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Sep 2026

Organizational Design in the Age of AI: Navigating the Structural Transformation of Work Writer: Jonathan H. Westover, PhD

The integration of artificial intelligence into organizational systems presents unprecedented challenges to traditional organizational structures, roles, and talent models. As AI agents become capable of performing knowledge work at scale, organizations face pressure to redesign fundamental elements including departmen...

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Sep 2026

Bridging Science and Practice: Reimagining the Knowledge Ecosystem in Applied Psychology and Beyond

The persistent gap between academic research and professional practice represents one of the most pressing challenges confronting applied psychology, business education, and related professional fields. Despite decades of scholarly attention and mounting institutional pressures to demonstrate societal impact, the divid...

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Sep 2026

Designing Work for the Age of AI: Strategic Responses to Human-Machine Complementarity

Organizations face mounting pressure to respond strategically to artificial intelligence deployment without sacrificing workforce stability or human dignity. This article synthesizes emerging evidence on AI's dual capacity to automate tasks and augment human capabilities, offering leaders a framework for navigating thi...

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Review Sep 2026

The Gen Z AI Confidence Gap: Navigating Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Workplace Technology

Evidence on Gen Z's concerns regarding creativity, critical thinking, learning efficacy, and workplace risks is synthesized, and evidence-based organizational responses centered on transparent communication, competency-building frameworks, human-AI collaboration models, and developmental support systems are proposed.

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
Review Open access Sep 2026

Systems Perspectives in Organization and Management Research: An Integrative Review and Roadmap for Meaningful Use

Systems perspectives offer a powerful alternative paradigm for understanding social phenomena as dynamic wholes characterized by emergent outcomes arising from interdependent interactions among diverse elements across multiple levels of analysis. Despite growing interest in systems thinking within organization and mana...

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Open access Sep 2026

The Strategic Calculus: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Return-to-Office Mandates' Impact on Organizational Competitiveness

This study employs a mixed-methods approach to examine how return-to-office (RTO) mandates influence organizational competitiveness across multiple dimensions. Using a sequential explanatory design, data were collected from 842 knowledge workers across 76 organizations (53% response rate), supplemented by 47 semi-struc...

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Aug 2026

Leadership as a Growth Engine: Redefining Managerial Effectiveness Through Team Development

Traditional conceptualizations of leadership emphasize positional authority, decision rights, and hierarchical control. Yet contemporary evidence increasingly demonstrates that leadership effectiveness correlates most strongly with team member development and capability growth rather than formal authority. This article...

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Aug 2026

Stop Building HR Agents: Why Workflows Beat Agentic AI for Most People Functions

The evidence suggests that well-governed, human-supervised workflows deliver superior outcomes for approximately 80–90% of current HR AI applications, reserving true agentic systems for genuinely complex, high-value scenarios where dynamic decision-making justifies increased cost and reduced control.

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
Open access Aug 2026

The Metacognitive Paradox of AI-Assisted Creativity: A Theoretical Extension

The metacognitive paradox framework is developed to explain this phenomenon: AI tools designed to augment human creativity may inadvertently suppress the very cognitive processes that sustain independent creative capacity.

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
Open access Aug 2026

Epistemic Transformations: Large Language Models and the Reconfiguration of Scholarly Knowledge Production

The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into academic research practices presents significant opportunities and challenges that extend beyond questions of efficiency to fundamental reconfigurations of scholarly knowledge production itself. This article provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examinati...

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Aug 2026

From Tools to Teammates: Designing Human-AI Collaboration in Innovation Work

This article synthesizes recent scholarship and practitioner experience into a structured playbook for executives, design leaders, and human resources partners that argues that the value of HAIC depends on three deliberate design choices: who initiates the collaboration, how broad the AI's knowledge scope must be, and...

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Aug 2026

From Surveillance to Trust: Building High-Performance Organizations Through Autonomy and Psychological Safety

Organizations increasingly face a critical leadership paradox: the tools designed to ensure accountability often undermine the very performance they aim to achieve. Extensive monitoring, micromanagement, and compliance-oriented control structures create environments where employees withdraw discretionary effort, suppre...

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