(Ebook) Rise of the Machines: A Critical Consideration of Automated Leadership Decision Making in Organizations by Ken Parry, Michael Cohen & Sukanto Bhattacharya

(Ebook) Rise of the Machines: A Critical Consideration of Automated Leadership Decision Making in Organizations by Ken Parry, Michael Cohen & Sukanto Bhattacharya

''Machines are increasingly becoming a substitute for human skills andintelligence in a number of fields where decisions that are crucial to groupperformance have to be taken under stringent constraints—for example,when an army contingent has to devise battlefield tactics or when a medicalteam has to diagnose and treat a life-threatening condition or illness. Wehypothesize a scenario where similar machine-based intelligent technologyis available to support, and even substitute human decision making in anorganizational leadership context. We do not engage in any metaphysicaldebate on the plausibility of such a scenario. Rather, we contend that givenwhat we observe in several other fields of human decision making, such ascenario may very well eventuate in the near future. We argue a numberof “positives” that can be expected to emerge out of automated groupand organizational leadership decision making. We also posit several antitheses—“negatives” that can also potentially emerge from the hypothesizedscenario and critically consider their implications. We aim to bringleadership and organization theorists, as well as researchers in machineintelligence, together at the discussion table for the first time and postulate