Programme overview

AI and the Future of Work is designed to help participants understand how artificial intelligence reshaping jobs, careers, organisations, and people-management practices is. The programme examines the implications of AI and automation for work design, competencies, performance, rewards, learning, employee relations, culture, and sustainable and ethical business practices, with a strong focus on preparing participants to lead in an AI-enabled workplace.

Key outcome

By the end of the programme, participants will be able to critically assess the impact of AI on work and organisations and develop people and organisational strategies for building an agile, ethical, inclusive, and future-ready workplace.

Objectives

The programme will enable participants to:

  • Understand how AI and automation are transforming jobs, roles, careers, and organisational structures.
  • Develop approaches for designing effective human-AI collaboration and AI-enabled work systems.
  • Identify critical future competencies and build strategies for performance, rewards, reskilling, and workforce development.
  • Examine the ethical, employee relations, labour law, culture, DEI, and sustainability implications of AI.
  • Develop a practical roadmap for operating as an AI-ready manager and leader.

Programme content

  • AI, automation and the changing nature of work
    (What is changing in how work gets done?)
  • Organisation and work design in the AI era
    (Structuring teams and organisations for agility, inclusion, and distributed collaboration)
  • AI and future careers
    (How do roles and career paths evolve in tech-shaped workplaces? How do we manage changing job demand and career trajectories)
  • Mapping new age competencies in the AI era
    (Which competencies will matter in an AI-enabled world and why?)
  • Performance management in the AI era
    (How is performance measured, evaluated, and developed in AI augmented workplaces?)
  • Compensation, rewards and new work models
    (How do organisations reward human contribution in the AI augmented workplace, navigating gig labour, and total rewards in a fragmented workforce)
  • Learning and development, coaching and AI-driven reskilling
    (Why is learning agility and designing reskilling pathways for continuous change needed in the AI era?)
  • Employee relations, labour law and ethical AI
    (Navigating compliance, worker rights, and the ethics of deploying AI on people)
  • AI and work culture
    (Involvement of AI in sustaining the work culture)
  • AI and sustainable practices
    (Framing policies for sustainable AI e.g. when machines influence people’s decisions, who is accountable and how do we ensure fairness?)

Who can attend

This programme is particularly relevant for:

  • Future managers and business leaders who need to understand the changing nature of work and organisations.
  • Individuals aspiring to careers in HR, talent management, organisational development, consulting, strategy, or technology-enabled business roles.
  • Professionals interested in developing the mindset and competencies required to navigate and lead workforce transformation in the AI era

Programme director

Sushmita Srivastava

Sushmita Srivastava

Associate Professor, Organisation and Leadership Studies
Sushmita Srivastava holds a Ph.D. from XLRI Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur. Her doctoral research conceptualised the Impact of Mentoring on Role Based Performance. She has over two decades of industry experience with Tata Steel in roles pertaining to Human Resource Management. She joined academics in 2017 and is a faculty in the area of Organisation & Leadership Studies at SPJIMR. Her areas of core teaching interest include Industrial Relations, Talent Management, AI, Digital HR ...

Programme dates and fee details

Date Time Fees
3 – 4 December 2026 Thursday – 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Friday – 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
₹ 31,000/- plus applicable taxes
(Early bird, alumni, and group discounts available)

Certificate of participation

A certificate of successful participation by S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) will be issued to each delegate at the completion of the programme.

SPJIMR’s Open MDPs certificate of participation.

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