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Key Theme: Gender and Diversity
Key Theme: Gender and Diversity
Key Theme: Gender and Diversity. The purpose of this assessment is to evaluate skills in research, the application of ideas from the literature, problem solving and critical analysis.
Your assignment will outline your team’s vision of identifying future trends in work in 2040. You will need to incorporate key theory and identify factors that can affect changes in work trends and affects on individuals, organisations and society. Focus on the key theme in your report (Gender and diversity) to guide your discussion of the literature and recommendations.
This task is designed to develop research, communication, and team project management skills. In addition, you report should demonstrate evidence of critical thinking, analysis and problem solving in the way your team discusses and reports on the future of work.
In developing your recommendations, the written report must utilise scenario planning, reflect on key readings and recommended readings relevant to your chosen theme and demonstrate understanding of relevant theories such as commodification, labour process, division of labour, Informalisation and formalisation and issues of relevance in applying these to a HRM or Management context.
The following research questions will assist you to focus how you approach this report.
How does our understanding of what has occurred in the past and present inform how we hypothesise future work trends?
To what extent does our current understanding of technology or globalisation or gender and diversity or management innovation-use of labour inform our view of what will occur in the future?
Will social, economic, environmental and political trends have a strong influence on how work trends will evolve? Why? How? Which ones?
Future forecasts often include a lot of hype but often fail to eventuate, how can you substantiate your thesis for the future of work?
Key Theme: Gender and Diversity
Suggested steps to undertake this assessment
Diverse workplaces for the better of society, corporations and organisations?
Work life balance, affirmative action, quotas for boards or Senior positions?
Links between management innovation and workplace equity
Division of labour- paid and unpaid, work and employment, global and local; Roles in society will this change in the future?
Implications for how we reflect women’s role in society in the workplace.
Women are often predominate in low paid, dirtier jobs as are migrants and workers in developing countries.
Shifts in production often impact on men and women differently.
Structure:
Introduction: This section should clearly outline the team’s key arguments about the future of work. It should clearly state the theme covered in the report. It should also provide a two-sentence summary of the team’s recommendations. The section should reflect on teamwork by including a short summary outlining clearly the student responsible for each section (by name) and indicating how each member has contributed (not just what each person has contributed).
Key Theme: Gender and Diversity
Rationale: This section outlines the rationale of why you selected the theme and what are the key features or context to consider when thinking about how work will develop in the future and why. Your thesis on the future of work should be clearly outlined here.
Literature review: This section reviews the literature on key topics and makes links to the chosen theme. Include definitions of key concepts, and analyse and compare the effects and importance of the various trends based upon the readings. The literature review requires the group to address key areas in relation to the topic and theme, and divide the review of the literature according to appropriate sub headings. Each student must complete a literature review section on one sub heading from the chosen topic.
This section will discuss the key evidence from the literature, including all the prescribed readings and other readings found by each individual student plus recommended and other peer-reviewed journal readings. Discussion of the literature should refer to the different types of changes to work covered in this unit and must address relevant concepts such as labour process, division of labour, informalisation and commodification. “Please find the prescribed reading in attached additional material”
Scenario plan: Working together the group is required to construct a future scenario using the scenario template. The completed scenario will be attached in the appendix. You will need to insert in your report a summary of your future scenario identifying the evidence/trends it is based upon, framing questions and key elements around work that are relevant to your analysis to the future of work. (The template & framing questions should be in your appendix.), “Please find in the attached material the scenario template”
Future of work: The literature review and your scenario plan are the key documents that will inform this section. This section should include a summary of the key learning/findings from the literature review, including any controversies. It should clearly respond to the research questions about the future of work. It is recommended that you apply the same sub headings in this section that you used in your literature review.
You should identify the areas of change to work in the future and discuss related questions about the effects of these changes. You need to link arguments from the section about the literature and should be able to draw out the key issues in the literature to assist you to argue and support your thesis on the future of work.
Key Theme: Gender and Diversity
Draw on your analysis from the scenario plan around your chosen context, such as the organisation /industry, effects on employees, corporate strategy, new expressions of employment, trends in society that will impact on work, the way work is done, location, who will do it, how monitoring, performance appraisal and supervision may change. In discussing the proposed trends you will also need to identify current gaps and how these may improve or change in the long term and why.
This section should be drawing on the gap between the current state as described in the literature review and the future state as described in your scenario plan.
Recommendations: This section should outline your specific recommendations. It should follow your discussion and illustrate ideas and issues raised in your future of work section incorporating issues from the literature review and scenario plan. It should highlight ways to address perceived gaps between the current as outlined in the literature review and future trends drawn from the scenario plan.
Conclusion: This section should sum up the main arguments of the report and reflect on teamwork and the group approach to this report.
