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Overview
In line with the 2024 Annual Meeting theme – Innovating for the Future – this topic will address the dramatic technological shifts as well as the ever-changing workplace complexities at the intersection of innovation, policy, and purpose. Helping to answer the questions on how organizations and managers can create policies (at macro, meta, and micro levels) that strike a balance between regulating the use of emerging technologies (such as AI) and incentivizing innovation that aligns with responsible, purpose-oriented and scalable growth.

Specific topics include:  

• Implications for organizations in the face of unprecedented complexity, rapid technological change, and more. 
• How employees and employers can work together at the intersection of innovation, policy, and purpose as means for rethinking conventional ways of leading, managing, and organizing. 
• Digital and technological innovation implications on performance management, worker creativity and productivity. 
• How AI will change the nature of work and what workers, managers, and organizational leaders can do to evolve. 
• Implications of artificial intelligence, social media and ever-changing technologies on the workplace.  
• Policy, regulation, and innovation implications and challenges in the face of drastic technological shifts.