LEARNABILITY: AN INEVITABLE SKILL NEEDED FOR SUSTENANCE IN INDUSTRY 4.0

Today we are living in the era of fourth industrial revolution demanding variety of skills set for delivering various jobs. The world is transforming in a contingent way. This transformation is not only in terms of technology but a complete domino effect is being witnessed in the recent past. The technology, demography and the social changes are affecting the professional as well as personal life styles. The techniques and procedures followed in the organizations are becoming obsolete very quickly resulting in the need for new techniques. New jobs are created; even the most demanded jobs in the current days are not even present few years back. Thus the job description and the job specification is changing a lot these days. It is not the survival that is threatening the employee work force but it is about the sustenance of their jobs. Learnability is the skill that is coming to the aid of employees for sustenance. Learnability is the ability to quickly grow and adopt skill set to be emploayable throughout their working life. In this regard this study is aimed to identify the need of learnability skill among the people and how it affects their career. A survey was conducted with a sample of 120 employees working in different sectors to identify the need to unlearn the present skill set and relearn the new skills for their job upgradation. The study revealed that unlearning and relearning is needed in every sector like educational institutions, software, manufacturing, fast moving consumer goods etc,. The time span for the change process varies from one sector to the other. The employees seeking new skills are being headhunted by the corporate world and are reaching the tip of their career ladder and the others are left behind.