Artificial Intelligence and Human Capital: Deployment Design, Psychological Mechanisms, Organizational Conditions

Organizations have spent years asking whether their workforces will accept artificial intelligence. That question is settled. What remains unanswered is far more consequential: what does sustained AI engagement actually do to people? This book takes up that question with precision. Drawing on three original empirical studies across organizational and educational settings in North Cyprus, the authors trace the psychological mechanisms through which AI deployment shapes motivation, self-efficacy, adaptive performance, and well-being. The findings are specific and, at points, uncomfortable. Governance-oriented AI deployment depletes psychological resources at a rate that augmentation benefits cannot offset. The harm pathway runs approximately twice the magnitude of the benefit pathway. Self-efficacy, built through genuine mastery experience, is AI's primary human capital output across every context studied. The conditions determining whether any of these mechanisms produce their expected returns are organizational choices, not technological inevitabilities.

Pagina's: 360, Paperback, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing