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How does human-AI collaboration task complexity affect employee work engagement? The roles of humble leadership and AI self-efficacy

Originally published 2026-02-10 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1767967 ↗

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AI / system type

Human–AI collaboration task complexity and AI self-efficacy

Workplace evidence

Examines 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: Human–AI collaboration task complexity and AI self-efficacy. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.

Why this reading matters

The reading brings task complexity, learning anxiety and humble leadership in AI collaboration into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers three-wave matched employee survey evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.

Workplace evidence

Work, care and the whole person.

The workplace lens is task complexity, learning anxiety and humble leadership in AI collaboration. Source setting or population: 497 employees in a human–AI collaboration study. 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 · Collaboration

How can a team make learning to work with AI feel manageable?

This three-wave matched employee survey examines task complexity, learning anxiety and humble leadership in AI collaboration. Its TRICK home is Collaboration, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.

Study context

497 employees in a human–AI collaboration study

Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred

Read with three questions

  1. How can a team make learning to work with AI feel manageable?
  2. What do this study’s design and population — 497 employees in a human–AI collaboration study — allow you to infer about another workplace?
  3. When considering task complexity, learning anxiety and humble leadership in AI collaboration, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?

Keep the limits in view

Time-lagged associations cannot establish that humble leadership causes less anxiety; complexity and AI self-efficacy may vary by occupation.

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Bolin Wang; Simeng Liu; Chenhao Luo (2026). How does human-AI collaboration task complexity affect employee work engagement? The roles of humble leadership and AI self-efficacy Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1767967

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