It seems like not a day goes by at the moment without a news headline about how the use of AI and/or robots are transforming the economy and society, or are likely to result in large-scale job losses for certain types of worker. Just recently John Harris wrote in The Guardian about the possibility that AI-enhancedRead more
This Blog post was written by Dr Crispin Coombs. This question has prompted considerable debate in the popular media and prompted the CIPD to commission research by Donald Hislop, Crispin Coombs, Stanimira Taneva and Sarah Barnard at Loughborough University School of Business and Economics to find out what current research says. Our findings show thereRead more
In a previous blog (February 17th), I detailed the dark side of digital technology within working contexts. Here, I wish to redress the balance by outlining the positive use of technology in employment selection and assessment. Specifically, the developing, novel and highly interactive media of games-based assessment. Technology in selection Think back to your first-everRead more
Writing in The Conversation, Dr Eva Selenko looks at the links between job insecurity, mental health and extremism: “…The list of negative consequences of job insecurity is depressingly long; the more people worry about losing their jobs the lower their mental well-being, and the more physical health complaints they report. Effects can range from occasionalRead more
When it comes to managing creative IT professionals, the Oliver Twins can teach us all a thing or two. As pioneers of the UK computer games industry and founders of ‘Radiant Worlds’, a thriving British games development company, Philip and Andrew Oliver have three decades’ experience of working with and managing games programmers and otherRead more
Technology has revolutionised and shaped our personal and working lives. Communication, banking, healthcare, dating, shopping, education, travel, gaming, employment selection etc., have all changed as a result of advances in technology. There is no doubt that this has been a force for good; however, the use of technology can be abused and, to paraphrase fromRead more
Business gets a lot of bad press. We are not short of reports of bad behaviour about organizations and their members, from the LIBOR-fixing scandal to the BHS pension deficit. There is no denying that market-based organizations are massively influential within our society, however this influence can also be harnessed in positive ways. So howRead more
Recent news stories have reported on an EU Court of Justice ruling about whether people should get paid for travelling to work (http://fortune.com/2015/09/11/commuting-work-pay/ , http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34210002 , http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/boost-for-care-staff-as-eu-court-rules-time-travelling-to-and-from-job-is-work-10495697.html?origin=internalSearch). While the title of many stories mistakenly referred to people being paid for commuting to work, the news item does raise interesting issues about the changing nature ofRead more
When sitting on trains or planes, or when passing through airports and motorway service stations it is a commonplace contemporary experience to see business travellers working. Often this involves the use of mobile phones, but may also involve working on laptops or working with paper documents. Such anecdotal experiences raise various questions about the general extentRead more
One of my main motivations in working on my PhD is that every step I take is aimed towards contributing something to my local community, the community that I have become a part of 1.5 years ago when my husband and I decided to build ourselves a future in the Barnsley area. At that timeRead more