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Employee–AI collaboration empowers mentor networks to enhance employee creativity: a knowledge-management perspective
Originally published 2026-02-24 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1750869 ↗
AI / system type
Employee–AI collaboration as a condition for mentor-network knowledge transfer
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Employee–AI collaboration as a condition for mentor-network knowledge transfer. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings mentor networks and tacit knowledge when employees collaborate with AI into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers three-wave employee survey evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is mentor networks and tacit knowledge when employees collaborate with AI. Source setting or population: 523 employees in Chinese enterprises. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
What can a human mentor still teach when AI can answer many questions?
This three-wave employee survey examines mentor networks and tacit knowledge when employees collaborate with AI. Its TRICK home is Collaboration, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
523 employees in Chinese enterprises
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- What can a human mentor still teach when AI can answer many questions?
- What do this study’s design and population — 523 employees in Chinese enterprises — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering mentor networks and tacit knowledge when employees collaborate with AI, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Survey mediation and moderation do not prove that stronger mentoring or AI collaboration causes creativity; tacit knowledge may be context-specific.
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Miaomiao Li; Yang Yu; Jielin Yin (2026). Employee–AI collaboration empowers mentor networks to enhance employee creativity: a knowledge-management perspective Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1750869
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