The New World of Work Podcast

The current HR Model has been evolving for a long time now. It is based on functional division of HR work. It has been a set of HR silos. But what we are finding in The New World of Work, People Specialists are seeing the employees, the Human Assets, their orientation is much more different. They want to be recognized individually, to be rewarded individually, and to be engaged individually. Emplo...

What is the effectiveness of HR? What value are they adding to the organization? They do a bunch of back room administrative work & nebulous soft skills stuff. There is no dollar and cents rigor to HR work. In the hit NBC TV Show, "The Office", Steve Carrell runs his office like a family, except for one guy. The one guy he hates is the HR guy because he holds back progress & Operational Ex...

Back in 1933-1945, in The Industrial Age, President FDR and Senator Francis Perkins, came up with the Fair Labor Standards Act. It needs to be redone. What is the normal work hours of the average American Worker in The New World of Work? It's not 9 to 5. In The Gig Economy, do we know how many hours employees are working in their homes? Who is monitoring their hours? How accurate are their timecar...

There is demand for Gig Workers both from the Employer's side and the Employee's side. Those numbers are certain to increase. The Human Cloud is place where Employers and Workers go to get a Matchmaking Service. There are Payroll Applications, Labor Distribution, Accounting Systems Applications, all residing on a platform. It is an integrated systems architecture for managing the contingent Gig Wo...

Episode 16 - Managing Rewards in The Digital Age In today’s workplace, compensation and rewards are key to retaining workers. Pay systems of the past do not live up to the demands of the younger generations. If you want to keep your best employees, you need to update your rewards. Based on Chapter 12 of our book, The New World of Work: People Leadership in The Digital Age, we discuss Managing Rewa...

With The Great Resignation phenomenon, this is what American workers are looking for right now. They are clamoring for more say in the business. Now is the time for business leaders, the new People Leaders, to realize that in order to increase employee engagement and employee satisfaction, making employees part-owners of the business, or shared governance, might be a new phenomenon in The New Worl...

To this day, this week, Climate Issues are a big deal! It's affecting people all over the world, not just us in California. The weather, the water. It's a big deal that we all need to be concerned about. Environmental Sustainability is both a social movement and a sustainable business practice. People Leaders have the unique position to influence lifelong behaviors in their roles. Where we have se...

Employees are so discombobulated by the dysfunctional culture and organizational behavior at their workplace that they are quitting their profession. As a result, America is going to be facing over 200,000 nursing job openings in the next 10 years or so and the pipeline is not full. Hospitals and Airlines are suffering from nurses and pilots that are underpaid, overworked, and under-appreciated. O...

Due to Hyper Connectivity, The Digital Age has disrupted Corporate Cultures. In today’s global workplace, it is not a good idea to try and adopt one, universal Corporate Culture when so many different micro-cultures exist. That is not to say that learning about and respecting those micro-cultures is not important. Great People Leaders help form a strong culture that acknowledges the most critical...

Remote Employees are often so grateful for the opportunity to work remotely that they actually give more time to their organizations as they balance their personal lives. With the Covid-19 Pandemic, the world of work saw an acceleration in the need and capability of working remotely. People Leaders are needed in every level of the organization that can balance the needs of their organizations and...

During the Covid-19 Pandemic, we began to sense a major change brewing in organizations everywhere. Employees were realizing that there was more to life than just their daily grind in sacrifice to their employers. Now called The Great Resignation, we are seeing millions of workers around the world decide to leave their regular employment and look for more flexible options. Organizations should not...

In The Digital Age, we don’t need bosses, we need leaders. People Leaders find ways to shorten the distance in the so-called Boss-Subordinate Relationship to form partnerships. Nobody wants to think of themselves as subordinate. People Leaders empower their people by sitting down with them and developing objectives jointly that lead towards organizational success. In this episode, we discuss Chapt...

As workforces change, entrepreneurs & top managers look for ways to get the job done. However, the Federal Labor Standards Act (FSLA) seems to be a hinderance rather than a good guideline to follow. In the New World of Work, more and more employers are moving to a model where there is a small inner core team of employees with a large outer circle of gig workers. People Leaders need to be busin...

People Specialists need to realize that the nature of work has changed so the Employment Contract needs to be updated and new categories or employees needs to be updated. It's very difficult to keep our employees engaged. They are not emotionally invested in the mission of the company. Employee Engagement surveys are not the solution. There is no lifetime employment anymore. Employees don't typica...

The Nature of Work is changing dramatically. There is a complete need to rethink about how People Management, Human Resource Management will operate in this New World of Work. Current HR Employee Relations will not work. We need new paradigms, new processes, new ways of relating to each other, new ways of working in teams, new ways of supervision, and new ways of management. “Workers today don't e...

When the world has changed, People Leaders of the past have led the way in ensuring employees are valued. In reviewing The History of Human Capital Management, we see that true People Leaders influence the World of Work.

People Leadership in organizations is now more important than ever. Workers have more options than ever to find the roles they want. If you want your organization to thrive, you must have People Leaders at every level of the Management Team. “The leader’s job is to provide the people with the tools to get the job done. If you are leading and nobody is following you, you are just taking a walk. We...

We now live in The Digital Age. When you look around the workplace, you realize that we have witnessed the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Great People Leaders understand how the workplace has changed and that workers have more options than ever. It is our duty to treat our people right and then they will treat our customers right. “This digitization of the workplace has changed the very nature of w...

Productivity is the ability to get stuff done. Every organization develops goals to define success for their organizations. For People Leaders, it is their role to inspire their teams to maximize productivity through hiring the right people, training frequently, and overall, treating their people right. “People Leaders inspire maximized productivity. There will continue to be things that robots an...

The world of work is changing rapidly due to the Four Forces of change in our new world. Today’s conversation discusses the premise of our book coming out this Fall titled “The New World of Work: People Leadership in The Digital Age”. Dr. Bob Biswas and Professor William Garrison lay out the Four Forces felt by workers and business leaders alike and offer a foundation on how to lead people in this...