Shaping the Future of Work

Martina Gianecchini (), Sara Dotto and Paolo Gubitta
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Sara Dotto: Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University
Paolo Gubitta: University of Padova

A chapter in Do Machines Dream of Electric Workers?, 2022, pp 67-83 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The fast pace of the technological evolution forces workers to update their competencies in order to remain attractive in the labor market. Those changes suggest that in order to remain employable, workers need to add new skills (either soft or digital) to their “traditional” competencies, demonstrating the ability to work in an interdisciplinary agile fashion. We argue that this professional evolution resembles the characteristics of the T-shaped professionals, and that it is possible to interpret the changes of jobs that are caused by the technological revolution drawing on job design literature. Hence, analyzing the data of a survey administered to a sample of 238 workers employed in Veneto Region, we explore the skill shapes of jobs that are present in the labor market and we assess their relationship with the workers’ and organizational characteristics.

Keywords: Job design; Technology; T-shaped professionals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83321-3_5

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