Research Catalog

Title

Work without jobs : how to reboot your organization's work operating system / Ravin Jesuthasan and John W. Boudreau.

Author

Jesuthasan, Ravin, 1968-

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

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Additional Authors

Boudreau, John W.

Description

xxxviii, 192 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• Work is traditionally understood as a "job," and workers as "jobholders." Jobs are structured by titles, hierarchies, and qualifications. In Work without Jobs, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau propose a radically new way of looking at work. They describe a new "work operating system" that deconstructs jobs into their component parts and reconstructs these components into more optimal combinations that reflect the skills and abilities of individual workers. In a new normal of rapidly accelerating automation, demands for organizational agility, efforts to increase diversity, and the emergence of alternative work arrangements, the old system based on jobs and jobholders is cumbersome and ungainly. Jesuthasan and Boudreau's new system lays out a roadmap for the future of work. Work without Jobs presents real-world cases that show how leading organizations are embracing work deconstruction and reinvention. For example, when a robot, chatbot, or artificial intelligence takes over parts of a job while a human worker continues to do other parts, what is the "job"? DHL found some answers when it deployed social robotics at its distribution centers. Meanwhile, the biotechnology company Genentech deconstructed jobs to increase flexibility, worker engagement, and retention. Other organizations achieved agility with internal talent marketplaces, worker exchanges, freelancers, crowdsourcing, and partnerships. It's time for organizations to reboot their work operating system, and Work without Jobs offers an essential guide for doing so. -- Provided by publisher.
• "A practical guide for business leaders to rethink work so that it is organized around "tasks" more than "jobs.""--

Series Statement

Management on the cutting edge

Uniform Title

Management on the cutting edge.

Subject

• Organizational change
• Work > Technological innovations
• Personnel management > Technological innovations
• Flexible work arrangements
• Automation
• Organizational Innovation
• Automation
• automation
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor
• Flexible work arrangements
• Organizational change
• Personnel management > Technological innovations
• Work > Technological innovations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Series Foreword -- Introduction : Work without Jobs Is the New Work Operating System -- Work as Deconstructed Job Elements versus Stable Jobs -- Work Automation Deconstructed : Not Replacing Jobs with Automation but Optimizing Task-Level Combinations of Humans and Automation -- Work Arrangements beyond Employment : A Democratized Work Ecosystem beyond the Fixed Traditional Organizational Boundary -- Deconstructed Workers : Seeing the Whole Person through Skills/Capabilities versus Simply "Jobholders" -- Perpetually Reinventing Deconstructed Work -- Management, Leadership, and Deconstructed Work Coordination : Collaborative Hubs, Teams, Projects, and Agile Work Innovation versus Hierarchy, Structure, Jobs, and Stable Authority -- The New Work Operating System beyond the Organization -- Conclusions and Next Steps

ISBN

• 9780262046411
• 0262046415

LCCN

2021031217

OCLC

• on1257479668
• 1257479668
• SCSB-14263508

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library