essay about tata's work in future
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Redefinition of employee status. Talented people will be unwilling to sign on as employees — companies will have to maintain a fine balance between career planning and free agentship.
A new work ethic. Focus on doing work that is enjoyable and meaningful to do.
Multicultural workforce. Greater respect by individuals and organisations for individuality, local communities and natural surroundings.
Diffusion of office space and work timings. You are likely to catch yourself messaging from home in the middle of the night to colleagues across the planet!
End of steady jobs and fixed roles. We will see a transition from jobs-for-life to specific assignments. Markets will price assignments differentially meaning that people may move from higher paying to less pay assignments, while making other trade-offs.
More teamwork. At the same time, more work will get done by teams, rather than by individuals. Greater interdependence in work processes and less stand-alone work. People may have greater autonomy in their own work but will have greater inter-linkage and inter-dependence with the work of others.
Fewer meetings! Many face-to-face interactions will be replaced by face-to-screen interactions — screens that will be touch-sensitive, glare-free, with life-like pictures and sounds. Intuitive machine-man interfaces that can be operated by speech and tactile stimuli will become the vogue.
Personalised work plans and performance goals, agreed with the superior, reviewed regularly, with a very serious focus on coaching along the way. This will be needed to ensure people get work they enjoy doing, and therefore stay on. This will also be necessary for the rapid grooming of talent that will become imperative.
End of the age of superannuation, and in fact, an end to the phenomenon of specifying lower and upper age limits for roles.
More socially useful productive work for CEO's. The challenge of social fracture as a consequence of economic and opportunity disparities will drive more recognition of the fact that 'islands' of prosperity and well being cannot exist amidst dis-enfranchisement, poverty and squalor. Many of the other forces will bring greater proximity of areas that could be ignored in the past like downtown neighbourhoods and sub-Saharan Africa or part of other societies. Greater involvement of business leaders in managing social issues — healthcare, insurance, quality of academic institutions, school syllabi, infrastructure creation and maintenance, etc.
Stronger partnerships. Access to capabilities will be seen as more important than 'ownership' of assets — people, factories, etc. Organisations and individuals will come together for mutual benefit in diverse kinds of relationships, depending on the value that needs to be created at the moment. The whole concept of a 'workplace' may become redundant as where people work and the place where their payment comes from could be completely different.
Greater demand for privacy and protection of the individual accompanied by greater need for information on the individual by government, corporate and service related systems — fears of 'Big Brother watching' will get heightened.
The challenge for large corporations to create the small-organisation ethos will continue to seem daunting, despite the extensive use of communication technology. This will spur the emergence of an 'empowered middle manager' of a different kind, and corporate roles of coordination and enabling of a less intrusive and directive kind.
Greater transparency and openness around business policies, including those related to employees. Greater courage to question them by one and all. Such courage will be encouraged due to its salutary effect on corporate intelligence. Employees will be far more aware and knowledgeable about business issues of the organisation they work for.
All this could sound bewildering to some and exhilarating to others. To me the future has potency, challenge and, most fascinating of all, space for the eternal paradox of predictability and unpredictability. So welcome to our worst nightmare and our best dream all rolled into one! Welcome to the workplace of tomorrow.
The Tata group has announced the launch of the eighth edition of Tata Building India School Essay Competition. The theme for this year’s competition is “Happy and Prosperous Nation”.
There will be two categories: Junior level for Stds. VI to VIII and Senior level for Stds. IX to XII. Participants are required to submit an essay between 500-600 words.The essays are judged on the parameters of relevance to the topic, structure, creativity and communication of the idea, and prizes are awarded for school, city and national level winners.
The essay is written by the student only once but is evaluated at three levels — School, City and National level.
The winners at each level are rewarded and functions are held to felicitate the city level winners and the national level winners. Prizes at the school level include certificates, medals and special Tata Building India merchandise. The city level winners and the runners-up receive prizes like digital cameras and MP3 players. The national level winners receive laptops, a trophy and a certificate.
The crowning moment for the national winners and the runners-up is an intended visit to Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, and interaction with a dignitary.