Leadership Competencies in Making Industry 4.0 Effective: The Case of Polish Heat and Power Industry

Anna Kwiotkowska, Bożena Gajdzik, Radosław Wolniak, Jolita Vveinhardt and Magdalena Gębczyńska
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Anna Kwiotkowska: Department of Organisation and Management, Silesian University of Technology, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Bożena Gajdzik: Department of Industrial Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, 40-019 Katowice, Poland
Radosław Wolniak: Department of Organisation and Management, Silesian University of Technology, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Jolita Vveinhardt: Department of Management, WSB University, 41-300 Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
Magdalena Gębczyńska: Department of Organisation and Management, Silesian University of Technology, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 14, 1-21

Abstract: Leadership competencies are of crucial importance in every organisation as to a large extent they determine its success. This is especially evident in the time of Industry 4.0. Given this fact, the aim of our paper is to examine the relationship between leadership competencies and 4.0 leadership effectiveness. The heat and power plants industry was chosen as the subject of our research. The fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fs/QCA) was used as the research method. It enabled us not only to analyse particular variables, competences, and typical statistical relations between them, but we also revealed the patterns of causal relationships between particular variables. The key finding of our research was the juxtaposition of leadership competencies that are indispensable for 4.0 leaders in the CHP plants. We also found out that managerial competencies were not sufficient, and they should be supported by intellectual or socio-emotional ones.

Keywords: Industry 4.0; heat and power plants; energy production; managerial competencies; leadership effectiveness; fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fs/QCA) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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