Reskilling and Upskilling of Managers: People Management in the Digital Era

Vanda ČIRČOVÁ - Jana BLŠTÁKOVÁ

https://doi.org/10.53465/EDAMBA.2022.9788022550420.87-96

 

Abstract: Trends in business management caused by Industry 4.0 implementation and related COVID-19 restrictions brought up new challenges. Consequently, increasing digitalization triggered a modern concept of people management accelerating digital leadership. Newly arisen job positions require new strategies in training, reskilling, and upskilling. The role of businesses is to ensure appropriate applicable training of digital skills for their employees and mainly managers which are the main actors of organizational changes and act as digital leaders. Currently, enterprises employ number of employees with a set of skills but to fully digitalize the business process it is necessary to have more or different skills which were the subject of our research, The aim is to create a model representing new set of managerial skills necessary for digital leadership and to identify a gap in the current and desired skills of the examined enterprises and moreover to suggest a procedure of the reskilling and upskilling program implementation to ensure managerial efficiency.

Keywords: reskilling, upskilling, digitalization

JEL classification: J24, J28, M54

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Online publication date: 3 March 2023

ISBN: 978-80-225-5042-0

Publisher: University of Economics in Bratislava

Pages: 87-96

 

To cite this proceedings paper (STN ISO 690 and 690-2):

ČIRČOVÁ, V., BLŠTÁKOVÁ, J. 2023. Reskilling and upskilling of managers: people management in the digital era. In LÜLEYOVÁ, A. (ed.). EDAMBA 2022: Conference Proceedings. Bratislava: University of Economics in Bratislava, 2023. ISBN 978-80-225-5042-0, pp. 87-96.

https://doi.org/10.53465/EDAMBA.2022.9788022550420.87-96