Mahir Jibril Ahmed
Emotional labor: the elusive aspect of workplace exploitation
Ariane Ollier-Malaterre – Tech Imaginaries: How We Think and Feel about Technology
We all have views about technology. Do you see the tech future as dating robots, taking over our jobs, or making sure your older parents take their medicine? In the digital lives we live — where even reporting a stolen credit card is handled by AI — we need to understand, as Ariane Ollier-Malaterre says, "Technology is not just something [Read More...]
Yang Hu – What Can We Learn About Care From AI?
“Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the most intimate fabrics of our human existence,” Yang Hu says in this talk. “Parents ask Alexa to read their children a bedtime story. Humanoids are cleaning some houses, and emotional chatbots converse with lonely family members.” For some, AI’s involvement in care paints a utopian future, while others fear [Read More...]
The Right to Disconnect
Constant connectivity harms employees’ work-life balance and mental health. Better labor policy and remote work legislation can help meet the needs of people and organizations.
The Impact of COVID-19 on U.S. Computer Science Faculty’s Turnover Intentions: The Role of Gender.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for college faculty, with evidence that it has the potential to exacerbate pre-pandemic gender inequities in work demands (Tugend, 2020). The impact of the pandemic may be particularly difficult for women in male-dominated STEM fields such as computer science that pose additional challenges and had high attrition rates among [Read More...]
Tech-Savvy Men and Caring Women: Middle School Students’ Gender Stereotypes Predict Interest in Tech-Education
The labor market is strongly gender segregated with few women working in the tech sector (e.g., IT) and few men working in the care sector (e.g., nursing). We tested the hypothesis that middle school students strongly associate technology with men and caregiving with women in a Swedish context (i.e., a country that scores high in [Read More...]
Bias in the background? The role of background information in asynchronous video interviews.
Asynchronous video interviews (AVIs) have become popular toolsfor applicant selection. Although AVIs are standardized, extant researchremains silent on whether this novel interview format could introduce newforms of bias. Because many applicants complete AVIs from their homes, theirvideo background could provide evaluators with information about stigmatizingfeatures that (a) are usually "invisible" in traditional selection contextsbut become [Read More...]
Guest editorial: Work from anywhere: implications for employees and organizations.
The second article, "Work-from-home (WFH): the constraints-coping-effectiveness framework", by Zauwiyah Ahmad, Arnifa Asmawi and Siti Zakiah Binti Samsi provides a WFH framework by analyzing qualitative data collected from employees. To date, practitioners and academic researchers in human resource management (HRM) have attended the human resource issues specific to the on-campus context. Work from anywhere (WFA) [Read More...]
Using the Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services (PDC-HS) to Enhance Data Collection Procedures in Residential Treatment Settings for Clients with Significant Behavioral Challenges.
Staff members working in three residential homes serving persons with developmental disabilities participated in the current study. Each residence was selected based upon poor staff performances related to consistent, accurate data collection. Written daily narratives compiled by the staff on each shift were compared to designated behavioral data collection forms in each residence to determine [Read More...]
Best friend or broken tool? Exploring the co‐existence of humans and artificial intelligence in the workplace ecosystem
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an important topic in business literature and strategy talk. Yet, much of this literature is normative and conceptual in nature. How organizational members perceive AI and the job role changes that come with it is, so far, largely unknown territory for both HR scholars and practitioners. We sought to investigate [Read More...]