HR Professionals and Higher Ed Instructors Review Hybrid Courses and Interdisciplinary Job Requirements Relating to Generation Z and Work-Life Balance
Keywords:
business diversity, interdisciplinary, soft skills, hybrid jobs, hybrid classesAbstract
This study focuses on Generation Z employees and students. Within the contents this project reviews the limitations of jobs that can be conducted virtually and those that cannot. What the author considered was the variations between generations that can influence the way organizations recruit and develop work teams. Human Resource professionals are dealing with such generational differences because they must constantly deal with change, motivation, technology and the leadership of employees. While life-work balance varies among the generations making HR an important factor in human relations and seeking out what employees can offer an organization beside of their specialty such as soft skills.
Higher education professionals need to keep abreast of the HR managers’ needs of how a broader range of skills are required along with the fact companies are in a technology driven environment whereby these professionals expect employees to be equipped to completely utilize the power of technologies needed within the workplace. Higher education curriculum construction professionals will be hard pressed if not prepared and willing to realize job hybridization is here to stay and not going away. Included in the study is how soft skills merge into job skills and HR managers job requirements have become interdisciplinary. .
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