Evan Sinar, Ph.D. – The Impact of AI on Organizational Research

Evan Sinar, Ph.D. – The Impact of AI on Organizational Research

Evan Sinar, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at Amazon discusses how development of generative AI solutions is affecting psychological and organizational research.  Evan led applied research teams at DDI and BetterUp before joining Amazon and works on the forefront of research focused on employee performance and development.  He shares how AI is reshaping research methods but also calls out its limitations and risks.  Some things we cover:

• How the ability to analyze qualitative data is transforming organizational research
• The largely untapped research knowledge available from mining legacy text sources
• Why we should talk about time utilization instead of time savings when discussing the value of AI

We also hear Steve describe his career as a series of ostentatious sounding but vaguely meaningless job titles.