<img height="1" width="1" style="display:none" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1018706268302959&amp;ev=PageView&amp;noscript=1">
((o
Knowledge • News • Insights
 o))
In Partnership With

ICYMI: Automation Alley | Employee Attraction & Retention with Industry 4.0 & More News

Michigan Business Network
March 13, 2024 6:15 AM

automation_alley-1

INTEGR8 2024 WORKFORCE PLAYBOOK

Expand Your Employee Attraction, Preparation, and Retention Efforts by Leveraging Industry 4.0 Technologies

Workforce Article by John Walsh, Michigan Manufacturers Association

Summary

Industry 4.0 presents tools to address challenges in attracting, upskilling, and retaining talent, with particular focus on communication and recognition. Meanwhile, evolving career aspirations of youth are influenced by technology, creativity, and purpose, offering opportunities for manufacturers to engage the next generation workforce.

Nearly every industry faces challenges around attracting, rapidly upskilling, and retaining highly talented people. Each of these have their own nuances. Equally, there are many potential solutions, and Industry 4.0 offers plenty of tools and technologies that can help employers address these challenges. 

When it comes to retention, the problems—and the solutions—often occur in the realms of communication, recognition, and mutual respect. There are Industry 4.0 technologies that can, for instance, improve lines of communication between managers and production floor workers or between workers on different shifts. But much of the retention challenges related to Industry 4.0 come from the friction between people and technology. For a great overview of retention challenges and examples of what business leaders can do and are doing to respond, check out HR4.0: Shaping People Strategies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution published by the World Economic Forum. 

For the rest of this article, let’s focus on attraction and preparation. 

The 2011 documentary film Miss Representation explored the question of why women are under-represented in positions of power and influence in America. Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, summed it up well when she said, “You can’t be what you can’t see.” That sentiment just as readily applies to careers and goes way beyond gender. The “dream jobs” of all young people directly correlate to what they’re exposed to and the pop culture in which they grow up. In the past, if you asked a kid what he or she wanted to be when they grew up, you might get answers like professional athlete, astronaut, teacher, doctor, and nurse.

Read this industry analysis in full here.‍

Sign up today for a free Essential Membership to Automation Alley to keep your finger on the pulse of digital transformation in Michigan and beyond. 

John Walsh, MMA
John Walsh, MMA

A proven leader with unique experience across the profit, nonprofit, public and higher education sectors. Highly refined communicator and facilitator capable of using advocacy and negotiation skills to understand, explain and resolve complex issues with diverse stakeholders. Experience includes public policy analysis and advocacy; stakeholder and media engagement; finance and management; fundraising; and economic development.

518237000034663004_zc_v1_1699981696823_clickthru_integr8poll_01

About Automation Alley

Automation Alley is a nonprofit technology business association and Digital Transformation Insight Center focused on driving the growth and success of businesses in Michigan and beyond through innovation and automation. With a global outlook and a regional focus, we foster a vibrant community of innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders through opportunities for collaboration and learning. Our programs and services help businesses develop the skills and expertise needed to effectively jumpstart or accelerate digital transformation. By bringing together industry, academia, and government, we aim to create a dynamic ecosystem that drives innovation and growth across Michigan. 

At Automation Alley, our mission is to help businesses thrive in the rapidly changing digital economy by equipping them with the knowledge, insights, and tools to develop a software-first mindset that leverages the power of automation, AI, and other cognitive technologies. We believe that by working together, we can build a stronger, more innovative, and more competitive economy for the future. Visit automationalley.com.

 

###

  Photos as shared and provided by Automation Alley
  • automation_alley-1
  • MMA2023 Cropped (1)

Michigan Business Network is an online broadcasting company that provides knowledge, news, and insights into Michigan’s businesses, industries, and economy.