The revolutionary advancement of artificial intelligence is comprehensively transforming all industries. How to embrace organizational innovation trends in the AI era and reshape new pathways for career development has become a critical issue for both enterprises and individuals. On May 15, the "Global HR & Organizational Innovation Center 2024 Annual Forum" by emlyon business school was grandly held at Shanghai Caohejing Hi-Tech Park. Professors from Shanghai's top business schools, scholars, doctoral candidates, GDBA participants, HR executives from leading enterprises, and industry association representatives gathered to focus on "Reconstructing Core Drivers in the AI Era", sharing brilliant insights and pioneering new approaches for work redesign and organizational innovation through industry-academia-research collaboration.

The forum was hosted by emlyon business school's Global Human Resources and Organizational Innovation Center (GHOIC), co-organized by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics' Research Team on Leadership and Organizational Innovation in the Digital Economy, emlyon's Global DBA Program, and Shanghai Caohejing Hi-Tech Park Development Corporation, with support from HRflag and VHR Alliance.

At the opening ceremony, Professor WANG Hua, Vice President of emlyon business school, Asian President, and French Dean of the Asia-Europe business school, delivered the welcome address. Professor Wang emphasized that we currently stand at a critical crossroads in AI development, where the wave of artificial intelligence - whether approached through "effective altruism" or "effective acceleration" - will inevitably disrupt and transform human-organization relationships, human-technology interactions, and human-machine dynamics. He encouraged attendees to actively embrace this era of human-AI coexistence while remaining vigilant about potential psychological impacts of AI on humanity. By combining forward-thinking theoretical frameworks with grounded practical exploration, we can uncover certainty within uncertainty and jointly create a sustainable future.

▲ Professor WANG Hua, Vice President of emlyon business school, Asian President, and French Dean of Asia-Europe business school,

Academic Insights · Foreseeing the Future
Exploring New Paradigms for Organizational Transformation, Igniting the "Core" Drive for Work Redesign

During the keynote session, Mr. TANG Qiuyong, Executive Director of HRflag and Co-Director of emlyon business school's Global Human Resources and Organizational Innovation Center (GHOIC), presented the latest developments and future trends in HR and organizational innovation. He particularly emphasized that artificial intelligence has brought a crucial paradigm shift to human resource management: corporate talent management is evolving from externally-driven and self-driven approaches to intelligence-driven models. Traditional industrial-era performance philosophies like KPIs and OKRs will inevitably be replaced by EIOFS (Early Indicators of Future Success).

"The emergence of new productive forces brings new performance philosophies," Tang noted. "Only by understanding the essence of things can we better comprehend the world and predict the future." He specifically mentioned that GHOIC plans to release a special research report on EIOFS next week, which will represent the world's first in-depth study of performance systems in the AI era.

▲ Mr. TANG Qiuyong, Executive Director of HRflag and Co-Director of emlyon business school's Global Human Resources and Organizational Innovation Center (GHOIC)

Professor CHU Rongwei, deputy director of the Department of Marketing of Fudan University and Secretary General of the China Marketing Research Center of Fudan University, focused on the special group of invisible people in the city, leading everyone to deeply reflect on the effective path for workplace people to complete identity reshaping in the era of artificial intelligence, and then regain the new value and dignity of work. Stay-at-home moms, delivery riders, network anchors, freelancers... In the present society, more and more occupations are outside the traditional social culture, social space, social law, and social timing, which leads to the neglect and underestimation of labor. For human resource managers, it is necessary to re-examine these "invisible" invisible work and labor; For workers in the new era, it is also necessary to learn to give new meaning to occupation through the self-construction of social meaning and family meaning, and regain the value and dignity of work.

▲ Professor CHU Rongwei, deputy director of the Department of Marketing of Fudan University and Secretary General of the China Marketing Research Center of Fudan University

Professor JIANG Qin, professor of the Department of History and deputy dean of the School of Humanities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, took history as a mirror to deeply analyze the way of official career promotion in the era of imperial examinations, and inspired new ideas to cope with workplace changes and work challenges. Professor Jiang Qin said that behind the choice of any career track and goal setting, there are different understandings of the meaning of reading and working. In this era of AI full of uncertainty, the most important thing in the process of job reshaping is to seriously reflect on the goals, tasks and meaning of career development, and find a suitable position for yourself, only in this way can help better self-realization.

▲ Professor JIANG Qin, professor of the Department of History and deputy dean of the School of Humanities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University,

Professor DING Wenxian, Associate Academic Director of the Global Business Intelligence Center at emlyon business school and GDBA mentor, delivered a presentation focused on "Organizational Transformation in the AI Era," providing an in-depth analysis of the groundbreaking significance of generative artificial intelligence and its profound implications for reconstructing future human-machine relationships and corporate organizational architectures.

