The new workforce : five sweeping trends that will shape your company's future /

Hankin (corporate consultant) describes five workforce trends that will affect human resource managers: 1) the availability of an older, active workforce that can provide experienced, skilled employees; 2) a decline in the traditional nuclear family as same-sex couples, dual-income families, and single-mother households emerge; 3) different generations (e.g., the Silent Generation, Baby Boom, Generation X, Baby Boom Echo, and Millenium) working together; 4) an increasingly diverse workforce with respect to religion, gender, sexual orientation, and race; and 5) employees looking for a workplace with a "higher purpose" and where there is greater trust, respect, and ethics. To analyze these trends, the author completed interviews with corporate managers, combed popular newspapers and magazines, and shared personal business experiences. Hankin investigates in separate chapters each trend's impact on human resource policy, recruiting, compensation and benefits, and training. She recommends workplace changes to accommodate these trends, such as adapting employee benefits to the needs of alternative households. Thomas Malone's The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape the Future of Work (CH, Jul'04, 41-6630) provides similar insights. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Students, upper-division undergraduate and up, and human resource and business managers. G. E. Kaupins Boise State University