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Mind the Gap: Why Understanding AI Error Boundaries Is the Key to Unlocking Human-AI Team Performance
Abstract: Organizations increasingly deploy artificial intelligence to augment human decision-making in high-stakes domains, yet mounting evidence reveals that AI accuracy alone does not reliably translate into superior human-AI team outcomes. This article examines the critical but underexplored rol...
The Flexibility Paradox: Why Searching More Broadly for Work Can Narrow Unemployed Jobseekers' Prospects
Abstract: Policymakers across OECD nations routinely encourage or require unemployed jobseekers to widen their search beyond previous occupations, pay levels, and commuting ranges. Career scholars have similarly endorsed flexibility as a hallmark of adaptable, self-directed career management. Yet a ...
Quitting Is Contagious: How Turnover Contagion Spreads Through Teams and What Leaders Can Do About It
Abstract: This article examines the phenomenon of turnover contagion—the process by which employees' decisions to leave an organization spread to and influence the quitting behavior of their coworkers. Drawing on the foundational research of Felps et al. (2009), which demonstrated that coworkers' jo...
Direct Lines to Loyalty: Why Generation Z's Commitment Is Built in the Daily Experience of Work
Abstract: Generation Z now makes up a large and growing share of the workforce, and organizations are searching for reliable ways to earn and keep its commitment. This article draws on a recent study of 150 Generation Z employees in Surabaya, Indonesia (Noerchoidah et al., 2026), which found th...
The Vehicle and the Road: Why Systemic Conditions—Not Just Individual Bullies—Sustain Workplace Mistreatment
Abstract: Workplace bullying affects an estimated 32% of American workers and carries significant consequences for individual health and organizational performance. Yet organizational responses remain disproportionately focused on identifying and removing individual perpetrators rather than addressi...
Beyond Tasks: Redesigning Organizations Around Goals, Knowledge, and the People Who Hold Both
Abstract: Contemporary organizations face increasingly dynamic and unpredictable workstreams, yet the dominant frameworks guiding their structural choices remain anchored in mid-twentieth-century assumptions about task interdependence. This article synthesizes insights from a landmark review of the ...
The Contagious Career: How Supervisors, Coworkers, and Spouses Shape Employee Happiness, Health, and Productivity Through Crossover Effects
Abstract: This article examines the phenomenon of crossover—the interpersonal transmission of experiences between closely related individuals—and its implications for employee happiness, health, and productivity. Drawing on a landmark meta-analysis of 183 studies by Nguyen et al. (2026), the article...
Beyond the Job Seeker: How a Family Member's Job Search Spills Over Into the Workplace—and What Organizations Can Do About It
Abstract: This article examines how employees' performance and wellbeing can be affected when a family member—whether an adult child or a spouse—is actively searching for a job. Drawing on recent multi-study research by Halinski and Harrison (2026), the article translates findings on job search inte...
Perfectly Optimized, Strategically Adrift: Preventing AI-Driven Misalignment in HR Systems
Abstract: Organizations are adopting artificial intelligence across human resource functions at accelerating rates, driven by promises of enhanced efficiency and data-driven decision-making. Recent theoretical work, however, suggests that AI integration into HR systems may paradoxically undermine th...
Closing the Engagement Gap: Evidence-Based Strategies for Strengthening Satisfaction, Motivation, and Commitment Across Public and Private Organizations
Abstract: Employee satisfaction, motivation, and organizational commitment remain among the most consequential predictors of workforce productivity, service quality, and institutional longevity. Yet global engagement data suggest that most organizations—in both the public and private sectors—are fal...