*Associate Professor, Department of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India
**Research Scholar, Department of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India
Online published on 7 June, 2014.
Any age makes utter changes in workforce management practices encompassing all aspects of managing the complete workforce lifecycle. This meme passed to information age as well. These changes are nothing but the reflections of shift of values and thus pervading practices.
This paper intends to explore information age and workforce management with the accompanying expanding horizon of workforce in information age. It explores whether the information age is trying to enhance the output or is ready to take a plunge for optimum customer delight through innovation and origination, with the help of attunement of practices, served via information-literate workforce.
The paper is divided into eight parts, namely- introduction, workforce management, information age, expanding horizon of workforce management in information age, aspirations and possibilities in information age, workforce management principles, information age: known output vs. innovation and practices in information age, and conclusion.
The outcome of this paper is a lay of information age portraying its corresponding practices for timeless principles of workforce management. Additional, it opens up the verity of information age getting dubbed into innovation. The information age is not the avalanche of workforce opportunities but a shift to be understood by managers and workforce to create better career and work scenario.
Information age, Workforce Management, Expanding Horizon of Workforce, Practice, Known Output, Innovation
