A Management Crisis in the Making
CAHRS Academic Director Says Conventional Management has Shifted
Korn Ferry's "A Management Crisis in the Making" explores the tension between what firms expect of managers and how they prepare them for the role. Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents have contributed to a change that makes the work of management today is about as foreign and unrecognizable as it was when it first emerged as an area of focus for academics and authors in the first half of the 20th century.
“There’s been a real paradigm shift in terms of what it means to be a manager over the last five years,” says Brad Bell, CAHRS Academic Director and William J. Conaty Professor of Strategic Human Resources. “Conventional management training doesn’t work.”