Managing the Future Workforce: Acquiring, Developing, and Engaging the Evolving Workforce
Explore forces reshaping the workplace and gain strategic tools to reimagine human capital practices, harness emerging technologies, and drive organizational success.

Turn emerging workforce trends into strategic human capital opportunities.
- Embrace technology in workforce management: Explore innovative approaches to integrating technology into human capital strategies.
- Lead future of work initiatives: Drive organizational change and position yourself as a leader in workforce transformation.
- Improve workforce productivity: Optimize processes and procedures to improve team and organizational performance.
- Develop an actionable implementation plan: Incorporate emerging best practices in hiring, worker evaluation, and incentive design to adapt to evolving workforce demands.
- Reimagine talent strategies: Gain proven tools and frameworks for hiring, retaining, and incentivizing top talent.
- Anticipate future skill needs: Understand how emerging technology trends are reshaping labor markets and develop talent strategies to close projected skill gaps in your organization.
- Team leaders, HR Directors, HR Business Partners, or other titles with leader or director.
- Employees who have roles related to designing, recruiting, incentivizing, modernizing, employee experience, or similar in the workplace or organization.
- General managers in middle and upper management positions, involved in hiring, evaluating, and incentivizing employees.
The world of work is becoming incredibly complex. Technological and social forces are changing at a rapid pace, reshaping how work is done, who does it, and even what work looks like. As a result, leadership expectations—both what leaders expect and what is expected of them—are evolving too.
This course explores multiple forces transforming modern labor markets and workplaces, particularly emphasizing technology and automation. Blending theory and practice, you will learn how these forces impact talent acquisition, human capital investment, performance evaluation, and incentive design.
Every aspect of our in-person and online programs is designed to deliver you a truly world-class experience.
World-renowned Ross faculty experts will guide you through the latest tools and frameworks to enhance your individual and team leadership capabilities while you engage with global participants across diverse industries.
Program directors work closely with faculty before, during, and after the program to ensure you achieve your objectives. Through dynamic, immersive learning experiences–including assessments, simulations, expert panels, and action-based applications–you’ll leave with an actionable plan to implement meaningful change in your organization.
Program managers facilitate a seamless transition between classroom and off-site activities and assist with anything you might need–ensuring your focus is on learning, not logistics.
For more program details, including topics and structure, download the program brochure.
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- Earn credit(s) toward the Distinguished Leader Certificate (DLC) for qualifying in-person or online programs. (Only one eligible online program can be counted toward the DLC.)