Employment and Work Motivation in the Information Economy: Transformation and Interrelation

• Main Author: Azmuk Nadiya A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: PH "INZHEK" 2017-12-01
• Series: Problemi Ekonomiki
• Subjects: digital employment; artificial intelligence; work motivation; distributed teams; competency-based approach to motivation; digital approach to motivation
• Online Access: http://www.problecon.com/export_pdf/problems-of-economy-2017-4_0-pages-376_383.pdf

The aim of the article is to study and systematize the trends in the transformation of employment and work motivation in the information economy. As a result of the study, the main trends in the transformation of employment in the information economy are identified. The interrelation between the transformation of employment and work motivation is substantiated. A comparative analysis of the main elements of the motivational model in the traditional and information economy is carried out. A new form of interaction between remote digital workers in distributed teams is explored. A new element of the digital labor market – artificial intelligence – is characterized and its role and place in it is defined. Attention is focused on changing the role of artificial intelligence from the labor market object to its subject. There proposed the author’s definition of the concept “employment in the information economy”, which is based on the change in the essential characteristics of employment under the influence of the development of digital technologies. The interrelation between the transformation of employment and work motivation is substantiated. A comparative analysis of the main elements of the motivational model in the traditional and information economy is carried out. A new form of interaction between remote digital workers in distributed teams is explored.