Workforce Revolution: Innovation and Challenge

Éditeurs invités

• Vincent Dutot, EM Normandie Business School
• Maling Ebrahimpour, The University of Rhode Island
• Melina Doargajudhur, Edinburgh Napier University
• Zuberia Hosanoo, Edinburgh Napier University
• Jessica Lichy, IDRAC Business School

Synthèse

The modern workplace is undergoing profound transformations driven by technological innovation, AI integration, economic pressures, and demographic shifts that are fundamentally changing how work is performed, where it occurs, and what roles workers fulfill. These changes create significant challenges for organizations, including adapting to new technologies, redefining job roles, managing human-robot interactions, and addressing ethical concerns around privacy and discrimination.

This special issue seeks interdisciplinary research that examines the multifaceted dimensions of the future of work by integrating perspectives from human resource management, sustainability, organizational psychology, and technology studies. The collection aims to provide theoretical insights and empirical evidence about how technological, organizational, and societal changes shape worker attitudes and workplace interactions, and how organizations can develop resource-efficient and socially responsible practices.

Thèmes proposés

• Technology Use and Adaptation: Technology-driven changes in work practices
• Digital Transformation and Organizational Reshaping: The role of digital transformation in reshaping work processes and organizational structures
• AI in Work Arrangements and Interactions: How AI is shaping new work arrangements and interactions
• Top Management Team's (TMT's) perceptions of adaptability to change under the future of work and digitalisation era
• Skills and competencies of TMT and digital innovation and adoption
• The strategic role of TMT as change agent to drive the deep workforce transformation
• Human-robot interaction: Challenges, opportunities and the evolution of workplace skills
• Remote Work and Collaboration Tools: Impact of remote work on collaboration tools, communication platforms
• Employee Well-being in Remote Work Environments: Strategies to enhance well-being in remote work environments (work-life balance, mental health, stress management)
• Skills Development and Upskilling: Address the need for continuous skills development and upskilling in an evolving work landscape
• Workplace Automation and AI Benefits and Challenges: Discuss workplace automation driven by AI, including its benefits and challenges
• Sustainability in Work Practices and Responsible Resource Management: Investigate sustainable practices within organizations, such as eco-friendly policies, energy-efficient technologies, and responsible resource management
• How do new work arrangements such as hybrid work, remote work, gig work, influence the employee's work experience, health, and wellbeing?
• What are the changes necessary in management and HRM education/training to effectively address the challenges created by the wide spreading use of digitization and AI in the workplace?
• The novel HR trends that organizations can build on and create to better adapt to new trends of business and HRM landscape such as ecological sustainability?