Competences of Industry 4.0: Is the importance of Leadership in the Food Service Industry?

摘要

This study discusses the competence of vocational education students in preparing themselves to enter the workforce. Prospective workers need to prepare themselves with various food service industry qualifications. Amid the 4.0 industrial era, competition between humans and robots is getting tougher. Hundreds of workers in Germany were dismissed for not meeting the qualifications in 2014, April 2019 France has dismissed 1,600 workers and replaced them with robots. For the world of education that focuses on meeting industry needs such as vocational education is a challenge. This research method is a literature review by collecting various references from the results of previous studies that are relevant to the topic of this research and then selected according to needs and analyzed in depth to find answers to this research question. The focus of this research is on the innovation of the competence of food service industry workers needed in the industrial era 4.0. The results of this study are in the form of tracing competencies not possessed by robots and superior humans in them. Leadership is the answer to this problem, leadership is not owned by robots. But the priority for workers in the food service industry who are required to work effectively, efficiently, collaboratively, innovatively and excellently. Preparation of leadership competencies is the capital of vocational education students as prospective workers in meeting the needs of the food service industry.