As the challenge of conceptualising, designing, and implementing fulfilling and productive humane workplaces within the emerging 4th and 5th Industrial Revolutions becomes more apparent — it is clear that the future remit of every Industrial Organisational Psychologist will be rising to the task of integrating people and technology.
By Society for Industrial & Organisational Psychology South Africa (SIOPSA), Team Leader: Prof Theo H Veldsman As the challenge of conceptualising, designing, and implementing fulfilling and productive humane workplaces within the emerging 4th and 5th Industrial Revolutions becomes more apparent - it is clear that the future remit of every Industrial Organisational-Psychologist will be rising to the task of integrating people and technology, virtuously and optimally. Industrial-Organisational Psychology (IOP) as a science and practice embraces the psychology of work, the working person, the workplace, and the congruence between these elements. Yet, as we rapidly approach a digital era of work, how can this congruence be actualised? This book explores the workplaces of the future as the outcome of an 18-month future-search, research project involving five research teams with their respective leaders, six research associates, two assistants and the head of the project, Theo Veldsman. Using emerging trends associated with the unfolding of the 4th and 5th Industrial Revolutions, Theo Veldsman and his team reimagined IOP in all its facets - intent, focus, content, mode of delivery, and capabilities - to realign it with the future workplace. The research project - as reported on in the book - consisted of five interdependent research streams that aimed to build a coherent, in-depth story about the requirements for IO Psychologists to be future-ready. These research streams were: (i) the changing world of work; (ii) the IO Psychologist's moral-values-ethics base; (iii) the IO Psychologist's response; (iv) IO Psychologists' capabilities, education, training and development; and (v) IOP research. This book provides a road map for IO Psychologists who want to prepare for the next five to ten years to become future-fit. These guidelines for directing and guiding the science, practice, and profession of IOP will allow IO Psychologists make a humane 4IR workplace a reality. Having visited the future through the rigorous research reported here, IO Psychologists can now return to the present, and lay a people-centric foundation for their organisations.
Theo Veldsman is regarded as one of the thought leaders in South Africa with respect to people management and the psychology of work. For many years he has demonstrated his ongoing ability to pro-actively identify emerging people and leadership needs and arrive at fit-for-purpose, innovative solutions that are simultaneously theoretically and practically sound. He has a proven ability to move seamlessly between theory and practice, and vice versa.Theo has extensive research and development, as well as consulting experience over the past 35 years in the fields of strategy formulation and implementation; strategic organisational change; organisational (re)design; team building; leadership/management development; and strategic people/ talent management. He has consulted/ consults with many leading South African companies, and organisations overseas, in the above areas in the roles of Advisor, Expert, Coach/ Mentor.He is seen as one of the pioneers of Organisational Design as a formal discipline in Southern Africa and Africa. He has enabled the process of introducing many of the global Organisational Design thought-leaders to South African audiences by arranging for them to visit South Africa. Personally, Theo has conducted more than 50 organisational design assignments across private and public organisations, both locally and internationally, at the executive and senior management levels.Over the past 8 years Theo has trained close on 200 OD practitioners through public and in-company programmes. He has been party to many South African organisations introducing organisational design as a formal area of practice. THE FUTURE-SEARCH RESEARCH TEAM The future-search research reported in the book was conducted by a voluntarily, passionate, and committed team led by Theo Veldsman overall. Each research stream had a leader with one or more associates, and in two cases also research assistants. The respective research stream teams were: Changing world of work: Ruwayne Kock (lead), Esther Kruger, Dieter Veldsman (associates); Moral-values-ethics base of IOP: Sharon Munyaka (Lead), Ravi Guiness (associate), Somona Kabemba (assistant); IOP response: Natasha Winkler-Titus (lead), Kim-Lee Wentzel-Ricketts (associate); IOP capabilities, education, training and development: Shirleen Titus (lead), Natascha Starke (associate), Lynette Siziba (assistant); and IOP research: Crystal Hoole (lead), Petrus Nel (associate). The team was intentionally composed of older (more experienced) and younger (less experienced) IO psychologists and a senior HR Practitioner from both academia and practice (corporate and consulting), with a representative diversity in terms of gender and race. Most leads have served as Presidents of the Society of Industrial & Organisational Psychology of SA (SIOPSA).
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