Literature Review: Exploring the Transformation of the Workplace

This literature review examines the transformation of the workplace, focusing on the impact of digital technologies and innovative practices. It covers various aspects such as communication enhancement, knowledge sharing, employee engagement, and the role of leadership in facilitating these changes. The review highlights how digital transformation can streamline workflows, improve business performance, and adapt to modern business practices, including flexible work arrangements and cloud-based services. It also addresses the challenges and strategies for successful digital transformation, emphasizing the importance of aligning technological advancements with business goals and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration. The reviewed literature suggests that companies need to prioritize employee satisfaction and adapt to the evolving demands of a hybrid workforce to maintain productivity and profitability in the digital age. Desklib provides access to this document and many other resources for students.

Literature Review
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Contents
Theme: Transformation of the workplace..............................................................................3
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................7
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Theme: Transformation of the workplace
According to Cho and Lee (2022) the digital transformation is based on the adoption
process that helps to achieve desired strategic goals or objective of enterprise. it include the
use of innovative thing, constantly evolving the digital technologies to resolve complex
business problems in proper manner. The digital transformation is always influenced the
enterprise while considering the complex & multifaceted process. It has proven to find the
positive effects on the entire organisation. In some cases, it helps the enterprise in order to
streamline the major workflow, improve an effective communication. However, the
transformation of innovation or digital techniques are not easy. It would be required the
proper strategic planning so that it can easily take digital strategy & actually implement it. In
order to assure that worth is doing. Several ways to focus on the digital transformation and
help to manage or control the effective workplace. When it comes to the digital
transformation, many people will focus on the digital concept instead of the transformation.
Govender and Adegbite (2022) has been justified the importance of transformation
which has become consider a right thing. Fundamentally, a digital transformation is about the
way in which enhanced the internal communication and also sharing knowledge. The primary
goal of transformation in the workplace. It means that encourage the staff member
engagement and change how it will be creating a strong team or group together. Within
certain aspect, the transformation can be occurred in the office place, looks different from
case to case.
According to Junglas and et.al. (2022) In the workplace, all kind of employees play an
important role in the organisation and influenced staff member to work together while
sharing the common goals. If in case, it involves encouraging and inspiring the level of
employee engagement to support in the shared vision. It requires for putting together as teams
with gained more knowledge, engaging in sharing skills, building a strong trust. It is always
supports to maintain transparency in the context of promoting.
Kane, Nanda and Copulsky (2021) shared their opinion on the concept of
transformation through digitally, aim to leverage innovation and modern technologies. It
helps to create value for different stakeholders. It will be promoting the level of innovation
and acquire the best practices that can rapidly adapt the changing concept and circumstances.
Whenever it focused on the transformative technologies, it has been rapidly changing the
workplace at exponential manner. Transformation of workplace are majorly developing a
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strong collaboration between enterprises, offering modern way to engage with the potential
client bases. It will offer the best practices in business to gain valuable insights. Mostly, the
transformation allows for enterprise to improve the business performance and adapting the
automatic procedure. This can be possible due to the modern technology. Every employee
can consider automate aspects in the business. For example- automating payroll system that
allows leader to focus on the business opportunities.
Leesakul and et.al. (2022) said that companies continue to open their doors to the
potential employees, those are responsible for transforming the workplace through digital
technology. The initiatives of workplace if it can be prepared to support the specific need or
requirement of hybrid workforce. On the other hand, it also transformed the workplace while
implementing flexible concept through digital technology. It supports for employee in order
to meet the expectation satisfaction level and increase productivity as well as profitability. An
efficient leaders must have resolved hundreds of complex thing in order to make a flexible
workplace. It has become suitable to create a digital workforce.
Apart from that, Ljubiša (2021) focused on the support of new working patterns and
used at the time of pandemic. It enabled the leader to accelerate the pace of digital workplace.
For example- employees have enjoyed their work, get done faster way, at single time. It is
almost find the right ways to improve the quality of work. During covid-19 pandemic,
different companies are focused on the concept of transformation in the workplace. It provide
the best options for employees so that they can maintain quality of work in properly.
Nowadays, it has been increased the demand of new technology and support flexibility to
increase the level of employee satisfaction and business productivity. In order to compare
with past scenario, it would be required to adapt the fundamental aspect of digital
transformation. It plays a significant role in order to enable radical flexibility. At certain
point, it should use toolsets and adopted at the time of pandemic. It is helping to build a
strong collaboration and meeting the capabilities. In some cases, it is very imperative thing
that need to consider fair treatment- which can be possible through transformation and all
employees should be able to access the critical services in the different ways.
