10. How to use SMART Work Design to help your team thrive in the Future of Work with Prof. Sharon Parker

In this week's episode, you hear from Sharon Parker, Director of the Centre for Transformative Work Design at Curtin University.

Sharon is a highly distinguished Professor of Organisational Behaviour and an ARC Laureate Fellow. In 2019, she was named among the world’s most influential Scientists by the Web of Science Group.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The ‘future of work’ - how digitisation and automation are impacting on jobs and skills of the future;
• The responsibility managers have to use technology as a force for good and not evil;
• The concept of ‘work design’ and the ‘SMART’ work design framework that Sharon has developed; and
• What managers can do to become better remote managers.

To find out why Sharon is so well regarded and to get the practical tips you can use to better design work for your team, make sure to listen to this episode.

References

• BJ Fogg - Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything.
• Business.com - Management Theory of Frederick Taylor.
• Carol Dweck - Decades of Scientific Research that Started a Growth Mindset Revolution.
• Centre for Transformative Work Design - “Solving the Unsolvable”: Uncovering the Active Ingredients in the WA.
• Centre for Transformative Work Design - Tips on Working from home.
• Colonnade - 171% More Productive Call Center Employees?.
• Jeffrey Pfeffer - Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance - and What We Can Do About It.
• SMART Work Design Survey.
• Undiagnosed Diseases Program.

Contact Sharon Parker

• Find Sharon on LinkedIn and mention you heard her on the podcast. Find out more about The Centre for Transformative Work Design.

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This episode was hosted by Ty Hayes, produced by Dylan Todd and edited by Lewis Hallam.