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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Experiment results: what can human managers tell an artificial manager about their work? Part 1

Today I am starting a series of posts in which I will present my research to date on the work of managers and the search for an answer to the fundamental question: what do managers really do? As I have written many times before, the lack of such an answer is one of the main reasons that we can’t buy an artificial manager for the company like we buy a coffee machine. Over the past 10 years, I have conducted

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