Evoking Work Motivation in Industry 4.0

Shen Kian Tan and Sivan Rajah

SAGE Open, 2019, vol. 9, issue 4, 2158244019885132

Abstract: Many scholars are commenting the impossibility of high technologies to replace human at work. To motivate people to cope with variety of organizational and work changes in the dawn of forth industrial revolution, the science of motivation remains the key to answers. As the dissimilar of current industrial context and work content are leaving doubts on empirical findings collected in earlier industrial landscape, this article was written for two purposes: first is to synthesis development of behavioral science in the four stages of industrial revolution, while the second is to suggest future researches on work motivation in current industrial context. It is hopes that this article will enlighten researchers to conduct more empirical studies on work behaviors in this new industrial landscape.

Keywords: Industry 4.0; work motivation; industrial revolution; work behavior; organizational behavior; management; social sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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