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Managing workuniverses with workers and robots: The implications of digital-driven spatiotemporal dynamics for HRM

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The increasing presence of traditional or new forms of robots at work demonstrates how the copresence of workers and robots might reframe work and workplaces and consequently arouse new human resource management (HRM) questions regarding how to manage the spatiotemporal change of work in organizations. Based on a spatiotemporal perspective, this conceptual article examines the implication of new spatiotemporal dynamics of work, which are generated by the interaction between workers and traditional or new forms of robots that are driven by advanced digital technologies, for HRM. The article begins by carrying out a selective review focusing on the studies that enhanced our comprehension of the digital-driven spatiotemporal dynamics of work. It then presents a spatiotemporal framework from which it examines the implications of digital-driven spatiotemporal work boundaries for HRM. The article ends by underscoring the theoretical and empirical importance of taking more interest in new spatiotemporal forms of work for developing the HRM of the future. By developing the notion of workuniverses, which denotes the spatiotemporal boundaries generated by the act of working through the interaction between workers and different forms of robots, this research first develops a theoretical framework that discerns three forms of spatiotemporal dynamics forming workuniverses at different levels and two spatiotemporal arrays for managing the spatiotemporal change of work in organizations. The HRM questions and ethical concerns generated by the formation of workuniverses are then revealed through four focuses: the management ethics in workuniverses, individuals’ spatiotemporal wellbeing, collective spatiotemporal coordination, and spatiotemporal change management in the workuniverses. This research provides an original perspective, which is the spatiotemporal perspective, to examine the new spatiotemporal dynamics that form workuniverses and the HRM questions and concerns generated by the increasing interaction between workers and different forms of digital-driven robots.
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hal-04153448 , version 1 (06-07-2023)

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Hongxia Peng. Managing workuniverses with workers and robots: The implications of digital-driven spatiotemporal dynamics for HRM. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 2023, 36 (7), pp.1125-1143. ⟨10.1108/JOCM-11-2022-0334⟩. ⟨hal-04153448⟩
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