The Future of Work & Implications for Industry Timothy Moerland Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)
IUP’s Location Pennsylvania (PA) Northeastern USA Indiana, PA (30,000 pop.) 1 hour to Pittsburgh 4 hours to Washington DC 4 hours to Niagara Falls 6 hours to NYC
Indiana University of PA 1875 – IUP first opened 2017/2018 – 12,000 students 809 international students & scholars Faculty to Student Ratio – 1:19
Six Colleges at IUP • Eberly College of Business and Information Technology Accounting, Finance and Legal Studies, Management, Marketing, Management Information Systems and Decision Sciences, Technology Support and Training, MBA (AACSB-accredited) • College of Education and Communications Communication Media, Teacher Education, Counseling, Student Affairs in Higher Education, Educational and School Psychology, Adult and Community Education, Professional Studies in Education, Developmental Studies • College of Fine Arts Art, Music, Theatre and Dance • College of Health and Human Services Hospitality, Culinary Arts, Food & Nutrition, Criminology, Kinesiology, Health & Sport Sciences, Human Development & Environ Studies, Employment & Labor Relations, Safety Sciences, Nursing & Allied Health • College of Humanities and Social Sciences English, History, Political Science, Economics, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Geography, Journalism, Latin American Studies, Pan-African Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Sociology, Foreign Languages • College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Physics, Biochemistry, Computer Sciences, Psychology
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The Future of Work… I. The workplace will change.
• Automation and artificial intelligence.
Whitehouse, Rojanasakul, and Sam: Is Your Job About to Disappear?: QuickTake" https://www.bloomberg.com/gra phics/2017-jobs-automation-risk/
• 47% of all jobs are projected to be vulnerable to automation and AI • Projected impact lessens with educational attainment
Strategies 1. Invest in and develop AI for its many benefits; 2. Educate and train workers for jobs of the future; and 3. Aid workers in the transition and empower workers to ensure broadly shared growth.
• Automation and artificial intelligence. • Cybercrime and security.
The dark side of AI and automation… • Cybercrime damages worldwide projected to exceed $6Trillion US annually by 2021. • Fastest growing crime in the US. • Potentially the greatest transfer of wealth in history. • More profitable than traffic of all major illegal drugs, combined. • 3.5M unfilled cybersecurity positions by 2021. • 0% Unemployment rate among qualified specialists. Some pundit on the internet.
The Future of Work… I. The workplace will change. II. The workers will change.
Generation Birth Years Enter Workforce (Univ.) Zachary N. Clark Director of Student Activities & Assessment Student Cooperative Association, Inc
Leadership & Motivation Zachary N. Clark Director of Student Activities & Assessment Student Cooperative Association, Inc
7 Characteristics of Gen Z Demographically Generationally Educationally Digitally integrated Globally focused Visually engaged Socially defined changed defined reformed • Increasingly • Material • Born with • Due in large part • Prefer to gather • No longer life- • Peer groups and older population possessions technology in to technology knowledge by stage dependent social media hand watching a video platforms exert • Variance in • Saturation of • Common • Learning is on social media enormous household types technology • Seamlessly experiences due lifelong, and influence integrated in to proliferation of • Less likely to that’s expected • Reaching • Globally daily life media read an article or • Prevalence of puberty younger connected • Holistic book usage • Ever-changing • Common • Focus on and updating popular culture • Communication • A shrinking development, as across country is increasingly globe opposed to rote borders non-verbal, memorization • Technology through sharing improvements • Meet students of videos, where they are emoji's, gifs, and memes Zachary N. Clark Director of Student Activities & Assessment Student Cooperative Association, Inc
7 Characteristics of Gen Z 1. Demographically changed • Live among increasingly older population • Enter puberty earlier 2. Generationally defined • Material possessions • Technology saturation • Globally connected 3. Digitally integrated • Born with technology in hand • Technology is seamlessly integrated in daily life • Ever-changing and updating Zachary N. Clark Director of Student Activities & Assessment Student Cooperative Association, Inc
7 Characteristics of Gen Z 4. Globally focused • Experiences instantly shared through technology • Adoption of common culture across borders 5. Visually engaged • Prefer to access and aquire knowledge through video on social media • Less likely to read books • Communication increasingly non- verbal (emojis, memes, abbreviations) Zachary N. Clark Director of Student Activities & Assessment Student Cooperative Association, Inc
7 Characteristics of Gen Z 6. Educationally reformed • Learning is lifelong • Holistic approach to acquisition of knowledge • Focus on development and access (rather than memorization) 7. Socially defined • Influence primarily from peer groups and social media platforms • Global awareness • Seek technology Zachary N. Clark Director of Student Activities & Assessment Student Cooperative Association, Inc
The Future of Work… I. The workplace will change. II. The workers will change. III. How do we change?
Meet them where they are… • Training • Retention • Leadership and management • Career promotion
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