Workforce Wake-Up Call: Your Workforce is Changing, Are You?

"The corporate playing field continues to shift on a daily basis, and many companies are caught asleep at the wheel as their global workforce plays by radically new rules" - Robert Gandossy

An in-depth interview with Robert Gandossy, a global leader for talent and organization consulting for Hewitt Associates, with expertise in improving organizational effectiveness and human resource strategy, and increasing growth through innovation. Bob has written more than 50 articles and 5 books and has been a speaker for a number of groups including Harvard Business School, the Human Resources Planning Society, the Wharton School, and the Tom Peters Group, to name a few. His latest book, Workforce Wake-Up Call, (edited with colleagues Elissa Tucker and Nidhi Verma), is published by Wiley.

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According to Workforce Wake-up Call, “We are currently at the beginning of a seismic shift in the workforce. No one has enough foresight to predict exactly how this shift will play out, nor can we fully understand precisely how organizations should better prepare themselves for the challenges ahead. But one thing is certain—few organizations are ready and many are just muddling through. In a knowledge economy, with the largest and fastest growing expense being people, this can be a costly mistake.”

Executives, talent managers, and human resources professionals who want to compete and win will have to face these workforce changes with open eyes and innovative strategies. Drawing from experts across a wide spectrum of disciplines, Workforce Wake-Up Call is an all-in-one guide for business leaders seeking to move into the future of talent management and face these challenges head-on.

This collection of chapters from an all-star list of contributors provides leaders with a holistic picture of the changing workforce and how it will affect talent management. Even better, the book is packed with effective solutions from leading companies. A practical discussion of topics like human capital investment, the competition for scarce talent, using Customer Relationship Management as an employee management system, and the future of leadership development, make this book prescriptive as well as theoretically rigorous. With the kind of insight you'll find nowhere else, from talent experts and business leaders known for trailblazing and innovation, Workforce Wake-Up Call brings talent management into the twenty-first century and shows managers how to confront and beat the challenges that lay ahead.

Contributors to Workforce Wake-Up Call include:
• Max Bazerman, Harvard Business School co-author of Predictable Surprises
• Peter Cappelli, The Wharton School author of The New Deal at Work
• Lynda Gratton, London Business School author of The Democratic Enterprise
• Ed Lawler, University of Southern California author of Treat People Right!
• Thomas Malone, MIT Sloan School of Management author of The Future of Work
• N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited
• Nigel Nicholson, London Business School author of Executive Instinct
• Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford University author of The Human Equation
• Matt Schuyler, Executive Vice President of Human Resources, Capital One
• Ricardo Semler, President of Semco author of The Seven-Day Weekend
• Noel Tichy, University of Michigan author of The Leadership Engine
• Sheila Wellington, Stern School of Business author of Be Your Own Mentor

About the Authors: Robert P. Gandossy is Global Leader for Hewitt Associates' Talent and Organization Consulting Practice. He is the author of nearly fifty articles and six books on topics including leadership, human resources, and business ethics. He holds a PhD from Yale University.

Elissa Tucker is a senior consultant in the Research Practice at Hewitt Associates. She leads research studies on a wide array of talent management topics and is an expert on workforce trends.
Nidhi Verma is a senior consultant in the Talent and Organization Consulting Practice at Hewitt Associates. She specializes in talent management and performance improvement.

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