Delivery mode
Online
Location
Aalto Learning Experience Alex e-learning environment: License for three (8) weeks starting from the order date.
Language
English
Scope
Estimated study time 27 hours, equivalent to 1 ECTS
Future of Work
Curious about how the future of work will shape YOUR career?
The landscape of work has been undergoing a significant transformation for years, well before the pandemic accelerated these changes. Navigating the future of work can be challenging amidst constant information overflow. This course, supported by academic research, helps you make sense of these changes.
Designed as a starting point for understanding the evolving landscape of work, the Future of Work online course offers a curated collection of academic insights presented in an easily accessible format. You’ll explore how the roles of individuals, organizations, and society have transformed and how these shifts impact our work today and in the future.
The course is available both in English and Finnish.
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Benefits
In today’s fast-paced world, understanding the future of work is more crucial than ever. This course offers a gateway to comprehending the profound changes reshaping our work environments. By delving into the roles of individuals, organizations, and society, you’ll gain valuable insights into the dynamics of modern work. With a foundation in academic research, this course equips you with the tools to navigate and thrive in the evolving landscape of work.
Future-Ready Skills: Learn how work is disconnecting from traditional constraints like time and place and analyze the implications of these changes.
Insight into Megatrends: Understand how digitalization, ecological, and social sustainability are transforming contemporary organizations.
Organizational Evolution: Explore the evolution of organizational paradigms and cultures and how modern organizations integrate multiple paradigms.
Leadership and Structure: Learn about vertical, distributed, and hybrid organizational structures, their strengths, and their relationship to organizational culture and leadership.
Learning Objectives
Grasp Employment Evolution: Gain insights into the historical and future changes in white-collar employment at various levels.
Analyze Work Trends: Understand how work is gradually disconnecting from time, place, and employment. Examine how work is becoming more flexible and the individual implications of these shifts.
Understand Organizational Impact: Learn how digitalization and sustainability are reshaping modern organizations and their operations.
Explore Leadership and Structures: Understand the development of organizational structures and leadership styles and their integration with contemporary organizational cultures.
For
This course is for anyone who wants to understand the evolving landscape of work and its implications for individuals, organizations, and society.
Whether you are a professional looking to adapt to new work dynamics, an HR specialist shaping organizational culture, a business leader navigating digital and sustainable transformations, or a student preparing for a future career, you will benefit from this course.
Contents
This course aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate and thrive in the evolving landscape of work.
This course consists of five chapters, and each chapter has multiple sections. After each section, there is either a quiz or a reflection assignment so that you can reflect on what you have learned.
The language of the course is English, and all videos include subtitles.
You can complete the course flexibly at your own pace.
The estimated study time for the course is 27 hours. The recommended study schedule for the course is 4–5 hours per week over 5–6 weeks. However, the course allows flexible study patterns; you can decide on your own schedule and the speed of your progress. Learners have access to the course materials for 3 months.
Modules
Module 1: How is Work Changing
Module 2: Societal Perspective
Module 3: Organisational Perspective
Module 4: Individual Perspective
Module 5: Conclusions
Each module has a “must read” and a “good read” reading list. In order to complete the course, you will have to complete all the quizzes and reflection assignments. You will need to study the “must read” reading list in order to complete the quizzes.
Instructors
Laura Sivula
Laura Sivula is a Director of Academic and International Affairs at Aalto EE and educator at Aalto University with a passion for lifewide learning and the future of work.
Sivula has taught service design, digital business, and entrepreneurship at Aalto University and University of Arts Helsinki. She is an advocate for life design and has been collaborating with Stanford d.school in developing the methodology further.
Hertta Vuorenmaa
Hertta Vuorenmaa works as a Research Director in the Future of Work research project at Aalto University.
Her current research focuses on changing nature of work and changing people management, HRM in public and private organizations, digitalization, gender and qualitative research methods including ethnography.
Dr. Vuorenmaa is an experienced researcher and trainer. She has been working as a researcher in several large Academy of Finland funded research projects focusing on for example well being at work, people management and its various roles and gender inequalities.
Juha Äkräs
Juha Äkräs is a Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Hintsa Performance and Executive in Residence at Aalto University School of Business, Department of Management.
Juha Äkräs has worked as Executive Vice President, Human Resources at Nokia Oyj and as a member of the Nokia Executive Board and Nokia Siemens Networks Board of Directors. Before these, he worked in multiple business management roles, including Senior Vice President of Core Networks at Nokia Networks. He has held multiple positions of trust in business and non-profit organizations.
Currently, he is co-leading a research program called “The Exponential Work Project: Cascading Wellbeing, Climate & Organizational Performance” – a joint research project by Aalto University, Hintsa Performance, and Ilmarinen.
Juha Äkräs holds a Master of Science in Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology and has studied Industrial Management, Work Psychology, and Telecommunications.
Kristiina Mäkelä
Kristiina Mäkelä is a Professor of International Business at Aalto University School of Business and the Provost of Aalto University.
Mäkelä's research focuses on people management issues in large, multinational organizations, including both the future of work – i.e., technology-driven changes in how people work – and human resource management. In her Provost role, she is also interested in leadership issues more generally, and the future of higher education.
Program Fee and Registration
The course is free of charge. Learners have access to the course materials for 8 weeks.
The course is available both in English and Finnish.
This program has adopted Aalto EE's new Customer ID, and it is delivered on Aalto Learning Experience Alex e-learning environment. Before ordering, please visit aaltoee.fi/customerid.
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