The future manager – the new teenage parent?

Some trends for the future worklife

The changes in the work place all concern the continuous need for changing attitudes – how shall organizations and leaders understand the need for a new perspective on gender, ethnicity and intercultural understanding?
To be able to fill the needs in tomorrows workforce, the employers must expand their perspective on whom they can recruit – and how many employees they realistically need. To replace an employee leaving today with a new employee tomorrow, one on one, is not only unrealistic but also uneconomical. The great challenge will be both to attract new employees and to retain them! The challenge grows as employers need not only to attract them, but also to organize the workforce during the constant recruiting - in a much more turbulent working environment.

In this raplex world the continued influence of simplicity, straightforwardness, tutelage and more reasonable expectations on work all become more important. These changes all regard the younger employees relationship to work. As a larger meta trend it is possible to talk about the need to communicate realistic expectations on what work is, and what the actual demands are in workplaces today. We can’t see this clear-cut communication in a majority of organizations today, but the demands are growing and are very explicit today.
There is also a clear trend in leadership generally, for managers to set the general framework, not to control in detail, but to lead with more distinction than today. Not only will employers need to quickly get people into production (since they will quit sooner), there is also a more apparent need for guidance among new employees; that the manager leads the way. Already the schools have partly taken over the fostering and upbringing duties from the families. Now also the employers will have to do their share of fostering. The difficulty, as for the teenage parent, is to find a balance between strict rules and independence.

For more information, please contact senior consultat Mr. Fredrik Claesson!