Computer Could Be Your Next Manager
The world’s largest hedge fund is building an algorithmic model from its employees’ brains
Automizing management : Bridgewater wants day-to-day management hiring, firing, decision-making to be guided by software that doles out instructions
Whether you work for a supervisor or are an entrepreneur employing them, the reality of artificial intelligence has begun to hit the world of management.
Sure, there will be times that people skills are most important, but how able are most managers and supervisors? In that context, consider that one in two employees leave their jobs because of bad managers, according to Gallup.
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A study from Danish consulting firms DARE2 and Bloch & Ostergaard suggest that a third of workers in the U.S. would prefer a software boss to a human one. They think the machine would be more trustworthy and ethical and that performance evaluations would be unbiased, unlike what they get from people.
Managers are getting squeezed from the top and bottom because of their own shortcomings and human failings. As AI and decisions systems get even better, anyone who thinks a position in middle (or even upper) management is safe should consider a long round of perception adjustment. Such jobs may actually be among the most easily replaced.
There are reasons you’d want a human in a management position. Emotional insight, for one, or the ability to grasp the psychology of group dynamics, or to persuade people to do their best. But if the humans in place don’t already do this, the need for people as managers quickly falls away.
Automizing management : Bridgewater wants day-to-day management hiring, firing, decision-making to be guided by software that doles out instructions
Whether you work for a supervisor or are an entrepreneur employing them, the reality of artificial intelligence has begun to hit the world of management.
Sure, there will be times that people skills are most important, but how able are most managers and supervisors? In that context, consider that one in two employees leave their jobs because of bad managers, according to Gallup.
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A study from Danish consulting firms DARE2 and Bloch & Ostergaard suggest that a third of workers in the U.S. would prefer a software boss to a human one. They think the machine would be more trustworthy and ethical and that performance evaluations would be unbiased, unlike what they get from people.
Managers are getting squeezed from the top and bottom because of their own shortcomings and human failings. As AI and decisions systems get even better, anyone who thinks a position in middle (or even upper) management is safe should consider a long round of perception adjustment. Such jobs may actually be among the most easily replaced.
There are reasons you’d want a human in a management position. Emotional insight, for one, or the ability to grasp the psychology of group dynamics, or to persuade people to do their best. But if the humans in place don’t already do this, the need for people as managers quickly falls away.
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