Future of Work
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This course is for anyone who wants to understand the evolving landscape of work and its implications for individuals, organisations, and society. Whether you are a professional, an HR specialist, a business leader, or a student, you will benefit from this course.Course description
The course is available in English and Finnish:
We are amid a revolution of work, which started already long before the pandemic. Making sense of the future of work can feel tricky in the middle of a constant information overflow. This course is supported with academic research and references packaged in a way that is easy to access. In this course, we will look at how the roles of the individual, organisations and society have changed and how it affects how we work today and in the future. The course is an open online course. The course material is divided into five (5) chapters.
After taking this course, you will be able to:
- Understand and to be able to historically contextualise the main elements of change in relation to white-collar paid employment on individual, organisational and societal levels.
- Understand how work is gradually disconnecting from time, place and employment, and to be able to systematically analyse the individual-level implications of these changes.
- Understand how megatrends like digitalisation, and ecological and social sustainability are transforming how contemporary organisations operate.
- Understand how organisational paradigms and cultures have evolved over the years and how contemporary organisations are embracing and integrating multiple organisational paradigms and cultures.
- Understand vertical, distributed and hybrid organisational structures, what are their strengths, and how they relate to organisational culture and leadership. We also discuss why contemporary organisations are shifting more towards distributed and hybrid structures.
- Understand the basic leadership concepts and how contemporary leadership looks like and how it is aligned with organisational culture and design.
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Aalto University degree students: The courses Future of Work (MNGT-C1004) and Future of Work (MNGT-C1003) are no longer part of the degree curriculum, so their inclusion in the degree in Sisu is no longer possible.