This new book, The Future of Organizations: Workplace Issues and Practices, provides some valuable insights into how organizations are changing and evolving and how human resource personnel, employers, and employees are reacting to these emerging workplace transitions. Todays successful organizations must be learning organizations in that they must keep abreast and change with the new workplace dynamics.
There are many new changes in todays organizations. These include:
- Younger generations of workers who dont place much value on loyalty toward organizations in comparison to baby boomers and those who believe more in working smarter than working harder.
- Young entrepreneurs who are changing the face of the workplace, creating boundaryless, protean careers.
- New concepts of flat structure for employers that are in demand for todays business, especially todays digital environment.
- Todays highly industrialized global service economy that requires new skills and new realities, such as multitasking, working 24x7, etc.
Many of these concepts are new and challenging for employers and employees, and there is very little qualitative and quantitative research available that has practical implications for policymakers and employers/leaders. This book helps to fill the gap. The volume explores the upcoming challenges and opportunities for employees and employers, particularly in orientation of service organizations in the 21st century. This book provides insights for implications and examines old theories of organizations in the light of changing concepts as well as emerging concepts. It explores many of these trends in conjunction with a focus on work-life balance, globalization, redefining leadership, contingent work force, stress management, telecommuting, work force diversity, ergonomics, life satisfaction/subjective well being, and more.
The volume will be of great use and interest for human research professionals and researchers, managers, workplace policymakers, entrepreneurs and others in many different fields.
| About the 21st Century Business Management Book Series |
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| About the Editor |
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| Preface |
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1 Gearing Up for the Future: HR Transformations in the Manufacturing Sector |
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2 Factors Affecting Self-Service Banking Adoption in Females: A Discriminant Analysis |
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3 Anti-Sexual Harassment Policies and HR Practices: Prevention and Preparation |
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4 Job Satisfaction in IT-Enabled Working Environments: Comparative Analysis between Industries |
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5 Factors Influencing Changing of Employer by Hi-Tech Professionals in Technology-Intensive Industries |
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6 Stress as an Inevitable Part of Work in the Present and Future: Study of Occupational Stress among Nurses, Office Clerks, and Teachers |
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7 Knowledge Management to Learning to Innovation in Organizations: The Critical Role of Human Resources |
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8 Creativity and Innovation: The Future of Organizations |
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Arvind K. Birdie, PhD, is Program Director, PGDM, and Associate Professor at Vedatya Institute, Gurgaon, India. Dr. Birdie teaches various interdisciplinary subjects with equal ease and has been recognized for her teaching abilities. In addition to academic teaching and training, she has organized management development programs for corporate and academicians. She is a regular presenter at various international and national conferences, and she has published papers in refereed journals. Her areas of interest include leadership, work-life balance, virtual work, and positive psychology. Dr. Birdie has been honored with the Prof. Mrs. Manju Thakur Memorial Award 2016 for Innovative Contributions in Research/Test Construction/Book Publication for her book Organizational Behavior and Virtual Work: Concepts and Analytical Approaches. The award was presented during the 52nd National and 21st International Conference of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, held at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, February 23rd25th, 2017.
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