Title:

Understanding the cyber-physical-social-intentional Workforce 4.0

Creator:

Gladden Matthew

Abstract:

The widespread application of Industry 4.0 technologies relating to social robotics, AI, the Internet of Things (IoT), ubiquitous computing, and advanced human-computer interfaces is giving rise to a growing range of “cyber-physical” entities. By building on established definitions of such entities, this text formulates a novel conceptual framework for understanding the emerging Workforce 4.0 as a specialized type of “cyber-physical-social-intentional system”. Attention is given to the heterogeneous agency, functional decentralization, technological posthumanization, and planned architectures or spontaneously self-organizing topologies manifested by Workforce 4.0. It is shown how such a workforce is situated within the context of cyber-physical space, a cyber-physical organization, cyber-physical ecosystems, a cyber-physical society, and the larger cyber-physical world.

Date issued:

2019-09-25

Electronic Issue Date:

2019-09-25

Identifier:

doi:10.37055/nsz/132723 ; oai:editorialsystem.com:article-132723

Electronic ISSN:

2719-860X

Print ISSN:

1896-9380

Publisher ID:

132723

License:

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Starting page:

15

Ending page:

26

Volume:

14

Issue:

3

Journal:

NSZ

Keywords:

Management 4.0 ; Workforce 4.0 ; cyber-physical systems ; cyber-physical-social-intentional ; systems ; technological posthumanization