Supervise employees.
Little of this can be handed to software today.
The reporting and paperwork around management automate well. Directing, developing and evaluating people does not, and people do not accept it when it is attempted on them.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Managing, training and developing people |
| Jobs that do it | 57 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Enterprise platforms |
| O*NET activity | Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates (4.A.4.b.4) |
What could do this work.
These are the categories of tool that address managing, training and developing people, with a few live examples from our landscape. We name the category rather than promise that a specific product does your specific task, because that promise would not be true.
Enterprise platforms
Categories are matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Before committing to any of them, check that the tool can reach the system your record actually lives in. That connection, not the model, is where most of these projects stall.
Who does this work.
57 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Advertising and Promotions Managers
- Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products
- Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators
- Commercial Divers
- Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Construction Managers
- Coroners
- Editors
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
- Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
- Farm Labor Contractors
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
- Financial and Investment Analysts
- Financial Examiners
- Financial Managers
- First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
- First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
- Fish and Game Wardens
- Fitness and Wellness Coordinators
- Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts
- Fundraisers
- Fundraising Managers
- Funeral Home Managers
- Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers
- Human Resources Managers
- Industrial Production Managers
- Legislators
- Loan Officers
- Logisticians
- Logistics Engineers
- Loss Prevention Managers
- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
- Marketing Managers
- Medical and Health Services Managers
- Medical Equipment Repairers
- Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Natural Sciences Managers
- Park Naturalists
- Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
- Public Relations Managers
- Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
- Purchasing Managers
- Quality Control Systems Managers
- Sales Managers
- Security Management Specialists
- Security Managers
- Social and Community Service Managers
- Training and Development Specialists
- Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
- Treasurers and Controllers
- Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
- Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists
Work that goes with it.
O*NET groups these under “Supervise personnel activities”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.