Workforce Ecosystems (Management on the Cutting Edge) Author: Altman, Elizabeth J.,Kiron, David,Schwartz, Jeff,Jones, Ro

work-as-meaning

• The definition of the workforce is changing — virtually all executives acknowledge that contractors, gig workers, and professional service firms are part of their workforces.

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• Careers were once 'one and done': study a trade, work twenty-five years, retire. That model no longer holds in a world of multiple employment models.

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obedience-and-authority

• Challenges are structural (division of labor, goals, incentives), political (resources, power, status), and cultural (individuals' search for identity and meaning).

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• Moving from an employee-based workforce to a workforce ecosystem has ethical implications; the ethical treatment of employees is often governed by established norms.

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self-and-identity

• What's the difference between a contractor who only joins by video and an employee who only joins by video? That will start to be questioned.

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• For an employee, inclusion means the company and all that goes with it. For contingent workers, the answers are far less obvious.

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