Purpose

This paper aims to address the relevance and impact of the fourth industrial revolution through a theoretical and practical perspective. The authors present both the results of a literature review, highlighting the new competences required in innovative workplaces and a pivotal case, which explores challenges and skill models diffused in industry 4.0, describing the role of proper organizational learning processes in shaping new work cultures.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper aims to enhance the discussion around the 4.0 industrial revolution addressing both a theoretical framework, valorizing the existing scientific contributes and the situated knowledge, embedded in a concrete organizational context in which the fourth industrial revolution is experienced and practiced.

Findings

The findings acquired through the case study endorse what the scientific literature highlights about the impact, the new competences and the organizational learning paths. The conclusions address the agile approach to work as the more suitable way to place humans at the center of technological progress.

Research limitations/implications

The paper explores a specific organizational context, related to a high-tech multinational company, whose results illustrate the empirical evidence sustaining transformations in the working, professional and organizational cultures necessary to face the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution. The research was conducted with the managers of an international company and this a specific and limited target, even though relevant and interesting.

Practical implications

The paper connects the case with the general scenario, this study currently faces, to suggest hints and coordinates for crossing the unfolding situation and finding suitable matching between technological evolution and the development of new work and professional cultures and competences.

Social implications

Due to the acceleration that the COVID-19 has impressed to the use of digital technologies and remote connexion, the paper highlights some ambivalences that the quick evolution of the new technologies entails in relation to work and social conditions.

Originality/value

The opportunity to match both a literature analysis and an in-depth situated case study enhances the possibility to achieve a more articulated and complex view of the viral changes generated in the current context by the digitalization process.

中文翻译：

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居住在第四次工业革命中：新能力、流程和工作文化的组织学习

目的

本文旨在从理论和实践的角度探讨第四次工业革命的相关性和影响。作者展示了文献综述的结果，强调了创新工作场所所需的新能力和一个关键案例，探索了工业 4.0 中的挑战和技能模型，描述了适当的组织学习过程在塑造新工作文化中的作用。

设计/方法/方法

本文旨在加强围绕 4.0 工业革命的讨论，探讨理论框架、评估现有科学贡献和情境知识，嵌入第四次工业革命经历和实践的具体组织背景中。

发现

通过案例研究获得的发现支持科学文献强调的影响、新能力和组织学习路径。结论将敏捷工作方法作为将人类置于技术进步中心的更合适方式。

研究限制/影响

该论文探讨了与一家高科技跨国公司相关的特定组织背景，其结果说明了支持应对第四次工业革命挑战所必需的工作、专业和组织文化转型的经验证据。该研究是与一家国际公司的经理一起进行的，这是一个特定且有限的目标，尽管相关且有趣。

实际影响

本文将案例与本研究目前面临的一般情况联系起来，提出提示和坐标，以跨越正在发展的情况，并在技术演变与新工作和专业文化和能力的发展之间找到合适的匹配。

社会影响

由于 COVID-19 给数字技术和远程连接的使用带来了加速，本文强调了新技术的快速发展在工作和社会条件方面带来的一些矛盾。

原创性/价值

将文献分析和深入的案例研究相匹配的机会提高了对数字化过程在当前背景下产生的病毒变化的更清晰和复杂的看法的可能性。