Learning and development in highly dynamic VUCA contexts: a new framework for the L&D function

Garavan, Thomas N., Darcy, Colette and Bierema, Laura Lee (2024) Learning and development in highly dynamic VUCA contexts: a new framework for the L&D function. Personnel Review, 53 (3). pp. 641-656. ISSN 0048-3486

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Abstract

Purpose: This article introduces the special issue of Learning and Development in Highly-Dynamic VUCA Contexts. The issue reviews the concept of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity), highlights its implications for the learning and development function and argues that learning and development play a critical role in helping organisations, people and the societal context in which they operate to work within and navigate VUCA contexts.

Design/methodology/approach: The contributions to this special issue propose a novel learning and development framework that will inform L&D as the provision of training, learning and development activities in organisations within highly dynamic VUCA contexts and ensuring a strong external focus including organisational, people, community, economic and societal sustainability.

Findings: We, the authors, propose seven features of a strategic sustainability L&D function and L&D professional role that are a fit with highly dynamic VUCA contexts.

Practical implications: The proposed framework has important implications for the way in which L&D is structured, its key priorities and plans and the competencies of L&D professionals to add value to all stakeholders. We also emphasise that the work on the L&D function in highly dynamic VUCA contexts needs to be broader and move beyond a performance orientation.

Originality/value: The proposed strategic sustainability role for the L&D function expands theoretically our understanding of how L&D can have impacts at the nexus of the organisation and highly dynamic VUCA contexts, in addition to broadening the constellation of stakeholders that it potentially enhances.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	VUCA; Dynamic environments; L&D function; Strategic sustainability
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD61 Risk Management H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Strategic Management H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management > Training and Development
Divisions:	School of Business > Staff Research and Publications
Depositing User:	Tamara Malone
Date Deposited:	14 May 2024 13:44
Last Modified:	14 May 2024 13:44
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/6981

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