Smart Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Algorithms

STARA in the Fourth and Fifth Industrial Revolution, Volume 2
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-33819-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

This edited volume offers a timely, multidisciplinary exploration of Smart Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Algorithms (STARA) during the transition from the Fourth towards the Fifth Industrial Revolution. Bringing together international scholars and practitioners, the book moves beyond technological hype to critically examine how AI, automation, and digital transformation are reshaping work, identity, careers, health, and wellbeing across global contexts.

“As AI and automation accelerate worldwide, the future of work cannot be understood through technology alone. This volume makes a vital contribution by placing human experience, organisational culture, and ethical leadership at the centre of the STARA conversation. Drawing on diverse psychological perspectives, the chapters illuminate how digital transformation reshapes power, wellbeing, and professional identity across contexts. At a time when societies are searching for more humane models of innovation, this collection provides both critical reflection and practical guidance. It is an essential resource for those seeking to navigate technological change in ways that strengthen resilience, responsibility, and shared prosperity.”

“I urge readers to dive into this novel book volume with an insatiable curiosity and heartfelt openness to explore new transformative ideas, possibilities, frameworks and capabilities, which help bring further progress in our understanding and application of STARA/AI in our professions and research. This cutting-edge book volume equips readers with wisdom, insights and visionary frameworks to sculpt a human-STARA/AI future into one that reverberates with co-intelligent productivity, wellbeing, health and optimal human potential.”

“The pressing, accelerating challenge is upon us: how to virtuously integrate people and 4IR technology optimally, in a human-centric manner. Hence this book is not only essential but more than timeously in enlightening us how to tackle this imposing challenge through insightful, broad, deep, and innovative thinking and research.”

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oosthuizen, Rudolf M

Mayer, Claude-Hélène

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Transformative Research on Smart Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Algorithms (Stara), Health, and Wellbeing at Work.- Chapter 1 The perceptions of STARA and career wellbeing: A qualitative exploration amongst academics in a South African Higher Education Institution.- Chapter 2 Leadership Sensemaking in Fourth Industrial Revolution Banking Environments.- Chapter 3 Trust and Transparency: Making Artificial Intelligence Explainable in Healthcare.- Chapter 4 Love as Leadership in the Age of STARA: Ethical Cognizance as a Design Imperative for Human Flourishing in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.- Chapter 5 Reframing Career Development in STARA: When the Young Resist and the Old Adapt.- Chapter 6 Neuropsychology perspective on Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 7 The Use of a Holistic Digital Wellness App in a Contemporary Workplace.- Part 2 Navigating Technology-Driven Futures.- Chapter 8 Navigating technology-driven employment futures through adaptive self-regulatory resources.- Chapter 9 The critical role of coaching psychologists in technology-based coaching delivery in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.- Chapter 10 Exploring foundational skills to drive the Fourth Industrial Revolution in South Africa.- Chapter 11 From desire to design: Shaping technology around human goals.- Chapter 12 Exploring Human and Artificial Creativity in the Automotive Industry during the 4IR.- Chapter 13 Exploring digital technology use and flow in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Über Autor(innen)

Rudolf M Oosthuizen is a NRF C2 rated Professor in the Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is a registered Industrial Psychologist with the Professional Board of Psychology of the Health Professions Council of South Africa. With 25 years of academic experience, he specializes in the study of Smart Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Algorithms (STARA) within the context of the Fourth and Fifth Industrial Revolutions (4IR/5IR). His research focus also includes the psychology of career and human capacity development and retention, personnel psychology, personality, career psychology, and employment relations. He is recognized for his work on the role of industrial psychologists in future workplaces shaped by 4IR/5IR-STARA technologies, advocating for a competence model that equips industrial psychologists to play a strategic intelligence role in organisations impacted by these technological advances. Through his academic and research efforts, he contributes to understanding how organisational behaviour and human capacity can be enhanced amid disruptive technological changes.

Claude-Hélène Mayer is a Professor in Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a Semester at Sea Alumni (SASFA22) and a Board member of the International Academy of Intercultural Research (IAIR). Claude is a Senior Editor for the Europe`s Journal of Psychology (EJOP), an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychology (Positive Psychology) and for the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management (IJCCM). She holds Doctoral degrees in Psychology, Management and Cultural Anthropology. Her is in Psychology with focus on Work, Organisational and Cultural Psychology (Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder), Germany). Claude`s research areas include transcultural mental health, salutogenesis, transcultural conflict management and mediation, women in leadership, emotions across cultures, The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), positive autoethnography and psychobiography. She is the winner of several book and research awards, such as the William B. Gudykunst Book Award in 2023, Nautilus Silver Book Awards, and is a finalist in the excellence book awards. In 2025, Claude was awarded the HEWLA (Women in Higher Education Leadership Award) and was ranked by Stanford University as a Top 2% scientist in the world. Further, Claude is a trained psychologist, an accredited systemic family and hypnotherapist (Germany), trauma therapist (USA), constellation facilitator and intercultural mediator. Since 2005, she advices international companies and executives in international leadership, intercultural communication and conflict management in organisations.