Posted by The next interview in our series is with Prof. Sharon Glazer of the University of Baltimore and the University of Maryland on the topic of to what extent and when artificial intelligence will make humans redundant in companies.
Prof. Sharon Glazer has made significant contributions to the field of applied psychology, particularly with regard to occupational health and stress. Her research spans the globe, focusing on various occupations and applied psychology issues, such as Brazil, Peru, India, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Israel and Japan. She has contributed to dialogue and knowledge of other cultures. Prof. Glazer is currently working on the 4th edition of the Cambridge University Press textbook, Cross-Cultural Psychology.
If you want to learn how artificial intelligence will affect human work in companies, see this video:
Mark the answers to the following questions:
- What has happened in the last two years that has changed our lives, our work and the way we think about ourselves and the world we live in, such as artificial intelligence?
- What are the contributions of work and organizational psychology to the world?
- We keep hearing about ChatGPT. Which professions will be replaced by artificial intelligence the fastest?
- What qualities does an artificial manager need to have in order to really influence people’s work?
- How will we develop new competencies? Is it possible to prepare for artificial intelligence?
- What can we, the work and organizational psychology community, offer to help lead and manage change?
- How will an artificial intelligence-based manager be better than a human manager?
- What processes or factors should occur to replace the human manager with an artificial manager, i.e., a machine equipped with artificial intelligence?
- What changes are desirable? What changes are necessary? Can we make the desired changes at all? In what ways?
- Where is our voice as a work and organizational psychology community? What do we need to say? How should we say it?
- What would be the consequences if a team manager became a robot manager, built on artificial intelligence?
- What might it look like to work in a team where the manager and several team members are robots based on artificial intelligence?
The interview with Prof. Sharon Glazer was conducted by Olaf Flak, Ph.D., an independent trainer and business consultant.