Purpose

This paper aims to explore the past and future impacts of automation on family businesses, with a focus on the opportunities for human capital empowerment.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper draws upon a contemporary literature search to examine a range of scholarly and practitioner perspectives of the challenges and benefits of automation, exploring the evolvement towards hyperautomation and the empowerment of human capital in family businesses.

Findings

Automation, transforming to hyperautomation, general purpose artificial intelligence (AI) and beyond has the possibility of radically improving productivity. Fear of job obsolescence has been present since the birth of modern automation, and whilst some jobs are at risk of redundancy, a net gain towards higher-skilled labour is already evident. Family business leaders must be prepared to react appropriately to the accelerating war for talent by implementing a strategy for human capital empowerment.

Originality/value

This unique paper synthesises developments in automation and proposes a future perspective centred upon the empowerment of human capital in family businesses.

中文翻译：

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走向超级自动化和家族企业人力资本赋权：一篇观点文章

目的

本文旨在探讨自动化对家族企业过去和未来的影响，重点关注人力资本赋权的机会。

设计/方法论/途径

本文利用当代文献检索，研究了一系列学术界和从业者对自动化的挑战和好处的观点，探讨了超自动化的发展以及家族企业人力资本的赋权。

发现

自动化、向超自动化、通用人工智能 (AI) 等的转变有可能从根本上提高生产力。自现代自动化诞生以来，人们就一直担心工作岗位会被淘汰，虽然一些工作岗位面临裁员的风险，但高技能劳动力的净收益已经很明显。家族企业领导者必须做好准备，通过实施人力资本赋权战略，对日益加剧的人才争夺战做出适当反应。

原创性/价值

这篇独特的论文综合了自动化的发展，并提出了以增强家族企业人力资本为中心的未来前景。