Workforce Wake–Up Call: Your Workforce is Changing, Are You?

Praise for Workforce Wake–Up Call
"Great questions + great thinkers = novel ideas. Workforce Wake–Up Call deals with the challenges of getting, revitalizing, treating (engaging), and leading talent in today′s workplace. These talent issues are at the core of successful organizations. And the authors deal with these challenges as a marvelous mix of theory, research, and practice. This anthology offers practical insights that give hope for mastering the challenges of the new workforce."
—David Ulrich, Professor, Ross School of Business University of Michigan and Partner, The RBL Group
"In the near future, there will be dramatic shifts in workplace practices and a further evolution of employment relationships. The authors provide provocative insights that help business leaders better navigate the talent maze and workforce challenges."
—J. Randall MacDonald, Senior Vice President of Human Resources, IBM
"This book addresses the question that all companies need to answer: Are your talent management efforts competitively positioning the business? The global economy is leveling the playing field on many fronts, leaving talent as the one true area where your company can gain leverage in the marketplace. Change is proving to be a constant in the workplace, and the authors have created a great blueprint for handling these ever–present challenges in the recruitment and retention of your workforce. This book is a must–read for any executive serious about building a high–performing team and achieving sustainable advantage for both today and tomorrow."
—Dennis Donovan, Executive Vice President of Human Resources, The Home Depot
"The best ideas from the best minds on the workforce of the future!"
—Marshall Goldsmith, author or coeditor of twenty books, including The Leader of the Future (a BusinessWeek bestseller) and Global Leadership: The Next Generation
Contributors to Workforce Wake–Up C all include:Max Bazerman, Harvard Business Schoolcoauthor of Predictable SurprisesPeter Cappelli, The Wharton School author of The New Deal at WorkLynda Gratton, London Business School author of The Democratic EnterpriseEd Lawler, University of Southern California author of Treat People Right!Thomas Malone, MIT Sloan School of Management author of The Future of WorkN. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman of Infosys Technologies LimitedNigel Nicholson, London Business School author of Executive InstinctJeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford University author of The Human EquationMatt Schuyler, Executive Vice President of Human Resources, Capital OneRicardo Semler, President of Semco author of The Seven–Day WeekendNoel Tichy, University of Michigan author of The Leadership EngineSheila Wellington, Stern School of Business author of Be Your Own Mentor

Spis treści:
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Abundance,Asia, and Automation (Daniel H. Pink).
PART I: Get the Talent Forecast and Workforce Strategy Right.
Chapter 1. Some Half–Truths about Managing People: A Call for Evidence–Based Management (Jeffrey Pfeffer).
Chapter 2. Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming (Michael D.Watkins and Max H. Bazerman).
Chapter 3. Human Capital Investments for Pareto–Optimal Returns (Samir J. Raza and Mark C. Ubelhart).
Chapter 4. Using Workforce Analytics to Make StrategicTalent Decisions (Matt Schuyler).
PART II: Revitalize the Talent Entry Processes.
Chapter 5. Cutting Through the Fog: Navigating the Messy Wars for Talent (Helen Handfield–Jones).
Chapter 6. Staffing for the Future: Next Generation Workforce Management (Robert P. Gandossy and Tina Kao).
Chapter 7. How an Evolving Psychological Contract Is Changing Workforce Flexibility (David E. Guest).
Chapter 8. Leading the Knowledge Nomad: An Overlooked Segment of the Workforce Explodes the Myth That Worker Mobility Comes at the Expense ofWorker Engagement (Todd L. Pittinsky and Margaret J. Shih).
Chapter 9. What Happened to the “New Deal” with Employees? (Peter Cappelli and Rocio Bonet).
Chapter 10. Human Capital Relationship Management: Using Customer Relationship Management to Customize Employee Relationships (Caryn Rowe and Elissa Tucker).
Chapter 11. Getting the “New” Newcomer Connected and Productive Quickly (Rob Cross, Salvatore Parise, and Keith Rollag).
PART III: Treat Talent Well.
Chapter 12. Creating a Virtuous Spiral Organization (Edward E. Lawler III).
Chapter 13. Managing Workforce Challenges in India’s IT Industry (N. R. Narayana Murthy).
Chapter 14. Unleashing the Power of a High Performance Workforce (Bob Campbell, Betsy Scheffel, and Nidhi Verma).
Chapter 15. Out of This World: Doing Things the Semco Way (Ricardo Semler).
Chapter 16. Diversity’s Next Frontier: Hard–Core Inclusion: The Hard Stuff of a Soft Concept (Andrés Tapia).
Chapter 17. The Democratic Enterprise (Lynda Gratton).
PART IV: Embrace New Age Leadership.
Chapter 18. Building Tomorrow’s Leadership Pipeline (Noel M.Tichy and Christopher M. DeRose).
Chapter 19. The Future of Work: From “Command and Control” to“Coordinate and Cultivate” (Thomas W. Malone).
Chapter 20. Women in Business Leadership: What Companies Ought to Do (Sheila Wellington).
Chapter 21. Leadership in the Internet Age: Managing a Diverse and Dispersed Workforce (Patricia Wallace).
Chapter 22. Workforce Diversity: A Global HR Topic That Has Arrived (Ted Childs).
Chapter 23. Organization as Nature Intended: Human Universals and the Employment Experience (Nigel Nicholson).
Notes.
About the Contributors.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Robert P. Gandossy is Global Leader for Hewitt Associates′ Talent and Organization Consulting Practice. He is the author of nearly fifty articles and six books on topics including leadership, human resources, and business ethics. He holds a PhD from Yale University.
Elissa Tucker is a senior consultant in the Research Practice at Hewitt Associates. She leads research studies on a wide array of talent management topics and is an expert on workforce trends.
Nidhi Verma is a senior con–sultant in the Talent and Organization Consulting Practice at Hewitt Associates. She specializes in talent management and performance improvement.

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Praise for Workforce Wake–Up Call
"Great questions + great thinkers = novel ideas. Workforce Wake–Up Call deals with the challenges of getting, revitalizing, treating (engaging), and leading talent in today′s workplace. These talent issues are at the core of successful organizations. And the authors deal with these challenges as a marvelous mix of theory, research, and practice. This anthology offers practical insights that give hope for mastering the challenges of the new workforce."
—David Ulrich, Professor, Ross School of Business University of Michigan and Partner, The RBL Group
"In the near future, there will be dramatic shifts in workplace practices and a further evolution of employment relationships. The authors provide provocative insights that help business leaders better navigate the talent maze and workforce challenges."
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