Future Talents Should Be Equipped With Industry 4.0 Skills

The 4th Industrial Revolution will produce quality employees with a wholesome talent fit for the change.

An organisation's hiring and selection approach can help or harm it. It can also affect a company's management. Human resource managers must be well-versed in the current methodologies to ensure that the hiring and selecting process aligns with Malaysian organisational practice.

A productive and competitive human resource is an organisation's backbone in today's corporate world. Moreover, the 4th Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) requires highly qualified human resources to emancipate competitiveness.

The reality now confirms that the organisation's competitiveness in human resources becomes the focal point in tackling environmental change—a requirement of Industry 4.0 based on computing and automation technology.

TVET is recognised as one of the main agendas in education to generate highly qualified human resources in line with Industry 4.0 requirements. The Ministry of Education Malaysia has begun changing the country's higher education structure to ensure graduates and future graduates are marketable in the Industry 4.0 era.

This new environment will ensure that these graduates have the knowledge and skills required by Industry 4.0. Globalisation, technology, competition, rules, and so on all change with Industry 4.0. Human resources can overcome these changes with a talented workforce prepared to change.

Roles of Human Resource Management in Industry 4.0 Era

The responsibilities and roles of human resource management are changing due to Industry 4.0. To achieve this goal, all employees and human resource managers must grasp the concept of human resource management.