Elevating the Learning Agility of Manufacturing Workers by Harnessing the Effects of Digital Workplace and Self-Management

Technological developments not only provide opportunities and threats for businesses and industries but also present a digital generation or natives at the workplace that has different characteristics from previous generations, especially in terms of self-management. Business organizations are carrying out digital transformation by digitizing the workplace in facing dynamic changes. This article is interested in elaborating the impact of the digital workplace and self-management on the learning agility of workers in the manufacturing industry. A survey-based empirical study was conducted to examine the nine developed hypotheses. PLS-SEM and the SmartPLS application were used to structure and analyze the perceptual data from 298 manufacturing workers in the suburban area of Jakarta as respondents. The results conclude that digital workplace and self-management positively affect learning agility. The digital workplace also has a positive effect on self-management. So far, digital workplace development can have an even higher impact on learning agility, especially in the aspects of people agility and result agility.