- Title
- The importance of learning agility as a component of sustained business success
- Creator
- Hennig, Mark Robert
- Subject
- Success in business -- South Africa
- Subject
- Management -- South Africa
- Subject
- Experiential learning
- Date Issued
- 2021-04
- Date
- 2021-04
- Type
- Master's/Doctoral theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/51523
- Identifier
- vital:43295
- Description
- The purpose of this treatise is to determine if learning agility is an important component for business success. With the arrival of new technology, change and information explosion the rate of uncertainty is increasing. Leaders are challenged to present continuous change and need to be able to adapt and develop their competencies to remain relevant. The VUCA world increased the complexity of the environment and provide volatility, uncertainty, complexity and are ambiguous. A significant amount of research has been done to define learning agility. The three drivers of learning agility are change, information explosion and rapid response during a crisis. The concept of learning agility can be defined as the readiness and ability to learn from experience and to utilise the learning competency to perform successfully under new environments. The seven-model framework was developed to assess how leaders cope under change. The three leadership competencies are intellectual intelligence, managerial intelligence, and emotional intelligence. Studies shows that emotional intelligence will be an important competency a leader can have and together with learning agility, will provide success to any organisation. The researcher believes that an individual who is not learning agile will not succeed in the new fast-changing environment. The term learning agile is rather a new concept and the influence it has on the organisation is complex. For leaders to succeed, their mindset needs to be adaptable and willing to change. Training and learning from experience will assist the leader to move forward and be an agile leader. A key success factor for organisations is to identify and recruit learning agile individuals to drive competitiveness and enhance relevance in the market.
- Description
- Thesis (MBA) -- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences, Business Administration, 2021
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- Format
- 1 online resource (159 pages)
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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