Talent Tectonics - Navigating Global Workforce Shifts, Building Resilient Organizations

How to attract, retain, develop, and engage people for a changing world of work
 
Shifting demographics combined with the digitalization of all aspects of life are transforming the nature of work. This is forcing companies to rethink how they design jobs and recruit, develop, and engage employees.
 
In Talent Tectonics: Navigating Global Workforce Shifts, Building Resilient Organizations, and Reimagining the Employee Experience, Dr. Steven Hunt explains how technology is changing the purpose of work and why creating effective employee experiences is critical to building organizations that can thrive in a world of accelerating change and growing skill shortages.
 
In the book, you'll find insights from the perspective of a person who has worked with thousands of companies around the globe using technology to build effective workforces. The book explores how business strategy, organizational psychology, and work technology interact to create nimble companies. The book discusses the future, but its focus is on the present, identifying things companies can do now to attract critical talent and create resilient organizations including:
* How to manage different types of employee experiences to create engaged and adaptable workforces
* How technology can enable large organizations to act more like small, agile, entrepreneurial companies.
* Rethinking employee recruitment, development, and engagement to create supportive, inclusive, and resilient organizational cultures
 
Perfect for human resources professionals, employee experience managers, and business leaders responsible for building effective workforces, Talent Tectonics belongs in the libraries of every leader, employee, and professional invested in ensuring that their organization can attract, retain, and develop the talent needed to achieve its strategic goals.

List of contents

Acknowledgments 7
 
Foreword by Dave Ulrich 9
 
Introduction: How We Managed People in the Past Will Not Work in the Future 11
 
Content Overview 14
 
The Vocabulary Used in This Book 20
 
Applying These Concepts to the World You Live and Work In 22
 
Chapter 1: Talent Tectonics: Forces Reshaping Work and Workforces 23
 
The Impacts of Digitalization 26
 
The Impacts of Demographics 33
 
Applying These Concepts to the World You Live In 41
 
Chapter 2: Employee Experience and Workforce Adaptability 42
 
People: A Constant Resource in a Changing World 44
 
Employee Experience and Workforce Adaptability 47
 
Creating Effective Employee Experiences 49
 
Employee Experience Management and Business Performance 51
 
Understanding and Improving Employee Experiences 52
 
Addressing the Subjective Nature of Employee Experience 55
 
Employee Experience and Organizational Stakeholders 57
 
Applying the Concepts in This Chapter to Your Organization and Work Environment 60
 
Chapter 3: Work Technology and Organizational Agility 62
 
What It Means to Act like a Small, Agile Entrepreneurial Company 65
 
What Needs to Be Automated and Augmented to Create More Agile Organizations 68
 
How Work Technology Is Transforming Workforce Management 72
 
Workforce Orchestration Technology Solutions 75
 
Workforce Collaboration Technology Solutions 78
 
General Workforce Technology Applications 80
 
Linking Work Technology to Business Operations Technology 84
 
Adaptability, Technology, and Culture 86
 
Applying These Concepts to the World You Live In 88
 
Chapter 4: Designing Organizations to Provide Positive Employee Experiences 90
 
Why People Join Organizations 93
 
How Job Design Affects Employee Experience 95
 
How the Design of Groups, Teams, and Departments Affects Employee Experience 102
 
How Management and Leadership Structures Affect Employee Experience 105
 
Managing Restructurings and Downsizings with Experience in Mind 108
 
How Work Technology Is Influencing the Design of Organizations 111
 
Applying These Concepts to the World You Live In 113
 
Chapter 5: Filling Positions and the Experience of Moving into New Roles 114
 
How Job Design Affects Staffing 117
 
Selecting Candidates and Getting the Right Fit 125
 
Transitioning, Welcoming, and Departing 126
 
Dynamic and Temporary Staffing 129
 
How Work Technology Is Changing the Ways Organizations Fill Positions 131
 
Applying These Concepts to the World You Live In 133
 
Chapter 6: Developing Capabilities and the Employee Experience of Learning 135
 
Context: Designing Jobs That Motivate and Enable People to Develop 138
 
Capabilities: Helping Employees Define Development Goals 142
 
Content: Giving Employees Access to Resources to Build New Capabilities 148
 
Culture: Creating an Organizational Environment That Supports Development 150
 
Applying These Concepts to the World You Live In 152
 
Chapter 7: Creating Engagement and Employee Experiences That Inspire Successful Performance 153
 
The Performance Management Dilemma 156
 
Aligning Performance Expectations 159
 
Increasing Awareness of Performance 161
 
Managing Differences in Performance 166
 
Compensation and Performance 173
 
Applying These Concepts to the World You Live In 179
 
Chapter 8: Increasing Efficiency, Ensuring Compliance and Security, and Building Culture 181
 
What It Means for an Organizat

About the author

STEVEN T. HUNT, PHD, is the Chief Expert of Work & Technology at SAP. His work focuses on the design and use of technology-enabled processes to improve workforce agility, productivity, experience, engagement, and well-being. He is an internationally renowned industrial-organizational psychologist.

Summary

How to attract, retain, develop, and engage people for a changing world of work

Shifting demographics combined with the digitalization of all aspects of life are transforming the nature of work. This is forcing companies to rethink how they design jobs and recruit, develop, and engage employees.

In Talent Tectonics: Navigating Global Workforce Shifts, Building Resilient Organizations, and Reimagining the Employee Experience, Dr. Steven Hunt explains how technology is changing the purpose of work and why creating effective employee experiences is critical to building organizations that can thrive in a world of accelerating change and growing skill shortages.

In the book, you'll find insights from the perspective of a person who has worked with thousands of companies around the globe using technology to build effective workforces. The book explores how business strategy, organizational psychology, and work technology interact to create nimble companies. The book discusses the future, but its focus is on the present, identifying things companies can do now to attract critical talent and create resilient organizations including:
* How to manage different types of employee experiences to create engaged and adaptable workforces
* How technology can enable large organizations to act more like small, agile, entrepreneurial companies.
* Rethinking employee recruitment, development, and engagement to create supportive, inclusive, and resilient organizational cultures

Perfect for human resources professionals, employee experience managers, and business leaders responsible for building effective workforces, Talent Tectonics belongs in the libraries of every leader, employee, and professional invested in ensuring that their organization can attract, retain, and develop the talent needed to achieve its strategic goals.

Product details

• Authors: St Hunt, Steven S. Hunt, Steven T Hunt, Steven T. Hunt, Steven T. (Sap) Hunt, Hunt Steven T.
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781119885184
• ISBN: 978-1-119-88518-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Personalmanagement, Human Resource Management, Business & management, Wirtschaft u. Management