Seminar (Dept. of General Management & Management Science and Engineering)

Title: Information Technology and Work-related Well-being: IT Consumerization-enabled Thriving at Work and Human-AI Teamwork Meaningfulness

Speaker: Mengxiang Li (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Time: 10:00 am, June 27th (Thursday), 2024

Venue: Room1007, Mingde Business Building

Language: Chinese/English

ABSTRACT:

This presentation synthesizes two working papers that delve into the impact of information technology on employees’ work-related well-being. Specifically, the first study explores IT consumerization (ITC), where employees use personal consumer IT for business purposes. Despite extensive research on ITC’s instrumental outcomes, its influence on humanistic objectives like thriving at work remains underexplored. Integrating the adaptive structuration theory for individuals and the user-task-technology fit model, we propose a synthesized model emphasizing ITC-initiated technology and task adaptation, fostering job and professional fit and ultimately enabling employees to thrive at work. The second study investigates human-AI teamwork meaningfulness through the automation-augmentation-assemblage framework and task-individual-technology fit model. By considering individual and technology characteristics, this research identifies task-AI fit and individual-AI fit as two crucial linkages to person-job fit and meaningful human-AI collaboration. It provides a holistic understanding of how the synergy among AI, employees, and tasks enhances teamwork meaningfulness in the future work of human-AI collaboration.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Mengxiang Li is an associate professor at the Department of Management, Marketing, and Information Systems, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University. His work appears in MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, Information & Management, Decision Support Systems. His current research examines innovative technology use, user-centered technology design, digital resilience, and remote everything. He has been an associate editor for Internet Research, Journal of Global Information Management, and Journal of Electronic Commerce Research.