Comparing Articles Pick one Harvard Business Review article and at least one other article from a scholarly peer-reviewed journal. Neither article should be listed in the readings for this course. The...

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Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Journal
Automation and job satisfaction
Due to the advent of Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Robotics, most of the work has been automated and has raised the concern of workers. This has led to the development of research study – effects of automation on employment. The research study reveals negative effects of automation on employment and wages. Automation may hamper innovation and productivity, which will lead to dissatisfaction and mental stress in workers. The two recent research works, on workers’ well-being and workers’ mental health by Abeliansky and Beulmann could not investigate the impact of automation on jobs satisfaction. Though, the literature findings reveal that automation differs for high-skilled and low-skilled workers, the result indicates that low-skilled workers are more prone to the risk of automation. Low-skilled workers who carry out routine-based tasks, due to fear of replacement are least satisfied. Thus, workers with lower level of skills are subjected to the effects of automation. These results have been derived by following an econometric model. The analysis was carried out with the help of micro data from the Working Life Barometer Survey and International Federation of Robotics in Norway.
Numerous scholars have studied the effects of technology on employment after the spurt of technological convergence. One of the literature points out canonical model of skilled bias. According to this model, technology has polarised skilled and unskilled workers. Sachs and Kotlikoff further provide evidence of perpetuating gap between old skilled and young unskilled workers. According to job polarisation hypothesis, high-skilled workers are complemented by automation technologies, middle-skilled workers are more affected due to technical change and low-skilled workers’ tasks are not easy to automate. Thus, middle-skilled workers are shifting for low-skilled works. Even high-skilled workers are shifting towards low-skilled works due to less return on investment and decline in their demand. According to Acemoglu and Restrepo, there are two types industrial automation effects, one is displacement effect, that affect the wages and demand of the workers and the other is productivity effect, which increases the productivity. But the evidence suggests that displacement effect is stronger than productivity effect.
I. Fear of Replacement-
Proposition- Low- skilled workers will be more affected by automation than high-skilled workers.
Explanation: Low-skilled workers’ routine task could be more easily replaced by machines.
High-skilled workers are more aware about latest technologies and know their negative consequences, so fear of replacement is higher among high-skilled workers too. But they know the positive effects of automation which will lead to overall economic...