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Sep 2026
The Alignment Paradox: A Theory of AI ‐Driven Misalignment in HR Systems
It is argued that AI's operational requirements weaken horizontal alignment by creating logic conflicts within HR systems, cause employee skill development to drift from strategic needs, cause employees to default to metric‐aligned behaviors, and diminish workforce value as a competitive resource.
Pankaj C. Patel, Yasin Rofcanin, Rıfat Kamaşak et al.
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