The disabling influence of work-life imbalance and the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) on postgraduate research engagement and progress.

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dc.contributor.author Atibuni, Dennis Zami
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-24T08:55:14Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-24T08:55:14Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.citation Atibuni, Z. D. (2021). The disabling influence of work-life imbalance and the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) on postgraduate research engagement and progress. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4867-7.ch015 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.60682/avfy-6s15
dc.description Book Chapter en_US
dc.description.abstract The onslaught of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) requires employees to have a more complex combination of skills—the 21st century skills—than in the past. The corporate world expects employees to amass these skills from the education system, especially through acquisition of postgraduate qualifications. However, acquiring these skills presents challenges to the students as institutions rarely offer these skills at that level. Low competence in these skills, coupled with work-life imbalance, hampers research engagement and hence progress and completion among postgraduate students. In essence, a lack of the 4IR skills is a disabling reality for postgraduate research students. This chapter presents a desk-based conceptual review of the disabling effects of work-life imbalance and inadequate 4IR skills on postgraduate students’ research engagement and general academic progress. Implications for policy and practice include routine provision of hands-on experiences on the 21st century research skills and work-life balance in order to step up their research progress. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Busitema University en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher IGI Global en_US
dc.subject Fourth industrial revolution en_US
dc.subject Education system en_US
dc.subject Postgraduate qualifications en_US
dc.subject Work-life imbalance en_US
dc.subject Research engagement en_US
dc.subject 4IR skills en_US
dc.subject Academic progress en_US
dc.title The disabling influence of work-life imbalance and the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) on postgraduate research engagement and progress. en_US
dc.type Book chapter en_US


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