Assessment 3: Group written assignment: Predicting the future of work Due Date                         T ues 7 th of April Length 6000 words The purpose of this assessment is to evaluate skills in research, the application of ideas from the literature, problem solving and critical analysis. Your assignment will outline your team’s vision of identifying future trends in work in 2040. You will need to incorporate key theory and identify factors that can affect changes in work trends and affects on individuals, organisations and society. Focus on one of the four key themes in your report (Globalisation, Gender and diversity, Technology and Management innovation – labour use) to guide your discussion of the literature and recommendations. This task is designed to develop research, communication, and team project management skills. In addition, you report should demonstrate evidence of critical thinking, analysis and problem solving in the way your team discusses and reports on the future of work. In developing your recommendations, the written report must utilise scenario planning, reflect on key readings and recommended readings relevant to your chosen theme and demonstrate understanding of relevant theories such as commodification, labour process, division of labour, Informalisation and formalisation and issues of relevance in applying these to a HRM or Management context. Changing Context of Work Themes (note The chosen theme is GENDER AND DIVERSITY) Globalisation : How do the shifts in global production and consumption impact on workers, and does this vary for workers in developed and developing countries? What changes have occurred in the labour process and what impact does this have on the types of work available? Has commodification of work, life, leisure changed how we work, and are these shifts uniform or vary in different industries and locations? Are we working longer hours, doing more for less? How can we understand global trends to inform what could happen locally? Is informalisation the new work order? Does neoliberal globalisation determine a race to the bottom for workers conditions? Gender and diversity : Is the future female? Will women transcend the glass ceiling, take control of boards, and run companies of the future more successfully? Do workplaces value diversity, such as, gender, race and ethnicity and abilities in the workplace? Is work life balance a myth? Will gender divisions of labour diminish while women remain responsible for child rearing? To what extent does society value difference and is the workplace just a reflection of this? Will affirmative action for disadvantaged groups still be an option? Technology : Can technology save us from labour intensive tasks? Will technology enable work to be performed in different ways, in a variety of contexts and what will this mean for workers, organisations and society? Will new technologies increase surveillance and control or provide flexibility an.

1. Assessment 3: Group written assignment: Predicting the future
of work
Due Date
T
ues 7
th
of April
Length
6000 words
The purpose of this assessment is to evaluate skills in research,
the application of ideas from the literature, problem solving and
critical analysis.
Your assignment will outline your team’s vision of identifying
future trends in work in 2040. You will need to incorporate key
theory and identify factors that can affect changes in work
trends and affects on individuals, organisations and society.
Focus on one of the four key themes in your report
(Globalisation, Gender and diversity, Technology and
Management innovation – labour use) to guide your discussion
of the literature and recommendations.
This task is designed to develop research, communication, and
team project management skills. In addition, you report should
demonstrate evidence of critical thinking, analysis and problem
solving in the way your team discusses and reports on the future
of work.
In developing your recommendations, the written report
must utilise scenario planning, reflect on key readings and
recommended readings relevant to your chosen theme and

2. demonstrate understanding of relevant theories such as
commodification, labour process, division of labour,
Informalisation and formalisation and issues of relevance in
applying these to a HRM or Management context.
Changing Context of Work Themes
(note The chosen theme is GENDER AND DIVERSITY)
Globalisation
:
How do the shifts in global production and consumption impact
on workers, and does this vary for workers in developed and
developing countries?
What changes have occurred in the labour process and what
impact does this have on the types of work available?
Has commodification of work, life, leisure changed how we
work, and are these shifts uniform or vary in different industries
and locations? Are we working longer hours, doing more for
less?
How can we understand global trends to inform what could
happen locally? Is informalisation the new work order? Does
neoliberal globalisation determine a race to the bottom for
workers conditions?
Gender and diversity
:
Is the future female? Will women transcend the glass ceiling,
take control of boards, and run companies of the future more
successfully?
Do workplaces value diversity, such as, gender, race and
ethnicity and abilities in the workplace?
Is work life balance a myth? Will gender divisions of labour

3. diminish while women remain responsible for child rearing? To
what extent does society value difference and is the workplace
just a reflection of this? Will affirmative action for
disadvantaged groups still be an option?
Technology
:
Can technology save us from labour intensive tasks?
Will technology enable work to be performed in different ways,
in a variety of contexts and what will this mean for workers,
organisations and society?
Will new technologies increase surveillance and control or
provide flexibility and choice to workers?
Can technology be applied to improve production methods,
service delivery, and workers lives?
Will future technology reduce inequality and injustice or reflect
existing patterns?
Can technological innovation create new greener jobs that will
enhance society survival, economically, environmentally and
politically?
Labour force design
:
Does flexible and productive workplace initiatives offer
workers a choice or managers more control?
Does management innovation create more flexible practices and
who benefits? Will unions be involved in future representation
of workers and what kind of issues will they address?
How do issues such as informalisation, subcontracting,
casualised work arrangements, and downsizing impact on
workers and the people managing them?

