scholarly journals Colliding Worlds: An Aging Workforce, Artificial Intelligence, and the Impact on the Future of Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renée McGowan ◽  
Natalie Corrado
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Aging Workforce ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Pandemics: Implications for Research and Practice in Industrial and Organizational Psychology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cort Rudolph ◽  
Blake Allan ◽  
Malissa Clark ◽  
Guido Hertel ◽  
Andreas Hirschi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Aging Workforce ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Work And Organizations ◽  
The Impact

Pandemics have historically shaped the world of work in various ways. With COVID-19 presenting as a global pandemic, there is much speculation about the impact that this crisis will have for the future of work and for people working in organizations. In this article, we discuss 10 of the most relevant research and practice topics in the field of industrial and organizational (IO) psychology that will likely be impacted by COVID-19. For each of these topics, the pandemic crisis is creating new work-related challenges, but also presenting various opportunities. The topics discussed herein include occupational health and safety, work-family issues, telecommuting, virtual teamwork, job insecurity, precarious work, leadership, human resources policy, the aging workforce, and careers. This article sets the stage for further discussion of various ways in which IO psychology research and practice can address the impacts of COVID- 19 for work and organizational processes that are affecting workers now and will shape the future of work and organizations in both the short and long term. This article concludes by inviting IO psychology researchers and practitioners to address the challenges and opportunities of COVID-19 head-on by proactively innovating the work that we do in support of workers, organizations, and society as a whole.

The Future of Work and the Changing Workplace

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahesh K. Joshi ◽  
J.R. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Intelligence ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Future ◽  
Market Opportunities

The world of work has been impacted by technology. Work is different than it was in the past due to digital innovation. Labor market opportunities are becoming polarized between high-end and low-end skilled jobs. Migration and its effects on employment have become a sensitive political issue. From Buffalo to Beijing public debates are raging about the future of work. Developments like artificial intelligence and machine intelligence are contributing to productivity, efficiency, safety, and convenience but are also having an impact on jobs, skills, wages, and the nature of work. The “undiscovered country” of the workplace today is the combination of the changing landscape of work itself and the availability of ill-fitting tools, platforms, and knowledge to train for the requirements, skills, and structure of this new age.

Disruptions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-199
Author(s):  
Idris Olayiwola Ganiyu ◽  
Ola Olusegun Oyedele ◽  
Evelyn Derera
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Skill Gaps ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Robotics

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has resulted in the disruption of the world of work whereby technological innovation such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. These disruptions may be creative in that as some jobs are lost due to the development of artificial intelligence, new ones are created. This chapter explored the impact of disruptive technological innovations on the future of work. The skill gaps brought about by the emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution was also explored in this chapter.

Stepping back to move forward: Centering capital in discussions of technology and the future of work

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 129-133
Author(s):  
Benjamin Shestakofsky
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Robotic Systems ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
Technological Unemployment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Constructivist Approaches ◽  
The Relationship

Some researchers have warned that advances in artificial intelligence will increasingly allow employers to substitute human workers with software and robotic systems, heralding an impending wave of technological unemployment. By attending to the particular contexts in which new technologies are developed and implemented, others have revealed that there is nothing inevitable about the future of work, and that there is instead the potential for a diversity of models for organizing the relationship between work and artificial intelligence. Although these social constructivist approaches allow researchers to identify sources of contingency in technological outcomes, they are less useful in explaining how aims and outcomes can converge across diverse settings. In this essay, I make the case that researchers of work and technology should endeavor to link the outcomes of artificial intelligence systems not only to their immediate environments but also to less visible—but nevertheless deeply influential—structural features of societies. I demonstrate the utility of this approach by elaborating on how finance capital structures technology choices in the workplace. I argue that investigating how the structure of ownership influences a firm’s technology choices can open our eyes to alternative models and politics of technological development, improving our understanding of how to make innovation work for everyone instead of allowing the benefits generated by technological change to be hoarded by a select few.

scholarly journals How artificial intelligence will change the future of marketing

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Davenport ◽  
Abhijit Guha ◽  
Dhruv Grewal ◽  
Timna Bressgott
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Important Policy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Task Types ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Future Of Marketing

Abstract In the future, artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to substantially change both marketing strategies and customer behaviors. Building from not only extant research but also extensive interactions with practice, the authors propose a multidimensional framework for understanding the impact of AI involving intelligence levels, task types, and whether AI is embedded in a robot. Prior research typically addresses a subset of these dimensions; this paper integrates all three into a single framework. Next, the authors propose a research agenda that addresses not only how marketing strategies and customer behaviors will change in the future, but also highlights important policy questions relating to privacy, bias and ethics. Finally, the authors suggest AI will be more effective if it augments (rather than replaces) human managers.

scholarly journals DESIGNING THE FUTURE OF WORK WITH SOCIAL ENTERPRISES IN ASIA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Edward Goenadi
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Facilities Management ◽  
Business Systems ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
Routine Work ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Robotics ◽  
New System

Social enterprises exist in nearly every sector from consumer goods to healthcare, community energy to creative agencies, restaurants to facilities management. Well known examples include The Big Issue, Divine Chocolate and the Eden Project but there are over 100,000 social enterprises throughout the country contributing £60 billion to the economy and employing two million people. In designing the future of work, we need to know the challenges and obstacles that we must face in order for us to design the future itself. Because nowadays business uses technology and technology can be disruptive to the old business systems. It can wreck the old system apart and set a new system based on the up to date technology on top of the old one. Those business in today’s world uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics to do the routine work of humans inside the business and companies. There are 4 stages in technology disruption that you also need to know about.

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