New Directions in the Future of Work

Mónica Santana and Ramón Valle-Cabrera’s wide-ranging study explores vital research and industrial issues that are central to understanding the concepts of the Future of Work and address key challenges in this evolving area of debate.A global cast of leading research specialists provide chapters examining a broad spectrum of areas relating to the Future of Work including leadership, talent management, AI and digitalisation, digital skills, new forms of work, industrial relations, vulnerable workers as well as well-being, happiness, satisfaction and burnout. Each chapter offers insights on how individuals and leaders can make choices to shape the future of work and effectively respond to changing contextual conditions, demystifying the future of work from a set of interesting insights into specific actions and choices that will help imagine, invent, and implement a work setting that works.

New Directions in the Future of Work is illuminating reading for scholars of HRM, Talent Management, Leadership, Industrial Relations, and all those seeking to understand directions of travel for the workplaces of the future.

Mónica Santana is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Pablo de Olavide University, Spain. Her research on SHRM, Future of Work, Downsizing, Sustainable HRM and Turnaround Strategy has been published in a range of international journals including European Management Journal, European Management Review, Business Research Quarterly, Economic & Industrial Democracy, and Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management.

Ramón Valle-Cabrera is Professor of Human Resource Management at Pablo de Olavide University, Spain, co-author of "La Gestion de personas y del talento" (2014) and book coordinator for Strategic Management of Human Resources, 2nd edition (2004). His research on HRM has been published in a wide range of international journals including International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Human Resource Management and Human Resource Management Review.