Alexander D. Stajkovic is the Dean’s Professor in Business at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA.Kayla S. Stajkovic is a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis, USA.

• 1. Introduction to Cognitive Load, Attentional Processing, and Human Sustainability at WorkPart I: How We Arrived at Cognitive Overload2. Increase in Cognitive Load Through Epochal Stages of Human Development3. The Failure of Leadership “Cottage Industry” and Organizational Leaders as More Proximal Factors Contributing to Employee Cognitive OverloadPart II: How Bad is It and How Should We Work Then?4. Evidence of Psychological Cost of Working in Contemporary Organizations: Anxiety, Depression, Work-Home Conflict, and Suicides Attributed to Work5. Theory Guidance Toward Human Sustainability: Moral Matrices, Business Concerns, Science, or all of the Above?Part III: Toward Reducing Cognitive Overload and Fostering: Human Sustainability at Different Levels of Analysis6. Modify the System: Pros and Cons of Liberal, Coordinated, and DirectedCapitalism7. Modify Organizational Leadership: Ethics of Care and Female Leadership Advantage8. Modify Humans: Are There Limits to Transcending our Limitations, is Homo Sapiens Outdated, and How to Contemplate AI Upgrades?9. Cognitive Automation: Reducing Cognitive Overload and Boosting Performance Without AttentionPart IV: Epilogue10. Alternative Explanations, Future Research, and Conclusion

Alexander D. Stajkovic is the Dean’s Professor in Business at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA.Kayla S. Stajkovic is a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis, USA.

• 1. Introduction to Cognitive Load, Attentional Processing, and Human Sustainability at WorkPart I: How We Arrived at Cognitive Overload2. Increase in Cognitive Load Through Epochal Stages of Human Development3. The Failure of Leadership “Cottage Industry” and Organizational Leaders as More Proximal Factors Contributing to Employee Cognitive OverloadPart II: How Bad is It and How Should We Work Then?4. Evidence of Psychological Cost of Working in Contemporary Organizations: Anxiety, Depression, Work-Home Conflict, and Suicides Attributed to Work5. Theory Guidance Toward Human Sustainability: Moral Matrices, Business Concerns, Science, or all of the Above?Part III: Toward Reducing Cognitive Overload and Fostering: Human Sustainability at Different Levels of Analysis6. Modify the System: Pros and Cons of Liberal, Coordinated, and DirectedCapitalism7. Modify Organizational Leadership: Ethics of Care and Female Leadership Advantage8. Modify Humans: Are There Limits to Transcending our Limitations, is Homo Sapiens Outdated, and How to Contemplate AI Upgrades?9. Cognitive Automation: Reducing Cognitive Overload and Boosting Performance Without AttentionPart IV: Epilogue10. Alternative Explanations, Future Research, and Conclusion