sharon Glazer of the University of Baltimore and the University of Maryland, Applied Research Lab, on behalf of the Interdisciplinary Center for Personnel Development (University of Silesia in Katowice). Prof. Sharon Glazer has made significant contributions to the field of applied psychology, particularly in relation to occupational health and stress research. Her research interests

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In what areas will artificial intelligence replace us at work?

During this year’s 21st EAWOP Congress, organized by the Polish Association of Organizational Psychology in Katowice on May 24-27, I had the opportunity to conduct, on behalf of the Interdisciplinary Center for Personnel Development (Silesian University in Katowice), two interviews with psychology professors on the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market and on human work in general. The guest of the first interview was Prof. Richard Griffith of the Institute for Cross Cultural Management of Florida Institute of

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Experiment results: how to make a robot manager learn more about what a human manager does?

In 2015, I conducted a series of experiments using the same online manager tools, which I slightly modified programmatically. However, their function was not changed, which boiled down to measuring the organizational quantities of the primary ones – goal and task. The first of the series of experiments was conducted again among students of the management specialty at the University of Economics in Katowice. The participants of the experiment were given an elaborate case study of a company intending to

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Experiment results: what can human managers tell an artificial manager about their work? Part 2

In the previous part of the post, I described how I recorded two managers working with TransistorsHead.com tools on the same project – setting goals and tasks. However, this is not the end of the story. We decided to add to this experiment to see what the participants really remembered and what – if we hadn’t recorded them – they would have told the artificial manager about their work. After the experiment, we asked the participants about how they perceived

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