Disruptive technological innovation and organizational agility development: Do they build workforce resilience?

Abstract

This paper deals with enlightening the significance of organizational learning and strategic human resource management’s (SHRM’s) impact on combining disruptive technological innovation for boosting workforce resilience and organizational agility development. Currently, disruptive technological innovation and organizational agility concept both the approaches are considered as a novel approach that plays a crucial role in enhancing organizational competitiveness as well as creating future workforce resilience. This study attempts to answer the research question on how disruptive technological innovation and organizational agility can enable workforces to strengthen their innovative capabilities and enhances their flexibility to adopt the challenges of interference. This paper also tries to demonstrate that learning agility essentially strengthens a human instinct to learn, adapt, unlearn, and relearn which reveals a progressive path to keep pace with the ever-changing conditions and figure out new ways to navigate them without knowing what to do. The main aim of this paper is to exemplify and highlight the significance of disruptive technology and its innovative approaches that foster organizational learning to take the lead in re-inventing the workforce and ensuring organizational stability through organizational agility development. As, organizational learning concept and organizational agility is the reinforcement of creating a unique environment for organizational knowledge and performance development within the organization that empowers existing workforces to face the competitive challenges of knowledge growth opportunities. Conclusively, this paper also explicates the conceptualization of organizational agility and organizational learning process, with the spirit of organizational innovativeness through agile features of an organization that enable firms to combine their existing tacit and explicit knowledge to respond the threat of disruptive innovation technologies by upgrading SHRM’s capabilities and practices.