ETHICS TO HANDLE
VUCA ENVIRONMENT
By:
Sagar Tewari
A023119819024
B .Tech (A.I.)
WHAT IS VUCA
ENVIRONMENT ?
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Volatile – Change is rapid and unpredictable in its nature and
extent.
Uncertain – The present is unclear and the future is uncertain.
Complex – Many different, interconnected factors come into play
, with the potential to cause chaos and confusion.
Ambiguous – There is lack of clarity or awareness about
situations.
Volatility
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Volatility is the V component of VUCA.
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This refers to the different situational social-categorization of
people due to specific traits or reactions that stand out during that
situation.
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Volatility is the changing dynamic of social-categorization in a set
of environmental situations.
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The dynamic can change due to any shift in a situation, whether it
is social, technical, biological or anything of the like. Studies have
been conducted, but it has proven difficult to find the specific
component that causes the change in situational socialcategorization.
Uncertainty
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Uncertainty is the U component of VUCA.
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Uncertainty in the VUCA framework is almost just as it sounds:
when the availability or predictability of information in events is
unknown.
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Uncertainty often occurs in volatile environments that are complex
in structure involving unanticipated interactions that are significant
in uncertainty.
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Uncertainty may occur in the intention to imply causation or
correlation between the events of a social perceiver and a target.
Situations where there is either a lack of information to prove why
a perception is in occurrence or informational availability but lack of
causation are where uncertainty is salient.
Complexity
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Complexity is the “C” component of VUCA.
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This refers to the different situational social-categorization of
people due to specific traits or reactions that stand out during that
situation.
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It refers to the interconnectivity and interdependence of multiple
components in a system.
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The results of a deliberately controlled environment are
unexpected because of the non-linear interaction and
interdependencies within different groups and categories.
Ambiguity
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Ambiguity is the “A” component of VUCA.
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This refers to when the general meaning of something is unclear
even when an appropriate amount of information is provided.
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Uncertainty is when relevant information is unavailable and
unknown, and ambiguity where relevant information is available
but the overall meaning is still unknown.
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Ambiguity leads to people assuming an answer, and many times
this leads assuming ones race, gender, and can even lead to class
stereotypes.
ETHICS TO
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Volatility
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Become adaptive in decision-making
Have clarity of vision, short and medium-term
Communicate clearly to reduce confusion
Determine your intent and resolve
Uncertainty
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Flexibility to cope with doubt
Build commitment and consensus of approach
Develop new perspectives
Create risk-management ideologies
ETHICS TO
HANDLE
Complexity
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Understand the links between cause and effect
Simplify processes and procedures
Recognize nothing is permanent
Encourage development and generation of ideas
Ambiguity
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Communicate directly and with clarity
Seek out and uncover alternative viewpoints
Listen to divergent ideas and concepts
Learn lessons that can apply in various circumstances