Lead the work navigating a world beyond employment

"A detailed look at the evolution of employment and its far-reaching implications Beyond Employment takes an incisive look at the evolving nature of work, and how it's affecting management and productivity at the organizational level. Where getting things done once meant assigning it to an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boudreau, John W.
Other Authors: Jesuthasan, Ravin, Creelman, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey Wiley 2015
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Cover
  • Praise for Lead the Work
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One The Background
  • Chapter 1 Leading Work-Not Managing Employees
  • Work: Escaping Traditional Regular Full-Time Employment
  • Work Is Leaving Organizations
  • Talent Platforms Optimize Freelancing
  • Seeing a Pattern in the Pieces
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2 Free Agent World
  • Why Employment Evolved, and What's Evolving Next
  • Problems in Job Land
  • The Less "Regular" Full-Time Job
  • The Starbucks Office and the Social Acceptability of Free Agency
  • From Free Agent Nation to Free Agent World
  • The Implications of Free Agent World
  • The Remaining Barriers to World Domination
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3 Outsourcing and Alliances
  • The Rise of Outsourcing
  • The Rise of Alliances
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4 The Talent Platforms
  • Upwork
  • Tongal
  • Topcoder
  • The Less "Regular" Full-Time Job
  • MTurk
  • Notes
  • Part Two The Model
  • Chapter 5 Leading the Work Beyond Employment: A Decision Framework
  • How the Framework Deciphers the Work beyond Employment: The Case of Upwork
  • Chapter 6 How IBM Leads the Work
  • IBM's Open Talent Marketplace
  • The Assignment Agency: Optimizing Work in a Single Unit
  • The Lesson of IBM
  • Notes
  • Chapter 7 The Assignment: How Much to Deconstruct, Disperse, and Detach?
  • How Small to Deconstruct?
  • How Widely to Disperse?
  • How Far from Employment to Detach?
  • Unlocking the Code: Applying the Three Dimensions of the Assignment
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 8 The New Organization: Permeable, Interlinked, Collaborative, and Flexible
  • Organizational Form
  • How Easily to Permeate?
  • How Strongly to Interlink?
  • How Deeply to Collaborate?
  • How Extensively to Flex?
  • Making Decisions about the Organization: Permeate, Interlink, Collaborate, and Flex
  • PICF Pictured
  • How PICF Makes Leading the Work Easier
  • Notes
  • Chapter 9 The Reward: Short-Term, Individualized, and Imaginative
  • Navigating Rewards beyond Employment
  • How Short the Time Frame?
  • How Specifically to Individualize?
  • How Creatively to Imagine the Reward?
  • The Value of the New Rewards for Leaders, Clients, and Workers
  • Optimizing the Reward Dials to Lead the Work: Netflix, Foldit, and SAS
  • Notes
  • Part Three Implications
  • Chapter 10 Future HR Practices in Leading the Work
  • HR Beyond Employment: Work Engineering
  • The Talent Lifecycle
  • Planning
  • Attracting/Sourcing
  • Selecting
  • Deploying and Developing
  • Rewarding
  • Separating
  • Leading the Work by "Rewiring" HR
  • Notes
  • Chapter 11 Future HR Outcomes in Leading the Work
  • Engagement and Culture
  • Leadership
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Performance
  • The New HR Professional: Leader, Architect, Engineer, and Orchestrator of a Boundaryless Global Workplace
  • Notes
  • Chapter 12 Governance and Stakeholders
  • A Perspective on the Future of Unions
  • Some Closing Thoughts on Governance and Stakeholders
  • Notes
  • Chapter 13 Nations, Citizens, and Children
  • The Bright Side of a World Beyond Employment
  • The Dark Side of a World Beyond Employment
  • Who Is Right, the Optimists or the Pessimists?
  • What Should We Do?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • About the Authors
  • Index
  • EULA.