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Started by : Diya Mehra, Executive search, ABC consulting   01 30 2010 06:09:11 +0000
Industry : Human Resources (HR) ConsultingFunctional Area : Performance Management(People Management)
Keywords : future workforce
Activity:  199 views;  last activity : 07 06 2010 20:18:09 +0000

In the modern economic climate, it's not just about finding skilled workers, it's about finding elite talent– the best of the best. The strategic use of temporary workers is the fastest way for companies to stage an immediate post-crisis comeback. Flexibility is necessary for both employers and their workforce. Companies need flexible, agile workers who can constantly adjust and enhance their skills to meet the needs and expectations of workers.

Employees expect that same flexibility in return, to advance professionally and pursue their personal lifestyles. There are plenty of people available for work with the technical qualities needed to do certain jobs. But perhaps they don't have the psychological make-up, critical thinking skills or intellectual curiosity to really move the company forward.

So users, in this situation, how do you see future workforce shaping?

 
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1 Absence or less passionate workforce
2 Huge Talent mismatch
3 Technological Revolutions
4 Future Work Force
5 Innovative strtegies
6 Indifferent
7 Match skill sets and Interests of professionals with the skills required for projects
8 Not much different from past
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Absence or less passionate workforce

idea posted by Prashanta Bhaumik Head/VP/GM-Tech. Support, ASPIRTEK Technology Ltd

Unless HR people try creating more and more passionate workrforce future of the organisation going to get trapped in robotic style workforce devoid of risk taking or absence of problem solving workforce.

All other aptitudes can fall in line once we can convert the workforce to have passion to their JOB.

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Only companies able to protect their best performers, in particular during troubled times, will avoid the risk of less passionate workforce.

If not, very quickly people will understand that, to survive and growth if possible, anticipating troubles continuously surfing different companies is the best strategy, both, for growth or at least maintenance in: career growth, total compesation, continuous employability.

Seeking for external alternatives, these people quite naturally will save energies and passion/ engagement will be only a "face statement".

My 2 cents

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Whether labors will work in primary sector or secondary sector depends on their education, training, social culture and demographics. The expected growth in GDP fostering employment will require more labors with the innovation in technologies and thus reducing demand-supply mismatch of labor market. Hope it will also adjust the population growth which is increasing the no of labors to get jobs.

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by Ravindra Sharma, Managing Consultant, CHEF-India  | 02 02 2010 06:43:17 +0000

Believing and realising the strengths of internal customer a more honest interaction is necessary asides continual motivation and training. Indifference begins at HR handling and  passes on like a virus.

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Huge Talent mismatch

idea posted by Diya Mehra Executive search, ABC consulting

The Talent Mismatch is deepening as the working age population declines and the nature of work changes. These significant shifts in talent supply are transforming the global labour market.

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Yes. There will be huge talent mismatch in the future. The problem even continues now. The big companies already set up their own skill training centers to cope up with the situation for grass root workers. The continuous training programmes for employees are also meant for matching them with the Industries requirement. But, in order to channelise  the talent of work force, it is necessary to create emotional attachment with the company besides materialistic attachment.

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Technological Revolutions

idea posted by Kriti Das HR Manager, ANZ Information Technology

Technological Revolutions have the power to change where, when and how we work, enabling organisations to be more agile and innovative – if they know how to leverage it. With the daily upcoming of new technologies and daily adaptation of these technologies by organisations, i think the future workplace will be highly technical.

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At the end of the day companies "Betting on people not on strategies"

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Yes i agree with the above statements

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Technology has thoroughly reshaped the way we do business and, in particular, the expectations people have about the way we should be doing business. Today's technology has given all of us unprecedented freedom and the power to access information whenever and wherever we need it.

Future advances in technology will make workers more effective by enabling more collaboration. Improvements in knowledge capture and integration will speed up delivery of products and services. Workers will also be more contented, leading to improved retention, thanks to the freedom technology provides for flexible schedules and reduced (or eliminated) commuting time.

The final set of connections is "people-to-purpose." New communications tools such as podcasts and streaming video will no doubt become mainstream. Yet building and retaining a sense of personal and organizational mission will play an integral part in establishing a company's culture, values, and sense of purpose. In fact, introducing recruits to the company's processes and real-life environment seem hard to do without spending time at the office.

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Future Work Force

idea posted by ks burli Risk Management Consultant, IDEA-Insurance Data Execution Assistance

Future Work Force will be on the following lines as per my vision.

  1. It will be purely client need based
  2. Dynamic from time to time
  3. It is not the skill alone that counts, but, clients job, their requirement on the canvas of business, such as the reliable sources, certified organisations/Experts of recognised areas
  4. Joint reports may also be the order of tomorrow.
  5. It all focuses demand in the manner required & with the available supply of talent pool
  6. Language would be the requirement of the job with quality, expertise, reliability & speed all put together.

Right "IDEA" at the right time with right attitude & output.

Krishna Burli

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Innovative strtegies

idea posted by g.n.yoganarasimhan civil enggConsultant and Govt regestered Valuer for land and buildings, Suyoga enterprises

One of the important concern is the lack of committment in the workforce.They need to understand that working is not just to earn and make a living.It is the personal involvement and experiencing the joy of working and the self satisfaction.We need to impegrenate this thought in all the minds of workforce and create a oneness .perhaps this will improve  both quality and quantity of work.

g.n.yoganarasimhan be(civil),mie,fiv,pgdv

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A huge pool of talented workforce is available in after the Dubai collapse-tap them with right compensation packages and they would be most willing to come back home

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Indifferent

idea posted by Ravindra Sharma Managing Consultant, CHEF-India

If companies fail to distinguish excellence from ordinary, it is the effort that suffers.

Excess of availability throws the biggest challenge to HR in differentiating which is further compounded by generalist HR not possessing in-depth process knowledge and fail in accuracy at selection and furthering timely intervention and training.

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Match skill sets and Interests of professionals with the skills required for projects

idea posted by K LAXMINARAYANA RAO Freelancer

At present Project Managers accept projects without studying the projects properly or they do not have adequate skills to anlyse the projects needs and requirements with the result project leaders are finding it difficult to complete the projects in the time schedules accepted by the Managers. In addition many times it is difficult to find adequate number of people with skill sets matching the project requirements. As a result even though the positions are filled it is only the project leaders and some people with matching skills end up working 16 to 18 hrs a day to complete the jobs. Project leads may not bring such situations for fear of being branded as not capable of building teams or take the team along. This is resulting in team leads switching to jobs or chaning professions. There is a need to bring in transperancy and accomodate workers interests and places of duty.  

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Not much different from past

idea posted by Mathew Cherian Research Associate/Analyst, Western Michigan University

Our workers are formed differently. They get a degree by hook or by crook and they get into any job that come by, learn how to exists with it and when the going gets tough they switch to other jobs showing work experience of previous jobs and ultimately learn to exist in something till they retire.

So if the academia is not developed to produce skilled labor then I think we are not going to see much change from what was happening in the past regarding skills of workforce in India.

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