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Jonathan H. Westover

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Oct 2026

The Creative Advantage: How Organizations Can Future-Proof Their Workforce by Investing in Creativity

This article examines the relationship between occupational creativity and resilience to automation, drawing on a landmark study by Bakhshi, Frey, and Osborne (2015) which found that 86–87 percent of workers in highly creative occupations face low or no risk of computerization. The article situates these findings withi...

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
Oct 2026

Leading Algorithmic Authority: Why Ethical AI Governance Depends on Legitimacy Infrastructure, Not Compliance Checklists

Ethical AI governance has become a strategic imperative as algorithmic systems increasingly mediate consequential organizational decisions affecting credit access, service delivery, and social participation. Existing frameworks emphasize principles and technical assurance but assume stable infrastructure, coherent inst...

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
Sep 2026

The Ratio of Labor to Tech: Navigating Structural Workforce Contraction and AI Adoption in an Era of Dual Disruption

Organizations face a dual transformation: accelerating labor force contraction through 2032 and the evolving capabilities of artificial intelligence. This article examines the strategic imperative for organizations to deliberately adjust the "ratio of labor to tech" while confronting the simultaneous realities of demog...

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Review Open access Oct 2026

Adaptive Capacity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Critical Extension of Workforce Resilience Frameworks to Human Resource Management Functions

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies presents unprecedented challenges for workforce management, particularly within human resource (HR) and people management functions that simultaneously face high AI exposure and serve as organizational architects of workforce adaptation. This article cr...

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Sep 2026

When Labor Scarcity Meets AI Disruption: Rethinking Talent Strategy in the 2030s

The U.S. labor force participation rate has declined to its lowest level in five decades, while artificial intelligence companies simultaneously moderate their job displacement forecasts. This convergence creates a strategic inflection point for organizational talent management. Rather than preparing for AI-induced mas...

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Open access Oct 2026

When Experts Get the Future Wrong: Strategic Planning in an Era of Systematically Underestimated AI Progress

Recent evidence from the Forecasting Research Institute reveals a striking pattern: domain experts and superforecasters have systematically underestimated the pace of artificial intelligence progress across capability benchmarks, economic adoption indicators, and diffusion metrics. This article examines the organizatio...

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Review Open access Oct 2026

Navigating the AI Revolution: A Critical Framework for Organizational Transformation

This research article examines the imminent transformation of business and labor structures driven by artificial intelligence, critically analyzing adoption timelines and organizational impacts. Drawing on both primary survey data from 127 organizations and secondary research from institutional reports, the study quant...

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Sep 2026

Bridging the Research-Practice Divide: Insights from HRD Scholars and Scholar-Practitioners

The research-practice gap in Human Resource Development (HRD) represents a persistent structural challenge that limits the translation of academic knowledge into organizational action. This article synthesizes insights from 29 HRD scholars and scholar-practitioners across five countries to examine how they conceptualiz...

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Open access Oct 2026

Employee Experience Capital and Organizational Performance: An Integrated Framework for Understanding Workplace Resource Systems in Digitally Transformed Organizations

Contemporary organizations face the complex challenge of integrating diverse workplace resources—spanning digital tools, inclusive practices, sustainability initiatives, and well-being programs—into coherent systems that simultaneously support employee flourishing and organizational effectiveness. This theoretical pape...

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Review Open access Oct 2026

Building an AI-First HR Organization: Transforming People Operations for the Digital Age

This mixed-methods study examines how organizations develop AI-first HR functions by fundamentally reimagining people operations rather than merely adopting new technologies. Drawing on survey data from 152 HR leaders, 24 in-depth interviews, and longitudinal case studies of 8 organizations during 2022-2024, the resear...

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Oct 2026

Mitigating Algorithmic Bias in AI-Powered Recruitment: A Practitioner's Guide to Ethical Implementation

The proliferation of artificial intelligence in talent acquisition has introduced both unprecedented efficiency gains and significant ethical challenges. This article examines the mechanisms through which algorithmic bias emerges in automated hiring systems and evaluates evidence-based governance frameworks for promoti...

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
Review Sep 2026

When Algorithms Organize Themselves: The Rise of Computational Collectives in Organizational Workflows

Artificial intelligence systems are evolving beyond individual assistants into organized collectives of specialized agents—planners, reviewers, synthesizers, and memory managers—that coordinate work before outputs reach human decision-makers. This article examines the organizational behavior of agentic AI and its impli...

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