Future work: how businesses can adapt and thrive in the new world of work

The way we work is changing in the Internet age. The new majority of the workforce, women, Generation Y, the over-50s, as well as growing numbers of men share a need for greater control and choice about where, how and when they work.This is a guide to the skills you will need and the challenges you will face in the 21st century world of work. ALISON MAITLAND is a writer, speaker and conference moderator specialisingin leadership, gender and work. A former long-serving Financial Times journalist, she is co-author of the prize-winning book Why Women Mean Business. She has been researching and writing about corporate culture and the changing workforce since the late 1990s, including eight years as FT Management Writer. She is Director of The Conference Board's Council for Diversity in Business and a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Management at Cass Business School, London. A frequent conference speaker, she also regularly contributes articles to the Financial Times and other media. PETER THOMSON is an acknowledged authority on the changing world of work and its impact on organisation culture and management practices. He is a regular speaker on the future of work and, as a director of Wisework Ltd, advises clients on creating a corporate culture which supports new working practices. He is a Visiting Executive Fellow at Henley Business School where he was Director of the Future Work Forum for 16 years and he is now Research Director for the Telework Association. He spent the majority of his professional career in HR/Personnel and was head of the HR functionin Digital Equipment when the company pioneered new working practices. INDICE: Introduction - Flexibility As A Uniting Force Between People And Generations At Work - The Evolution Of Technology And Its Uses At Work - From Workplace To Meeting Place: Emerging Organizational Models - What Today's Managers Say About The New World Of Work And The Challenges They Face - Making Change: How Organizational Culture Can Be Adapted To Enable Remote Working And Other Empowering Work Arrangements - Think Flexibly: A Step-By-Step Guide To Introducing And Managing New Ways Of Working - Managing Remote Teams And Virtual Teams Across Borders - Is It For Me?: How Managers Can Be Flexible Too - The Way Ahead: Projections For The Future (From Workplace To Workspace) -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28422-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 192
• Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés