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Workforce agility: A systematic literature review and a research agenda proposal

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Workforce agility has been described as a management strategy that allows companies to respond quickly and effectively to threats and opportunities arising from a competitive and unstable business environment. In the current literature, there is still a lack of efforts to systematically review the state of the art on this subject. The aim of this paper is to address this gap by studying the academic progress on workforce agility. A systematic literature review was carried out to analyze the academic articles within the workforce agility topic that were published online until the end of June 2020 in three electronic databases: Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, and Science Direct. The bibliometric indicators present how the field has developed and which actors (authors, institutions, countries, journals) are the most relevant. Regarding the conceptual aspects, the findings allowed us to identify that an agile workforce consists of four interrelated and interdependent dimensions: proactivity, flexibility and adaptability, resilience, and competence. These attributes can be promoted through strategies related to i) learning and training, ii) forms of work organization, iii) human resource management; and iv) culture and organizational structure. Our findings also allowed us to propose an agenda for future studies on workforce agility and other related topics. This paper contributes by promoting a debate on a subject still incipient in the literature, especially in Latin America, and by highlighting the potential competitive advantage associated with workforce agility for companies.
Tessarini Junior, Geraldo (57226498261); Saltorato, Patrícia (56341090300)
Workforce agility: A systematic literature review and a research agenda proposal; [Agilité de la main-d’œuvre: Une revue systématique de la littérature et une proposition de programme de recherche]; [Agilidade da força de trabalho: Revisão sistemática da literatura e proposta de uma agenda de pesquisa]; [Agilidad de la fuerza laboral: Revisión sistemática de la literatura y propuesta de agenda de investigación]
2021
10.15446/innovar.v31n81.95582
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85111780484&doi=10.15446%2finnovar.v31n81.95582&partnerID=40&md5=d7338ac9b26dc40cce7d5054c23bf0e0
Business University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil; Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Sorocaba, Brazil; Núcleo de Estudos em Sociologia Econômica e das Finanças (Nesefi), Grupo de Pesquisa em Administração (Gepad)
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