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The New Workforce: Five Sweeping Trends That Will Shape Your Company's Future
Today's workplace is already a tapestry comprising people of countless different backgrounds, ethnicities, age groups, religions, and more. But that diversity is just the beginning of a radical shift in the makeup - and requirements - of tomorrow's workforce.
The New Workforce gives you a clear picture of the rapid changes now under way - along with the steps required to attract and retain motivated, loyal, and productive employees. Based on a wealth of statistics, research, interviews, and firsthand experience, the book pinpoints five sweeping trends.
The New Workforce is indispensable for human resources professionals, managers and executives, and entrepreneurs. It's an all-in-one resource for peering into the immediate future and preparing for the rapidly changing face of tomorrow's workforce.
The New Workforce gives you a clear picture of the rapid changes now under way - along with the steps required to attract and retain motivated, loyal, and productive employees. Based on a wealth of statistics, research, interviews, and firsthand experience, the book pinpoints five sweeping trends.
The New Workforce is indispensable for human resources professionals, managers and executives, and entrepreneurs. It's an all-in-one resource for peering into the immediate future and preparing for the rapidly changing face of tomorrow's workforce.
243 pages, Hardcover
First published November 5, 2004
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July 25, 2008
The New Workforce: Five Sweeping Trends That Will Shape Your Company's Future
Harriet Hankin
AMACOM
In this volume, Hankin focuses her reader's attention on "five sweeping trends that will shape your future." She devotes a separate chapter to each (Chapters 1-5) and includes a "virtual timeline" which lists several generations and indicates the key influences on each:
The Silent Generation (born 1922-1945): The Great Depression and the New Deal; World War II; the Holocaust; Hiroshima; radio and films.
The Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964): Vietnam War; assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy; placing a man on the Moon; Watergate; impact of the Cold War (e.g. bomb shelters); television; women's liberation; sexual revolution; environmental concerns (e.g. Green Party, Exxon Valdez).
Generation X (born 1965-1076): Demolition of the Berlin Wall; Challenger disaster; Clinton sex scandals; skyrocketing growth of the stock market and an abundant economy in the 1980s and 1990s; 24-hour, live news coverage; the dot-com economy; high-tech start-ups.
Baby Boom Echo (born 1977-2000): Oklahoma City bombing; Columbine High School massacre; Y2K; Internet, WWW, and e-business; September 11, 2001, terrorists attacks; corporate scandals (e.g. Enron); video games; instant messaging.
Then, in Part II, Hankin examines the impact of the five major emerging workforce trends on human resources. Specifically, the impact on HR policies and procedures, recruiting, compensation and benefits, and learning and training. Her proposed "Formula for the Future" stresses flexibility, respect, and "tons of communication." In an Appendix, she provides a survey that will help decision-makers in all organizations to prepare themselves for "the new workforce." Hankin offers a brilliant analysis of how and why each generation has been influenced by its predecessors as well as by events within its own portion of the "virtual timeframe."
Harriet Hankin
AMACOM
In this volume, Hankin focuses her reader's attention on "five sweeping trends that will shape your future." She devotes a separate chapter to each (Chapters 1-5) and includes a "virtual timeline" which lists several generations and indicates the key influences on each:
The Silent Generation (born 1922-1945): The Great Depression and the New Deal; World War II; the Holocaust; Hiroshima; radio and films.
The Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964): Vietnam War; assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy; placing a man on the Moon; Watergate; impact of the Cold War (e.g. bomb shelters); television; women's liberation; sexual revolution; environmental concerns (e.g. Green Party, Exxon Valdez).
Generation X (born 1965-1076): Demolition of the Berlin Wall; Challenger disaster; Clinton sex scandals; skyrocketing growth of the stock market and an abundant economy in the 1980s and 1990s; 24-hour, live news coverage; the dot-com economy; high-tech start-ups.
Baby Boom Echo (born 1977-2000): Oklahoma City bombing; Columbine High School massacre; Y2K; Internet, WWW, and e-business; September 11, 2001, terrorists attacks; corporate scandals (e.g. Enron); video games; instant messaging.
Then, in Part II, Hankin examines the impact of the five major emerging workforce trends on human resources. Specifically, the impact on HR policies and procedures, recruiting, compensation and benefits, and learning and training. Her proposed "Formula for the Future" stresses flexibility, respect, and "tons of communication." In an Appendix, she provides a survey that will help decision-makers in all organizations to prepare themselves for "the new workforce." Hankin offers a brilliant analysis of how and why each generation has been influenced by its predecessors as well as by events within its own portion of the "virtual timeframe."
February 25, 2016
Must read for people in HR domain.
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