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The double-edged sword effect of algorithmic management on work engagement of platform workers: the roles of appraisals and resources
Originally published 2025-06-25 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1522088 ↗
AI / system type
Algorithmic management of food-delivery work
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 of food-delivery work. Algorithmic management/control is not assumed to be machine learning or generative AI.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings challenge and threat appraisals under delivery-platform management into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers delivery-worker questionnaire study evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is challenge and threat appraisals under delivery-platform management. Source setting or population: 292 delivery workers on two major food-delivery platforms in China. 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
How can I tell whether an algorithmic work demand is an opportunity or a threat?
This delivery-worker questionnaire study examines challenge and threat appraisals under delivery-platform management. Its TRICK home is Independence, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
292 delivery workers on two major food-delivery platforms in China
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- How can I tell whether an algorithmic work demand is an opportunity or a threat?
- What do this study’s design and population — 292 delivery workers on two major food-delivery platforms in China — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering challenge and threat appraisals under delivery-platform management, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Platform-specific perceptions and statistical mediation do not establish causal effects or show that control is desirable for all workers.
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Feifei Li; Xiaohui Zhan; Yun Liu (2025). The double-edged sword effect of algorithmic management on work engagement of platform workers: the roles of appraisals and resources Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1522088
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