A Review on Workforce Agility

Abstract

Growing global competition has virtually eliminated assured markets and has forced manufacturers in nearly all sectors to find a new production model, one of which is known as agile manufacturing. It includes different aspects which workforce agility has been asserted as a vitally important contribution to agile manufacturing. Despite the importance of workforce agility, little focus has been given to it. The shortage of study in this matter has affected the behaviour of enterprises. This study reviews studies on workforce agility and finally an algorithm is suggested which can help managers to have agile people.

The Effect of Employee Involvement and Work Engagement on Workforce Agility

“…Plonka (1997) [1] believes that labor agility helps organizations to change their technology and methods. The individual is one of the most common considerations of all agile manufacturing models, which shows the importance of workforce agility [5].…”

The Moderating Effect of Perceived Organizational Support in Relationship between Affective Commitment and Workforce Agility in Workplace

“…In general, there is still little research that discusses the agility of the workforce is still being debated. According to Chonko and Jones in Alavi & Wahab [8], and agile employee exhibits two important behaviors (1) employees are able to react and adapt appropriately and timely to changes and (2) employees have the ability to take advantage of changes and turn them into benefits for the company.…”

“…Some researchers find that several factors influence the formation of workforce agility in employees, e.g. information sharing, training, reward, power-sharing, workforce management practice [8], work organization [10] and organizational commitment [11]. A strong commitment from employees towards the organization where they work is needed by the organization to be able to contribute more to the organization's existence.…”

الرشاقة الإستراتیجیة کمیزة تنافسیة فی شرکات الطیران (دراسة حالة: شرکة مصر للطیران)

“…These changes are due to technological development, globalization, innovation, creativity, and changing customers' preferences (Swafford et al, 2006 andTseng andLin, 2011;Sherehiy and Karwowski, 2014). Companies have to cope with these changes and increase their competitiveness to survive within the market (Alavi andAbd-Wahab, 2013 Young, 2013;Sherehiy and Karwowski, 2014;Lee et al, 2015).…”