Title: Next generation leadership skill set for Industry 4.0

Authors: Puja Khatri; Sumedha Dutta

Addresses: University School of Management Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi – 110078, India ' Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Management Studies, Delhi – 110086, India

Abstract: Digitisation has influenced all organisations across diverse sectors/industries including SMEs with varying impact. Organisations must understand digitisation's effect on their working and draft suitable strategy to capitalise on new opportunities and overcome threats. This impact of digital commotion is surrounded with numerous VUCA operational circumstances characterising the recent onset of fourth industrial revolution. Welcome Industry 4.0! marked with networking and continuous real-time communication of man, machine, products, processes and environment. Researchers uphold the view that current era of digitalisation demands leaders to assume new roles for influencing followers and stakeholders towards realising an organisation's mission. Consequently, it calls for leaders to effectively demonstrate the array of next generation leadership skill set to exhibit management of relationships with empathy. This being our objective, we have conducted an exploratory literature review to elaborate the requisite skill set for next generation leadership needed for setting an example in Industry 4.0.

Keywords: Industry 4.0; critical thinking; cognitive readiness skills; emotional intelligence; social intelligence; coaching.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPSPM.2023.129692

International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management, 2023 Vol.11 No.2, pp.191 - 200

Received: 12 Aug 2019
Accepted: 08 Mar 2020
Published online: 21 Mar 2023 *

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