Agile Coping in the Digital Workplace: Emerging Issues for Research and Practice

ISBN-13: 9783030702274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 328 str.

Nadia Ferreira; Ingrid L. Potgieter; Melinde Coetzee

Spis treści

1) Introductory Chapter: Conceptualizing agile coping within the smart technological world of work

PART I: The Digital Workplace: Contextual Issues and coping

2) The Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Resilience-based Coping Strategy for Disruptive Change

3) Career wellbeing and career agility as coping attributes in the modern career space

PART II: Managing Coping within the Digital Workplace:  Issues for Organisational Practice

4) Surviving the digital era: The link between positive coping, workplace friendships and career adaptability

5) Positive coping skills, thriving and social connectedness: are there generational differences in the digital workplace?

6) Enhancing psychological wellbeing in industry 4.0: The relationship between emotional intelligence, social connectedness, work-life balance and positive coping behaviour   

7) Agile Coping in a Digital World: An Expanding Need for Boundary Spanning.

8) Digital Tools Applications to Occupational health and Safety for people with Autism 

9) Coping strategies as predictors of flourishing among targets of workplace bullying 

10) Agile Leadership and Bootlegging Behaviour: Does Leadership Coping Dynamics Matter?

PART III: Managing Coping within the Digital Workplace:  Issues for Individuals

11) Coping strategies for a collarless workforce – an employee experience guide

12) Digitalisation in the workplace:  The Role of Technology on Employee Engagement and Creativity teams

13) Psychological capital: The antidote for the consequences of organisational citizenship behaviour in Industry 4.0 workplace

14) The Difference Model of Disability:  A Focus on Employment

15) Student wellbeing and access to technology:  Changing landscapes in student support

PART IV: Integration and Conclusion

16) Reflection on the agile coping dynamics and emerging issues for research practice in a smart digital technological world of work

O autorze

Nadia Ferreira is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at the Department of Human Resource Management at UNISA. She is a registered human resource practitioner with the South African Board for People Practices (SABPP). Nadia Ferreira completed her MCom degree in Human Resource Management and Industrial Psychology in 2008 at the University of Pretoria. She completed her DCom Industrial Psychology degree at Unisa in 2012. She is also an author and co-author of several published articles in local and international journals. In addition, she presented several papers at national and international conferences.  Nadia Ferreira is a section editor for the South African Journal of Industrial and Organisational Psychology

Ingrid L. Potgieter (DCom) is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at the Department of Human Resource Management at UNISA. She is a registered industrial psychologist at the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) since 2009 and also a registered human resource practitioner and the South African board for people practices (SABPP). Ingrid Potgieter completed her Mcom degree in Human Resource Management and Industrial Psychology in 2009 at the University of Pretoria. She completed her Dcom Industrial Psychology degree at Unisa in 2012. She is also an author and co-author of several published articles in local and international journals. She presented several papers at national and international conferences. Ingrid Potgieter is a section editor for the South African Journal of Industrial Psychology and edited and co-edited a number of scholarly books published by an international publisher.

Melinde Coetzee (DLitt et Phil) is a professor in the Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. She has extensive experience in the corporate environment on psychological interventions pertaining to organisational development, human capacity and career development, and talent retention. Her research interests include issues of employability and career and retention psychology in multi-cultural work contexts. She served in the role of Chief Editor of the South African Journal of Industrial Psychology (2014 to 2019). She has published in numerous accredited academic journals. She has also edited, co-authored and contributed subject matter chapters to books nationally and internationally. She has presented numerous academic papers and posters at national and international conferences. She is a professionally registered Psychologist (cat. Industrial) with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and a master human resource practitioner with the South African Board for People Practice (SABPP). She is a member of SIOPSA. EAWOP and IAAP

Blurb

This volume outlines emerging issues for research and practice related to agile coping dynamics in the digital era. Chapters in this book report on current research on the key constructs and processes underlying coping dynamics in multi-disciplinary domains and across the life-span. Chapters compare current research trends in terms of future potential directions for research on coping dynamics in the digital era.  The book also critically evaluates the relevance, applicability and utility of the research findings and theoretical premises in various classical, current and potential emerging issues for research and practice in the smart digital technological world of work for employee across their careers.

Among the topics discussed:

• The digital era: contextual issues and coping
• Issues for organizational practice
• Issues for individuals
• Coping within the employability context

Agile Coping in the Digital Era provides theoretical premises and research perspectives, while also evaluating the practical utility of theory and research ideas for management and employee practices in Industry 4.0 organizational contexts.