Contemporary challenges in rethinking work as economic resource
Project leader:
Prof. Danijela Sokolić, PhD - EFRI
Members of the project team:
Prof. Marija Kaštelan Mrak, PhD - EFRIProf. Nikša Alfirević, PhD - University of Split, Faculty of Economics
Prof. Igor Cvečić, PhD - EFRI
Prof. Łukasz Arendt, PhD - Institute for Labour and Social Research, Poland
Dubravko Skender - PhD student EFRI
Iva Pezer - PhD student EFRI
Sanda Grudić Kvasić - PhD student EFRI
Key words: organization of work, performance management, leadership, labour market, unemployment, regulations, social policies
Summary
Science and technology development along with globalisation imply fast market changes that change power relations, undermine existing equilibrium and cause the formation of not yet sufficiently explored business models. They affect all dimensions of society and business system forms, and apply to both private and public sectors. These changes in the society have led to new understandings of work as economic resource.
New technologies demand new knowledge, but also adaptation of other work principles to the modern business concept. Therefore, the European Commission is, in its most recent reports published in 2017, quite clear in establishing a very broad framework for describing modern work. The causes of the review of role of work as a factor of production at micro and macro level lie in the reconsideration of the future of human work in the conditions of artificial intelligence development, in the appearance of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), in the day and age of digital knowledge and economies of sharing, along with the formation of new contractual relations between employers and employees which are not based on a traditional work relationship.
New technologies demand new knowledge, but also adaptation of other work principles to the modern business concept. Therefore, the European Commission is, in its most recent reports published in 2017, quite clear in establishing a very broad framework for describing modern work. The causes of the review of role of work as a factor of production at micro and macro level lie in the reconsideration of the future of human work in the conditions of artificial intelligence development, in the appearance of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), in the day and age of digital knowledge and economies of sharing, along with the formation of new contractual relations between employers and employees which are not based on a traditional work relationship.
