Experimental results: how do managerial tools affect the way a manager works?

After a week’s break, I’m continuing my series on the results I’ve obtained in various types of experiments related to the automation of a manager’s work. The next in the series of experiments conducted using managerial tools on the TransistorsHead.com research platform also concerned project planning. The participants in the experiment were, as before, students studying Management at one of the private business schools. The students at this university prepared their theses in a rather unusual way by working on

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Experimental results: do managers have a similar way of planning projects?

I continue to present my research results on the work of a manager and the search for the answer to the most important question when we want to build a robot manager: what does a manager actually do? In the study described below, together with Dr. Kinga Hoffmann-Burdzinska, we looked at how people plan projects and whether they do it in a similar way. For simplicity’s sake, to make the similarities more apparent (or to make it obvious that there

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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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