The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today - Hardcover

Meister, Jeanne C; Willyerd, Karie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061763276 ISBN 13: 9780061763274

Publisher: Harper Business, 2010

Synopsis

From well-respected human resources and corporate training experts Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd, a must-read guide to the innovative strategies that the best companies are using to create a workplace that the best talent chooses—both today and in 2020. In The 2020 Workplace, Meister and Willyerd offer a battle plan to start winning tomorrow’s employees today.

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From the Back Cover:

What companies need to know—and do—to win and hold on to tomorrow's best employees

The workplace of the future is being shaped today by Web 2.0—a collection of breakthrough social media technologies—and by the Millennial Generation, people born between 1977 and 1997. The convergence of these emerging workplace trends has created a generation of hyperconnected workers who are placing increased pressure on employers to overhaul their approach to talent management. In The 2020 Workplace, human resources experts Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd offer a practical game plan companies can use to attract and keep these employees, and, in doing so, transform their organizations; achieve compelling business results, such as increased innovation and improved customer connectedness; and compete more effectively in the global marketplace.

Based on key findings from two surveys of global professionals, as well as case studies from organizations such as Deloitte, Cisco, Bell Canada, JetBlue, Nokia, and NASA, this book shows how the social technologies that are used outside the company in marketing to connect with customers can be adapted for use inside the company to connect with employees. Meister and Willyerd bolster their thought-provoking research with real-world examples of these practices in action, including a YouTube new-hire orientation contest, the use of Twitter for sourcing job candidates, and a video game for new hires. With twenty predictions for the 2020 workplace and a glossary for those who have never texted, posted to Facebook, or Tweeted, this book is a must-read guide to what companies should do—and are already doing—to create tomorrow's workplace of choice.

About the Author:

Jeanne C. Meister is an internationally recognized thought leader, speaker, and author in enterprise learning. She is the author of Corporate Universities and Corporate Quality Universities, and her research has been profiled in such publications as the Chronicle of Higher Education, Chief Learning Officer, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review Japan, and the Financial Times. She is a cofounder of Future Workplace.

Karie Willyerd, as a vice president and chief learning officer for Sun Microsystems, led the American Society for Training and Development's top-ranked learning department in the world. She has also been a chief talent officer for a Fortune 200 company, as well as a head of learning and executive development in the defense and food industries. A cofounder of Future Workplace, she has been actively involved on the advisory board of a human resources think tank based at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. Together she and Meister blog for the Web site of the Harvard Business Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Business
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061763276
• ISBN 13: 9780061763274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304