Co-workership rebooted for digital transformation: highlighting employees’ reflection and learning

This paper addresses how employees’ perceptions of organizational and technological aspects of digital transformation in manufacturing contexts contribute to understanding co-workership. To answer this, the research design is rooted in an engaged scholarship approach and work-integrated learning in close collaboration with a case company to understand organisational and digital transformations over time. The study consisted of five focus groups with a total of 25 participants and applied the framework of the co-workership wheel to contribute to the understanding of inclusion of co-workers in digital transformation processes. The results show the need for learning and reflection as an additional conceptual pair and thus propose an extended co-workership wheel for the manufacturing context.