---
id: "action-involve-employees-in-redesign"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["¶44 (Daniela Seabrook)", "¶54 (Daniela Seabrook)"]
tags: ["organizational-design", "employee-engagement"]
related: ["concept-self-determination-upskilling", "entity-daniela-seabrook"]
speakers: ["Daniela Seabrook"]
action: "Co-create AI workflow changes directly with the frontline employees executing those specific tasks."
outcome: "Fulfills the psychological need for autonomy and yields more accurate, efficient workflow redesigns."
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-edu-43-leading-human-ai-organization"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/05/leading-the-human-ai-organization"
sourceTitle: "Leading the Human-AI Organization"
---
# Involve Employees in Job Redesign

**Action:** Co-create AI workflow changes directly with the **frontline employees** executing those specific tasks.

Do **not** dictate AI-driven workflow changes from the top down. Actively involve the people who **actually do the work** in redesigning their tasks — they possess the **best ideas for simplification and efficiency**, and involving them fulfills their psychological need for **autonomy.** This is the operational lever for the autonomy pillar of [[concept-self-determination-upskilling]], recommended by [[entity-daniela-seabrook|Daniela Seabrook]] (recall: only ~a third of employees are currently involved in these changes).

**Expected outcome:** Fulfills the psychological need for autonomy and yields more accurate, efficient workflow redesigns.