In expertise research, the focus is shifting from how one becomes an expert in a specific field towards understanding how workers sustain the value and recognition of their expertise by being flexible. This so-called flexpertise requires that workers meet new expertise needs within and across the boundaries of their current expertise domains and working contexts. The current study grounds a new theoretical paradigm regarding this individual adaptivity by introducing a ‘dynamic process model of flexpertise’. By deploying a system dynamics lens, it synthesizes the scholarly knowledge from different disciplines about flexible or adaptive forms of expertise. The model incorporates six categories of adaptation processes that involve intra-individual changes and social interactions over time, and that are interconnected by means of feedback loops without a single start- or endpoint. This enables scholars and practitioners to identify leverage points where small interventions can have a large effect on the individual's adaptivity. As such, the dynamic model provides a new paradigm on how to foster workers’ continued possession of expertise that is valuable to organizations’ competitive advantage and enables organizational and societal transitions and innovations, while safeguarding an individual's career sustainability.

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员工如何在整个职业生涯中满足新的专业知识需求：揭示 Flexpertise 动态流程模型的综合审查

在专业知识研究中，重点正在从如何成为特定领域的专家转向了解工人如何通过灵活来维持其专业知识的价值和认可。这种所谓的弹性专业要求员工在其当前专业领域和工作环境之内或跨越其界限来满足新的专业知识需求。当前的研究通过引入“flexpertise 的动态过程模型”，为这种个体适应性建立了一个新的理论范式。通过部署系统动力学镜头，它综合了来自不同学科的关于灵活或自适应形式的专业知识的学术知识。该模型包含六类适应过程，这些过程涉及随着时间的推移个体内部的变化和社会互动，并且通过反馈循环相互关联，没有单一的起点或终点。这使得学者和从业者能够确定小干预可以对个人适应性产生重大影响的杠杆点。因此，动态模型提供了一个新的范式，说明如何培养员工持续拥有对组织的竞争优势有价值的专业知识，并实现组织和社会的转型和创新，同时保障个人职业的可持续性。