Fourth Industrial Revolution: technological drivers, impacts and coping methods

Li, Guoping; Hou, Yun; Aizhi, WU

doi:10.1007/s11769-017-0890-x

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“…They use CL as their main resource for coping at work. The findings, therefore, support previous studies such as Li, Hou and Wu [5] and contribute from a positive psychology mindset to the stress management literature [14]. As shown above [15], CL is defined in the context of three of the six key features [17], namely: listening skills, self-growth, and building a (healthy) community.…”

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Sense of Coherence, Compassionate Love and Coping in International Leaders during the Transition into the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Mayer

Oosthuizen

2020

IJERPH

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Contemporary workplaces are influenced by rapid changes, high levels of competition, increasing complexities and internationalisation processes. At the edge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), insecurities and anxieties are high, and leaders are encouraged more than ever to lead employees with meaningful vision and prudence in order to make use of employees’ strengths, and ensure mental health and well-being. The aim of this article is to present new insights into salutogenesis, particularly sense of coherence (SOC), compassionate love (CL), and coping (C) in leaders with different cultural backgrounds. This study strengthens the idea that CL is a coping mechanism. This coping mechanism can be used by leaders to establish a resilient and salutogenic organisations. This article explores the subjective perspectives of 22 international leaders from five different countries and their views regarding SOC, CL and C through a qualitative research approach, using a qualitative online questionnaire for data collection and content analysis for data analysis. The findings on the perspectives of leaders provide new and original insights into how SOC, CL and C are connected, and how these concepts contribute to healthy organisations which are on their way to the transition into the 4IR. Conclusions are drawn. Recommendations for future research and practice are given.

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“…Leaders are encouraged to provide guidance and leadership to address new challenges and support employees to cope positively and constructively [4]. Positive emotions in leadership can support salutogenesis and coping [5].…”

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Sense of Coherence, Compassionate Love and Coping in International Leaders during the Transition into the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Mayer

Oosthuizen

2020

IJERPH

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“…At its core, it is a product of the Fourth Industrial Revolution-marked by the emergence of a set of technologies that increasingly integrate the physical and digital spheres through machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and Internet of Things (IoT) manifested through ubiquitous web and mobile internet; smaller and cheaper but powerful sensors including global positioning system (GPS); and artificial intelligence and machine learning along with big data and cloud computing (Bloem et al 2014;Schwab 2016;García Ferrari 2017;Li et al 2017). It is the fusion of these technologies, and their interaction across the physical and digital domains that creates a network in which virtual and real-life systems interact and cooperate with one another (Bloem et al 2014;Li et al 2017). This technological transformation has triggered a fundamental shift in established production, consumption, transportation and delivery systems across industries, leading to the emergence of new business models.…”

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Sectoral evolution and shifting service delivery models in the sharing economy

Mahmuda

Sigler

Knight

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Bus Res

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The rise of the sharing economy has had transformative impacts on extant service delivery models, with wide ranging implications for existing firms, regulators, and the workforce at large. This paper draws upon firm-level data to better understand how new forms of service delivery have accompanied the diffusion of the sharing economy. Unlike previous waves of technological innovation, sharing economy firms have emerged as digital intermediaries rather than direct service providers driven by shifting consumer practices and attitudes. We apply an innovation diffusion model to trace the development trajectory of the sharing economy across 1000 firms. Our model segments the evolution of the sharing economy into three distinct and overlapping phases, comprising an Embryonic Stage (

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“…From such a perspective, employee competencies are ones of the most important resources in an enterprise that determine its competitive advantage (Wirkus et al, 2015;Krawczyk-Dembicka, 2017). Moreover, the fourth industrial revolution involves the impact on satisfying new customer requirements and applying advanced technologies, which in turn requires qualified human resources for today and in the future (Li et al, 2017).…”

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What competencies are needed in the production industry? The case of the Podlaskie Region

Gudanowska

Alonso

Törmänen

2018

Engineering Management in Production and Services

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The article focuses on indicating a set of competencies required for production branches based on the data regarding the Podlaskie labour market. The data was collected using quantitative surveys (in the form of questionnaires). Then, the Authors used network analysis to visualise the collected data and indicate the most frequently indicated set of competencies. Based on the opinion of respondents, the most popular competencies were professional knowledge and technical skills. These two competencies were also the most popular combination. Communication, self-reliance, thoroughness/reliability, sharing knowledge and experience, and teamwork/collaboration also proved to be important. The entire set of the competencies is strongly linked, with professional knowledge and technical skills forming the foundation. Knowledge of foreign languages has also been identified as significant as well as decision making, which was, however, less frequently connected with the above. Despite the dominance of the two competencies attributed to the professional group, this group of competencies was the least numerous. Based on the example of the Podlaskie Region, the study informs about the set of competencies sought by manufacturing companies. Also, the most important competencies typical for individual branches are noted. This collection of competencies can serve as a basis for further theoretical considerations in the field of competency identification aimed at the production industry. In some cases, competencies indicated for different industries coincide, while in others they are divergent. The set of competencies indicated by the respondents informs job seekers in the area of production as well as institutions such as Voivodship Labour Office in Bialystok, whose task, among others, is to appropriately orientate the development of future employees.

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Fourth Industrial Revolution: technological drivers, impacts and coping methods

Cited by 289 publications

References 25 publications

Sense of Coherence, Compassionate Love and Coping in International Leaders during the Transition into the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Sense of Coherence, Compassionate Love and Coping in International Leaders during the Transition into the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Sectoral evolution and shifting service delivery models in the sharing economy

What competencies are needed in the production industry? The case of the Podlaskie Region

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