Workers’ Competencies in the Context of Industry 4.0. The Case of Poland

Anna Barwińska-Małajowicz () and Radosław Pyrek ()
Additional contact information
Anna Barwińska-Małajowicz: University of Rzeszów
Radosław Pyrek: University of Rzeszów

A chapter in Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism, 2024, pp 1005-1013 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Competencies play an extremely important role in today's world. The discussion around human resources is increasing in the context of the fourth industrial revolution. There is an emerging need for competencies that enable employees, businesses and society to function effectively in the digital reality. Competition in the digital era is increasing and more aggressive. Employers need highly skilled employees who can handle all the new market challenges. Competencies of Industry 4.0 help companies stay competitive and adapt to a rapidly changing business environment. Investing in the development of employees to increase their competence brings many benefits and contributes to the long-term success of companies in all sectors and industries. The article focuses on competencies that are essential in the context of Industry 4.0, such as creativity and innovation, critical thinking skills, digital competencies, problem-solving skills, communication and collaboration, entrepreneurship and the process of permanent learning. The most up-to-date research reports conducted by various institutions in Poland dealing with labour market and worker competencies were reviewed under specific keywords listed below. The focus is on identifying the competencies that are relevant from the perspective of the Industry 4.0 from the point of view of employees and employers. The methods used were literature research of well know databases such as google scholar McKinsay.com, Deloitte.com, ResearchGate.com including surveys and reports with Polish cases such as google, stat.gov.pl keywords under search were ‘competences’, ‘skills’, ‘profession’, ‘industry 4.0’, ‘Poland’, ‘employee’ desk research, methods of quantitative analysis and frequency of distributions of answers to questions from diagnostic surveys that are research instruments in the reports analysed.

Keywords: Competences; Skills; Profession; Industry 4.0; Poland; Employee (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-51038-0_108

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783031510380

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51038-0_108

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().