Instructions on Assessment:
For an organization or sector with which you are familiar, undertake horizon scanning1 to identify the key
challenges in relation to managing people and organisations which are being faced in 2022, and those likely to be faced in 2025 and then in 2035.
Analyse how globalisation, technological change, and longevity may create particular challenges and/or opportunities for the:
• Individual and teams in the workplace
• Strategic Management of People
• Managing Change and Performance
• Managing across cultures and organisations
as well as ways in which they might interact2
. This might seem like a substantial piece of work, but it is intended merely to provide a context for the main part of the assignment, and for that reason you are encouraged to work collaboratively in your learning groups, over the course of the module.
Part 1
The complete horizon scanning should be included as an appendix, and a brief summary should be provided as the first section of your assignment.
Part 2
From the horizon scanning, select one or two key areas which you have identified as both important and likely to be changing over the three time periods. Drawing upon relevant literature, identify the ways in which
1 Use whichever approach you find most useful but frameworks like SWOT, PESTLE, PESTELO etc. may be helpful.
2 There is a risk of sliding into sci-fi speculation here, and it might seem like an impossible task. But imagine if we’d done this exercise with the class of 2008, we’d have been asking them to look forward to 2012 and 2022. Lots has happened since 2007, much of it unexpected, but we haven’t yet moved into the era of hover cars or Martian colonies
