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Jonathan H. Westover

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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...

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
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...

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
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...

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
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...

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
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...

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
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...

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
Aug 2026

The Four Agreements for the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Preserving Human Consciousness in Technological Partnership

Evidence-based interventions spanning conscious communication protocols, perspective-taking practices, inquiry-driven interaction design, and excellence frameworks demonstrate that organizations can cultivate technological fluency while preserving the distinctly human capacities of meaning-making, ethical discernment,...

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
Aug 2026

The Rationality Illusion: Why AI-Driven Decision Systems Undermine Organizational Intelligence

The findings suggest that AI functions optimally as a bounded computational tool rather than as a rationality substitute, and that organizations treating algorithmic outputs as inherently superior judgment systematically compromise their institutional intelligence.

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations
Jul 2026

Embedding Fairness into AI Governance: A Practitioner's Guide to Lifecycle-Based Bias Mitigation

Drawing on organizational governance research, technical fairness literature, and regulatory frameworks, the article maps seven critical intervention stages and assigns explicit accountability at each stage, and embeds structural mechanisms that address role ambiguity, siloed decision-making, and deployment pressure.

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

The AI Implementation Gap in Higher Education: Navigating the Disconnect Between Technology Adoption, Policy Awareness, and Institutional Governance

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly permeated higher education workplaces, yet a significant disconnect exists between employee adoption of AI tools and institutional policy awareness, governance structures, and strategic clarity. This study examines the emergent phenomenon of the "AI implementation gap" in higher...

Jonathan H. Westover · 0 citations

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