Future business leaders must possess digital competence and soft skills like critical thinking, assertiveness, and emotional self-regulation. Traditional training and development methods lack flexibility, thus hindering adaptability. Smartphones, ubiquitous, adaptable, and providing the most digital equality among m-learning platforms, play a crucial educational role as demonstrated by many applications for language learning or academic content in math, history, or science. However, it remains unclear if user-generated interactions in mobile apps can develop soft leadership skills. This research, conducted within the guidelines of a PRISMA scoping review, aims to validate smartphones as a quality medium for acquiring soft leadership skills. It explores mobile apps as a learner-driven, flexible, universal, timeless, and fast alternative to traditional training methods for leadership skills such as critical thinking, assertiveness, and emotional self-regulation.
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Future business leaders must possess digital competence and soft skills like critical thinking, assertiveness, and emotional self-regulation. Traditional training and development methods lack flexibility, thus hindering adaptability. Smartphones, ubiquitous, adaptable, [...]
Robotics, automation and artificial intelligence (RAAI) are changing how work gets done, to the point of putting 47% of existing jobs in the USA at risk of becoming redundant in 5 to 15 years. RAAI and their cognitive abilities have a potential impact on employees’ sense of self-worth and career satisfaction and, in turn, on organizations and the society as a whole. In spite of the significant debate on whether there is a real risk of job losses or simply a need of re-skilling, the impact of RAAI on the individual employee has received little attention in academic literature. Therefore, we conducted a scoping review to explore the existing research and professional publications on the topic and analyze which aspects have received less attention, to properly support policymakers as well as managers' decisions. Existent research suggests that the majority of potentially affected workers is not aware nor worried about this ongoing transformation process and they are not properly planning their career. Involvement of the individual in this transition has been proved to bring positive results. However, to get such individual involvement, it will be necessary to identify the correct messages to inform and motivate to the change and avoid producing protests and resistance. All the stakeholders, including the labor force, have to be part of this dialogue to avoid resistance and social unrest.
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Robotics, automation and artificial intelligence (RAAI) are changing how work gets done, to the point of putting 47% of existing jobs in the USA at risk of becoming redundant in 5 to 15 years. RAAI and their cognitive abilities have a potential impact on employees’ sense [...]
La robótica, la automatización y la inteligencia artificial (RAIA) están cambiando la forma en que se realiza el trabajo, pero hay una escasez de investigación sobre su impacto desde la perspectiva del empleado.Por lo tanto, realizamos una revisión exploratoria de la literatura para conocer la investigación existente con el fin de respaldar las decisiones de responsables políticos y directivos,y deestimular lainvestigaciónadicionalsobre losaspectosquehan recibido menos atención.Las principales conclusiones son las siguientes: a) una buena parte de los empleados están preocupados por elimpactonegativode la RAIAen el trabajo, en general, pero no están al tanto de cómo puede impactar en su trabajo en concreto;b) las industrias de servicios probablemente se verán más afectadas y, por lo tanto, se necesitan más estudios que aborden los diferentes sectores y ocupaciones;c) involucrar a los empleados en el proceso de transición puede dar buenos resultados y reducir el costo social;d) se observa una percepción significativamente diferente entre los empleados de Europa y EE.UU. y los de Asia - Pacífico y América Latina; e) las empresas deberían centrarse en cómo capacitar a sus empleados con las habilidades adecuadas, lo que fomentaría las actitudes ycomportamientospositivosde los empleados.
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La robótica, la automatización y la inteligencia artificial (RAIA) están cambiando la forma en que se realiza el trabajo, pero hay una escasez de investigación sobre su impacto desde la perspectiva del empleado.Por lo tanto, realizamos una revisión [...]