Professor DING emphasized that the breakthroughs in generative AI represent a revolutionary advancement in human capabilities. This transformative technology not only exponentially amplifies the power of human cognition but also effectively overcomes the inherent limitations of human brain in terms of cognitive capacity and information processing. She articulated a fundamental shift in human-machine dynamics - where the traditional user-used relationship will evolve into a collaborative partnership model. This paradigm shift will drive a comprehensive reorganization of corporate structures in the AI era, with the majority of operational tasks being assumed by digital workforces, thereby transforming enterprises into extensive networked systems. In this new configuration, only a minimal number of human professionals will be required for strategic leadership and decision-making roles, with each individual capable of managing workloads that previously required entire teams.

▲Professor DING Wenxian, Associate Academic Director of the Global Business Intelligence Center at emlyon business school and GDBA mentor,

Professor MENG Liang, Professor of the School of International Business Administration, Director of the Department of Management and Organization, and director of the Institute of Organizational Behavior and Organizational Neuroscience of Shanghai International Studies University, explained the value and importance of motivation in job reshaping in detail in the sharing of "Workplace" job reshaping motivation. Professor Meng Liang believes that an in-depth understanding of the behavioral motivations that drive employees to reshape their work can help people rationally plan and increase work output in a way that maximizes personal value and organizational benefits. From external restriction to internal adjustment to autonomous motivation, through in-depth understanding of the specific motivation of employees, organizational managers can formulate targeted incentive plans, effectively improve the subjective initiative of individuals in work, and improve the overall well-being of employees. Colleagues can also better understand each other and optimize their work collaboration.

▲ Professor MENG Liang, Professor of the School of International Business Administration, Director of the Department of Management and Organization, and director of the Institute of Organizational Behavior and Organizational Neuroscience of Shanghai International Studies University

Industry Exploration · Innovative Practices
Technology-Enabled Work Redesign: Unlocking New Future Possibilities

WU han, head of digital transformation of Caohejing Development Zone Corporation, focused on the forefront of science and technology in the field of artificial intelligence, and shared the latest practical achievements of Caohejing Development Zone in recent years in the integration of GPT and large model ecology. Based on the three-in-one digital transformation with "information, model and action" as the core, Caohejing Development Zone is moving towards creating a new generation of intelligent parks and promoting the park's digital industrial chain and industrial clusters. Wuhan introduced that in terms of park GPT, the current first-stage park GPT application has landed, which can help park managers do a good job of resource allocation, service optimization and auxiliary decision-making; In terms of the integrated application of large model ecology, Caohejing's large model platform can simultaneously process and analyze a large number of enterprise data, leasing data, operation data, other platforms and external data. Then, by further connecting to the park GPT platform, it provides reliable support for the park's operation management and future planning.

▲WU han, head of digital transformation of Caohejing Development Zone Corporation

LU Ye, head of human resources of Google Greater China and one of the founders of Google China Disability Alliance, and ZOU Fei, technical director of software development of Google Wallet and one of the founders of Google China Disability Alliance, brought a wonderful sharing of the theme of "How organizations reshape disability integration". From creating a barrier-free workplace, to recruiting and training a diverse workforce, to building a culture of belonging, Lu and Zou shared in detail Google's success in disability integration, as well as the latest practices of the Google China Disability Alliance, and said that this cause can greatly reshape and change individuals, organizations and communities. Thus, while enhancing the self-cognition and development potential of individual life, it promotes organizations and communities to become more inclusive and diverse, and creates a harmonious and beautiful new future of science and technology.

▲ Google Greater China HR Head and Google China Disability Alliance Co-Founder LU Ye, along with Google Wallet Software Engineering Director and Google China Disability Alliance Co-Founder ZOU Fei

Aon Consulting Business Line Leader and Partner Maggie You shared insights on "Organizational and Skills Transformation in the AI Era," noting that artificial intelligence has become one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century. In building forward-looking position systems, Aon's digital skills tool SkillsGraph integrates with Workday to enable bidirectional data flow, matching appropriate skills to each role and talent while providing digital skills solutions based on position systems to empower holistic talent mobility and development frameworks. Aon's career exploration platform combines engaging assessment processes, Pathfinder matching algorithms, and interactive personal reports to effectively help employees understand their capability readiness for future work, supporting skill enhancement to address new challenges and enabling future work and career development.

▲Aon Consulting Business Line Leader and Partner Maggie You

Professor CHEN Zhijun, Chair of the HR Management Department and Academic Director of the MBA Center at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Business School, focused on "Implementing Job Crafting in Practice." Guided by task redesign, cognitive redesign, and relational redesign, he led participants through structured exercises—including task analysis, meaning evaluation, time allocation, importance-scarcity classification, redesign direction setting, task element adjustment, and work reflection—using a table-based framework. Mr. YU Wentao, Asia HR Director at Roquette, Secretary-General of emlyon business school's Global HR & Organizational Innovation Center, and GDBA candidate, further dissected job crafting implementation strategies and practical steps in a workshop format, providing valuable references for individuals, teams, and superior-subordinate work redesign.

