Advances in technology – alongside endemic demographic and sustainability challenges -- are dramatically changing the nature of contemporary work; the level of engagement and agency of workers; as well as the way companies are organised and managed. By enabling people and businesses to connect and interact virtually, digital technologies are transforming upstream and downstream relationships, as well as relationships internal to organisations. Augmenting data by means of artificial intelligence is allowing algorithms to replace human decision makers, and is bringing in robots among workers. The generative properties of ubiquitous, connected, and intelligent assets – both human and technological – are allowing firms to forsake their goods-dominant logic in favour of a service-dominant one; reconceiving their products and markets, and accounting for larger societal challenges. There is hence room for informed enquiry into the changes in store for the future of work, workers and organisations. The event consists of conversations between a guest speaker and an academic from the OHRM group relating to technological change (including artificial intelligence, automation, platform economy, algorithmic management, etc), its links to greater social challenges, and its implications for the future of work, employment and organisations.
Oborn, Eivor, Barrett, Michael, Orlikowski, Wanda and Kim, Anna (2019) Trajectory dynamics in innovation : developing and transforming a mobile money service across time and place. Organization Science . doi:10.1287/orsc.2018.1281 (In Press)
http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/111389/ (Internal)
The format is as follows:
Duration: 1 hour, 3.30 – 4.30 pm
20 minutes – Presentation by guest speaker – Eivor Oborn - to talk about her work in the press ‘Trajectory Dynamics in Innovation: Developing and Transforming a Mobile Money Service Across Time and Place’.
20 minutes – Conversation between the guest speaker and OHRM discussant exploring ‘Future of Work’ themes
20 minutes – Q&A with the audience
4.30 - 5.00 pm - Refreshments