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Preparing for the demands of future of work: engineering organisations, creativity, and innovation

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dc.contributor.authorCropley, D.
dc.contributor.authorCropley, A.
dc.contributor.editorReiter-Palmon, R.
dc.contributor.editorHunter, S.
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractCyber-physical systems (CPSs) are impacting an increasingly broad range of aspects of life, bringing widespread and rapid change. One consequence of this is that engineering work is becoming open-ended, requiring a new kind of collaboration between engineers and technology. The present chapter argues that this will be based on “capability-focused technology fluency” (CFTF). Technology fluency (TF) requires domain-specific expertise; capability focus (CF), by contrast, involves a general (i.e., not engineering-specific) mindset based on two “metacompetencies”: willingness and ability to update your own knowledge, on the one hand, and willingness and ability to use this knowledge to work effectively with rapid change, novelty and uncertainty, on the other. Developing an understanding of this capability focus is the task of “cyber-psychology” and supporting a “dual-track” approach, which encompasses the growth of not only (technology fluency) TF but of (capability focus) CF as well, is now an important task for engineering organizations preparing for the future of work.
dc.identifier.citationSource details - Title: Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Leadership, Interventions, and Macro Level Issues, 2023 / Reiter-Palmon, R., Hunter, S. (ed./s), Ch.22, pp.315-327
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/B978-0-323-91841-1.00002-6
dc.identifier.isbn9780323918411
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/34830
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAcademic Press
dc.publisher.placeUK
dc.rightsCopyright 2023 Elsevier
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91841-1.00002-6
dc.subjectcreativity
dc.subjectfuture of work
dc.subjectengineering
dc.subjectorganisations
dc.subjectinnovation
dc.titlePreparing for the demands of future of work: engineering organisations, creativity, and innovation
dc.typeBook chapter
pubs.publication-statusPublished
ror.mmsid9916776914501831

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