Steve Prentice's book explores the fear of digital transformation in the workplace, its impact on productivity, team dynamics, and corporate health, and how to overcome it. It uses case studies of digital transformation successes and failures to demonstrate how fear grows in the body and mind, radiates and spreads through groups and teams, interacts with technology, change, and digital transformation, and leads to tangible risks to an organization's future. It is for managers who wish to understand how people respond to changes in their immediate world and for individual employees who seek to understand why they or their colleagues or managers respond negatively to changes or struggle with conflict and relationships in the workplace.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 260 pages
Publication date: 10 May 2022
Publisher: APress

People who talk about digital transformation frequently place too much emphasis on new technology, assuming that the workforce will accept it with open arms. However, humans are still primarily driven by fear, a single reflex that will always be the default response. Workplace fear manifests in various forms, including fear of change, fear of looking foolish, and fear of workplace relationships. These fears have deep roots that extend far beyond the need to learn new technology. They are about the fear of losing a job, a livelihood, and an identity. The consequences of such fear can be significant for an organization, including increased vulnerability to ransomware and cyberattacks, increased employee turnover, loss of competitiveness, loss of market share, resistance, sabotage, discrimination, and litigation. Steve Prentice is an expert in the relationship between people, technology, and change. This book will demonstrate to managers and employees alike the various types of fear that can occur in the workplace in the context of digital transformation, how these fears can impact productivity, team dynamics, and corporate health, and most importantly, how to overcome them. Using case studies of digital transformation successes and failures, Steve describes: How fear grows in the body and mind How fear radiates and spreads through groups and teams How fear interacts with technology, change, and digital transformation How ignoring or suppressing fear leads to tangible risks to an organization's future How to address and manage fear individually and as a group How the demands of modern employees have changed How managers can prepare themselves for the new normal Who This Book Is For Managers who wish to look under the hood and understand the impact of fear on their organization's digital transformation journey Employees who want to learn how to manage their own fear and thrive in the digital age

People who discuss digital transformation often focus on new technology with a presumption that the working population will embrace it enthusiastically.

But human beings are still instinctively dominated by fear, a single complicating reflex which will always be the default response.

Workplace fear comes in many forms, including the fear of change, the fear of looking stupid, and the fear of working relationships, and in all cases these fears have deep roots that extend far below having to learn a new technology.

Its about the fear of losing a job, a livelihood, and an identity.

The results of such fear can have enormous repercussions on an organization, including increased vulnerability to ransomware and cyberattack, increased employee turnover, loss of competitiveness, loss of market share, resistance, sabotage, discrimination, and litigation.

Steve Prentice is an expert in the relationship between people, technology, and change.

This book will demonstrate to managers and employees alike the various types of fear that can occur in the workplace in the context of digital transformation, how these fears can impact productivity, team dynamics, and corporate health, and most importantly, how to overcome them.

Using case studies of digital transformation successes and failures, Steve describes:

How fear grows in the body and mind

How fear radiates and spreads through groups and teams

How fear interacts with technology, change, and digital transformation

How ignoring or suppressing fear leads to tangible risks to an organization's future

How to address and manage fear individually and as a group

How the demands of modern employees have changed

How managers can prepare themselves for the new normal

Who This Book Is For

Managers who wish to look under the hood and understand the impact of fear on their organization's digital transformation journey

Employees who want to learn how to manage their own fear and thrive in the digital age

Weight: 427g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781484281000
Edition number: 1st ed.