CONCEPT
Organizational Salutogenesis
The extension of Antonovsky's framework to teams and institutions: collective comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness as more predictive of outcomes in AI-augmented work than individual resilience alone.
Organizational salutogenesis treats the team, the firm, and the institution as units that possess a collective Sense of Coherence — a shared orientation toward whether the work is comprehensible, the resources adequate, and the purpose worth committing to. The framework's central claim, applied to the AI transition, is that organizational SOC predicts how a workforce navigates the change more reliably than the SOC of any individual within it. A worker with strong personal coherence in an incoherent organization burns out anyway. A worker with weak personal coherence in a coherent organization — one with clear purpose, structured time for learning, mentoring across experience levels, and norms that reward judgment over output velocity — develops the resources she lacks. The Berkeley researchers' proposal for what they called AI Practice is, in salutogenic terms, a prescription for organizational coherence.
In The You On AI Field Guide
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