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Technological disruptions reshaping management education: a qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives
Jaya Gupta, Baishali Mitra , Kapil Garg
The technological revolution has disrupted the business ecosystem. This calls for a paradigm shift in the essential skill-set of managers. Management education, therefore needs to transform itself to remain pertinent to the changing context. It is important to identify the management skills required of future managers and systematic reforms needed to imbibe them. In the present phenomenological qualitative study, management students, faculty, recruiters and practicing managers, the key stakeholder's, rec...
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Mediating role of job crafting in the relationship between organisational culture and employee engagement
Mayuk Dasgupta, Ajoy Kumar Dey
Organisational culture plays a crucial role in building an engaged workforce. While previous research has tried to establish the culture-engagement relationship with organisational outcomes, the individual level benefits of an engaged work culture is manifold. Since 2001, psychologists working in the domain of positive organisational behaviour have turned their attention to ‘job crafting’ as a theoretical construct that expands the perspective of classic top-down job design process. This paper explai...
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Developing curriculum for industry 4.0: digital workplaces
Mita Brahma, Shiv S. Tripathi , Arunaditya Sahay
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a framework used in a program for working executives, designed to prepare them for the digital workplace environment of industry 4.0.The paper adopts a case-based approach. It presents the current context about industry 4.0 and digitized workplaces. It then describes the case of designing the curriculum for a learning program on this theme, the responses received from participants and facilitators and conclusions that can be drawn from the responses. The findings...
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Deflating power imbalance through personal identity enhancement
Shreya Mishra, Manosi Chaudhuri , Ajoy Kumar Dey
The purpose of the paper is to identify how the intersection of power, context, subjectivity and directionality makes it possible for the targets of workplace bullying to deflate power imbalance between them and the perpetrators. The paper is based on nine in-depth interviews with self-reported targets from different public sector organizations in India. The targets were purposively selected keeping in mind that they made deliberate attempts to counter bullying. Constructivist grounded theory approach wa...