We delivered a question storming session to a number of senior HR professionals on the future of work and the role of HRM.
The Second Machine Age
The book we used was “The second machine age”. A cracking book about the impact of exponential changes in technology on work, business, life and society. To stick with work, here are two paragraphs from our blog “The future? We are on the second half of the chessboard!”
Labour market
If you can use Google to drive a car if robots can make cars, and if computers can answer calls and are starting to win Jeopardy and chess, what other types of work can be taken up by machines? Research suggests that 47% of all jobs are now at risk by computerisation.
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Because of these pressures, there will be a long tail in the labour market. The happy few who will have a job and have it all. A lot will have no job and no prospects made obsolete by machines. With considerable costs to society. That makes Gross National Happiness as a measure much more important than you think.
Backdrop
Below you will find the backdrop and context, covering a range of topics such as talent, organisational design, purpose and meaning, engagement, innovation, metrics, gaming and of course technology.
Here are some questions to ponder
- Are you designed to deliver customer delight?
- Is that reflected in the handbook?
- Do you trust your staff?
- Where is the next innovation coming from?
- What technologies are impacting on your business?
- Are you quick enough?
- What is your internal clock speed?
- What is your transformative purpose?
- Do your staff believe that? Do you?
- Is your heart at work?
- As a leader, how coherent are you?
- Culture is the last battleground, what is your organisation’s culture?
- How engaging are you with staff?
- How do you spot talent?
- Are you a true business 4.0?
- Is the organisational structure fit for purpose?
- How do you organise teams
- Who is hacking?
- What is the future of work?
- Are you applying OKRs?
- Why are games more interesting than work?
