Dear Friends,
The change in the world of work is accelerating. It is moving from the industrial age to the digital age. The era of working in a comfort zone for years together is over. Complexities with uncertainty are the DNA of the future workplace and workforce. Organizations that do not adapt, do not read the writing on the wall, do not challenge the status quo will be made irrelevant by time.
The workplace of the next decade will be transformed by a confluence of disruptive forces. Transformation will be generational and cultural. As the technology and information blast has made the world flatter, so will be the workplace. To survive and excel in business, organizations will need to be agile, innovative, and demonstrate sustainable practices. The workplace will be comprised of a blended workforce with more intensity than today. There will be nothing like permanent employment. Temps, contractual, and outsourced employees will govern the work dynamics where conflicts will set to rise. The knowledge economy will change the employer-employee relationship pattern. Currently, in the industrial sector, the contractual workforce is already replacing the permanent kind of workers with speed. It has already occupied the space by about 50%. It is going to increase more. There will be a major shift in expectations of this kind of workforce in the next decade. Organizations will need to develop innovative strategies to keep the workplace away from conflicts and manage their fast-growing expectations. They would be asking for more and more share in business profits.
Technology, hyper-connectivity culture, social media, skill deficit, and agile working will rule the workplace of the next decade. Embracing information technology for the benefit of the organization and workforce will be a challenge. Organizations will require leaders with a mindset of managing business and workforce not with yesterday's logic but with exploring exciting opportunities and changed thought processes. The leadership styles will have to be more collaborative and less authoritarian so that conflicts are minimized. Management will need to reorient itself. The leadership of the organizations has to ensure that the status and influence of a person in the organizational hierarchy should correspond to contribution rather than position.
Depicting the future is very risky and difficult, but at the same time, one has to prepare based on current and familiar trends. It becomes a probable future. The imponderable future, which comes from future events and socioeconomic changes, is difficult to predict. The BM cover feature on the workplace of the next decade primarily addresses the probable but also ventures into the imponderable area. We do not attempt to capture every trend but rather to illuminate many of the points currently being discussed. Experts, futurists, and management practitioners provide an overview of the subject which is being conversed globally. Rajeev Dubey, Praveen Sinha, Smita Dash Sahoo, Dr. Virendra P. Singh, Githanjali Pannikar, Nalin Kumar Thakur, Rati Diwan, Rashi Mahato, Deepa Chadha, Raghvendra K. have shared their thoughts on the topic.
Regards,
Anil Kaushik
Chief Editor, Business Manager-HR magazine
B-138, Ambedkar Nagar, Alwar-301001 (Raj.)
From India, Delhi
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181The change in the world of work is accelerating. It is moving from the industrial age to the digital age. The era of working in a comfort zone for years together is over. Complexities with uncertainty are the DNA of the future workplace and workforce. Organizations that do not adapt, do not read the writing on the wall, do not challenge the status quo will be made irrelevant by time.
The workplace of the next decade will be transformed by a confluence of disruptive forces. Transformation will be generational and cultural. As the technology and information blast has made the world flatter, so will be the workplace. To survive and excel in business, organizations will need to be agile, innovative, and demonstrate sustainable practices. The workplace will be comprised of a blended workforce with more intensity than today. There will be nothing like permanent employment. Temps, contractual, and outsourced employees will govern the work dynamics where conflicts will set to rise. The knowledge economy will change the employer-employee relationship pattern. Currently, in the industrial sector, the contractual workforce is already replacing the permanent kind of workers with speed. It has already occupied the space by about 50%. It is going to increase more. There will be a major shift in expectations of this kind of workforce in the next decade. Organizations will need to develop innovative strategies to keep the workplace away from conflicts and manage their fast-growing expectations. They would be asking for more and more share in business profits.
Technology, hyper-connectivity culture, social media, skill deficit, and agile working will rule the workplace of the next decade. Embracing information technology for the benefit of the organization and workforce will be a challenge. Organizations will require leaders with a mindset of managing business and workforce not with yesterday's logic but with exploring exciting opportunities and changed thought processes. The leadership styles will have to be more collaborative and less authoritarian so that conflicts are minimized. Management will need to reorient itself. The leadership of the organizations has to ensure that the status and influence of a person in the organizational hierarchy should correspond to contribution rather than position.
Depicting the future is very risky and difficult, but at the same time, one has to prepare based on current and familiar trends. It becomes a probable future. The imponderable future, which comes from future events and socioeconomic changes, is difficult to predict. The BM cover feature on the workplace of the next decade primarily addresses the probable but also ventures into the imponderable area. We do not attempt to capture every trend but rather to illuminate many of the points currently being discussed. Experts, futurists, and management practitioners provide an overview of the subject which is being conversed globally. Rajeev Dubey, Praveen Sinha, Smita Dash Sahoo, Dr. Virendra P. Singh, Githanjali Pannikar, Nalin Kumar Thakur, Rati Diwan, Rashi Mahato, Deepa Chadha, Raghvendra K. have shared their thoughts on the topic.
Regards,
Anil Kaushik
Chief Editor, Business Manager-HR magazine
B-138, Ambedkar Nagar, Alwar-301001 (Raj.)
From India, Delhi
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