COMM 2P65 Lecture 11: 2P65L11
10 Mar 2017
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Contemporary organizational culture issues: ethical behaviours in organization, 21st century organizational careers, romance in the workplace (reading) Social media use: blurring of public and private life, key theme, challenge of controlling employee social media use. Friedman, the world is flat, 2006: technology flattened the global playing field, government and businesses work to encourage worker toughness. Surviving the 21st century workplace: most needed portable benefits and opportunities for lifelong learning, these make workers mobile and adaptable. New: mutual loyalty between employees, discrete exchanges of specific rewards in return for task and organization performance, compliance rewarded with security. Job rewards deferred in the future: opportunities standardized and prescribed for firm. Stable: organizational planning, work for multiple forms, free agency new occupational expertise. Trading skills to a variety of different teams. Assess individual skills, abilities and goals to ever-changing set of short and long term employment contract opportunities: self employment and entrepreneurial career.
