VUCA-Managers Training for Smart Systems: Innovative and Organizational Approach

Abstract

The term “VUCA” represents a four-letter acronym including definitions and contents of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. These are the features of a modern business environment in which managers have to face and deal with. The area of research is designing and developing the managers’ training according to the qualification requirements revealed in both the educational and professional standards accordingly to social and business demands. Nowadays, modern, effective managers are known as being highly stress-resistant, flexible, creative, and having available hard and soft skills for managing risks in unstable situations. Smart business environment and a university’s activities are based on the ideas of digitalization increasing the social demand for employees who are ready to process large amounts of information, multi-dimensional analysis of data, and identifying intelligent management solutions quickly while meeting the situation of uncertainty and risk. The goal of the research is to review some relevant innovative means and organizational methods of students’ training for being smart and effective managers in conditions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Modern means and methods of personnel training in the digitalization age on the basis of professional standards are considered and revealed. The VUCA-manager training models are designed according to the theoretical framework of the research and modern requirements.