Experimental results: can online managerial tools be used to measure managerial actions taken not by managers?

I will now revisit an article I already linked on the blog when I wrote about how to use TransistorsHead.com’s managerial tools to record what a manager actually does. In that post, I showed that managerial tools are also measurement tools and record managerial actions taken by the manager. You can find out what, when and how the manager performed while managing the team. See more here: Now I’m going to show you that with the help of managerial tools,

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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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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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