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Workforce of the Future

Survey Reveals Wide Disconnect Between Positive Views of Manufacturing's Contributions to Economic Health, Negative Views of Career Opportunities

Workforce Management and its Impacts

California’s Future Workforce: Will There Be Enough College Graduates?

Shaping the Workforce of the Future

Building the Workforce of the Future
ere.net
http://www.ere.net/2007/08/17/building-the-workforce-of-the-future/

SmartBrief on Workforce

Generation Y: They've arrived at work with a new attitude

Mixing and Managing Four Generations of Employees

Cross Generational Communication

Generation X: Stepping Up to the Leadership Plate
How to leverage the mind-share of retiring Baby Boomers to advance your career, from CIO Magazine
http://www.cio.com/article/28475/Generation_X_Stepping_Up_to_the_Leadership_Plate

Gen Y, Gen X and the Baby Boomers: Workplace Generation Wars

Management Techniques for Bringing Out the Best in Generation Y

Oldies But Goodies
DC Velocity
http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/?article_id=1783

The 21st Century at Work: Forces Shaping the Future Workforce and Workplace in the United States
Rand Corporation
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2004/RAND_MG164.pdf

Fast Forward: 25 Trends That Will Change the Way You Do Business
Workforce Management
http://www.workforce.com/section/09/feature/23/45/53/

Opening Remarks at the AARP Forum on the Future Workforce
http://www.aarpinternational.org/resourcelibrary/resourcelibrary_show.htm?doc_id=690617

Live Longer, Work Longer: A synthesis report
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/pdfs/browseit/8106021E.PDF

Living Longer, Working Longer: The Changing Landscape of the Aging Workforce – A MetLife Study
http://www.metlife.com/WPSAssets/11091110421147725122V1FLivingLonger.pdf

Leading a Multigenerational Workforce

The Aging Workforce Challenge: How Remote Service Can Help Product Manufacturers
http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=17821

SmartBrief on Workforce
http://www.smartbrief.com/news/workforce

The 21st Century at Work: Forces Shaping the Future Workforce and Workplace in the United States
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2004/RAND_MG164.pdf

Video Profiles: Hear what manufacturing and supply chain professionals think about their jobs and view cool videos of stuff being made.

Working Hard to Avoid the Labor Shortage

Is Your Supply Chain Talent Up to the Challenge?

ProMat 2009 Keynote: Building the Workforce of the Future
http://www.promatshow.com/attendees/conf_forum.aspx

NA 2008 Educational Session: Building The Workforce of the Future

Count Results, Not Hours
"Did you get it done?" is all that matters
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_34/b4097039736855.htm?chan=magazine+channel_special+report

Generation Gaps: What's Eating Gen X
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_34/b4097060796052.htm?chan=magazine+channel_special+report

A Boomer's Guide to Communicating with Gen X and Gen Y
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_34/b4097063805619.htm?chan=magazine+channel_special+report

Don't Treat Them Like Baby Boomers
Generation X has a different set of values. Deal with it.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_34/b4097064809209.htm?chan=magazine+channel_special+report

Retirement of Baby Boomers Most Significant Workforce Trend in Next 10 Years

Use technology to cultivate a skilled workforce

The "Millennials" Are Coming: Morley Safer On The New Generation of
American Workers:

   Article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/08/60minutes/main3475200.shtml
   Video: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3486473n

Brandt on Leadership -- Talkin' Bout My Generation

Baby Boomer Exodus: Cost and Transformation

Workforce Shortage: Retaining Knowledge And Expertise

The Most-Praised Generation Goes to Work

Get Ready For Disruptive Demographics

Disruptive Demographics in Supply Chain Management

Skilled Labor Shortage Coming Soon

Retiring workforce, widening skills gap, exodus of “critical talent” threaten companies: Deloitte survey

Dream It Do It Video

The NAM and its research and education affiliate, The Manufacturing Institute, launched a nationwide grassroots campaign ("Dream It. Do It.") aimed at attracting young adults into manufacturing jobs and expanding education and training opportunities to meet a growing shortage of skilled employees. The following video news release explains more. This video runs 3 minutes, 38 seconds.

http://www.webcastgroup.com/client/start.asp?wid=0680210051418

http://www.youtube.com/dreamitdoit1