USC Team Project, 2025
How to Survive the AI Revolution in HR
White Paper on Culture Change & Immediate Action
Background
Our team wrote a 15-page white paper for HR leaders and executives navigating AI adoption, built as a practitioner resource rather than an academic study. Companies are adopting AI fast, but most leave HR out of the strategy, even though 77% of employers plan to upskill for AI and HR is best positioned to manage the culture, trust, and change-readiness issues that decide whether adoption sticks.
Methods
- Grounded the paper in the Prosci change management methodology: the 3-Phase Process for organizational change plus the ADKAR model for individual change, applied directly to AI adoption.
- Synthesized the six biggest employee-facing AI concerns: job security, skill gaps, change fatigue, workflow disruption, algorithmic bias, and privacy.
- Analyzed a real-world case study of United Concordia Dental's AI rollout.
- Built a diagnostic table pairing each employee concern with its ADKAR gap and a specific HR action.
So What?
The paper ends as a usable tool rather than a set of findings: a quick-reference action table HR teams can apply immediately to address each concern as AI adoption accelerates.































