“Matilda is Lazy Today”: How Mind Perceptions Trigger Relational Job Crafting With Industrial Robots

Bernadeta Goštautaitė, Irina Liubertė, Trish Reay, Ilona Bučiūnienė, Mantas Danielius Blaževičius, António Moniz, ISM University of Management and Economics, Vilnius University, University of Alberta, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Group & Organization Management

Published online on April 08, 2026

Abstract

Group & Organization Management, Ahead of Print.
Industrial robots are increasingly integrated into manufacturing workspaces, leading to significant changes in work design and altering workers’ framing of work and technology. Even without anthropomorphic design or autonomous features, employees may ...