1st Edition

Agile Leadership for Industry 4.0 An Indispensable Approach for the Digital Era

380 Pages 11 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

380 Pages 11 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

This new volume explores the new paradigm that is Industry 4.0—the application of information-intensive technologies that integrate software, hardware, and biology (cyber-physical systems) for effective manufacturing and related industries. This volume focuses specifically on leadership that can respond quickly and effectively to changing conditions in the Industry 4.0 environment. It looks... Read more

1. Role of the Internet in Connecting Agile Industries: Industry 4.0 Scenario

Satish Chinchorkar

2. Dynamics of Technological Unemployment, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship during the Industry 4.0 Revolution

Gurcem Ozayturk, Ali Eren Alper, and Findik Özlem Alper

3. Role of Big Data in Agile Business Management: A Conceptual Framework

Tayyba Fatima and Tahir Mumtaz Awan

4. HR 4.0 in Industry 4.0: Dynamics of Human Resource Management in Agile Organizations

Ramandeep Saini and Hamayun Khan

5. Agile Leadership in Managing Human Capital in Industry 4.0

Mahesh Luthia

6. Institutionalization of Leadership Culture (ILC): A Key to Successful Industry 4.0 Transformation

Aditya Dhiman, Ashish Arya, and Pankaj Madan

7. Virtual Leadership: An Integral Phenomenon of Industry 4.0

Malabika Tripathi, Nalanda Roy, Manvi Sodani, and Swaha Bhattacharya

8. Employee Engagement Perspectives in Agile Organizations: Managing People in Industry 4.0

Nandita Mishra and Tanusree Chakraborty

9. Leadership Style in Times of Crisis: Traditional Mentoring to Remote Monitoring

Trisha Barua and Ipsita C. Patranabis

10. The Power of Empathy: Rethinking Leadership Agility during Transition

Tusharika Mukherjee

11. Leadership: The Crux of a Buoyant Organizational Structure

Soumita, Mitra, and Saritakar

12. What’s Brewing Up? Inventing a New Contemporary Leadership Model in the Era of Fourth Industrial Revolution and Global Trade Wars

Palvinder Kaur, Kamaljit Kaur, and Geeta Mahajan

13. Role of Agile Leadership in the Prevention of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Anubhuti Saxena, Esha Garg, and Anand Nadar

14. Agile Personality: Machiavellianism and Positive Self-Impression Management Behavior via Interactive Role of Situational Mechanism

Hafsah Zahur

15. Amul-An Agile Brand and Its Leadership: "Road to Self-Reliance"

Smita Shukla, Jawed Kalangade, and Radha Iyer

16. HR Challenges in the Post-COVID-19 World: Role of Agile Leadership towards Organizational Effectiveness

L. Gandhi

17. Agile Entrepreneurship: Probing into Women Entrepreneurial Innovation in Rural India

Tanusree Chakraborty and Madhurima Ganguly

18. Linking Agile Methodology and Transformational Leadership to Project Success through Interplay of Team Building

Sohaib Jalil Malik, Wajid Shakeel Ahmed, Tahir Mumtaz Awan, Naveen Farooq, and Myra Khalid

19. Job Satisfaction among School Teachers: Probing into the Nature of Agility in Government and Private Secondary School

Anup Baul and Mihir Kumar Shome

Biography

Tanusree Chakraborty, PhD, is a faculty member at the Centre for Management Studies, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, working in organizational behavior/human resource management. She has been associated with several reputable business schools and universities in India and has many publications to her credit. She has presented research papers at conferences and is an empaneled corporate trainer, having conducted over 150 corporate training programs in the areas of behavioral science and HR and psychometrics.

Tahir Mumtaz Awan, PhD, is Head of China Study Centre, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the China Brand Centre of the Academy of Entrepreneurship, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. He trains students in the SKOLKOVO Executive MBS program at the Moscow School of Management and at Shenzhen, China. He has delivered talks, training workshops, and keynotes about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the Belt and Road Initiative, marketing in developing countries, big data, cryptocurrencies, etc.

Ashok Natarajan, PhD, was at the College of Business Administration, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, USA. He has over 15 years in the academic arena and was also a practicing manager, both in the USA and India. He has been a consultant on business valuation projects, and he has published research papers in the top accounting and finance journals. He also works in the areas of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (and the role of accounting and finance in these two areas) and corporate strategy.

Muhammad Kamran, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi, Jozefow, Poland. He has more than 15 years of teaching and administrative experience in academia at different Polish universities. He has participated in national and international conferences that include at Harvard University, USA.