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We live in stirring and dramatic times in which we see both the death of an old order and the emergence of a new one. A paradigm shift is undoubtedly occurring. Fundamental changes are reshaping the future organization and management of work. The changes are happening in the global, business, internal and human resource domains or environments of large organizations indicated on Figure 1.
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Baerveldt, M., Hobbs, G. (1988). Forces Reshaping the Future Organization and Management of Work: A Perspective from a Canadian Integrated Oil Company. In: Niehaus, R.J., Price, K.F. (eds) Creating the Competitive Edge through Human Resource Applications. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0969-7_5
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