Agile Coping in the Digital Workplace

1) Introductory Chapter: Conceptualizing agile coping within the smart technological world of workPART I: The Digital Workplace: Contextual Issues and coping2) The Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Resilience-based Coping Strategy for Disruptive Change3) Career wellbeing and career agility as coping attributes in the modern career spacePART II: Managing Coping within the Digital Workplace:  Issues for Organisational Practice4) Surviving the digital era: The link between positive coping, workplace friendships and career adaptability5) Positive coping skills, thriving and social connectedness: are there generational differences in the digital workplace?6) Enhancing psychological wellbeing in industry 4.0: The relationship between emotional intelligence, social connectedness, work-life balance and positive coping behaviour   7) Agile Coping in a Digital World: An Expanding Need for Boundary Spanning.8) Digital Tools Applications to Occupational health and Safety for people with Autism 9) Coping strategies as predictors of flourishing among targets of workplace bullying 10) Agile Leadership and Bootlegging Behaviour: Does Leadership Coping Dynamics Matter?PART III: Managing Coping within the Digital Workplace:  Issues for Individuals11) Coping strategies for a collarless workforce - an employee experience guide12) Digitalisation in the workplace:  The Role of Technology on Employee Engagement and Creativity teams13) Psychological capital: The antidote for the consequences of organisational citizenship behaviour in Industry 4.0 workplace14) The Difference Model of Disability:  A Focus on Employment15) Student wellbeing and access to technology:  Changing landscapes in student supportPART IV: Integration and Conclusion16) Reflection on the agile coping dynamics and emerging issues for research practice in a smart digital technological world of work

Nadia Ferreira is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at the Department of Human Resource Management at UNISA. She is a registered human resource practitioner with the South African Board for People Practices (SABPP). Nadia Ferreira completed her MCom degree in Human Resource Management and Industrial Psychology in 2008 at the University of Pretoria. She completed her DCom Industrial Psychology degree at Unisa in 2012. She is also an author and co-author of several published articles in local and international journals. In addition, she presented several papers at national and international conferences. Nadia Ferreira is a section editor for the South African Journal of Industrial and Organisational Psychology

Ingrid L. Potgieter (DCom) is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at the Department of Human Resource Management at UNISA. She is a registered industrial psychologist at the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) since 2009 and also a registered human resource practitioner and the South African board for people practices (SABPP). Ingrid Potgieter completed her Mcom degree in Human Resource Management and Industrial Psychology in 2009 at the University of Pretoria. She completed her Dcom Industrial Psychology degree at Unisa in 2012. She is also an author and co-author of several published articles in local and international journals. She presented several papers at national and international conferences. Ingrid Potgieter is a section editor for the South African Journal of Industrial Psychology and edited and co-edited a number of scholarly books published by an international publisher.


Melinde Coetzee (DLitt et Phil) is a professor in the Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. She has extensive experience in the corporate environment on psychological interventions pertaining to organisational