Leadership Decision‐Making Leveraging Big Data in Vuca Contexts

Elkington, Rob

doi:10.1002/jls.21599

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“…Forward-looking organisations could hold innovation labs and hackathons for employees to work on creative projects and disruptive ideas and could reward innovative solutions for real business challenges. At the leadership level, organisations should ensure that their leadership demonstrates commitment to VUCA competencies and serves as a role model by participating in development programmes alongside their organisation’s teams (Elkington, 2018; Sarkar, 2016).…”

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A VUCA-ready workforce: exploring employee competencies and learning and development implications

Shet

2024

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PurposeThe author aims to develop an employee competency framework for a volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) environment and propose learning and development (L&D) interventions for organisations and employees to develop competencies for thriving in a VUCA environment.Design/methodology/approachThe framework synthesis method was used to determine employee competencies that are essential in a VUCA world.FindingsThe author identified 10 competencies that are essential for employee development in a VUCA world. The author categorised these employee competencies as cognitive (cognitive flexibility, agility mindset and personal ambidexterity), cross-cultural (cross-cultural intelligence and cross-cultural collaboration), analytical (creativity and complex problem solving) and personal effectiveness competencies (personal resilience, continuous learning and adaptive mindset).Practical implicationsThe proposed competencies could be used for the personal development of employees and organisations. The VUCA competency framework developed in this study includes behavioural dimensions for each competency, which could be used in self-assessment, recruitment and selection and talent and performance management. Furthermore, the author proposes L&D interventions required for developing these competencies. Overall, this study contributes to human resources (HR) development in the VUCA era by proposing the development of specific individual competencies as necessary conditions for survival and growth.Originality/valueVUCA competencies empower employees to not only survive but also thrive in an unpredictable and rapidly changing world. By incorporating these competencies in L&D interventions, organisations can help employees develop the necessary competencies to thrive in a VUCA environment, thus contributing to their personal and organisational success.

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A VUCA-ready workforce: exploring employee competencies and learning and development implications

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2024

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“…In addition, rapid changes in technology are constant and ambiguity reigns as mandates increase (Bawany, 2016). In this lonely and demanding VUCA world global higher education leaders are bombarded with demands for increasing productivity while decreasing cost; built technology infrastructure and capacity to service a global clientele; and increase enrollment to enhance the image of the institution (Elkington, 2018;Prensky, 2014).…”

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Global Higher Education in a VUCA World: Concerns and Projections

Waller¹,

Lemoine²,

Mense³

et al. 2019

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Higher education has faced many challenges since its meager inception. However, higher education today faces its greatest combinations of challenges: economic uncertainty, accountability, globalization and emerging technologies that are daunting to learn and intimidating to implement. VUCA accurately describes this complex, evolving and dynamic environment confronted by global higher education. Therefore, global higher education institutions are attempting to develop the capacity to adapt and modify the new models of knowledge, information and change. In the Industrial Era, work got done in silos with adherence to process and the cult of efficiency. However, this type of working will no longer suffice in an era characterized by flux and change--the VUCA world.

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“…El concepto VUCA fue acuñado por primera vez por el ejército estadounidense para describir los escenarios de combate modernos, que suelen darse en entornos volátiles, inciertos, complejos y ambiguos (Elkington, 2018). En estos escenarios, las tropas de élite deben enfrentarse a condiciones adversas para responder con flexibilidad y resistencia al estrés, al esfuerzo físico, a la saturación de información, a la falta de sueño y a la privación de alimentos (Antonacopoulou y otros, 2019;Levey y Levey, 2019;Nindl y otros,2018).…”

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Análisis bibliométrico y de contenido sobre VUCA

2023

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VUCA es un acrónimo de volatilidad, incertidumbre, complejidad y ambigüedad que se utiliza de diversas formas para describir un entorno que desafía las predicciones seguras. Un ejemplo de este entorno es la pandemia por Covid-19, la cual ha instalado un contexto de incertidumbre a nivel mundial, por tratarse de una enfermedad desconocida y altamente contagiosa, para la cual, ni la sociedad ni las instituciones se encontraban preparadas para afrontar. El propósito de este artículo es describir la producción científica de VUCA para entender su principal enfoque de investigación. Esta investigación analiza 105 documentos de la base de datos Web of Science (WoS) mediante Bibliometría y Análisis de Contenido. El análisis bibliométrico reportó varios índices de producción: anual, personal, nacional, institucionalidad y productividad de las revistas. El análisis de contenido analizó 95 resúmenes de artículos en diecinueve clusters seleccionados por comparación de dos métodos de clustering Latent Dirichlet Allocation y K-Means, utilizando los índices de coherencia y silueta respectivamente. Se encontró que VUCA es un tema emergente con una mayor producción científica en los últimos cuatro años. Sin embargo, no hay grandes productores a la fecha. Los temas más frecuentes son la gestión, el liderazgo y el cambio, donde varias investigaciones hacen hincapié en el papel del líder a la hora de afrontar los cambios. La literatura se ha centrado en la comprensión de las habilidades necesarias para hacer frente a un entorno VUCA y en cómo enseñarlas. Además, se destaca el uso de dos métodos basados en técnicas de aprendizaje automático para estimar la cantidad de grupos de trabajos científicos, como una alternativa para dividir artículos en tópicos cuando el set de datos es pequeño.

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Leadership Decision‐Making Leveraging Big Data in Vuca Contexts

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

A VUCA-ready workforce: exploring employee competencies and learning and development implications

A VUCA-ready workforce: exploring employee competencies and learning and development implications

Global Higher Education in a VUCA World: Concerns and Projections

Análisis bibliométrico y de contenido sobre VUCA

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