How to Prepare Graduates for the Changing Workplace?

Abstract

Many people would agree if they were asked whether they perceive their environment as being in a state of constant change. Especially the labour population in the Western hemisphere and in the booming areas of East Asia and Latin America would agree. Technological change is unprecedented, with strong effects on economic and social relationships. If today a group of workers is doing paper work with a pencil, tomorrow a smaller group is doing the same job with a computer. If today the group is controlled by a manager who could do the job of his subordinates himself if necessary, tomorrow the manager cannot exactly assess the eventual problems dealt with by his subordinates, making his job at least different. In this way social relationships at the workplace undergo profound changes.