4. Does increased informalisation signal an end to employee
loyalty? What does the shift from fordism to post fordism mean
for labour and how widespread is this trend?
Will greener jobs mean fairer work practices?
What does this all mean for HR and Management policies and
strategies?
The following research questions will assist you to focus how
you approach this report.
How does our understanding of what has occurred in the past
and present inform how we hypothesise future work trends?
To what extent does our current understanding of technology or
globalisation or gender and diversity or management
innovation-use of labour inform our view of what will occur in
the future?
Will social, economic, environmental and political trends have a
strong influence on how work trends will evolve? Why? How?
Which ones?
Future forecasts often include a lot of hype but often fail to
eventuate, how can you substantiate your thesis for the future of
work?
Suggested steps to undertake this assessment
1. Decide on the theme and areas you would like to cover in
relation to the theme and literature
2. Develop your group scenario plan and framing questions
3. Identify the gaps between issues that are identified &
discussed in the literature review and your scenario of a future
work context
4.
Develop some recommendations around how to address some of
these gaps

5. 5.
Follow the suggested structure outlined below and address the
research questions.
Structure
: Word count – for a group of 6 is approximately 6000 words.
Title
: Title and group members
Introduction:
This section should clearly outline the team’s
key arguments about the future of work
. It should clearly state the
theme
covered in the report. It should also provide a two-sentence
summary of the team’s recommendations (approx 200 words).
The section should reflect on teamwork by including a short
summary outlining clearly the student responsible for each
section (by name) and indicating
how
each member has contributed (not just what each person has
contributed) (approx 200 words).
Rationale:
This section outlines the rationale of why you selected the
theme and what are the key features or context to consider when
thinking about how work will develop in the future and why.
Your thesis on the future of work should be clearly outlined
here (Approx 200 words).
Literature review:
This section
reviews
the literature on key topics and makes links to the chosen
theme. Include definitions of key concepts, and analyse and
compare the effects and importance of the various trends based

6. upon the readings. The literature review requires the group to
address key areas in relation to the topic and theme, and divide
the review of the literature according to appropriate sub
headings. Each student must
complete a literature review section on one sub heading from
the chosen topic.
This section will
discuss
the key evidence from the literature, including
all the prescribed readings and other readings found by each
individual student
plus recommended and other peer-reviewed journal readings.
Each student should reference 10-15 articles in their individual
literature review section.
Discussion of the literature should refer to the different types of
changes to work covered in this unit and must address relevant
concepts such as labour process, division of labour,
informalisation and commodification
(Approx 1000 words).
Scenario plan:
Working together the group is required to construct a future
scenario using the scenario template. The completed scenario
will be attached in the appendix.
You will need to insert in your report a summary of your future
scenario identifying the evidence/trends it is based upon,
framing questions and key elements around work that are
relevant to your analysis to the future of work (Approx 500
words). (The template & framing questions should be in your
appendix.)
Future of work:

7. The literature review and your scenario plan are the key
documents that will inform this section.
This section should include a summary of the key
learning/findings from the literature review, including any
controversies.
It should clearly respond to the research questions about the
future of work.
It is recommended that you apply the same sub headings in this
section that you used in your literature review.
You should identify the areas of change to work in the future
and discuss related questions about the effects of these changes.
You need to link arguments from the section about the literature
and should be able to draw out the
key issues in the literature to assist you to argue and support
your thesis on the future of work.
Draw on your analysis from the scenario plan around your
chosen context, such as the organisation /industry, effects on
employees, corporate strategy, new expressions of employment,
trends in society that will impact on work, the way work is
done, location, who will do it, how monitoring, performance
appraisal and supervision may change.
In discussing the proposed trends you will also need to identify
current gaps and how these may improve or change in the long
term and why.
This section should be drawing on the gap between the current
state as described in the literature review and the future state as
described in your scenario plan (Approx 1000 words).
Recommendations:
This section should outline your specific recommendations.
It should follow your discussion and illustrate ideas and issues
raised in your future of work section incorporating issues from

8. the literature review and scenario plan. It should highlight ways
to address perceived gaps between the current as outlined in the
literature review and future trends drawn from the scenario plan
(Approx 600 words).
(This section will be further expanded upon in your expo/ poster
presentation in week 10)
Conclusion:
This section should sum up the main arguments of the report
and reflect on teamwork and the group approach to this report
(Approx 300 words).
List of References:
This section will list all references cited in the report. Each
group member is required to contribute to the report a minimum
of 10 journal references, including prescribed and recommended
readings used plus 2 journal articles that you have located
yourself. These should all be listed together alphabetically,
using the Harvard referencing style. You may only list in the
bibliography those references that are cited in the text of the
assignment (the list of references is not included in word
count).
Turnitin:
One student for each group will be
required to submit the assignment to Turnitin
, for the purpose of plagiarism detection.
Marking criteria
Literature review
6
Application of theories, concepts and theme to research
questions and links to scenario plan and literature review.
(Includes scenario with 1-2 framing questions in appendix –
Note appendix and bibliography not part of word count)
10
Intro, conclusion and recommendations

9. 5
Citations, LoR, language, grammar and structure
4
Peer and self assessment to be submitted on webct discussion
/25
NOTE!!
THE ATTACHED FILES FROM AIM GENDER TO WISER
WOMAN PDF ARE GENDER-DIVERSITY RELATED
THE TWO AFTER ARE SCENARIO PLAN RELATED
THE REST ARE WORK FUTURE TRENDS RELATED
THEN A FILE FOR LITERATURE REVIEW GUIDE
THEN SAMPLES REPORT FROM OTHER STUDENTS TO
HELP YOU