Report launch: Drivers shaping the employment relationship over the next 10 years
Tuesday, 06 July 2010 18:00 - 20:00
21 Palmer Street, London W1K 5SN
Introduction
The Work Foundation launches a new report into the future of the employment relationship drawing on the views of a Delphi panel of experts to identify drivers of change and inform scenarios of the future.
The event in detail
Download the event programme (pdf 180 KB)
Contributors:
Kay Carberry, Assistant General Secretary, TUC
Lord David Freud, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Welfare Reform)
Will Hutton, Executive Vice Chair, The Work Foundation
Dr Wilson Wong, Lead Researcher, Future of HR Programme
The Deal in 2020: A Delphi study of the employment relationship
About the report: The Future of HR was concerned that the primary investigation into the relationship between the employer and employee in 2010 (the Deal) might only reflect contemporary concerns. Existing literature seemed also to assume that 2020 will reflect more or less of the same. While we cannot foretell the future, an exercise in putting a shape to possible futures, a process familiar to strategists, might build capacity to respond to change. To that end, we ran a Delphi study with a panel of experts from diverse disciplines, made up of economists, educationists, strategic planners, international development advisors, technologists and so on to reach a broad consensus of drivers that they thought would shape the Deal in 2020. This evening, we launch the findings and the implications for people management. This report demonstrates that the Delphi drivers articulated through several scenarios does challenge the steady-as-she-goes view of people management.
Lord Freud, in response to the challenges of the status quo and globalisation scenarios, spoke about the various policies and plans put in place by the coalition. Kay Carberry raised the dangers of unbridled and indiscriminate cuts on viable businesses and on the workforce. Will spoke critically on policies likely to shape the future of the deal highlighting the strengths and also the blindspots in the current trajectory.