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John Boudreau

John Boudreau is professor and research director at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and Center for Effective Organizations, and Boudreau is the author of two forthcoming books, “Human Resource Excellence” with Edward E. Lawler III and “Reinventing Jobs” with Ravin Jesuthasan.
Hands over the table as a business concept

Are High-Skill Occupations “Safe” from Automation?

By John Boudreau, January 8, 2020
Two data analysts stand in front of a wall of lit up screens that demonstrate the power of AI and acts as a metaphor for working towards neutralizing AI bias in recruiting efforts

Why Your Work Automation “Climate” Matters As Much As Upskilling

By John Boudreau, October 15, 2019
Three CHROs gathered together looking at their phones and tablets to discuss whether they have the seven skills needed to stay relevant in business

To Increase Organizational Performance, Cultural Similarity May Beat Individual Quality

By John Boudreau, August 27, 2019
A business leader looking down at his tablet as he stands in a factory surrounded by machines as a metaphor for work automation

Key Findings: The Gains from Work Automation

By John Boudreau, June 11, 2019
Defocus dots and lines connection on abstract technology background as a metaphor for HR as a prediction machine

HR as a “Prediction Machine”

By John Boudreau, April 3, 2019
A woman working from home in front of her computer while holding her baby in one arm as a metaphor for the slower-growing gig economy

Important Lessons From the Slower-Growing Gig Economy

By John Boudreau, February 20, 2019
Unions could be changing the way work platforms operate by giving HR executives a single work language that works across roles and industries even. These construction workers in action act as a metaphor to illustrate how this model could be useful.

Are Unions Tomorrow’s Work Platforms?

By John Boudreau, September 25, 2018
A motorcycle race serves as a metaphor for change management and how people analytics can support these types of initiatives

Make HR Analytics a Priority, But See the Bigger Picture

By John Boudreau, August 10, 2018
Runner's in a race on a track as a metaphor for the workforce with the most political skill thrives the most in business

Develop Your Workforce’s Political Skill to Help Them Thrive

By John Boudreau, July 17, 2018
A network of roads and lights in a city at night as a metaphor for organizational network analysis and the gig economy

Are Freelancers Your Best Performers? Applying Organizational Network Analysis to the Gig Economy

By John Boudreau, May 8, 2018
A sweeping interconnected highway that weaves between tall buildings in a city acts as a metaphor for using organizational network analysis to uncover teh hidden collaborative networks within a company

It’s All Connected: Unearthing The Potential in Hidden Collaborative Networks

By John Boudreau, March 13, 2018
HR professionals discussing how work automation won't replace jobs, but rather lead to a reinvention of work

To Optimize Work Automation, Get Beyond “Robots Taking Our Jobs”

By John Boudreau, January 30, 2018
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