The Requirements for Knowledge and Skills of Managers in ICT Modified Fourth Industrial Revolution

Abstract

Digitalisation and new technologies transform current world into digital one and thus leading towards changes of customer behaviour, business models, innovations, methods of operation, as well as new generation of people, so called "Digital Natives". Management of human resources should create conditions for application of Industry 4.0 principles into practice in advance, based on analysis of digitalisation impact on their own business and its strategy, adapt processes of human resource planning. In order to acquire employees with digital qualification and thinking, it will be necessary to alter their recruitment, especially with orientation on social media and mobile variations of traditional recruitment channels. This scientific article points out a change in human capital competence impacted by the fourth Industrial revolution. This scientific article eventuates into proposal of requests for skills and knowledge of managers on different levels of management determined by fourth industrial revolution.

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