21st Century Workforces and Workplaces.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD BY LOUISE FISHER -- Introduction -- 1 Productivity and the workplace -- Introduction -- The productivity challenge -- The refocus on the workplace -- Managerial perspectives -- Employee perceptions -- What works at the workplace level -- Building support for organizations and managers -- 2 The changing labour market: myths and reality -- Employment is becoming more â contingentâ and less permanent -- The end of jobs for life? -- Job insecurity -- Job quality -- The myth of deregulation -- Self-employment and the gig economy -- New forms of self-employment: the gig employment -- Choice and atypical work -- The role of small firms -- Lovely and lousy jobs -- Portfolio working -- 24/7 working -- Migrants are taking our jobs and cutting wages: the myths of Brexit -- A knowledge-based world of work -- The rise and rise of the professional classes -- Regulation by professionalism -- The grey workforce -- Conclusions -- 3 The global workforce -- The rise of the BRICS -- The â Great Doublingâ (and other â Greatsâ ) -- A world of labour shortages -- All the jobs will be offshored -- The robots are coming for our jobs -- The second machine age -- Human enhancement -- Conclusions -- 4 The future workplace -- Liberation technology: a broken promise? -- Homeworking, fl exibility and the rise of the laptop warrior -- Human enhancement: wearables, implantables and â smartâ drugs -- Work space -- The future workplace: a false promise or a false start? -- 5 Better managers in the future workplace -- Introduction -- What is management? -- Why is management important? -- How are managers performing in the UK? -- The employment relationship and â good managementâ -- First line management -- What management challenges do we have in the future? -- Conclusions