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Are HR professionals insecure? AI, job insecurity and the re-wiring of workplace learning
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- Interviews or qualitative study
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Purpose The expediting adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across organizations is fundamentally reconfiguring human resource management functions, raising substantive questions about the psychological experience of the HR professionals who perform them. Building on conservation of resources theory, this study aims to explore how HR professionals experience and interpret AI-driven changes to their roles, how these changes shape perceptions of job insecurity and whether workplace learning helps in mitigating…
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52Problem side
The gain
In interviews with HR professionals, participants said self-directed workplace learning restored their professional agency and adaptive capacity, and some came to see AI disruption as a career opportunity.
The problem
In interviews with HR professionals, AI-driven role changes produced job insecurity, expressed as uncertainty over evolving role expectations rather than immediate fear of job loss.
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What this doesn’t fix
The qualitative design with a relatively small sample of subjective accounts limits generalizability, participants came from different sectors with varying AI adoption, and the data were collected in 2025 in a cross-sectional design.
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1 on file- Journal of Workplace Learningdoi:10.1108/jwl-05-2026-0256
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v1Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2515, v1: “Are HR professionals insecure? AI, job insecurity and the re-wiring of workplace learning.” Truvace, 2026-11-12. /record/TRV-2026-2515 (accessed on the day you copy it). sha256 95ca0679abf4b4bb…
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