Agile Business Leadership Methods for Industry 4.0

Bülent Akkaya

Language: English

Publisher: Emerald Publishing

Published: Oct 5, 2020

Description:

Firms need to adapt to changes in both their internal and external environments and create new systems that focus on new trends, identify improvements, assess their potential impact on their management and manufacturing systems. They try to learn quickly how to implement changes to their standard operating procedures. To achieve this, they adapt agile approaches.
Agile Business Leadership Methods for Industry 4.0 collates innovative research on new leadership styles that will develop agile managers and business leaders who can improve company success in the fast-paced environments created by Industry 4.0. The book will also examine current challenges and opportunities for organizations and how setting companies up for greater agility can ensure their value and longevity. It highlights topics including leaderships styles, organizational climate, and labor markets, and is ideally designed for managers, executives, business professionals, researchers, academics, and students.
Akkaya provides relevant theoretical frameworks of new leadership styles and the latest empirical research findings on challenges and opportunities for firms in industry 4.0. This book is set to aggregate original theoretical, conceptual and empirical research on challenges and opportunities in the context of industry 4.0 and how can they make it better by being agile and managed by agile leaders. It aims also to investigate the new leadership styles and a related framework for assessing a postmodern leadership style, agile leadership.

About the Author

Bülent Akkaya , PhD is Lecturer in the Department of Office Management-Executive Assistant of the Manisa Celal Bayar University in Turkey. His research interests comprise networks and partnerships in diverse disciplines. He has been working on dynamic capabilities, agile leadership, industry 4.0 and quality of management in contemporary enterprises.