▲ Professor CHEN Zhijun, Chair of HR Management and MBA Academic Director, SUFE Business School

▲ YU Wentao, Roquette Asia HR Director, GHOIC Secretary-General, GDBA Candidate

During the breakout workshop session, Dr. LI Peihua, Co-Founder of Empower Management Institute, Associate Director of emlyon's HR & Organizational Innovation Center, CBL Academic Director, and EMBA & MBA Leadership and Action Learning Academic Director, created a dynamic "World Café" setting. She guided participants in deep discussions on the significance of job crafting, comparative tool analysis, and practical application scenarios, fostering new insights through collaborative thinking and co-creating sustainable development strategies in an open, shared environment.

▲ Dr. LI Peihua, Co-Founder of Empower Management Institute, Associate Director at emlyon GHOIC

Industry-Academia Collaboration · Value Co-Creation
Building an Organizational Innovation Ecosystem to Bridge Cutting-Edge Theory and Practice

At the event, Mr. QIAN Guoxin, founder of VHR Alliance and GDBA candidate at emlyon business school, solemnly announced the official launch of the "Global Industry-Academia-Research Value Co-Creation Initiative on HR & Organizational Innovation and the 2024 AI+ (Three-Year) Action Plan."

▲Mr. QIAN Guoxin, founder of VHR Alliance and GDBA candidate at emlyon business school

Following the five initiatives proposed last year to advocate practice leadership, return to the source of theory, structure industry-university alliance, jointly empower enterprises, and build student-oriented industry leaders, this initiative advocates:

• Focus on building an "ecosystem" of human resources and organizational innovation in the AI era
• Conduct joint research based on enterprise and industry cutting-edge phenomena in the AI era
• Build an AI+ talent ability training system.
• Driving the reshaping of organizations and work in the AI era

In the era of AI, interpersonal relationships within organizations involve not only the relationship between people, people and organizations, people and customers, but also the relationship between people and "machines" and people and AI. To this end, we call on scholars, research institutions and enterprises to pay attention to this reshaping of the relationship, attach importance to strengthening human-machine collaboration, and jointly explore how to build a "human-machine hybrid" organizational system; How to strengthen the behavior of "human-computer interaction" to realize the complement of human and artificial intelligence; How to unleash human potential through AI and promote a virtuous cycle of cooperation between humans and artificial intelligence. Next, emlyon business school will further actively organize related theme activities, including but not limited to:

• Scholars' research results in the practice of enterprises;
• Joint business case studies;
• Application tool development;
• Frontier research topics;
• Company AI+ training framework.

Let us strengthen collaboration with scholars, research institutions and enterprises across all sectors to jointly research, discuss and address the challenges facing HR and organizational development in the AI era, working together to create a brilliant and sustainable future!

The event concluded with closing remarks delivered by YU Wentao, Asia HR Director at Roquette, Secretary-General of emlyon business school's Global HR & Organizational Innovation Center, and GDBA candidate.

▲ YU Wentao Asia HR Director at Roquette, Secretary-General of emlyon Global HR & Organizational Innovation Center, GDBA Candidate

AI technology leads, a new era. This annual meeting forum highly gathers the innovative ideas and practical achievements of top domestic experts, scholars and business executives, guides the direction of human resources and organizational innovation with cutting-edge academic achievements, accelerates work reshaping and business landing with down-to-earth application tools, and gathers strength through consensus. It provides a very valuable practical reference and experience for the future transformation of enterprises and individuals.

Global HR & Organization Innovation Center

The Global Human Resources and Organizational Innovation Center (GHOIC) at emlyon business school establishes research programs focusing on organizational development, HR technology, employer branding, and emerging trends in the HR services ecosystem. As an international HR think tank, GHOIC leverages the expertise of emlyon's faculty in human capital and organizational studies, along with resources from the emlyon Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Management, to create an open research and innovation platform that facilitates deep collaboration between world-class scholars and corporate executives in the field of human resources and organizational management.

Career & Leadership Club

The Career & Leadership Club of emlyon business school, in line with the philosophy of "lifelong learning and lifelong growth", aims to help Lyon alumni enhance their personal influence and unlock unlimited potential through leadership development. The club connects, empower and achieves alumni by organizing a series of interesting and informative online and offline activities for leadership development and career development.

Global DBA (Asia Track)

With rapid technological advancements and unpredictable global developments, lifelong learning has become the right path for individuals to adapt to social changes and achieve personal development in this uncertain era. emlyon business school's Global DBA (GDBA) program focuses on academic education through practice-oriented courses, complemented by a unique industry-academia-research triple helix cultivation system. It is designed to provide business leaders with new methods and ideas to address current challenges, explore new mysteries of the business world together, and gain management wisdom. It also opens paths for transformation for business leaders seeking personal reinvention and personal branding.

For more information about the GDBA program, please contact:

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