Twenty-First Century Workplace Challenges

Edna Rabenu is senior lecturer at Netanya Academic College and Bar-Ilan University.

Rabenu examines up-to-date changes in workplace relationships affecting the well-being of employees and society. The unique aspect of this book is the comprehensive review of top-tier academic and professional journals literature addressing the issue of how the pandemic, digitalization, the internet, globalization, generational differences, working from home, employee personalities, and work-life balance have changed the way work is currently organized. Rabenu provides significant discussion of the COVID-19 contribution to restrictive business flights, greater focus on safety, and increasingly boundary-free workplaces. A process-person-context-time model, anchoring the organization of the text, provides a holistic view of the work associated with managing employee/organization relationships, worker characteristics, environmental conditions, and periods in which work processes take place. Teams, too, have changed because of incorporating traditional workers with independent contractors, moonlighters, virtual employees, and diverse employees drawn from demographic minority groups. The author also looks to a future in which human-robot teams will collaborate by means of artificial intelligence. Academic researchers will appreciate the roughly 80 pages of recent references covering theoretical frameworks of organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, and human resource management. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.

• Part I: Setting the StageChapter 1: Changes in the World of Work in the Twenty-First Century: Brief Review Chapter 2: Workplace Relationships: Demarcation of the FieldPart II: Relationships in the Twenty-First-Century WorkplaceChapter 3: Work Relationships: Twenty-FirstCentury Changes and ChallengesChapter 4: Persons as Active Agents: How Do They Shape Relationships in New Era Organizations? Chapter 5: Persons as Active Agents: How Do They Shape Relationships in New Era Organizations?Chapter 6: Relationship in Context: The Changes in Proximal Spheres of InfluenceChapter 7: Relationship in Context: The Changes in Distal Spheres of InfluencePart III: Challenging Interfaces for Organizations in the New EraChapter 8: The Growing Market of Freelancers: Are They Free or Are They Alone? Chapter 9: The Complex Whirlpool of Work and LifeChapter 10: Conclusion and Outlook: The Resilient Organization – Looking AheadAppendix 1: Examples of Organizational Resource Investments During the Corona Pandemic Appendix 2: Ecomap for the Process of Bullying in Organizations