MIDDLE MANAGERS' EXPECTATIONS OF THE FUTURE WORLD OF WORK: IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The future world of work has been the subject of considerable prognostication by scholars and businessmen, particularly recently. While these predictions differ widely, they unanimously augur a world vastly different from the present one. Today's middle manager, therefore, is faced with the very real danger of becoming obsolete--today's skills and knowledge will not enable him to effectively manage tomorrow's corporation. The purposes of this study are: (1) to provide a means by which managers may assess the future world of work and to describe it by means of these assessments; (2) to compare present with past predictions of the same future point in time, in order to identify continuing and changing trends; and (3) to examine the effect an assessment of the future has on managers' subsequent plans for their own training and development.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0706105

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