AI jobs redesign could be a game changer for managers and employees by lightening burdensome administrative tasks and allowing them to focus on meaningful work at every level, according to a new research study. The key factor is the understanding of what encouraged them, what drains them and where their capabilities are most valued. Then, we can use AI to get rid of the things that drain them and learn more things that encourage them and where they are more productive.
AI can change the work and tasks
According to a research paper named “Generative AI and Nature of the Work,” AI can change the way knowledge workers design their tasks, particularly in software development. HBS Assistant Professor Frank Nagle and his team researched it.
The authors explore how AI combination changed the work open-source developers do. Their finding indicates that the access to AI-powered tools allows developers to focus their efforts on their tasks while spending less time on managerial and administrative duties.
Additionally, ai adoption can do more autonomus work than human, reducing the need for collaborative interactions. It encouraged “exploration” instead of “repetitive exploitation” as developers challenged new programming languages and experiments.
This transformation has big implications for the modern workplace by automating routine tasks and has the potential to thin organizational hierarchies and redefine knowledge work, the author argues. The research also suggests that AI also gives benefits to lower-skilled workers, allowing them to fill productivity gaps with their high-skilled counterparts.
Nagle and his teams claims that if use of AI allows employees to do more meaning full and creative work , we may be on the edge of the workplace shift that prioritize innovation over administration.
AI—A tool for job crafting
AI may generate openings for employees to shape their roles in ways that enhance engagement and satisfaction. Similarly, job crafting is an approach that involves actively reshaping the work to align with what provides energy and where your capabilities lie.
One of the key principles of creating successful job moves is understanding your “energy drives” and “energy drains.” If AI can handle the aspects of work that lower energy, workers can focus on the tasks that excite and motivate them and increase satisfaction and performance. Then it can help individuals to practice at the top of their craft as they define it.
Thinking in terms of liabilities and assets
Another critical factor in figuring out what to unload to AI is the career balance sheet of Professor Boris Groysberg. Just like a business assesses its assets and liabilities , employees should write down their assets in the form of their skills, knowledge and experience. Then they should resolve their liabilities, such as investment of time and money, to boost their assets and to create new ones.
How AI works for you
AI is often considered a force that will replace jobs but according to Nagle and his team, AI could be the tool that helps employees and workers to craft more meaningful work and engaging careers and roles if they know how to utilize it.
