Imagination, Creativity, and Responsible Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Imagination, Creativity, and Responsible Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Release Date: June, 2019|Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 333
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9188-7
ISBN13: 9781522591887|ISBN10: 1522591885|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522591924|EISBN13: 9781522591894
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Description:

As we move through the Fourth Industrial Revolution, people are becoming more concerned about the potential benefits and risks of digital technology and its impact. People are worried about the extent, the implementation, and the effect digital transformation will have on their privacy, jobs, and welfare. Business managers will be expected to navigate organizations and employees through this unknown territory of digital transformation and disruption.

Imagination, Creativity, and Responsible Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an essential reference source that uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the concepts of imagination and creativity, as well as responsible management practices, and their application to the development and use of innovative technologies. This book intends to help readers understand the importance of continuously developing their cognitive skills and to remain responsible and accountable in the new digital era— the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Featuring research on topics that include modes of interaction in the digitalized era, cognitive skills needed and creative tools to shape the future of work, and knowledge sharing, this book is ideally designed for managers, leaders, decision makers, directors, executives, engineers, entrepreneurs, IT specialists, academics, researchers, students, consultants, and industry professionals.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Cognitive Skills Development
  • Creative Tools
  • Digital (Self-) Management
  • Digital Native Enterprise
  • Imaginary Structure of 4IR
  • Knowledge Management
  • Knowledge Sharing
  • Modes of Interaction
  • Neuroscience
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Editor/Author Biographies
Ziska Fields is an Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She has 13 years’ experience in the Financial Industry and 11 years’ experience in Higher Education experience. Her qualifications include a BA (Communication Sciences), Diploma in Management Studies, MBA (Cum Laude) and PhD. She teaches various Management and Entrepreneurship courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research focus area and passion is theoretical and applied creativity across various disciplines and contexts. She also has various other research areas, which include Entrepreneurship, Management, Innovation, Higher Education, Responsible Management Education, Human Resources, Future Studies and Information Technology. She edited four books titled Incorporating Business Models and Strategies into Social Entrepreneurship, Collective creativity for responsible and sustainable business practice, Handbook of Research on Information and Cyber Security in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Responsible, Sustainable, and Globally Aware Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. She has published various book chapters and papers and presented various conference papers. Professor Fields developed two theoretical models to measure creativity in South Africa, focusing on youth and tertiary education.
Julien Bucher is a research fellow and lecturer at the Chair of Innovation Research and Management of Technology at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Chemnitz University of Technology. His research focuses on social and technological innovation, especially in regard to visuality, imagination, creativity, sustainability, and frugality.
Anja Weller is the advisor for digitalization and media education at the Saxon state ministry of education and cultural affairs. She studied media and communication studies at the University of Technology in Chemnitz. In her doctoral thesis she developed and applied the visual research methodology ‘the creative interview’. Her research interests are visual sociology, learning, imagination, and media education.
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