Qiu (2021) expressed that digital transformation is defined the integration of
technology in different areas of enterprise, fundamentally it is continuously changing how
operate the business and deliver value to the potential client. Companies are trying to
transform the culture that are continually challenge the status, experiment and comfortable
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with the success or failure. The transformation in workplace act as different ways and very
hard to apply an appropriate tasks. Generally, it can be defined the digital transformation as
create an integration in terms of technology at different areas. It was fundamental thing that
need to change and identify how an enterprise operate, how it can easily deliver the best
value to its potential clients. The digital transformation plan can be aligned with the business
goals and clearly find the best possible solutions. It depends on the work environment or
culture. Most importantly, it is an essential aspect to increase employee engagement and
enhance the level of productivity. Whenever it is closely work with different stakeholders
such as business, facilitates manager and HR. it is needed to focus on the effective plan and
consider transformation so that it can easily execute some necessary changes.
Selimović, Pilav-Velić and Krndžija (2021) expressed that The digital transformation
in the workplace initiatives typically require considerable change in the business internal
process, structure, skills, culture and behaviour. Assess the new skills and gaining more
knowledge, competencies that helps in the digital workplace. Generally, it can be identified
the change management leaders, who are easily anticipated or mitigated the obstacles before
resolving a complex problem. Integrate with digital workplace, it is an essential aspect to
maintain workflows, setup a rules or regulations. Work with senior people to get them and
listen or engage with team members. The transformation of digital technology can be
minimised the stress level of employees. It ease their transition with effective way to make
plan to re-upgrade. If necessary, it required to find the trained person to handle business
operations & functions.
Souza (2022) A business may take on the digital transformation for different reasons.
It is likely to increase the speed and efficiency of operational tasks. At different places, it is
important aspect to identify the level of business performance. It would require to implement
a lot of pressure on the leaders to show that how they can initiatives continue to translate into
agility. It is directly proportional to the speed of the entire company. Because of the demand
of innovation, companies need to be aware about the transformation in the workplace. That is
why because of evolving & support the potential employees. It is great news in which
underlying technology tool or platform that is basis of various change which have been
performed by worker at workplace. The best part of business is to focus on the specific tools
that are really helping to change way of business. It can be performed the best transformation
and enabling the staff member to define right solutions. In some situation, it increases the
demand of digital dexterity of all kind of users with focused on the new things.
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It has concluded that the transformation in the workplace can be occurred in the
different ways: - using a cloud based service which has become agile & economical. It allows
enterprise to select or choose the best service that easily meet the expectation level. Thus, it
helps in the streamline their IT infrastructure, prices or costs of innovation. Trenerry and
et.al. (2021) said that Cloud-based system transformation supports the business in terms of
workplace flow management. It is important factor in order to find the digital transformation
and allows for accessibility & monitoring the business activities. This kind of cloud based
system as transformation technologies are changing the workplace. Afterward, it is the best
way to maintain a high level advantages or benefits. It encourages knowledge of people to
share information and build a strong collaboration across multiple departments.
It has been recommendations that companies are needed to use a slack or similar tools
or technique as transformation in the workplace. It comes to be sharing and achieving long-
terms goals. This kind of transformation can be directly affects the internal enterprise which
has proven to be best opportunity at different areas. Digital transformation in the workplace
has represented the various benefits for organisation. It started to create or develop a seamless
and secure internal blogs for the potential employees. It is closer to the digital transformation
in the workplace.
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REFERENCES
Book and Journals
Cho, H.Y. and Lee, H.J., 2022. Digital transformation for efficient communication in the
workplace: Analyzing the flow coworking tool. Business Communication Research
and Practice. 5(1). pp.20-28.
Govender, C.M. and Adegbite, W.M., 2022. EVOLVING ROLE OF LEARNING AND
DEVELOPMENT SPECIALISTS IN THE 21st CENTURY FOURTH
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WORKPLACE. International Journal of
Entrepreneurship. 26. pp.1-16.
Junglas, I. and et.al., 2022. On the benefits of consumer IT in the workplace—An IT
empowerment perspective. International Journal of Information Management. 64.
p.102478.
Kane, G.C., Nanda, R. and Copulsky, J., 2021. Redesigning the post-pandemic
workplace. MIT Sloan Management Review. 62(3). pp.12-14.
Leesakul, N. and et.al., 2022. Workplace 4.0: Exploring the Implications of Technology
Adoption in Digital Manufacturing on a Sustainable Workforce. Sustainability.
14(6). p.3311.
Ljubiša, M., 2021, June. Digital Workplace Transformation: Small Scale Literature Review
and Study of Managers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In International Symposium on
Innovative and Interdisciplinary Applications of Advanced Technologies (pp. 44-55).
Springer, Cham.
Qiu, Y., 2021. The Visible and Invisible Hands in the Workplace: How Spatial Settings and
Digital Transformation Impact Contemporary Workplace (Doctoral dissertation).
Selimović, J., Pilav-Velić, A. and Krndžija, L., 2021. Digital workplace transformation in the
financial service sector: Investigating the relationship between employees'
expectations and intentions. Technology in Society. 66. p.101640.
Souza, L.D., 2022. Trust, flexibility and technology: The keys to creating a more mature
workplace. Corporate Real Estate Journal. 11(3). pp.214-223.
Trenerry, B. and et.al., 2021. Preparing workplaces for digital transformation: an integrative
review and framework of multi-level factors. Frontiers in psychology. 12. p.822.
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