Future of Work: Leading Modern Workplaces
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.
Trends in the Future of Work - Final Project Proposal
In the final project you will develop a proposal to reimagine the current state of work in your organization based on an identified opportunity for improvement through the lens of one of the eight major forces discussed in the program. This project will help summarize the course learnings in a practical, specific manner, allowing you to walk away with a tangible plan to present to your colleagues/organization.
Program Experience
LIVE OFFICE HOURS
FIRESIDE CHAT
INDUSTRY EXAMPLES
ASSIGNMENTS
POLLS
REFLECTIONS
DISCUSSION BOARDS
Industry Examples
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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