Talent Tectonics: Navigating Global Workforce Shifts, Building Resilient Organizations and Reimagining the Employee Experience - Hardcover

by Steven T. Hunt (Author)

How to attract, retain, develop, and engage people for a changing world of work

Shifting demographics combined with the digitalization of all aspects of life are transforming the nature of work. This is forcing companies to rethink how they design jobs and recruit, develop, and engage employees.

In Talent Tectonics: Navigating Global Workforce Shifts, Building Resilient Organizations, and Reimagining the Employee Experience, Dr. Steven Hunt explains how technology is changing the purpose of work and why creating effective employee experiences is critical to building organizations that can thrive in a world of accelerating change and growing skill shortages.

In the book, you'll find insights from the perspective of a person who has worked with thousands of companies around the globe using technology to build effective workforces. The book explores how business strategy, organizational psychology, and work technology interact to create nimble companies. The book discusses the future, but its focus is on the present, identifying things companies can do now to attract critical talent and create resilient organizations including:

• How to manage different types of employee experiences to create engaged and adaptable workforces
• How technology can enable large organizations to act more like small, agile, entrepreneurial companies.
• Rethinking employee recruitment, development, and engagement to create supportive, inclusive, and resilient organizational cultures

Perfect for human resources professionals, employee experience managers, and business leaders responsible for building effective workforces, Talent Tectonics belongs in the libraries of every leader, employee, and professional invested in ensuring that their organization can attract, retain, and develop the talent needed to achieve its strategic goals.

Front Jacket

The nature of work and the employment relationship is being transformed before our eyes. New technologies, demographic change, and disruptive global events have combined to force employers to rethink how they design jobs and recruit, develop, and engage employees.

In Talent Tectonics: Navigating Global Workforce Shifts, Building Resilient Organizations, and Reimagining the Employee Experience, Chief Expert of Work and Technology at SAP Dr. Steve Hunt delivers an insightful explanation of how the purpose and structure of work are changing and how your organization can transform those changes into enduring competitive advantages.

In the book, you'll learn from a person who has helped thousands of companies around the world to use technology to build effective workforces. You'll also discover how to create a business strategy that leverages organizational psychology and new technologies to create an agile and productive workforce.

The author discusses the future but keeps his focus squarely on actionable and hands-on tactics you can employ in the here and now to attract crucial talent and increase your firm's resilience and adaptability.

Perfect for organizations of any size, particularly companies seeking to create the agility and adaptability often associated with small, highly entrepreneurial firms, Talent Tectonics: Navigating Global Workforce Shifts, Building Resilient Organizations, and Reimagining the Employee Experience is a revolutionary rethink of organizational design, employee recruitment, development, and engagement that belongs in the libraries of HR professionals, employee experience managers, and business leaders around the globe.

Back Jacket

Praise for TALENT TECTONICS

"There are perennial workforce challenges we all face, regardless of industry or geography. Talent Tectonics is a guide to prioritize those challenges and determine which are most important for our organizations to solve today. This book focuses on practical solutions, calling out the tensions between what the individual wants and what the organization wants, and shares practical tools on how we can balance those seemingly disparate needs."
--MAURA STEVENSON, PhD Chief Human Resource Officer, MedVet; Affiliated Research, Center for Effective Organization, USC's Marshall School of Business

"This is a must-read for everyone who wants to crack the nut on how an organization can thrive in the future of work. Steven Hunt helps us understand the major drivers of creating resilient workforces by successfully managing the intersection of people, technology, and work."
--CHRISTIAN SCHMEICHEL, SVP & Chief Future of Work Officer, SAP

"Talent Tectonics gives us a new and essential way to think about the employment relationship and how we approach it - whether as an employer or an employee."
--ELAINE DAVIS, Chief Human Resources Officer, HealthComp

"Talent Tectonics blends practical business guidance with evidence-based science to create a unique and powerful book every HR professional should read. Dr. Hunt's experience working with hundreds of companies, technological savvy, and psychology expertise has enabled him to provide a valuable look at what companies must do to prepare for a future of work that will be very different from the past."
--KEN JOHNSTON, SVP & Chief Human Resources Officer, Purolator

"Steve Hunt is a distinguished expert in understanding the intersection of business, human behavior, and technology, and how organizations can leverage it to drive performance and gain competitive advantage. With enormous changes occurring in the workplace in every region of the world, Talent Tectonics is a timely and valuable read for anyone wanting to nurture an organization culture that puts the employee experience front-and-center in order to attract, develop, and retain the best talent."
--DOUG HAALAND, PhD VP, Global Talent Management, Whirlpool Corporation

Author Biography

STEVEN T. HUNT, PHD, is the Chief Expert of Work & Technology at SAP. His work focuses on the design and use of technology-enabled processes to improve workforce agility, productivity, experience, engagement, and well-being. He is an internationally renowned industrial-organizational psychologist.