From Automation to Augmentation: How AI Reshapes Human Resource Slack in Algerian Telecommunications Companies

This supplementary document accompanies the article “From Automation to Augmentation: How AI Reshapes Human Resource Slack in Algerian Telecommunications Companies.” The document contains two appendices. Appendix A reproduces the questionnaire administered to respondents, including demographic and organizational information and the measurement items used to assess Future AI Automation Intensity (AUT), AI Augmentation Intensity (AUG), Future Human Resource Slack/Workforce Underutilization (SLK), AI-Related Job Insecurity (AJI), and Organizational Enablers (ENB), using a seven-point Likert scale. Appendix B documents the refinement of the PLS-SEM measurement model, including the staged indicator-removal procedure, loading-based decisions, changes in average variance extracted (AVE), composite reliability considerations, and the rationale for retaining or removing individual indicators. The appendix also reports the final set of retained indicators for all constructs, ensuring traceability between the initial, intermediate, and final measurement models.