Future of Work: Leading Modern Workplaces

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Key Takeaways

Wharton’s Future of Work program is designed to provide senior business leaders and HR professionals with a reliable framework to successfully navigate changes in modern workplaces. This program will enable you to:

  • Discover trends at the workplace and in the labor market that you may be overlooking

  • Analyze the eight forces affecting the current state of work and forecast their potential impact on your organization

  • Conceptualize your existing or forthcoming strategies to harness the talents of a global and mobile workforce

  • Consider how to view immigration as a business strategy and not simply as a political topic

  • Identify the pitfalls, challenges, and emerging solutions for putting AI into practice

Program Modules

This program has been designed to provide senior leaders and HR professionals with the necessary understanding of the realities of today’s workplaces. The program addresses the factors that impact the labor market and paints a broad picture of the technological and social changes that are causing the workplace revolution.

The Eight Forces Workbook

This program gives senior leaders and HR professionals the opportunity to examine assumptions, facts, and myths about the future of work. With the help of this workbook, you can analyze the eight major forces that are impacting today's workplaces. It consists of eight worksheets, one for each force. You are encouraged to revisit the workbook every week as you progress through the various modules.

1. Skill gaps and changing labor markets

Evaluate skill gaps in your organization and analyze your actions to address the gaps.

2. Automation

Discuss automation and its impact on jobs.

3. Demographics

Analyze demographic trends in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

4. Employee expectations

Recognize what people seek from work and what motivates them.

5. Workplace

Consider evolving models of work including work-from-home and work-from-anywhere.

6. Employment models

Explore new employment models, including gig work and shamrock organizations.

7. Machine learning and AI

Gain insights into how AI and ML are impacting the current nature of work.

8. AI in Recruitment

Learn how AI can be integrated into recruitment and talent management process.

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Industry Examples

Google

Learn how Google uses detailed search data to determine which candidates to target during the hiring process.

GitHub and Zapier

Garner insights from various remote-only organizations and create a use case for how you may approach managing work teams and conflict in an all-virtual environment.

Knack

Discover how this tech company uses video game behavior and performance to assess candidates’ personality profiles.

MobSquad

Discover how MobSquad built a business model to help U.S. companies work around restrictive employment-related visa policies that impeded the businesses’ ability to retain or scale technology talent. Apply learnings from MobSquad into the design of remote-work strategies for your organization.

Stack Overflow

Learn how this website for IT developers enables employers to recruit technical candidates based on how they are perceived by the broader developer community in terms of level of expertise in resolving questions.

Uber

Discuss Uber’s strategy to do detailed data analyses on customers using its cab hailing app to scout for potential employees. Also, understand recent regulations, including AB-5 and Prop-22 in California, that mandate companies like Uber to extend employee status to gig workers.

Visuals by Impulse

Learn how Visuals by Impulse harnesses the talents of a global mobile workforce. Analyze the company’s strategy for overcoming constraints of physical space by hiring remote workers around the globe and apply these insights to your organization.

Faculty

JOHN PAUL MACDUFFIE, PHD
JOHN PAUL MACDUFFIE, PHD

Professor of Management, the Wharton School

Lindsey D. Cameron researches how changes in the modern employment landscape including variable pay, short-term job contracts, and machine learning are affecting work and work...

EXEQUIEL HERNANDEZ, PHD
EXEQUIEL HERNANDEZ, PHD

Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Associate Professor of Management, the Wharton School

Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez studies the globalization, innovation, and performance of firms. His research interests include global networks, immigration, mergers and acquisition...

 PRASANNA TAMBE, PHD
PRASANNA TAMBE, PHD

Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, the Wharton School

Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe researches the use of data science and AI for human resources applications, as well as the economics of labor markets for high-tech workers. His publish...

 LINDSEY CAMERON, PHD
LINDSEY CAMERON, PHD

Assistant Professor of Management, , the Wharton School

Lindsey D. Cameron researches how changes in the modern employment landscape including variable pay, short-term job contracts, and machine learning are affecting work and work...

Future of Work: Leading Modern Workplaces

Certificate

Upon successful completion of the program, you will earn a digital certificate of completion from the Wharton School.

Note: After successful completion of the online program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of the Wharton School.

This online certificate program does not grant academic credit or a degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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