The Contingent Effect of Organizational Artificial Intelligence Adoption on Employees’ Taking Charge: Based on Social Cognitive Theory
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Organizational AI Adoption, Taking Charge, Organization-based Self-esteem, Future FocusAbstract
The advent of Artificial intelligence (AI) is catalyzing significant transformations in human work dynamics. Existing research has not yet provided a clear picture of how organizational AI adoption will affect employees’ taking charge. Based on this background, this study explores the internal mechanisms by which organizational AI adoption affects employees’ taking charge based on social cognitive theory. The results of the empirical analysis of the 342 samples indicate that: organizational AI adoption leads to a decline in employees’ organizational-based self-esteem; organization-based self-esteem plays a mediating role between organizational AI adoption and employees’ taking charge; future focus is paid to moderating the relationship between organizational-based self-esteem and taking charge and is a determinant of how their organizational-based self-esteem affects taking charge; future focus is paid to moderating the impact of organizational AI adoption through the indirect effects of organizational-based self-esteem on taking charge. This study highlights the importance of considering individual characteristics (e.g., future focus) when analyzing how organizational AI adoption affects employees’ behaviors.
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