Thriving in Digital Workspaces Emerging Issues for Research and Prac
This edited volume focuses on innovative solutions to the debate on human thriving in the fast emerging technology-driven cyber-physical work context, also called Industry 4.0. The volume asks the important question: How can people remain relevant and thr
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Thriving in Digital Workspaces Emerging Issues for Research and Practice
Thriving in Digital Workspaces
Melinde Coetzee Editor
Thriving in Digital Workspaces Emerging Issues for Research and Practice
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Editor Melinde Coetzee Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology University of South Africa Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
ISBN 978-3-030-24462-0 ISBN 978-3-030-24463-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24463-7
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This book is dedicated to scholars and practitioners in the field of applied psychology who are pioneering new thinking and practice to ensure optimal human thriving in unprecedented times of evolutionary change
Preface
This book collection proffers some initial thoughts and narrative discourses on the extent to which the technological revolution will impact human thriving. The collection of chapters serves as a bird’s-eye view of the mindset shifts required, and the psychological foundations and preconditions of human thriving in digital workspaces. The concept of thriving is revisited in terms of new emerging issues that potentially may arise for research and practice as a result of the digital revolution. The book proposes future directions for research and practice and contributes novel insights towards creating the conditions for facilitating individual and organisational thriving amidst the turbulence, complexities and velocity of agility and learning that are required by organisations and workers. The primary audience for this book is advanced undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students, as well as scholars and practitioners in applied multidisciplinary p
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