Talent Tectonics: Navigating Global Workforce Shifts, Building Resilient Organizations and Reimagining the Employee Experience
- 6h 14m
- Steven T. Hunt
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2022
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.
About the Author
Steven T. Hunt, PhD, (https://steventhunt.com/; Seattle, WA) is the Chief Expert Work & Technology at SAP. Dr. Hunts work focuses on design and use of technology-enabled processes to improve workforce agility, productivity, experience, engagement, and well-being. An internationally recognized industrial-organizational psychologist, he has played a central role in creating human resource solutions that have positively influenced millions of employees around the globe. He has personally worked with more than a thousand companies around the world exploring the intersection of business performance, human resource technology, and employee psychology. A recognized HR thought leader, Dr. Hunt regularly speaks on topics related to the changing nature of jobs, organizations, talent management, and the experience of work and has written hundreds of articles and several books on strategic HR methods.
In this Book
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Foreword
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Introduction—How We Managed People in the Past Will Not Work in the Future
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Forces Reshaping Work and Workforces
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The Employee Experience and Workforce Adaptability
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Work Technology and Organizational Agility
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Designing Organizations to Provide Positive Employee Experiences
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Filling Positions and the Experience of Moving into New Roles
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Developing Capabilities and the Employee Experience of Learning
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Creating Engagement and Employee Experiences That Inspire Successful Performance
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Increasing Efficiency, Ensuring Compliance and Security, and Building Culture
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Using Employee Data to Guide Business Decisions
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Changing the Employee Experience
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The Employee Experience and the External Environment
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Where Do We Go from Here?—Shaping the Future of the Employee Experience
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