Managers have to adapt fast to changing environment

June 1, 2022

Managers will be assessed and developed around people and performance oriented competencies which will revolve around motivational, technological, communication, social intelligence, collaborative, emotional, economic, and digital agility. These competencies will drive the business of new age organisation.

Do you think that Business Organisations now look for certain new competencies for managers? If so, what is your perspective in this respect?

RS At the outset, I would like to briefly describe as how the work and technology have evolved over a period of time through systematic interventions. There have been revolutionary changes underway. For example, If the steam engine, electricity, and information technology, powered the first, second and third industrial revolutions respectively, artificial intelligence powers the fourth reducing the boundary between the physical world and the virtual one. According to a source, the technologies that enable Industry 4.0 include smart sensors, automation devices, advanced robots, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, location detection technologies, human-machine interfaces, augmented reality, 3D printing, artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, and mobile devices, among others. The power of Industry 4.0 lies in technological convergence.

When we have seen such a massive transition...

Rakesh Seth

is Chief Mentor HR at Reeocsyys. A facilitator, visiting professor, international speaker, author and writer, Rakesh has over 35 years of corporate, academic, management consulting, and training experience. He consults and works around the areas of strategy, SHRM, organization design, culture, change, performance, and productivity. He is an alumnus of FMS, University of Delhi and completed Business Leaders Program from IIM-Calcutta.

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