RT journal article
T1 Beyond efficiency: epistemic well-being at work under algorithmic governance.
A1 Salazar-Altamirano, Mario Alberto
A1 Ravina Ripoll, Rafael
A2 Organización de Empresas
K1 Epistemic well-being at work
K1 Algorithmic governance
K1 Epistemic agency
K1 Human-centred AI
K1 Professional judgement
K1 Human sustainability
AB Workplace well-being research has generated extensive evidence on subjective experience and on organisational antecedents,such as leadership, climate, justice, and work design. Yet, these conditions are usually theorised as predictors of affective,evaluative, or functioning outcomes rather than as constitutive arrangements that determine whether workers can exerciseprofessional judgement with practical consequence. In parallel, debates on artificial intelligence (AI) often frame intelligenttechnologies as instruments of efficiency, optimisation, or control. Focusing on systems whose outputs enter consequentialorganisational evaluation and decision-making (including algorithmic management, predictive analytics, automated decision-making, decision-support systems, workplace surveillance, and generative AI) this article asks whether organisationalarrangements preserve or erode the capacity for judgement, contestation, and epistemic responsibility. It introduces EpistemicWell-being at Work (EWW) as an organisational condition in which individuals and collectives can exercise responsiblejudgement within socio-technical structures of authority. Drawing on the view of intelligent technologies as emergentepistemic regimes, this paper develops the Human Sustainability and Epistemic Well-being Framework (HSEW-F), linkingAI-mediated governance, human dignity at work, and sustainable organisational well-being. The contribution is conceptual:it extends, rather than displaces, established well-being approaches by making the effective exercise of epistemic agencyvisible as a structural condition of human sustainability.
PB Springer
SN 0951-5666
YR 2026
FD 2026-09-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/40197
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/40197
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 05-nov-2026