Contemporary workforce

The twenty-first century has seen a change in the way organizations form their workforce. What might be termed the contemporary workforce is somewhat... 

Clarke, S. (2003). The contemporary workforce Implications for oiganizational safely culture. Personnel Review, 32(1), 40-57. 

The second thing is the language used to discuss this issue the workforce argument. It certainly is true that science and technology drive and make a difference in our contemporary standard of living, but science and technology don t exist in a vacuum. It is people who really make that difference. What I rarely see in any of the reports that focus only on the notion of the workforce (which many private corporations say they can deal with better than universities can) is the notion of leadership. 

In this respect, Lenin joins many of his capitalist contemporaries in his enthusiasm for Fordist and Taylorist production technology. What was rejected by Western trade unions of the time as a de-skilling of an artisanal workforce was embraced by Lenin as the key to rational state planning.There is, for Lenin, a single, objectively correct, efficient answer to all questions of how to rationally design production or administration. 

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