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How Algorithmic Management Influences Gig Workers’ Job Crafting
Originally published 2024-10-15 · Behavioral Sciences
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/bs14100952 ↗
AI / system type
Algorithmic management, gameful experience and perceived job autonomy
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Algorithmic management, gameful experience and perceived job autonomy. Algorithmic management/control is not assumed to be machine learning or generative AI.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings gameful experiences, autonomy and gig-worker job crafting into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers two-stage gig-worker survey evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is gameful experiences, autonomy and gig-worker job crafting. Source setting or population: 687 valid gig-worker responses. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Is platform flexibility giving me real control over how I work?
This two-stage gig-worker survey examines gameful experiences, autonomy and gig-worker job crafting. Its TRICK home is Independence, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
687 valid gig-worker responses
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- Is platform flexibility giving me real control over how I work?
- What do this study’s design and population — 687 valid gig-worker responses — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering gameful experiences, autonomy and gig-worker job crafting, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Survey pathways are observational; gameful management and perceived autonomy should not be equated with freely chosen or secure work.
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Rong Liu; Haorong Yin (2024). How Algorithmic Management Influences Gig Workers’ Job Crafting Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14100952
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