A look at the future of employment explores five forces that will fundamentally change the nature of work in the next ten to fifteen years and discusses three key shifts that individuals can make to prepare themselves for this fast-moving work world.

The Shift: The Future of Work Is Already Here

Business & Money

Gratton, Lynda

Business Culture

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

An unhysterical look at the future of employment. We are now facing a revolution in the way we work. A substantial schism in the past which is so great that the work we do will change – possibly so that in two decades our working lives will have been so REWORKED that they are unrecognisable. This is not just about the impact that a low carbon enonomy will have on the way we work. It is also about how the nexus of technology and globalisation will work together with demographic and societal changes to fundamentally transform much of what we take for granted about work. Why will things change so quickly? What will these changes look like? Who will benefit and who will suffer? How do we navigate our career through these times? Lynda Gratton, Professor at London Business School, is the perfect person to answer these questions. For the past three years she has worked with companies around the world to draw up a picture of the Future of Work. In this book Professor Gratton looks at the forces which are changing how we work; explains the potential impact on our future working life; and gives us guidelines on how to thrive in a REWORKED world.

The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here

HarperCollins Business

Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality

Life is tough in organizations, both for managers and the managed. Based on close collaboration with a number of high profile organizations such as B.T., Citibank, Hewlett Packard, and Kraft Jacobs, this book sheds light on the organizational responses to large scale changes and details the changing demands made of employees in the process. It goes beyond fashionable management rhetoric to uncover the reality of human resource management.

Truss, Catherine

Stiles, Philip

Hope-Hailey, Veronica

Management & Leadership

Oxford University Press

Life is tough in organizations, both for managers and the managed. Based on close collaboration with a number of high profile organizations such as BT, Citibank, Hewlett Packard, and Kraft Jacobs, this book sheds light on the organizational responses to large scale changes and details the changing demands made of employees in the process. It goes beyond fashionable management rhetoric to uncover the reality of human resource management.

The Exceptional Manager: Making the Difference

Most businesses face the choice of either competing on the 'low road' of cost, or the 'high road' of innovation and value. Much the same goes for national economies and the UK is no exception. But how do businesses - and the people who manage them - go beyond the policy prescription and the easy exhortation to make that shift, to manage change and go well beyond business as usual? This ground-breaking book - the combined insight of some of the best minds in management, grouped together in the Advanced Institute of Management Research - does just that. It presents a clear and crisp analysis of the context and the challenge; and offers managers a range of ideas on how to develop the competences, practices and values that can make a difference. It is essential reading for policy makers, analysts, academics, and managers to be who want to make a different future.

JOHNSON, Gerry

Delbridge, Rick

The AIM Fellows

How do businesses go beyond the prescriptive policies and make the shift from the "low road" of cost to the "high road" of innovation and value? This ground-breaking book, the combined insight of some of the best minds in management, presents a clear analysis of the context and the challenges and offers managers and consultants a range of ideas that could take their companies well beyond "business as usual."

We are experiencing the greatest global shift in the world of work for a century. So, how do we make the most of this unique opportunity and radically redesign the way we work - forever?\nProfessor Lynda Gratton is the global thought-leader on the future of work. Based on thirty years of research into the technological, demographic, cultural and societal trends that are shaping work, and building on what we learnt through our experiences of the global pandemic, Lynda Gratton presents her innovative four step framework for redesigning work that will help you:\nUnderstand the challenges your business is facing 
Reimagine creative, new approaches and processes 
Model and Test these within your organisation 
Act and Create based on contemporary, data-led feedback\nWhether you're working in a small team or running a multinational, this is the time to make lasting change and equip your business for the future. Redesigning Work is the definitive book on how to transform your organisation and make hybrid working work for you. It will help your team embrace change, increase productivity and thrive in our new, more flexible working world.

Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone

Penguin Business

How do we make the most of the greatest global shift in the world of work for a century and radically redesign the way we work—forever?\nProfessor Lynda Gratton is the global thought-leader on the future of work. Drawing on thirty years of research into the technological, demographic, cultural, and societal trends that are shaping work and building on what we learned through our experiences of the pandemic, Gratton presents her innovative four-step framework for redesigning work that will help you: 
Understand your people and what drives performance Reimagine creative new ways to work Model and test these approaches within your organization Act and create to ensure your redesign has lasting benefits 
Gratton presents real-world case studies that show companies grappling with work challenges. These include the global bank HSBC, which built a multidisciplinary team to understand the employee experience; the Japanese technology company Fujitsu, which reimagined three kinds of “perfect” offices; and the Australian telecommunications company Telstra, which established new roles to coordinate work across the organization.\nWhether you’re working in a small team or running a multinational, Redesigning Work is the definitive book on how to transform your organization and make hybrid working work for you.

Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organization and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone (Management on the Cutting Edge)

The MIT Press

(Pearson Education) Shows how and why to design strategies that have meaning and purpose for people. Argues that a management agenda is crucial and shares the three tenets of human organizational behavior.

Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose

Biography & History

Financial Times Management

"Gratton's book is timely and important. She is one of a small but influential band of business academics who have begun to question the "ideological gloomy paradigm" - the overwhelmingly negative assumptions about human nature that historically underpin management theorising. The Democratic Enterprise is one of the first interventions to crystallise these dissatisfactions and offer steps to a positive alternative model. ..The revolution is democracy and it starts here." The Observer "One of Britain's leading lights in human resource strategy" Financial Times Liberating your Business with Freedom, Flexibility and Commitment The Democratic Enterprise delivers the blueprint for a business built on choice and commitment. A business made fast through freedom and purposeful through meaning. This is a business people would choose to work for. These days individuals matter more than their roles, so how can we change the way we manage and organise people to make the most of their talent and energy? The free to choose are fast to act for an enterprise they believe in, but they're also the first to leave an organisation that fails them. In The Democratic Enterprise HR guru Lynda Gratton sets out a practical blueprint for designing smarter working relationships based on free choice and shared purpose - where autonomy, choice and trust breed speed, flexibility and commitment. This is the business we'd choose to work for, even if we have the talent and ability to leave. Smart people want a more grown-up relationship with their employers these days. And most businesses too, realise that they can get more from people through flexible and intelligent working relationships. So imagine a company where people have more freedom in how, where and when they work. Where they have more personal choice in their work, but also share more commitment with their colleagues to a bigger purpose. This is a business we would choose to work with. The Democratic Enterprise explores, from the perspective of the individual and the organization what it means to craft choice, and shows us how to use some of the basic principles of democracy to build organizations of which we can be proud. The book examines eight companies which have pioneered choice and democracy, and shows how: <ul>
<li>the oil giant BP has created transparent internal markets for jobs enabling every employee to develop a breadth and depth of competencies</li> <li> McKinsey &amp; Co. has brought an unprecedented level of transparency to the ways in which associates can choose the projects to work on</li> <li> Sony have created a ground-breaking digital system by creating a context in which engineers have real freedom to create worthwhile and meaningful jobs</li> <li> Unisys has enabled every employee to access an enormous range of training opportunities to ensure they are truly becoming ¿the best they can be¿. </li> <li> Goldman Sachs builds choice around the development relationships which are so crucial to personal and organizational development</li> <li> AstraZeneca has brought complete transparency to employee access to pay and benefits. </li> <li> BT has enabled many tens of thousands of employees to make locational choice</li> <li>and finally, how HP has built discretion around time. </li> </ul>
Learn how each of these companies have pioneered the tenets of democracy and choice and by doing so have created strong, agile enterprises powered by employee engagement and collaboration. The Democratic Enterprise concludes by building a mandate for choice and democracy through focusing on the four building blocks: supporting individual autonomy; creating organizational insight; building organizational variety; and finally, crafting a sense of shared destiny. These challenges are set out for the role of the business leader, the role of the manager, the role of HR and the role of the employee, Read this book and learn how to: <ul>
<li>Create a business in which talented people can develop and change without leaving </li> <li>Understand your employees as well as you understand your customers </li> <li>Design work content and culture that give people the freedom to choose and the freedom to act </li> <li>Create shared meaning and purpose to drive daily motivation and inform daily judgement calls</li> </ul> "Lynda Gratton has captured, in a very profound way, the emerging realization of what truly matters in transforming businesses: people, purpose, and participation. In a word, democracy." - Niall FitzGerald, Chairman, Unilever "As Lynda Gratton demonstrates in this marvellously written book, there is enough that corporate leaders and human resources specialists can do today to embrace the power of democratic processes to both raise the economic performance of their companies and build delightful organizations". - Sumantra Ghoshal, Professor of Strategy and International Management , London Business School "Lynda Gratton has crafted a new classic. Democratic Enterprise draws on Greek and political traditions about democracy -- demo (people) and kratos (rule) -- and applies them to modern organizations. It is a masterpiece that connects individuals and their organizations with rich theory and realistic action. - Dave Ulrich, Professor of Business, University of Michigan "Gratton"s thoughtful and creative work breathes life into the role of people in organizations." David Ulrich, Professor of Business, University of Michigan

The Democratic Enterprise: Liberating Your Business With Freedom, Flexibility and Commitment

Human Resources

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The Shift: The Future of Work Is Already Here

The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here

Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality

Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality

The Exceptional Manager: Making the Difference

The Exceptional Manager: Making the Difference

Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone

Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organization and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone (Management on the Cutting Edge)

Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose

The Democratic Enterprise: Liberating Your Business With Freedom, Flexibility and Commitment