Practices for Engaging the 21st Century Workforce: Challenges of Talent Management in a Changing Workplace

7. Practices to Create Employee Engagement in the New Normal

It should be clear by now that the technological, global, economic, and demographic trends impacting organizations today require them to develop new strategic management competencies. The old one-size-fits-all methods for managing and engaging employees need to be revised. Throughout this book, a great deal of the research presented focuses on various strategic management models and frameworks for effectively managing and engaging workers in the 21^st century. What you see developing are a number of management themes that perhaps apply to one or more segments of the workplace. For example, there are proven strategies deployed by various companies that respond to the multiple challenges ...