Published Online:March 2024
Product Name:The IUP Journal of Effective Executive
Product Type:Article
Product Code:EECM040324
Author Name:Colin Coulson-Thomas
Availability:YES
Subject/Domain:Management
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Pages:31
The future of work, employment and skill requirements may all be affected by the technological and environmental challenges and opportunities, global risks and existential threats that confront companies and their directors, how corporate boards perceive and exercise corporate social and environmental responsibility when responding to them, and related legislative and regulatory requirements and official and professional guidance. Speculation and recent literature on the future of work has mainly focused on the implications and possible consequences of further automation, digital technology and AI, rather than changes required in response to environmental challenges, global risks and existential threats. The latter may influence the priority given to certain activities, roles and tasks required to enable sustainable corporate operations, business models and infrastructures, and how they are perceived and valued.
Certain interrelated global risks and existential threats facing companies for which boards are responsible have employment and other social consequences and implications for the future of work.