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The future of work [electronic book] / Richard Donkin.

By: Donkin, Richard [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: online resource (viii, 272 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781349366231 (paperback); 9780230274198 (e-book); 0230274196 (e-book); 9780230576384 (hardback).Subject(s): Labor | Labor -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 331 Online resources: Access eBook
Contents:
A watershed in life and work -- Demographics : an underlying force for change -- Goodbye retirement, hello living -- Whatever happened to lunch? -- Women or children first? -- Technology : scourge or savior of work? -- Making sense of social networking -- The inheritors -- Leadership, teamwork and collaboration -- No accounting for people -- Time for reflection -- The day work ended -- Toward a better society.
Summary: Changing attitudes, living patterns and technologies are transforming our relationship with work in such fundamental ways that tomorrow's workplace will be barely recognisable to that of our parents. To help us make sense of these changes Richard Donkin has examined the forces and themes that are influencing what amounts to a silent revolution in social behaviour. Donkin argues that this change is creating a watershed in working lives as significant as that of the factory system that heralded the Industrial Revolution. Unless we understand these forces, he warns, policies may be poorly fitted to meet the challenges ahead posed by environmental change and shrinking oil reserves.In this timely book, Donkin presents a cohesive argument for policy reform, not only in employment, but also in outdated economic assumptions that are no longer meeting the needs of a resource-hungry world--Provided by publisher.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The forces that are shaping the future of employment are examined in this new book. The author presents a cohesive argument for a fundamental change in attitudes to work, both from policymakers and employers if we are to create a healthier society capable of meeting the expectations and concerns of a developing economy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A watershed in life and work -- Demographics : an underlying force for change -- Goodbye retirement, hello living -- Whatever happened to lunch? -- Women or children first? -- Technology : scourge or savior of work? -- Making sense of social networking -- The inheritors -- Leadership, teamwork and collaboration -- No accounting for people -- Time for reflection -- The day work ended -- Toward a better society.

Changing attitudes, living patterns and technologies are transforming our relationship with work in such fundamental ways that tomorrow's workplace will be barely recognisable to that of our parents. To help us make sense of these changes Richard Donkin has examined the forces and themes that are influencing what amounts to a silent revolution in social behaviour. Donkin argues that this change is creating a watershed in working lives as significant as that of the factory system that heralded the Industrial Revolution. Unless we understand these forces, he warns, policies may be poorly fitted to meet the challenges ahead posed by environmental change and shrinking oil reserves.In this timely book, Donkin presents a cohesive argument for policy reform, not only in employment, but also in outdated economic assumptions that are no longer meeting the needs of a resource-hungry world--Provided by publisher.

MTU Cork Module MMED 8005 - Core reading.

Electronic reproduction.: ProQuest LibCentral. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

TUFT Funding.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

RICHARD DONKIN is one of the UK's leading thinkers on employment. For fourteen years he wrote a weekly column on work and employment in the Financial Times that became required reading for human resources professionals and recruiters. Today he works as an author, commentator and presenter on management and employment issues. Alongside regular commitments, that include a monthly column for Human Resources Magazine, he writes on travel, fishing and sailing. Donkin undertakes regular speaking engagements and consultancy work. He is a former adviser to the Future Employment Working Group of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and an honorary visiting fellow in the faculty of Management at Cass Business School. Donkin is the author of the widely acclaimed book 'Blood Sweat and Tears - The Evolution of Work'.